1839 Spanish general election

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1839 Spanish general election
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All 241 seats of the Congress of Deputies
121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 64.6%
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Baldomero Espartero Evaristo Pérez de Castro
Party Progressive Party Independents PM
Leader's seat Madrid Madrid
Seats won 115 98 28
Percentage 47.72% 40.6% 11.16%

Prime Minister before election

Evaristo Pérez de Castro
Moderate Party

Prime Minister after election

Evaristo Pérez de Castro
Moderate Party

General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain between September and November 1939. At stake were all 241 seats in the Congress of Deputies.

Electoral system

Voting rights

Restricted census suffrage, only 376,255 people out of a total population of 12,162,872 were allowed to vote.

Constituencies

A majority voting system was used for the election, with 48 multi-member constituencies and 1 single-member constituency.[1] Voting was secret and direct.[2]

Results

Party Seats
Progressive Party 115
Other and independents 98
Moderate Party 28
Total 241[3]

References

  1. Carreras, Albert; Tafunell, Xavier (Coords.) (2005). Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1074-1091. ISBN 84-96515-00-1.
  2. Marichal, Carlos (1980). La revolución liberal y los primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844. Cátedra. ISBN 8437602459.
  3. Monsell Cisneros, Mª Francisca; Pérez Díaz, Rafael Luís (1989). La práctica electoral en el reinado de Isabel II. Revista de las Cortes Generales 16: 143-177.


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