Spanish general election, 1873

Spanish general election, 1873
Spain
10 May 1873

All 383 seats of the Congress of Deputies
192 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Francesc Pi i Margall Cristino Martos y Balbí Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Party Democratic Federal Republican Party Radical independents Constitutional and conservative independents
Leader's seat Barcelona Madrid Madrid
Seats won 78 346 20 7
Seat change Increase268 New party Decrease7
Percentage 90.34% 5.22% 1.83%
Swing Increase70.39 New party Decrease1.75

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
Party Independent Alfonsinos Other
Leader's seat Madrid
Seats won 3 7
Seat change Decrease6 Decrease9
Percentage 0.78% 1.83%
Swing Decrease1.61 Decrease2.26

Spanish Congress of Deputies, after the election

Prime Minister before election

Estanislao Figueras
Democratic Federal Republican Party

Elected Prime Minister

Francesc Pi i Margall
Democratic Federal Republican Party

General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on May 10 1873. At stake were all 383 seats in the Congress of Deputies. The Democratic Federal Republican Party won the elections.

History

The elections were held with universal male suffrage. The 1873 were both the first and last of the brief 1st Spanish Republic. The elections, however, were held in very unorthodox conditions, and representativeness proved ridiculous, even for the time, because neither the Carlist or alfonsist monarchists participated in the elections. The same happened with centralist and unitarian Republicans, or even the incipient labor organizations affiliated with the 1st International, that held a boycott campaign. Those were possibly the election with the lowest turnout in the history of Spain. In Catalonia only the 25% of the electorate voted. In Madrid the 28%. This left the republic with a serious lack of legitimacy.

Results

General election, 10 May 1873
Party Seats Leader
Democratic Federal Republican Party 346 Francesc Pi i Margall
Independent radicals 20 Cristino Martos Balbi
Constitutional Party 7 Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Independent monarchists 3 Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
Unitarian republicans 1
Other 6

References

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