A general election was held in Spain on 20 April 1879, and on 3 May 1879, to elect the members of the 1st Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 431 seats in
The Conservative Party, officially the Liberal Conservative Party and colloquially the Conservatives, was a Spanish political party founded in 1876 by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.