1839 Spanish general election

1839 Spanish general election

24 July 1839
All 241 seats of the Congress of Deputies 121 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	64.6%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Baldomero Espartero Evaristo Pérez de Castro Party Progressive Party Independents Moderate Leader's seat Madrid Madrid Seats won 115 98 28 Percentage 47.72% 40.6% 11.16%
Prime Minister before election Evaristo Pérez de Castro Moderate Party Prime Minister after election Evaristo Pérez de Castro Moderate Party

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

Voting rights

Restricted census suffrage, only 376,255 people out of a total population of 12,162,872 were allowed to vote.

Constituencies

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

Party		Seats
	Progressive Party	115
	Other and independents	98
	Moderate Party	28
Total		241[3]

References

1. Carreras, Albert; Tafunell, Xavier (Coords.) (2005). Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1074-1091. ISBN 84-96515-00-1.
2. Marichal, Carlos (1980). La revolución liberal y los primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844. Cátedra. ISBN 8437602459.
3. 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.

• Estadísticas históricas de España: siglos XIX-XX.