Parliamentary Debates of the Spanish Second Republic

165 million bytes of structured data extracted from the official parliamentary records (Diarios de Sesiones) of the Spanish Second Republic. It covers all three legislative periods on Spanish soil from 1931 to 1936, plus sessions of the Republican Cortes in exile from 1939 onward. The dataset was created by Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira from digitized and OCR-corrected original volumes.

Use Cases

• Analyzing speech patterns and rhetoric by party affiliation or political family.
• Tracking the participation and ideological evolution of individual named deputies over time.
• Studying legislative discourse on key topics during the Republic's constituent and subsequent periods.
• Mapping political representation and debate across different electoral constituencies.

Strengths

• Covers a complete historical scope, including three domestic legislatures and the exile period from 1939 onward.
• Includes a reference roster of deputies with annotations for party, constituency, ideology, and political family.
• Based on digitized original printed volumes, processed through OCR and automated text correction.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and license information are not provided by any source.
• Data quality is dependent on the accuracy of historical OCR and automated correction processes.

Provenance

Source

Diarios de Sesiones (Official Parliamentary Records) of the Spanish Second Republic.

Collection Method

Digitized from original printed volumes, processed via OCR followed by automated text correction.

Time Range

1931–1945

Freshness

Last updated across platforms on 2026-03-23.

Geography

Spain (for domestic legislatures) and exile locations.