Country: | Spain |
Flag Year: | 1785 |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1822 Spanish general election |
Previous Year: | 1822 |
Next Election: | February 1836 Spanish general election |
Next Year: | 1836 |
Seats For Election: | All 188 seats of the Congress of Deputies |
Majority Seats: | 94 |
Turnout: | ~58.9% |
Election Date: | 30 June 1834 |
Image1: | Martinez_Rosa_cropped.png |
Leader1: | Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo |
Party1: | Moderate Party (Spain) |
Leaders Seat1: | Madrid |
Seats1: | 111 |
Seat Change1: | New |
Leader2: | Juan Álvarez Mendizábal |
Party2: | Progressive Party (Spain) |
Leaders Seat2: | Madrid |
Seats2: | 77 |
Seat Change2: | New |
Map Size: | 300px |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Francisco Cea Bermúdez |
Before Party: | none |
After Election: | Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo |
After Party: | Moderate Party |
General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain in 1834. At stake were all 188 seats in the Congress of Deputies.
The 1834 elections were the first ones since 1822 and signalled the return of liberalism to Spain after the absolutist Década Ominosa.
The elections were held under the Spanish Royal Statute of 1834,[1] not under a full constitutional system. A first-past-the-post system was used with 48 multi-member constituencies and one single-member constituency.
Only around 18,000 people were allowed to vote, out of a population of 12 million.