1891 Spanish general election

1891 Spanish general election

← 1886 1 February 1891 (Congress) 15 February 1891 (Senate) 1893 →
All 446 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 180 (of 360) seats in the Senate 224 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
Registered	4,800,000
First party Second party Third party   Leader Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Francisco Romero Robledo Party Conservative Liberal Liberal Reformist Leader since 1874 1880 1886 Leader's seat Cieza Logroño Antequera Last election 71 (C) · 33 (S) 320 (C) · 126 (S)[a] 11 (C) · 4 (S) Seats won 285 (C) · 115 (S) 100 (C) · 40 (S) 16 (C) · 8 (S) Seat change 214 (C) · 82 (S) 220 (C) · 86 (S) 5 (C) · 4 (S)   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Emilio Castelar Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla Cristino Martos Party Republican Progressive Martist Leader since 1879 1880 1890 Leader's seat Huesca Barcelona Orgaz Last election 15 (C) · 6 (S)[b] 10 (C) · 1 (S) Did not contest Seats won 15 (C) · 1 (S) 12 (C) · 0 (S) 8 (C) · 1 (S) Seat change 0 (C) · 5 (S) 2 (C) · 1 (S) 8 (C) · 1 (S)
Prime Minister before election Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Conservative Prime Minister after election Antonio Cánovas del Castillo Conservative

The 1891 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 1 February (for the Congress of Deputies) and on Sunday, 15 February 1891 (for the Senate), to elect the 5th Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain in the Restoration period. All 442 seats in the Congress of Deputies (plus four special districts) were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate. Following a 1890 reform of the electoral law that saw a change from the previous censitary suffrage to a universal manhood suffrage, the electorate was extended to about 27.3% of the country's population.^[1]

The election saw a large parliamentary majority for the Conservative Party after Antonio Cánovas del Castillo's return to power in July 1890, following the end of the Liberal Party's "turn" of government between 1885 and 1890.

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