1930 Japanese general election
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All 466 seats in the House of Representatives 234 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 82.29% (1.96pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1930.[1] The Constitutional Democratic Party, which was led by Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi, won an overall majority in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 82%.
Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | /– | |
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Constitutional Democratic Party | 5,466,908 | 52.48 | 273 | 57 | |
Rikken Seiyūkai | 3,925,980 | 37.69 | 174 | –43 | |
Social Democratic Party | 173,458 | 1.67 | 2 | –2 | |
Kokumin Doshikai | 128,505 | 1.23 | 6 | 2 | |
Japan Masses Party | 158,074 | 1.52 | 2 | New | |
Labour-Farmer Masses Party | 92,519 | 0.89 | 1 | New | |
Local Communists | 65,711 | 0.63 | 0 | – | |
Kakushintō | 55,487 | 0.53 | 3 | 0 | |
Zenkoku Minshuto | 13,960 | 0.13 | 0 | – | |
Meiseikai | 11,315 | 0.11 | 0 | – | |
Other parties | 1,119 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Independents | 323,536 | 3.11 | 5 | –10 | |
Total | 10,416,572 | 100.00 | 466 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 10,416,572 | 98.79 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 127,617 | 1.21 | |||
Total votes | 10,544,189 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 12,812,895 | 82.29 | |||
Source: Voice Japan |
By prefecture
[edit]Prefecture | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||
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RM | RS | KD | K | SDP | JMP | L-FMP | Ind. | ||
Aichi | 17 | 11 | 6 | ||||||
Akita | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
Aomori | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Chiba | 11 | 7 | 4 | ||||||
Ehime | 9 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
Fukui | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
Fukuoka | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||||
Fukushima | 11 | 8 | 3 | ||||||
Gifu | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
Gunma | 9 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
Hiroshima | 13 | 8 | 5 | ||||||
Hokkaido | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | |||||
Hyōgo | 19 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Ibaraki | 11 | 8 | 3 | ||||||
Ishikawa | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Iwate | 7 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
Kagawa | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Kagoshima | 12 | 3 | 9 | ||||||
Kanagawa | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | |||||
Kōchi | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Kumamoto | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||||||
Kyoto | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Mie | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Miyagi | 8 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
Miyazaki | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Nagano | 13 | 9 | 4 | ||||||
Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
Nara | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Niigata | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | |||||
Ōita | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
Okayama | 10 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
Okinawa | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Osaka | 21 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Saga | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Saitama | 11 | 6 | 5 | ||||||
Shiga | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Shimane | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Shizuoka | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Tochigi | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
Tokushima | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Tokyo | 31 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tottori | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Toyama | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Wakayama | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Yamagata | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Yamaguchi | 9 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
Yamanashi | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
Total | 466 | 273 | 174 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
References
[edit]- ^ Klaus Schlichtmann (2009) Japan in the World: Shidehara Kijūrō, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War, Lexington Books, p56