1871 Spanish general election
8–11 March 1871
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All 424 seats in the Congress of Deputies and all 200 seats in the Senate 213 seats needed for a majority in the Congress and 101 in the Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A general election was held in Spain from Wednesday, 8 March to Saturday, 11 March 1871, to elect the members of the 1st Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1869, during the Democratic Sexennium period. 406 of 424 seats in the Congress of Deputies and all 200 seats in the Senate were up for election. In the Canary Islands the election was held until 15 March, in Puerto Rico it was held from 20 to 23 June, and in Cuba it was indefinitely postponed.
The election was held following the promulgation of the 1869 Constitution and the swearing-in of Amadeo I as King of Spain on 2 January 1871. Francisco Serrano, a member of the Liberal Union (part of the ruling Monarchist–Democratic Coalition together with the Progressive Party and the Cimbrios Democrats), was the prime minister before the election.