October 1836 Spanish general election
Appearance
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All 242 seats of the Congress of Deputies 121 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain in October 1836. At stake were all 149 seats in the Congress of Deputies, in order to adopt a new constitution to replace the Royal Statute of 1834. The Cortes eventually enacted the Constitution of 1837.
Electoral system
[edit]Right to vote
[edit]All male citizens older than 21 had the right 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 indirect.[2]
Results
[edit]Party | Seats | |
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Independents | 90 | |
Moderate Party | 70 | |
Progressive Party | 30 | |
Total | 242[3][4] |
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.
- ^ Estrada Sánchez, Manuel (1998). El enfrentamiento entre doceañistas y moderados por la cuestión electoral (1834-1836). Revista de Estudios Políticos (Nueva Época) 100.
- ^ Marichal, Carlos (1980). La revolución liberal y los primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844. Cátedra. ISBN 8437602459.