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General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on 9 April 1916. At stake were all 409 seats in the Congress of Deputies.Though formally competitive the 1916 general election was held under the customary system of Turno Pacifico; in accordance with a long-standing power-sharing arrangement elections (under influence by machine bosses called caciques) served as a rubber stamp for a routine handover of power initiated by the King.
