1839 Spanish general election

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| election_name = 1839 Spanish general election

| country = Spain

| flag_year = 1785

| type = parliamentary

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1837 Spanish general election

| previous_year = 1837

| next_election = 1840 Spanish general election

| next_year = 1840

| seats_for_election = All 241 seats of the Congress of Deputies

| majority_seats = 121

| turnout = 64.6%

| election_date = 24 July 1839

| image2 =

| leader2 =

| party2 = Independents

| leaders_seat2 =

| seats2 = 98

| seat_change2 =

| popular_vote2 =

| percentage2 = 40.6%

| swing2 =

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| leader3 = Evaristo Pérez de Castro

| party3 = Moderate Party (Spain)

| leaders_seat3 = Madrid

| seats3 = 28

| seat_change3 =

| popular_vote3 =

| percentage3 = 11.16%

| swing3 =

| image1 = 125x150px

| leader1 = Baldomero Espartero

| party1 = Progressive Party (Spain)

| leaders_seat1 = Madrid

| seats1 = 115

| seat_change1 =

| popular_vote1 =

| percentage1 = 47.72%

| swing1 =

| map_image =

| map_size =

| map_caption = Spanish Congress of Deputies, after the election

| title = Prime Minister

| posttitle = Prime Minister after election

| before_election = Evaristo Pérez de Castro

| before_party = Moderate Party

| after_election = Evaristo Pérez de Castro

| after_party = 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.Carreras, Albert; Tafunell, Xavier (Coords.) (2005). [https://www.fbbva.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/dat/DE_2006_estadisticas_historicas.pdf Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX]. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1074-1091. ISBN 84-96515-00-1. Voting was secret and direct.Marichal, Carlos (1980). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44346041_La_revolucion_liberal_y_los_primeros_partidos_politicos_en_Espana_1834-1844_Carlos_Marichal La revolución liberal y los primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844]. Cátedra. ISBN 8437602459.{{nonspecific|date=May 2023}}

Results

class=wikitable ! colspan="2" \|Party ! Seats
align=center bgcolor=#FF8800\|	Progressive Party	115
align=center bgcolor=gray\|	Other and independents	98
align=center bgcolor=#1C86EE\|	Moderate Party	28
colspan="2"\|Total	241Monsell Cisneros, Mª Francisca; Pérez Díaz, Rafael Luís (1989). [https://revista.cortesgenerales.es/rcg/article/view/452 La práctica electoral en el reinado de Isabel II]. Revista de las Cortes Generales 16: 143-177.

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=PTkf5Sh0Ay8C&q=estadisticas+historicas+de+espa%C3%B1a Estadísticas históricas de España: siglos XIX-XX.]

1839

Category:July 1839