March 1894 Japanese general election
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General elections were held in Japan on 1 March 1894.[1] The Jiyūtō remained the largest party, winning 120 of the 300 seats.
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Liberal Party | 120 | +26 | |||
| Rikken Kaishintō | 60 | +22 | |||
| Kokumin Kyōkai | 35 | New | |||
| Dōshi Seisha | 24 | New | |||
| Dōmei Seisha | 18 | New | |||
| Dai-Nippon Association | 9 | New | |||
| Independents | 34 | –10 | |||
| Total | 300 | 0 | |||
| Total votes | 390,644 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 440,113 | 88.76 | |||
| Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan | |||||
Post-election composition by prefecture
| Prefecture | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Rikken Kaishintō | Kokumin Kyōkai | Rikken Kakushintō | Dai-Nippon | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Akita | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Aomori | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Chiba | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ehime | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Fukui | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Fukuoka | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Fukushima | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Gifu | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gunma | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Hiroshima | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Hyōgo | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ibaraki | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Iwate | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kagawa | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kagoshima | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Kanagawa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kōchi | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kumamoto | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyoto | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mie | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Miyagi | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Miyazaki | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nagano | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nagasaki | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nara | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Niigata | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ōita | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Okayama | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Osaka | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Saga | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Saitama | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Shimane | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Shizuoka | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tochigi | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tokushima | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tokyo | 14 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Tottori | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Toyama | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wakayama | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Yamagata | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Yamaguchi | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Yamanashi | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 300 | 118 | 53 | 27 | 35 | 4 | 63 |
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References
- ^ Marcus Bourne Huish (1970) Fifty years of new Japan, Smith, Elder, p170
