La influencia de las mujeres españolas en los resultados de las elecciones generales de 1933

Abstract

The first experience of Spanish women in the 1933 general elections has barely received attention from professional historians. Considered as conservative and catholic per excellence, their voting intentions have usually been argued like an essential factor in the victory of the right-wing parties in the general elections occurring at the end of 1933. The aim of this article is to show empirically that even though Spanish women had not voted, the conservative shift the country underwent after these general elections would have happened in any case. This was due to the prior development of the male electorate and the chain of detrimental political events to the left-wing policy options.