A general election was held in Spain on 5 March 1893, and on 19 March 1893, to elect the members of the 6th Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 442 seats
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla 1895
Emilio Castelar
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In Spanish politics, the turnismo, turno pacífico or simply turno refers to an informal two-party system of government within the constitutional monarchy of the Restoration. It consisted of the altern
1893 Spanish general election
…five special districts—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…
Cartoon in the satirical magazine El Motín depicting Cánovas and Sagasta see-sawing up and down on the back of Spain.
New Theatre "The Twins" from the Spanish magazine Gedeón, 1909.