1879 Spanish general election
20 April 1879 (Congress)
3 May 1879 (Senate) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 431 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 180 (of 360) seats in the Senate 216 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 952,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 621,436 (65.3%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 20 April (for the Congress of Deputies) and on Saturday, 3 May 1879 (for the Senate), to elect the members of the 1st Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 431 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.
This was the first election held following the promulgation of the 1876 Constitution and the new electoral law of 1878, which re-established censitary suffrage.