1908 Japanese general election

none Empire of Japan parliamentary 15 May 1908 1904 Japanese general election 1904 1912 Japanese general election 1912 All 379 seats in the House of Representatives 190 Kinmochi Saionji 2.jpg Saionji Kinmochi Rikken Seiyūkai 33.47%, 33 seats 187 54 649,858 48.40% 14.93pp Collective LeadershipAfter Ōkuma Shigenobu resigned from the party, Ōishi Masami and Inukai Tsuyoshi co-leaded the party as General Directors. Kensei Hontō 26.19%, 90 seats 70 20 288,243 21.47% 4.72pp 87CEFA Yūkōkai 29 New 99,690 7.42% New FFDEAD Collective leadership Daidō Club 12.76%, 58 seatsKōshin Club and Teikokutō 29 29 92,477 6.89% 5.87pp Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Saionji Kinmochi Rikken Seiyūkai Saionji Kinmochi Rikken Seiyūkai General elections were held in Japan on 15 May 1908.Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, p281 The result was a victory for the Rikken Seiyūkai party, which won 187 of the 379 seats. Electoral system The 379 members of the House of Representatives were elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on prefectures and cities. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation.Mackie & Rose, p276 Campaign A total of 900 candidates contested the 379 seats. Results File:Japan House of Representatives 1908.svg Rikken Seiyūkai 649858 187 +54 Kensei Hontō 288243 70 –20 Yūkōkai 99690 29 New #87CEFA Daidō Club 92477 29 –29 #FFDEAD Others 212377 64 +9 13534 0 1590045 Mackie & Rose By constituency May 2025 Tokyo City Notes Independent Takagi Masutarō 4344 Elected Yūkōkai #87CEFA Kurahara Korehiro 3295 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Hatoyama Kazuo 2237 Elected Independent Nakano Takenaka 2106 Elected Independent Ema Shun'ichi 1712 Elected Independent Inamoto Saburō 1598 Elected Daidō Club #FFDEAD Yamane Masatsugu 1493 Elected Daidō Club #FFDEAD Matsushita Gunji 1386 Elected Yūkōkai #87CEFA Miwa Shinjirō 1361 Elected Kensei Hontō Seki Naohiko 1300 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Watanabe Kanjūrō 1262 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Isobe Shirō 1207 Rikken Seiyūkai Aoki Shōtarō 1163 Kensei Hontō Ōishi Kumakichi 916 Rikken Seiyūkai Takanashi Tetsushirō 710 Independent Hiyama Tetsusaburō 654 None of the above 40 188 33870 Tokyo Districts Notes Yūkōkai #87CEFA Takagi Masatoshi 3123 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Urushi Shōgan 2729 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Okazaki Kunisuke 2702 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Morikubo Sakuzō 2500 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Murano Tsuneemon 2465 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Nakamura Katsumasa 2398 None of the above 80 135 18626 Kyoto City Notes Independent Nishimura Jibee 3352 Elected Independent Kimura Seigo 2138 Elected Independent Nakayasu Shinzaburō 1814 Elected Rikken Seiyūkai Okuno Ichijirō 1284 None of the above 147 84 10780 Notes References Category:General elections in Japan Japan General election Japanese general election Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results