All 409 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 180 (of 360) seats in the Senate 205 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Count of Romanones
Eduardo Dato
Antonio Maura
Party
Liberal–Democratic
Conservative
Maurist
Leader since
1912
1913
1913
Leader's seat
Guadalajara
Vitoria
Palma
Last election
117 (C) · 53 (S)[b]
225 (C) · 95 (S)
Did not contest
Seats won
228 (C) · 112 (S)
90 (C) · 36 (S)
17 (C) · 5 (S)
Seat change
111 (C) ·59 (S)
135 (C) ·59 (S)
17 (C) ·5 (S)
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Enric Prat de la Riba
Melquíades Álvarez
Roberto Castrovido
Party
Regionalist
Reformist
Republican–Socialist
Leader since
1902
1912
1914
Leader's seat
—
Castropol
Madrid
Last election
13 (C) · 6 (S)
12 (C) · 3 (S)
13 (C) · 2 (S)[c]
Seats won
13 (C) · 7 (S)
14 (C) · 2 (S)
13 (C) · 1 (S)
Seat change
0 (C) ·1 (S)
2 (C) ·1 (S)
0 (C) ·1 (S)
Prime Minister before election
Count of Romanones
Liberal
Prime Minister after election
Count of Romanones
Liberal
The 1916 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 9 April (for the Congress of Deputies)[a] and on Sunday, 23 April 1916 (for the Senate), to elect the 16th Cortes of the Kingdom of Spain in 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 outbreak of World War I in 1914 had seen an expansion of industrial activity as demand rose among the warring powers for Spanish goods—a result of Prime Minister Eduardo Dato proclaiming Spain's neutrality in the war—but the inflow of capital produced inflation and a drop in imports, exacerbating the poverty of some areas in the country. Food riots resulting from the shortage of basic commodities (which came to be known in Spain as motines de subsistencias), coupled with political instability resulting from the Conservative Party's split between the dominant Datist and the minor Maurist and Ciervist factions, led to the downfall of Dato's government and to the appointment of the Count of Romanones by King Alfonso XIII.
^"Abril de 1916. Día 2. Las elecciones de Diputados a Cortes. El artículo 29". National Library of Spain (in Spanish). El Año Político. 1 January 1917. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
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