All 447 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 180 (of 360) seats in the Senate 224 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Francisco Silvela
Nicolás Salmerón
Party
Liberal
Conservative (Silvelist)
Republican
Leader since
1880
1892
1898
Leader's seat
Logroño
Piedrahíta
Gracia
Last election
111 (C) · 43 (S)
12 (C) · 2 (S)
4 (C) · 3 (S)
Seats won
324 (C) · 122 (S)
79 (C) · 36 (S)
15 (C) · 1 (S)
Seat change
213 (C) ·79 (S)
65 (C) ·34 (S)
11 (C) ·2 (S)
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Carlos O'Donnell
Francisco Romero Robledo
Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa
Party
Tetuanist
Liberal Reformist
Carlist
Leader since
1898
1898
1891
Leader's seat
Senator (for life)
Antequera
—
Last election
307 (C) · 118 (S)[a]
Did not contest
10 (C) · 2 (S)
Seats won
7 (C) · 7 (S)
6 (C) · 1 (S)
6 (C) · 0 (S)
Seat change
300 (C) ·111 (S)
6 (C) ·1 (S)
4 (C) ·2 (S)
Election results by Congress of Deputies electoral constituency and district
Prime Minister before election
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Liberal
Prime Minister after election
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Liberal
The 1898 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 27 March (for the Congress of Deputies) and on Sunday, 10 April 1898 (for the Senate), to elect the 8th Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain in the Restoration period. All 445 seats in the Congress of Deputies (plus two special districts) were up for election, as well as 180 of 360 seats in the Senate.
The election was called amid a period of political unstability following the assassination of previous prime minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo on 8 August 1897 by Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo and the brief premiership of Marcelo Azcárraga. Respecting the turno system, Queen Regent Maria Christina appointed a new government under Liberal leader Práxedes Mateo Sagasta on 4 October 1897, tasking them with the formation of a new majority. In the wake of Cánovas's death, the Conservative Party was left in disarray, split between Francisco Silvela's Conservative Union, a faction led by Duke of Tetuán Carlos O'Donnell and Francisco Romero Robledo's re-established Liberal Reformist Party. The result of the election was a Liberal majority in both chambers.
This would be the last Spanish general election to be held in Cuba and Puerto Rico, as the Spanish–American War, which would start only a few weeks after the election, would lead to the loss of all Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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