April 1872 Spanish general election

A general election was held in Spain from Tuesday, 2 April to Friday, 5 April 1872, to elect the members of the 2nd 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. The election in Cuba was indefinitely postponed.

The internal crisis within the Progressive–Liberal coalition following the assassination of Juan Prim had seen a reorganization of the bloc into the Constitutional Party—in power under Prime Minister Práxedes Mateo Sagasta—and the Radical Democratic Party of Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla. The election, widely rigged in the government's favour, resulted in a parliamentary majority for Sagasta's bloc. However, a political scandal over a secret transfer of funds from an overseas savings bank (the Caja de Ultramar) to the Governance ministry, allegedly used to pay for election expenses, would bring down Sagasta's government in May 1872 and see a new general election being called for August.