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The Failure of Electoral Modernization: The Elections of May 1936 in Granada

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid

There are many studies of elections under the Second Spanish Republic, some of them of great merit. Most, however, are narrow accounts lacking in contextualization, and fail to examine the broader history of parliamentary politics in Spain. The present article analyzes Republican democracy in its final phase — the months in which the Popular Front was in power — through an examination of the elections of May 1936, the last to be held in Spain until 1977. The comparison between the general elections of February 1936 and the partial elections of May, as well as the comparison with broader electoral history in Spain, reveals the rapid deterioration of parliamentary and electoral practice on the eve of the Civil War.

Key Words: Civil War • elections • Granada • political history • Second Republic • Spain

Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 44, No. 3, 401-429 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0022009409104116


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