1873 Spanish general election

10 May 1873

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All 383 seats of the Congress of Deputies
192 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

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	Madrid	Madrid
Seats won	346	20	7
Seat change	268	254	7
Percentage	90.34%	5.22%	1.83%
Swing	70.39	68.56	1.75

Spanish Congress of Deputies, after the election

Prime Minister before election

Estanislao Figueras
Federal Democratic Republican Party

Prime Minister after election

Francesc Pi i Margall
Federal Democratic Republican Party

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

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

Party		Seats	Difference	Leader
	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		391