1839 Spanish general election
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All 241 seats of the Congress of Deputies 121 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 64.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on 24 July 1839. At stake were all 241 seats in the Congress of Deputies.
Electoral system
[edit]Voting rights
[edit]Restricted census suffrage, only 376,255 people out of a total population of 12,162,872 were allowed to vote.
Constituencies
[edit]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][not specific enough to verify]
Results
[edit]| Party | Seats | |
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| Progressive Party | 115 | |
| Other and independents | 98 | |
| Moderate Party | 28 | |
| Total | 241[3] | |
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.
- ^ Marichal, Carlos (1980). La revolución liberal y los primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844. Cátedra. ISBN 8437602459.
- ^ 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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