Spanish general election, 1907

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21 April–5 May 1907

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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

Registered

4,480,064–4,579,114

Turnout

3,071,142 (67.1–68.6%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Antonio Maura	Antonio Aguilar	Enric Prat de la Riba
Party	Conservative	Liberal	SC
Leader since	1905	1906	1906
Leader's seat	Balearic Islands (Palma)	Pontevedra (Estrada)	None
Last election	107 seats	223 seats	18 seats
Seats won	249	73	40
Seat change	142	150	22
Popular vote	1,842,634	544,940	213,352
Percentage	60.0%	17.7%	6.9%

Prime Minister before election

Antonio Maura
Conservative

Elected Prime Minister

Antonio Maura
Conservative

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

The Spanish legislature, the Cortes, was composed of two chambers at the time of the 1907 election:

This was a nearly perfect bicameral system, with the two chambers established as "co-legislative bodies". Both chambers had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, where the Congress had preeminence.

The Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a constitutional monarchy, awarding the King power to name senators and to revoke laws, as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the army. The King would also play a key role in the system of the turno pacífico (Spanish for "Peaceful Turn") by appointing and toppling governments and allowing the opposition to take power. Under this system, the Conservative and Liberal parties alternated in power by means of election rigging, which they achieved through the encasillado, using the links between the Ministry of the Interior, the provincial civil governors, and the local bosses (caciques) to ensure victory and exclude minor parties from the power sharing.

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