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19-743: The Spanish Republican Armed Forces went through two clear phases during their existence: At the time of the democratic municipal elections that led to the proclamation of the Spanish Republic, the Air Force was divided in two branches, the Aeronáutica Militar and Aeronáutica Naval , the former being the air arm of the Spanish Republican Army and the latter the naval aviation of the Spanish Republican Navy. In September 1936

38-525: A majority in more than four-fifths of the provincial capitals . In the city of Barcelona , the largest city by that time, they obtained more than the 75% of the seats. These were the results in the province capitals plus Ceuta and Melilla : The results showed very favourable results for the republicans in Catalonia. They won every major city (cities over 10,000 and capitals of judicial districts) except for Igualada . In Berga , where they got tied with

57-477: A plebiscite on the monarchy of Alfonso XIII . After republican parties and their allies came away with a convincing victory, the king left the country and the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. A provisional government was formed shortly thereafter, with national elections scheduled for later in the year. Since 1923, Spain had been a dictatorship with the approval of the reigning monarch at

76-572: A province is the Provincial council , but their existence is controversial . As the province is defined as a "local entity" in the Constitution, the Provincial council belongs to the sphere of local government . The layout of Spain's provinces closely follows the pattern of the territorial division of the country carried out in 1833 . The only major change of provincial borders since that time has been

95-612: A two-year residency in a municipality required to vote. Mayors were elected indirectly by the city or town council on the first session after the election. The results shown were extracted from the 1931 Spanish Statistical Annuary. Results showed a win of the Republicans by a large margin in Asturias , Aragon and Catalonia . Monarchists got their best results in the Balearic Islands , Andalusia and Extremadura . The republicans had

114-403: A voter to vote for fewer candidates than members have to be elected. Candidates winning a plurality of votes in each district were elected. If the number of candidates was equal or fewer than the number of seats to be filled, candidates were automatically proclaimed without an election. Voting was compulsory and on the basis of universal manhood suffrage , with males over twenty-five and at least

133-565: Is given, together with an indication of the autonomous community to which it belongs and a link to a list of municipalities in the province. The names of the provinces and their capitals are ordered alphabetically according to the form in which they appear in the main Misplaced Pages articles describing them. Unless otherwise indicated, their Spanish-language names are the same; locally valid names in Spain's other co-official languages ( Basque , Catalan , which

152-571: The 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into 84 prefectures. There are many other groupings of municipalities that comprise the local government of Spain . The boundaries of provinces can only be altered by the Spanish Parliament, giving rise to the common view that the 17 autonomous communities are subdivided into 50 provinces . In reality the system is not hierarchical but defined according to jurisdiction ( Spanish : competencias ). The body charged with government and administration of

171-520: The 1978 Constitution . Consequently, no province is divided between these communities. The importance of the provinces has declined since the adoption of the system of autonomous communities in the period of the Spanish transition to democracy . They nevertheless remain electoral districts for national elections. Provinces are also used as geographical references: for instance in postal addresses and telephone codes. National media will also frequently use

190-804: The Navy and Air Ministry ( Ministerio de Marina y Aire ) and the Air Undersecretariat, ( Subsecretaria del Aire ), both part of the National Defence Ministry (Ministerio de la Defensa Nacional) of the Republic, were established under the command of Indalecio Prieto as minister. The Republican air arm was restructured again in May 1937, well into the Civil War. The new structure unified the Aeronáutica Militar and Aeronáutica Naval . Some sources give this date as

209-748: The UN's Second Administrative Level Boundaries data set project (SALB). Most of the provinces are named after their capital town —with the exceptions of Álava , Asturias , Biscay , Cantabria , Gipuzkoa , the Balearic Islands , La Rioja , and Navarre , and a name reduction in Las Palmas and Castellón — and biggest town —with the exception of Pontevedra ( Vigo ), Asturias ( Gijón ) and Cádiz ( Jerez ). Only two capitals of autonomous communities— Mérida in Extremadura and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia —are not also

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228-469: The capitals of provinces. Seven of the autonomous communities comprise no more than one province each: Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid , Murcia , and Navarre. These are sometimes referred to as "uniprovincial" communities. Ceuta , Melilla , and the plazas de soberanía are not part of any province. The table below lists the provinces of Spain. For each, the capital city

247-501: The date of the creation of the Spanish Republican Air Force , although it had been previously operative already under its two branches. The Republican Air Force would keep this structure until this disbandment two years later. 1931 Spanish local elections The 1931 Spanish local elections were held on 12 April throughout all municipalities in Spain to elect 80,472 councillors . The elections were perceived as

266-505: The division of the Province of Canary Islands into the provinces of Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife . Historically, the provinces served mainly as transmission belts for policies enacted in Madrid, as Spain was a highly centralised state for most of its modern history. The provinces were the "building-blocks" from which the autonomous communities were created following processed defined in

285-514: The monarchists in number of seats. In the most important cities, the results were as follows: On 14 April, two days after the election, in the cities where the republicans won the election, large crowds of people celebrated the victory on the streets. In Eibar , Barcelona, Valencia , Madrid and other cities the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. Eibar was the first city to fly the Spanish tricolor . Alfonso XIII left Spain and exiled to Rome, without abdicating . A provisional government

304-457: The province to disambiguate small towns or communities whose names occur frequently throughout Spain. A small town would normally be identified as being in, say, Valladolid province rather than the autonomous community of Castile and León . In addition, organisations outside Spain use provinces for statistical analysis and policy making and in comparison with other countries including NUTS , OECD , FIPS , CIA World Factbook , ISO 3166-2 and

323-516: The time: Alfonso XIII . After the end of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship in 1930 and the failure of his successor to establish another dictatorship , in 1931 the new cabinet appointed by the king decided to hold new local elections for first time in nine years. Although they were local elections, they were perceived as a plebiscite on the Spanish monarchy , as no national elections or polls had been held since 1923. The number of seats of each council

342-416: Was determined by the population count. According to the 1877 municipal law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale: The 1907 election law established that councillors should be elected in districts consisting of 4 members, although 3 to 7 member districts were also allowed. Voters had to choose multiple candidates using limited voting , which allows

361-545: Was formed and two months later general elections were called. Provinces of Spain A province in Spain is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities . The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain , with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal ) and an earlier precedent in

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