Japanese general election, September 1894

1 September 1894

All 300 seats to the House of Representatives 151 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Itagaki Taisuke	Ōkuma Shigenobu	–
Party	Jiyutō	Rikken Kaishintō	Rikken Kakushintō
Last election	120	60	–
Seats won	107	49	39
Seat change	13	11	–

	Fourth party

Leader	Shinagawa Yajirō
Party	Kokumin Kyōkai
Last election	35
Seats won	32
Seat change	3

Prime Minister before election

Itō_Hirobumi
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

Itō_Hirobumi
Independent

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General elections were held in Japan on 1 September 1894.^[1] The Jiyūtō remained the largest party, winning 107 of the 300 seats

Results

Party	Seats	+/–
Jiyūtō	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
Others	64	–
Total	300	0

↑ Louis G. Perez (1999) Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, p170

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