Spanish general election, 1936

Legislative elections were held in Spain on February 16, 1936. At stake were all 478 seats in the lower house of the Cortes Generales, in the Congress of Deputies. The winners to the 1936 elections are the Popular Front, a coalition for the PSOE, IR, ERC, UR, PCE, AC, ORGA and others parties.

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**Summary of the 16 Februrary 1936 Congress of Deputies election results**
Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats
Popular Front (Frente Popular) Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) Republican Left (Izquierda Republicana) Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) Republican Union (Unión Republicana) Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España) Catalan Action (Acció Catalana) Galician Organization Republican Autonomus (Organización Republicana Gallega Autónoma)	4,654,116	34.3	263
National Front (Frente Nacional) Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas) Tradicionalist Communion (Comunión Tradicionalista) Spanish Renovation (Renovación Española) Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista de España) Agrarian Party (Partido Agrario Español) Conservatives (Conservadores)	4,503,505	33.2	156
Center Union (Unión de Centro) Center Party (Partido de Centro) Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco) Regionalist League (Liga Regionalista) Radical Republican Party (Partido Radical Republicano) Liberal Democrats	525,714	5.4	59
Total (turnout %)			478
Source: El País Online