Parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro, at the time a constituent republic of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on November 3, 1996, the same day as the first round of the 1996 Serbian local elections.^[1] The result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists which won 45 of the 71 seats.

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1996 Montenegrin parliamentary election

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Party Leader % Seats +/– DPS Momir Bulatović 51.24 45 −1 Unity Novak Kilibarda 25.57 19 −8 SDA CG Harun Hadžić 3.47 3 New DSCG Mehmet Bardhi 1.80 2 +2 UDSH Fuad Nimani 1.31 2 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Milo Đukanović DPS Milo Đukanović DPS

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Of the 71 seats in Parliament, 64 were elected by proportional representation in a nationwide constituency and seven were elected in a special constituency for minority lists. The electoral threshold was set at 6% and seats allocated using the d'Hondt method. Closed lists were used with a single list for both constituencies, although parties only had to award half their seats according to the order of the list, with the remaining half free for them to allocate.