Cooksland gubernatorial election, 1996

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1992 ← 	4 May 1996 	→ 2000 	
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Turnout 	1,184,691 (93.89%) ( 4.62pp) 	1,184,691 (93.89%) ( 4.62pp) 	1,184,691 (93.89%) ( 4.62pp)
 	 	 	
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Candidate 	Marina Hendricks 	Pete Brogden 	
Party 	Social Democrats 	Democrats 	
Running mate 	Christopher Tanaka 	Brian Wright 	
Popular vote 	766,495 	418,196 	
Percentage 	64.70% 	35.30% 	
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Two-candidate-preferred result by prefectural electorate	Two-candidate-preferred result by prefectural electorate	Two-candidate-preferred result by prefectural electorate	Two-candidate-preferred result by prefectural electorate
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Governor before election 	Governor before election 	Elected Governor 	
Pete BrogdenDemocrats 	Pete BrogdenDemocrats 	Marina HendricksSocial Democrats 	
The 1996 Cooksland gubernatorial election was held on Saturday, 4 May 1996 to elect the the Governor of Cooksland Prefecture. The prefectural election was held on the same date.
The Social Democratic candidate and former governor Marina Hendricks was elected in one of the biggest landslides in Enderronian political history, defeating the incumbent second-term governor, Pete Brogden of the Enderron Democrats. Hendricks had previously served as Governor of Cooksland from 1984 until she was defeated by Brogden in 1988.
Brogden had been elected in the previous election as a Conservative, but switched to the far-right Democrats in 1995, while still in office. As a protest, the Conservative Party and all of the other parties participating in the election called for their supporters to preference Brogden last under Cooksland's preferential voting system.
On election day, it became apparent that Brogden had in fact finished second in terms of first preference votes, and that Conservative candidate Patrick Carseldine would be unable to overtake Brogden on preferences. This election marked the first and currently only time where the Democrats advanced to the two-candidate-preferred count in a statewide election. Preferences from the other candidates strongly flowed to Hendricks, who went on to win in the TCP vote by a margin of 29.40 percent, the largest in recent history.
==Results==
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	
Party 	Party 	Governor 	Lt. Governor 	Votes 	% 	
 	Social Democrats 	Marina Hendricks 	Christopher Tanaka 	519,369 	43.84 	
 	Democrats 	Pete Brogden 	Brian Wright 	327,567 	27.65 	
 	Conservative 	Patrick Carseldine 	Jennifer Coleman 	242,743 	20.49 	
 	Liberal Democrats 	Ian Sweeney 	Erik Marlon 	49,402 	4.17 	
 	Greens 	May Hills 	Luke Remington 	39,332 	3.32 	
 	Independent 	Dennis Bayner 	James Heath 	6,279 	0.53 	
Two-party-preferred vote (notional)	Two-party-preferred vote (notional)	Two-party-preferred vote (notional)	Two-party-preferred vote (notional)	Two-party-preferred vote (notional)	Two-party-preferred vote (notional)	
 	Social Democrats 	Marina Hendricks 	Christopher Tanaka 	652,528 	55.08 	
 	Conservative 	Patrick Carseldine 	Jennifer Coleman 	532,163 	44.92 	
Two-candidate-preferred vote 	Two-candidate-preferred vote 	Two-candidate-preferred vote 	Two-candidate-preferred vote 	Two-candidate-preferred vote 	Two-candidate-preferred vote 	
 	Social Democrats 	Marina Hendricks 	Christopher Tanaka 	766,495 	64.70 	
 	Democrats 	Pete Brogden 	Brian Wright 	418,196 	35.30 	
Total 	Total 	Total 	Total 	1,184,691