February 1836 Spanish general election
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All 149 seats of the Congress of Deputies 75 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||
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General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain in February 1836. At stake were all 149 seats in the Congress of Deputies.
Constituencies
[edit]A majority voting system was used for the election, with 48 multi-member constituencies and 1 single-member constituency.[1]
Results
[edit]Party | Seats | |
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Progressive Party | 119 | |
Moderate Party | 30 | |
Total | 149[2] |
References
[edit]- ^ Carreras, Albert; Tafunell, Xavier (Coords.) (2005). Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1074-1091. ISBN 84-96515-00-1.
- ^ Estrada Sánchez, Manuel (1998). El enfrentamiento entre doceañistas y moderados por la cuestión electoral (1834-1836). Revista de Estudios Políticos (Nueva Época) 100.