If Loja and Alhama experienced relatively ordered revolutions in September 1868 and politically untroubled Sexenios, Antequera underwent an intensification of the conflict that had marked the city’s politics since the Bienio Progresista. This final chapter examines the attempt by the Aguilars to translate the influence they had gained over the city’s working class through mutualist and carbonari societies into electoral strength under universal suffrage. Democrats (now Federal Republicans) behind Francisco Joaquin Aguilar triumphed in the Antequera’s first elections by universal suffrage, for the junta definitiva on 12 October and for the Council on 18 December 1868. But in contrast to Loja, where Republicans controlled the Council and successfully resisted orders to disband the citizens’ militia through until the autumn of 1869, Antequera’s Republican Council was removed in a coup in January 1869. Francisco Joaquin Aguilar’s Republican Council was blocked again in the summer of 1869 when it attempted to resume its mandate, driving many antequeranos into joining the national rebellion in October. Although his brother Manuel Maria Aguilar returned to lead the Council during the First Republic, the counter-revolution had effectively triumphed in Antequera within three months of the September Revolution.1 The chapter explores the place of organised violence in the politics of Antequera during the Sexenio and concludes the study by charting the route taken by Antequera’s working class from Federal Republicanism to the Socialist International during the early Bourbon restoration.