1901 Spanish general election

1901 Spanish general election

←  1899 19 May 1901 (Congress) 2 June 1901 (Senate) [a] 1903  →
All 402 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 180 (of 360) seats in the Senate 202 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
First party Second party Third party   Leader Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Francisco Silvela Francisco Pi y Margall Party Liberal Conservative Republican Leader since 1880 1899 1901 Leader's seat Logroño Piedrahita Barcelona Last election 92 (C) ·47 (S) 240 (C) ·103 (S) 13 (C) ·1 (S) [b] Seats won 246 (C) ·116 (S) 76 (C) ·38 (S) 15 (C) ·3 (S) Seat change 154 (C) · 69 (S) 164 (C) · 65 (S) 2 (C) · 2 (S)   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Germán Gamazo Carlos O'Donnell Francisco Romero Robledo Party Gamacist Tetuanist Liberal Reformist Leader since 1899 1898 1898 Leader's seat Medina del Campo Senator (for life) Antequera Last election 32 (C) ·7 (S) 11 (C) ·7 (S) 3 (C) ·1 (S) Seats won 15 (C) ·3 (S) 10 (C) ·7 (S) 12 (C) ·2 (S) Seat change 17 (C) · 4 (S) 1 (C) · 0 (S) 9 (C) · 1 (S)
Election results by constituency (Congress)
Prime Minister before election Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Liberal Prime Minister after election Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Liberal

A general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 19 May (for the Congress of Deputies) and on Sunday, 2 June 1901 (for the Senate), ^[a] to elect the members of the 10th Restoration Cortes. All 402 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.

Since the Pact of El Pardo, an informal system known as turno or turnismo was operated by the monarchy and the country's two main parties—the Conservatives and the Liberals—to determine in advance the outcome of elections by means of electoral fraud, often achieved through the territorial clientelistic networks of local bosses (the caciques ), ensuring that both parties would have rotating periods in power. As a result, elections were often neither truly free nor fair, though they could be more competitive in the country's urban centres where caciquism was weaker.

Conservative prime minister Francisco Silvela resigned in late 1900 as a result of social, political and ecclesiastical backlash resulting from both a tax reform adopted by finance minister Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde and the conflictive marriage between María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, and Infante Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Práxedes Mateo Sagasta formed a new government in March 1901, the so-called "Electra cabinet"—in reference to the Benito Pérez Galdós's Electra play which caused a public uproar that hastened the fall of the previous cabinet led by Marcelo Azcárraga—and immediately sought a parliamentary majority for his Liberal Party by triggering a snap election.

The election resulted in a Liberal-dominated parliament that saw new parties such as the regenerationist National Union or the Catalan-based Regionalist League gaining seats for the first time. This would be Sagasta's final electoral contest, as he would resign as prime minister in December 1902 and die on 5 January 1903, aged 77, as a result of bronchopneumonia.

Background

Following the Bourbon Restoration in 1874, the Spanish Constitution of 1876 enshrined Spain as a semi-constitutional monarchy , awarding the monarch —under the royal prerogative —the right of legislative initiative together with the bicameral Cortes ; the capacity to veto laws passed by the legislative body; the power to appoint government members (including the prime minister ); the ability to grant or deny parliamentary dissolution , the adjournment of legislative sessions and the signature of royal decrees ; as well as the title of commander-in-chief of the armed forces . ^{[6] [7]} The monarch would play a key role in the turno system by appointing and dismissing governments, which would then organize elections to provide themselves with a parliamentary majority. This informal system allowed the two major " dynastic " political parties at the time, the Conservatives and the Liberals —characterized as oligarchic , elite parties with loose structures dominated by internal factions, each led by powerful individuals—to alternate in power by means of electoral fraud ( pucherazo ). This was achieved by assigning candidates to districts before the elections were held ( encasillado ), then arrange their victory through the links between the Ministry of Governance and the territorial clientelistic networks of provincial governors and local bosses (the caciques ), excluding minor parties from the power sharing. ^{[8] [9]}

In March 1899, Conservative leader Francisco Silvela formed a regenerationist government that aimed at implementing a program of reforms to address the causes of Spain's decline as a nation—self-evidenced in the country's defeat in the Spanish–American War and the subsequent loss of the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific. ^[10] However, Silvela was forced to resign as prime minister and cede power to Marcelo Azcárraga in October 1900, following the political and social backlash resulting from both the tax reform adopted by his finance minister, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde—which, while intending to reduce the national debt caused by the war in Cuba, sparked a wave of protests and strikes—and the conflictive marriage between María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, and Infante Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, whose father had fought in the Carlist side during the Third Carlist War. ^{[11] [12]} Further, the Carlist uprising of October 1900—an attempted armed insurrection originating in Badalona which spread to other towns in Spain—had led to the suspension of constitutional freedoms in a number of provinces for several months. ^{[13] [14]} Azcárraga's government fell in March 1901, unable to deal with these issues and amid a wave of anti-clericalism propelled by Benito Pérez Galdós's Electra play—which caused a storm of both outrage and uproar—, being replaced by a Liberal government under Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, the so-called "Electra cabinet". ^{[15] [16] [17] [18]}

Concurrently, regenerationism saw the rise of movements opposed to the Restoration political system. On the one hand, the establishment of the regenerationist National Union (UN) party by Joaquín Costa and Santiago Alba. ^[19] On the other hand, Catalan regionalism was invigorated following Silvela's refusal to meet their demands and a growing disaffection among the Catalan middle and industrial classes, which in turn led to the establishment throughout 1899 of the liberal conservative Catalan National Centre (CNC) and the Regionalist Union (UR). Both parties would merge in April 1901 into the Regionalist League (LR).

Overview

Electoral system

The Spanish Cortes were envisaged as "co-legislative bodies", based on a nearly perfect bicameral system. ^[20] Both the Congress of Deputies and the Senate had legislative, control and budgetary functions, sharing equal powers except for laws on contributions or public credit, the first reading of which corresponded to Congress, and impeachment processes against government ministers, in which each chamber had separate powers of indictment (Congress) and trial (Senate). ^{[21] [22]} Voting for each chamber of the Cortes was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage and censitary suffrage, respectively: ^[23]

• For the Congress, it comprised all national males over 25 years of age, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights. ^{[24] [25] [26]}

Voters were required to not being sentenced—by a final court ruling—to perpetual disqualification from political rights or public offices, to afflictive penalties not legally rehabilitated at least two years in advance, nor to other criminal penalties that remained unserved at the time of the election; neither being legally incapacitated, bankrupt, insolvent, debtors of public funds (including their substitutes or jointly liable parties), nor homeless. ^[24]

• For the Senate, it comprised archbishops and bishops (in the ecclesiastical councils); full academics (in the royal academies); rectors, full professors, enrolled doctors, directors of secondary education institutes and heads of special schools in their respective territories (in the universities); members with at least a three-year-old membership (in the economic societies of Friends of the Country); major taxpayers and Spanish citizens of age, being householders residing in Spain and in full enjoyment of their political and civil rights (for delegates in the local councils); and provincial deputies. ^[27]

The Congress of Deputies was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants, distributed among the provinces of Spain in proportion to their populations. ^[28] 92 seats were allocated to 26 multi-member constituencies and elected using a partial block voting system: in constituencies electing eight seats or more, electors could vote for no more than three candidates less than the number of seats to be allocated; in those with more than four seats and up to eight, for no more than two less; and in those with more than one seat and up to four, for no more than one less. ^[29] The remaining seats—310 for the 1901 election—were allocated to single-member districts and elected using plurality voting. ^[30] Additionally, literary universities, economic societies of Friends of the Country and officially organized chambers of commerce, industry and agriculture were entitled to one seat per each 5,000 registered voters that they comprised. ^{[31] [32]}

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Congress multi-member constituency was entitled the following seats: ^{[30] [33]}

Seats	Constituencies
8	Madrid
7	Barcelona
5	Palma, Seville
4	Cartagena (+1)
3	Alicante, Almería, Badajoz, Burgos, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Jaén, Jerez de la Frontera, La Coruña, Lugo, Málaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid, Zaragoza

For the Senate, 180 seats were elected using an indirect, write-in, two-round majority voting system. ^{[34] [35]} Voters in the economic societies, the local councils and major taxpayers elected delegates—equivalent in number to one per each 50 members (in each economic society) or to one-sixth of the councillors (in each local council), with an initial minimum of one—who, together with other voting-able electors, would in turn vote for senators. ^[36] The provinces of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia were allocated four seats each, whereas each of the remaining provinces was allocated three seats, for a total of 150. ^{[37] [38]} The remaining 30 were allocated to special districts comprising a number of institutions, electing one seat each—the archdioceses of Burgos, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; the six oldest royal academies (the Royal Spanish; History; Fine Arts of San Fernando; Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences; Moral and Political Sciences and Medicine); the universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago, Seville, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza; and the economic societies of Friends of the Country from Madrid, Barcelona, León, Seville and Valencia. ^[39]

An additional 180 seats comprised senators in their own right—the monarch's offspring and the heir apparent once coming of age; grandees of Spain with an annual income of at least Pts 60,000 (from their own real estate or from rights that enjoy the same legal consideration); captain generals of the Army and admirals of the Navy; the Patriarch of the Indies and archbishops; and the presidents of the Council of State, the Supreme Court, the Court of Auditors and the Supreme Council of War and Navy, after two years of service—as well as senators for life appointed directly by the monarch. ^[40]

The law provided for by-elections to fill seats vacated in both the Congress and Senate throughout the legislature's term. ^{[41] [42]}

Eligibility

For the Congress, Spanish citizens of age, of secular status, in full enjoyment of their civil rights and with the legal capacity to vote could run for election, provided that they were not contractors of public works or services, within the territorial scope of their contracts; nor holders of government-appointed offices and presidents or members of provincial deputations—during their tenure of office and up to one year after their dismissal—in constituencies within the whole or part of their respective area of jurisdiction, except for government ministers and civil servants in the Central Administration. ^{[43] [44]} A number of other positions were exempt from ineligibility, provided that no more than 40 deputies benefitted from these: ^{[45] [46]}

• Civil, military and judicial positions with a permanent residence in Madrid and a yearly public salary of at least Pts 12,500;
• The holders of a number of positions: the president, prosecutors and chamber presidents of the territorial court of Madrid; the rector and full professors of the Central University of Madrid; inspectors of engineers; and general officers of the Army and Navy based in Madrid.

For the Senate, eligibility was limited to Spanish citizens over 35 years of age and not subject to criminal prosecution, disfranchisement nor asset seizure, provided that they were entitled to be appointed as senators in their own right or belonged or had belonged to one of the following categories: ^{[47] [48]}

• Those who had ever served as senators before the promulgation of the 1876 Constitution; and deputies having served in at least three different congresses or eight terms;
• The holders of a number of positions: presidents of the Senate and the Congress; government ministers; bishops; grandees of Spain not eligible as senators in their own right; and presidents and directors of the royal academies;
• Provided an annual income of at least Pts 7,500 from either their own property, salaries from jobs that cannot be lost except for legally proven cause, or from retirement, withdrawal or termination: full academics of the aforementioned corporations on the first half of the seniority scale in their corps; first-class inspectors-general of the corps of civil, mining and forest engineers; and full professors with at least four years of seniority in their category and practice;
• Provided two prior years of service: Army's lieutenant generals and Navy's vice admirals; and other members and prosecutors of the Council of State, the Supreme Court, the Court of Auditors, the Supreme Council of War and Navy, and the dean of the Court of Military Orders;
• Ambassadors after two years of service and plenipotentiaries after four;
• Those with an annual income of Pts 20,000 or were taxpayers with a minimum quota of Pts 4,000 in direct contributions at least two years in advance, provided that they either belonged to the Spanish nobility, had been previously deputies, provincial deputies or mayors in provincial capitals or towns over 20,000 inhabitants.

Other causes of ineligibility for the Senate were imposed on territorial-level officers in government bodies and institutions—during their tenure of office and up to three months after their dismissal—in constituencies within the whole or part of their respective area of jurisdiction; contractors of public works or services; tax collectors and their guarantors; debtors of public funds (including their substitutes or jointly liable parties); deputies; local councillors (except those in Madrid); and provincial deputies by their respective provinces. ^[49]

Election date

The term of each chamber of the Cortes—the Congress and one-half of the elective part of the Senate—expired five years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. ^[50] The previous Congress and Senate elections were held on 16 April and 30 April 1899, which meant that the legislature's terms would have expired on 16 April and 30 April 1904, respectively. The monarch had the prerogative to dissolve both chambers at any given time—either jointly or separately—and call a snap election. ^{[51] [52]} There was no constitutional requirement for concurrent elections to the Congress and the Senate, nor for the elective part of the Senate to be renewed in its entirety except in the case that a full dissolution was agreed by the monarch. Still, there was only one case of a separate election (for the Senate in 1877) and no half-Senate elections taking place under the 1876 Constitution.

The Cortes were officially dissolved on 24 April 1901, with the dissolution decree setting the election dates for 19 May (for the Congress) and 2 June 1901 (for the Senate) and scheduling for both chambers to reconvene on 11 June. ^[53]

Results

Congress of Deputies

← Summary of the 19 May 1901 Congress of Deputies election results →

Parties and alliances		Popular vote		Seats
		Votes	%
	Liberal Party (PL)			246
	Conservative Party (PC)			76
	Republican Coalition (CR)			15
	Gamacist Liberals (G)			15
	Liberal Reformist Party (PLR)			12
	Tetuanist Conservatives (T)			10
	National Union (UN)			6
	Traditionalist Communion (Carlist) (CT)			6
	Regionalist League (LR)			6
	Blasquist Republicans (RB)			2
	Integrist Party (PI)			2
	Independents (INDEP)			6
Total				402
Votes cast / turnout
Abstentions
Registered voters
Sources [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]

Seats PL   61.19% PC   18.91% CR   3.73% G   3.73% PLR   2.99% T   2.49% UN   1.49% CT   1.49% LR   1.49% RB   0.50% PI   0.50% INDEP   1.49%

Senate

← Summary of the 2 June 1901 Senate of Spain election results →

Parties and alliances		Seats
	Liberal Party (PL)	116
	Conservative Party (PC)	38
	Tetuanist Conservatives (T)	7
	Republican Coalition (CR)	3
	Gamacist Liberals (G)	3
	Liberal Reformist Party (PLR)	2
	National Union (UN)	1
	Independents (INDEP)	1
	Archbishops (ARCH)	9
Total elective seats		180
Sources [a] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68]

Seats PL   64.44% PC   21.11% T   3.89% CR   1.67% G   1.67% PLR   1.11% UN   0.56% INDEP   0.56% ARCH   5.00%

Maps

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  Election results by constituency (Congress).

Distribution by group

Summary of political group distribution in the 10th Restoration Cortes (1901–1903)

Group		Parties and alliances		C	S	Total
	PL		Liberal Party (PL)	245	113	362
			Basque Dynastics (Urquijist) (DV)	1	2
			Liberal–Republican Coalition (CLR)	0	1
	PC		Conservative Party (PC)	76	38	114
	CR		National Republican Party (PRN)	12	1	18
			Federal Republican Party (PRF)	2	0
			Centralist Republican Party (PRC)	1	1
			Liberal–Republican Coalition (CLR)	0	1
	G		Gamacist Liberals (G)	15	3	18
	T		Tetuanist Conservatives (T)	9	7	17
			Independents (INDEP)	1	0
	PLR		Liberal Reformist Party (PLR)	12	2	14
	UN		National Union (UN)	6	0	7
			Liberal–Republican Coalition (CLR)	0	1
	CT		Traditionalist Communion (Carlist) (CT)	6	0	6
	LR		Regionalist League (LR)	6	0	6
	RB		Blasquist Republicans (RB)	2	0	2
	PI		Integrist Party (PI)	2	0	2
	INDEP		Independents (INDEP)	5	1	7
			Independent Catholics (CAT)	1	0
	ARCH		Archbishops (ARCH)	0	9	9
Total				402	180	582

Notes

1. Senate elections in the province of Valladolid were postponed, first to 28 July 1901, then to 26 October 1902. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
2. Results for FR (11 deputies and 1 senator) and PRF (2 deputies and 0 senators) in the 1899 election.

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