Cooksland gubernatorial election, 1996

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.