The 1879 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 20 April and on Saturday, 3 May 1879, to elect the 1st Restoration Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain. All 392 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.

The Liberal Conservative Party, also known more simply as the Conservative Party, was a Spanish political party founded in 1876 by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.