1873 Spanish general election

Spanish general election, 1873

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 (with Francisco Serrano) Party FDRP Independent radicals Constitutional and conservative independents Leader's seat Barcelona Madrid Madrid Seats won 346 20 7 Seat change 268 254 7 Percentage 90.34% 5.22% 1.83% Swing 70.39 68.56 1.75
Spanish Congress of Deputies, after the election
Prime Minister before election Estanislao Figueras Federal Democratic Republican Party Elected Prime Minister Francesc Pi i Margall Federal Democratic 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 Federal Democratic 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

Party		Seats	Difference	Leader
	Federal Democratic Republican Party	346	268	Francesc Pi i Margall
	Independent radicals	20	254	Cristino Martos y Balbí
	Constitutional Party and conservative independents	7	7	Práxedes Mateo Sagasta; Francisco Serrano y Domínguez
	Independent monarchists	3	6	Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
	Independent republicans ("Unitarians")	1	1
	Other	6	5
Total		391

References

• CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS - HISTORICO DE DIPUTADOS 1810-1977
• Representative elections in the Republic - 10 de mayo de 1873