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The Missouri gubernatorial election of 1996 was Missouri’s forty-ninth gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 5 1996 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee incumbent Governor Mel Carnahan over the Republican candidate State Auditor Margaret B. Kelly and Libertarian J. Mark Oglesby.Governor Carnahan died in a plane crash on October 16 2000 near the end of this term and was replaced by Lt. Gov. Roger B. Wilson.
