After the death of dictator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco" id="mwATo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a> in 1975, the first democratic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Spanish_general_election" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1977 Spanish general election">elections</a> took place in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spain">Spain</a>.