1907 Spanish general election

1907 Spanish general election

← 1905 21 April 1907 (Congress) 5 May 1907 (Senate)[a] 1910 →
All 404 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 180 (of 360) seats in the Senate 203 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
First party Second party Third party   Leader Antonio Maura Segismundo Moret Nicolás Salmerón Party Conservative Liberal Republican Leader since 1905 1906 1903 Leader's seat Palma Albuñol Barcelona Last election 128 (C) · 53 (S)[b] 226 (C) · 108 (S) 25 (C) · 1 (S) Seats won 256 (C) · 113 (S) 72 (C) · 25 (S) 20 (C) · 3 (S) Seat change 128 (C) · 60 (S) 154 (C) · 83 (S) 5 (C) · 2 (S)   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Matías Barrio y Mier Enric Prat de la Riba José Canalejas Party Carlist Regionalist Democratic Leader since 1899 1902 1902 Leader's seat Cervera de Pisuerga — Alcoy Last election 4 (C) · 2 (S) 7 (C) · 2 (S) Did not contest Seats won 14 (C) · 6 (S) 13 (C) · 5 (S) 7 (C) · 6 (S) Seat change 10 (C) · 4 (S) 6 (C) · 3 (S) 7 (C) · 6 (S)
Prime Minister before election Antonio Maura Conservative Prime Minister after election Antonio Maura Conservative

The 1907 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 21 April (for the Congress of Deputies) and on Sunday, 5 May 1907 (for the Senate),^[a] to elect the 13th Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain in the Restoration period. All 404 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.

Eugenio Montero Ríos had been forced to resign as prime minister in the wake of the ¡Cu-Cut! incident in November 1905. The Liberal Party then entered a period of internal turmoil in which various leaders succeeded themselves in office (namely, Segismundo Moret and José López Domínguez). The strong rivalry between Moret and José Canalejas saw the "slip of paper crisis"—which saw Moret returning to the premiership for a few days—and a transitional government being formed by Antonio Aguilar y Correa, until the Conservartive Party under Antonio Maura was tasked with the formation of a new government and the calling of a general election by King Alfonso XIII.

The election resulted in a large majority for Maura and a huge success for the Catalan Solidarity coalition, formed as a result of the political fallout in Catalonia resulting from the ¡Cu-Cut! incident and the approval of the 1906 Jurisdiction Act.

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