1873 Spanish general election

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| ← August 1872 | 10 May 1873 | 1876 →

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All 383 seats of the Congress of Deputies
192 seats needed for a majority
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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 | Did not participate  | Did not participate
Seats won  | 346 | 20  | 7
Seat change  | 268  | 254  | 7
Percentage  | 90.34% | 5.22%  | 1.83%
Swing  | 70.39  | 68.56  | 1.75

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Spanish Congress of Deputies, after the election

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| Prime Minister before election

Estanislao Figueras
Federal Democratic Republican Party

| Prime Minister after election

Francesc Pi i Margall
Federal Democratic Republican Party

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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

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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 drew a very low turnout, as 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

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Party  | Seats  | Difference  | Leader

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| 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 | 383 |

## References

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

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