1867 Spanish general election

none 1867 Spanish general election Spain 1785 parliamentary no 1865 Spanish general election 1865 1869 Spanish general election 1869 All 352 seats in the Congress of Deputies 177 396,863https://www.ine.es/inebaseweb/pdfDispacher.do?td=28593 Elecciones para Diputados a Cortes en los años 1863, 1864, 1865 y 1867. Anuario 1866-1867 es National Statistics Institute 9 April 2026 205,380 (51.8%)10px 1.6 pp 10–13 March 1867 170x170px Ramón María Narváez Moderate Party (Spain) — 170x170px Leopoldo O'Donnell Liberal Union (Spain) — Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Ramón María Narváez Moderate Party (Spain) Ramón María Narváez Moderate Party (Spain) A general election was held in Spain from 10 to 13 March 1867 to elect the members of the 10th es Cortes no under the Spanish Constitution of 1845. 352 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election.https://www.congreso.es/es/cem/crismod Las Regencias y el Reinado de Isabel II (1833-1868). La crisis del moderantismo (1856-1868) es Congress of Deputies 1 April 202622 March 1867 Relación del número de votos obtenidos por los señores que resultan como Diputados a Cortes electos en las elecciones que acaban de verificarse https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1867/081/A00004-00004.pdf es Madrid Gazette 81 0212-1220 4 31 March 2026 Less than 400,000 people were eligible to vote, about 2.6% of the total population.Caballero Domínguez 1999 50 The election was mostly uncontested by opposition parties, with many candidates from the ruling Moderate Party running unopposed.10 March 1867 https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=6302054f-ceee-4205-aa36-b0718e781f5a&page=2 Hoy es primer día de elecciones: se tiene por cierto que en la gran mayoría de las provincias no habrá más candidatura que la de los adictos al gobierno y al actual estado de cosas es La España National Library of Spain 9 April 202610 March 1867 https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=d366ce20-4fa7-435b-9cf0-766a01c24520 Hasta mañana no empieza la votación para diputados a Cortes, que continuará en los dias 12 y 13. LA ESPAÑA, único periódico que trata hoy la cuestión electoral, lo hace en los siguientes términos es La Época National Library of Spain 9 April 2026Acín Garcés 2016 30 Overview Under the 1845 Constitution, the Spanish es Cortes no were conceived as "co-legislative bodies", forming a nearly perfect bicameral system.Constitution 1845 arts. 12–13 & 35. Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate exercised legislative, oversight and budgetary functions, sharing almost equal powers, except in budget laws (taxation and public credit)—whose first reading corresponded to Congress—and in impeachment processes against government ministers, where Congress handled indictment and the Senate the trial.Constitution 1845 arts. 19, 32, 36 & 39.https://www.senado.es/web/conocersenado/temasclave/historiaconstitucional/index.html Conocer el Senado. Temas clave. El Senado en la historia constitucional española es Senate of Spain 11 October 2025 Date The term of the Congress expired five years from the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier.Constitution 1845 art. 24. Election day was held over four voting days: the first was used to elect polling station officials, and the remaining three were devoted to the parliamentary election itself.Law of 18 July 1865 arts. 63–66, 69 & 80. The monarch had the prerogative to dissolve Congress at any given time and call a snap election.Constitution 1845 art. 26. The Congress was officially dissolved on 30 December 1866, with the corresponding decree setting election day to start on 10 March 1867 and scheduling for the chamber to reconvene on 30 March.Royal Decree of 30 December 1866 arts. 1–3. Electoral system Voting for the Congress of Deputies was based on censitary suffrage, comprising Spanish national males over 25 years of age who met either of the following:Law of 18 July 1865 arts. 14–19.Ortega Álvarez Santaolaya Machetti 1996 80–81Carreras de Odriozola Tafunell Sambola 2005 1076 Being taxpayers with a minimum quota of 20 escudos in property taxes (paid one year in advance) or in corporate taxes (paid two years in advance); Holding specific positions (such as full academics in the royal academies, cathedral chapter members and parish priests, active or retired public employees with an income of 800 escudos, general officers, self-employed professionals with one year of experience, awarded painters or sculptors, senior court officials and certified teachers). In the Basque Provinces and Navarre—where taxes were not paid directly—voters had instead to prove wealth equivalent to an income of 450 escudos (in capital or property).Law of 18 July 1865 art. 116. Additional restrictions excluded those deprived of political rights or barred from public office by a final sentence, criminally imprisoned or convicted, legally incapacitated, bankrupt, and public debtors.Law of 18 July 1865 arts. 9 & 20. The Congress of Deputies had one seat per 45,000 inhabitants or fraction above 22,500. All were elected in multi-member constituencies corresponding to the provinces of Spain—each assigned a number of seats according to population—using two-round majority voting. Provinces above 337,500 inhabitants were divided into two or more sub-provincial constituencies (with no province electing more than seven seats), whereas municipalities over 45,000 inhabitants were to form an independent constituency each.Constitution 1845 arts. 20–21; Law of 18 July 1865 arts. 1–3 & 87–89. As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Congress multi-member constituency (a total of 77) was entitled the following seats:Law of 18 July 1865 art. 5 & attached table; Royal Decree of 30 December 1866 art. 2. Seats Constituencies 7 Almería, Burgos, Cáceres, Játiva, La Almunia, Lérida, Madrid, Pamplona, Tarragona, Toledo, Gerona 6 Avilés, Coruña, Palma, Barcelona, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Huesca, Lugo, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Zamora 5 Albacete, Alicante, Badajoz, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Manresa, Pontevedra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Teruel, Valladolid, Vich, Vigo 4 Alcalá, Alcoy, Antequera, Astorga, Ávila, Baeza, Bilbao, Carmona, Castuera, Córdoba, Ginzo de Limia, Guadix, Huelva, Jaén, León, Liria, Logroño, Mondoñedo, Montilla, Morón, Motril, Mula, Orense, Palencia, Ronda, San Sebastián 3 Arcos, Puerto de Santa María, Segovia, Seville, Soria, Valencia 2 Cádiz, Cartagena, Granada, Málaga, Murcia, Vitoria, Zaragoza 1 Jerez, Lorca The law provided for by-elections to fill vacant seats during the legislative term, as long as this affected at least one third of the seats assigned to a given constituency.Law of 18 July 1865 arts. 96–98. The Senate was an unelected chamber, whose members were directly appointed for life by the monarch—with no statutory cap—from among Spanish males over 30 years of age, who belonged to certain categories:Constitution 1845 arts. 14–15 & 17–18.Carreras de Odriozola Tafunell Sambola 2005 1082 The monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age (25); Provided an income of 30,000 reales: the presidents of the Senate and the Congress; lawmakers admitted three times to parliament; government ministers; the heads and members of higher courts and state institutions;These comprised the Council of State and the Supreme Court. archbishops and bishops; grandees of Spain; certain general officers (captain generals and lieutenant generals); heads of diplomatic missions abroad (ambassadors and plenipotentiaries); and the heads and members of higher courts; Provided an income of 60,000 reales: Spanish nobility; Being taxpayers with a minimum quota of 8,000 reales in direct taxes (paid one year in advance): former lawmakers, provincial deputies, mayors of towns over 30,000, or heads of commercial courts. Candidates Nomination rules For the Congress, secular Spanish males of voting age, taxpayers for any direct tax, could run for election.Constitution 1845 art. 22; Law of 18 July 1865 art. 8. Causes of ineligibility applied to incumbent senators and those excluded from voting, as well as to:Law of 18 July 1865 arts. 9–10 & 12. Public contractors, within their relevant territories and until the end of their contracts; Holders of a number of territorial posts (such as government-appointed positions; local and provincial employees; and provincial deputies), within their areas of jurisdiction, during their term of office and up to one year afterwards. Incompatibility rules barred representing multiple constituencies simultaneously, as well as combining legislative roles (deputy and senator) with each other; or combining the role of deputy with:Law of 22 June 1864 arts. 1–2. Certain technical official posts (civil, mining and forest engineers); tax collectors; local authorities, during their term of office and up to one year afterwards; and public contractors; all within their areas of jurisdiction; Government-appointed posts, with exceptions including members of the Council of State; heads of diplomatic missions in royal courts in Europe; chief officials in army institutes; senior authorities based in Madrid; high-ranking officials of government departments (provided a public salary of 40,000 reales and three years of service); senior officials in the Royal Household; the heads and members of higher courts in Madrid; general officers; university authorities and professors; and chief engineers with one year of service. Notes References Bibliography Legislation y Constitución de la Monarquía Española Constitution 23 May 1845 Madrid Gazette es https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1845/3904/C00001-00002.pdf 31 March 2026 Constitution 1845 y Ley relativa a incompatibilidades parlamentarias Law 22 June 1864 Madrid Gazette es https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1864/256/A00001-00001.pdf 3 April 2026 Law of 22 June 1864 y Ley electoral para Diputados a Cortes Law 18 July 1865 Madrid Gazette es https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1865/212/A00001-00003.pdf 31 March 2026 Law of 18 July 1865 y Real decreto disolviendo el Congreso de los Diputados Law 30 December 1866 Madrid Gazette es https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1866/364/A00001-00001.pdf 31 March 2026 Royal Decree of 30 December 1866 Other Ortega Álvarez Luis Santaolaya Machetti Pablo 1996 Evolución histórica del sistema electoral español https://revista.cortesgenerales.es/rcg/article/view/784 es Cortes Generales Revista de las Cortes Generales 37 0213-0130 10.33426/rcg/1996/37/784 65–107 free Caballero Domínguez Margarita 1999 El derecho de representación: sufragio y leyes electorales https://www.revistasmarcialpons.es/index.php/revistaayer/article/view/caballero-el-derecho-de-representacion/2918 es Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea 34 2 1134-2277 41–63 Carreras de Odriozola Albert Tafunell Sambola Xavier 2005 1989 Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/autores.pdf es 1 Bilbao Fundación BBVA 1072–1097 II 84-96515-00-1 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010950/http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/autores.pdf 24 September 2015 dmy-all Acín Garcés Eduardo 2016 La Revolución de 1868 a través de sus protagonistas https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/58596/files/TAZ-TFM-2016-1154.pdf es Zaragoza University of Zaragoza 9 April 2026 Category:1867 elections in Spain Category:1867 in Spain 1867 Category:March 1867 in Europe