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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.[1] Voting was secret and direct.[2][not specific enough to verify]
Results
| Party | Seats | |
|---|---|---|
| Progressive Party | 115 | |
| Other and independents | 98 | |
| Moderate Party | 28 | |
| Total | 241[3] | |
References
- ^ Carreras, Albert; Tafunell, Xavier (Coords.) (2005). Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA. pp. 1074-1091. ISBN 84-96515-00-1.
- ^ Marichal, Carlos (1980). La revolución liberal y los primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844. Cátedra. ISBN 8437602459.
- ^ Monsell Cisneros, Mª Francisca; Pérez Díaz, Rafael Luís (1989). La práctica electoral en el reinado de Isabel II. Revista de las Cortes Generales 16: 143-177.
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