A general election was held in Spain on 9 April 1916, and on 23 April 1916, to elect the members of the 16th Cortes under the Spanish Constitution of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 409 seats
Álvaro de Figueroa, Count of Romanones 1919
Eduardo Dato 1911
Antonio Maura 1917
Melquíades Álvarez
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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
1916 Spanish general election
…of 1876, during the Restoration period. All 409 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate. The turno system—under which Conservatives and Liberals had alternated in power by determining in advance the outcome of elections through caciquism and electoral…
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.