September 1894 Japanese general election
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General elections were held in Japan on 1 September 1894.[1] The Liberal Party remained the largest party, winning 107 of the 300 seats
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Liberal Party | 107 | –13 | |||
Rikken Kaishintō | 49 | –11 | |||
Rikken Kakushintō | 39 | -3 | |||
Kokumin Kyōkai | 32 | –3 | |||
Teikoku Zaisei Kakushin-kai | 5 | New | |||
Chūgoku Progressive Party | 4 | New | |||
Independents | 64 | +30 | |||
Total | 300 | 0 | |||
Total votes | 390,687 | – | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 460,483 | 84.84 | |||
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan |
Post-election composition by prefecture
Prefecture | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||
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Liberal | Rikken Kaishintō | Rikken Kakushintō | Kokumin Kyōkai | Teikoku Zaisei Kakushin-kai | Chūgoku Progressive | Ind. | ||
Aichi | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Akita | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Aomori | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chiba | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Ehime | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Fukui | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fukuoka | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fukushima | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Gifu | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Gunma | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Hiroshima | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Hyōgo | 12 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ibaraki | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ishikawa | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iwate | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kagawa | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Kagoshima | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kanagawa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kōchi | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kumamoto | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kyoto | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Mie | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Miyagi | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Miyazaki | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nagano | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Nagasaki | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nara | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Niigata | 13 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ōita | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Okayama | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Osaka | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Saga | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saitama | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Shiga | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Shimane | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Shizuoka | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tochigi | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Tokushima | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Tokyo | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Tottori | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Toyama | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Wakayama | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Yamagata | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yamaguchi | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Yamanashi | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 300 | 105 | 44 | 40 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 74 |
Notes: Party affiliation after the general election. |
Notes
- ^ as Dōshi Seisha and Dōmei Seisha
References
- ^ Louis G. Perez (1999) Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, p170