1933 Spanish general election

1933 Spanish general election

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All 473 seats of the Congress of Deputies 237 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	67.31%
First party Second party Third party   Leader José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones Alejandro Lerroux Francisco Largo Caballero Party CEDA PRR PSOE Leader since 4 March 1933 1908 1932 Leader's seat Salamanca & León Valencia-capital Madrid-capital Last election 5 seats [nb 1] 90 seats 115 seats Seats won 115 102 59 Seat change 110 12 56   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader José Martínez de Velasco Francesc Cambó The Count of Rodezno Party Agrarian minority Regionalist League Traditionalist Communion Leader since 1934 1918 1931 Leader's seat Burgos Barcelona capital Navarre Last election 15 seats 2 seats 4 seats Seats won 30 24 20 Seat change 15 22 16
Areas of most support: the right (dark blue), the centre-right (light blue), the centre (green) and the left (red).
Prime Minister before election Diego Martínez Barrio PRR Prime Minister after election Alejandro Lerroux PRR

Elections to Spain's legislature, the Cortes Generales, were held on 19 November 1933 for all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes of the Second Spanish Republic. Since the previous elections of 1931, a new constitution had been ratified, and the franchise extended to more than six million women. The governing Republican-Socialist coalition had fallen apart, with the Radical Republican Party beginning to support a newly united political right.

The right formed an electoral coalition, as was favoured by the new electoral system enacted earlier in the year. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, or PSOE) won only 59 seats. The newly formed Catholic conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas or CEDA) gained 115 seats and the Radicals 102. The right capitalised on disenchantment with the government among Catholics and other conservatives. CEDA campaigned on reversing the reforms that had been made under the Republic, and on freeing political prisoners. Anarchists favoured abstention from the vote. These factors helped the election to result in significant victory for the right over the left.
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