A general election was held in Spain on 15 June 1977 to elect the members of the Spanish Cortes. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 207 seats in the Senate.
Felipe González 1976
Santiago Carrillo 1978
Jordi Pujol 1978
Xabier Arzalluz
The Spanish transition to democracy, known in Spain as la Transición or la Transición española, officially the Spanish State from 1975 to 1978 and Kingdom of Spain thereafter, was a period of modern S
1977 Spanish general election
…was to draft a new constitution, which would ultimately lead to the repealing of the Fundamental Laws of the Realm and the culmination of the country's transition to democracy. The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the electoral alliance created to serve as Suárez's political platform in government, emerged as the largest…
Juan Carlos I before the Cortes Españolas, during his proclamation as King on 22 November 1975
Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the most important Minister of the Arias Navarro government
Federica Montseny speaking at the meeting of the CNT in Barcelona in 1977, after 36 years of exile
People waiting to vote in the 1977 general election, the first free election since 1936.