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General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on 21 August 1881. At stake were all 392 seats in the Congress of Deputies.Though formally competitive the 1881 general election was held under the recently developed system of Turno Pacifico; in accordance with a semi-formal power-sharing arrangement brokered by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo elections (under influence by machine bosses called caciques) served as a rubber stamp for a routine handover of power initiated by the King.
