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 of the 1936 elections were the Popular Front, a coalition of the PSOE, IR, ERC, UR, PCE, AC, ORGA and other parties.

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**Summary of the 16 February 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) Republican Autonomous Galician Organization (Organización Republicana Gallega Autónoma)	4,654,116	48.06	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	46.50	156
Centre Union (Unión de Centro) Centre Party (Partido de Centro) Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco) Regionalist League (Liga Regionalista) Radical Republican Party (Partido Radical Republicano) Liberal Democrats	525,714	5.42	59
Total (turnout %)	9,683,335	100.00%	478
Source: El País Online

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