1928 Japanese general election

none November 2019 Empire of Japan parliamentary 1924 Japanese general election 1924 20 February 1928 1930 Japanese general election 1930 All 466 seats in the House of Representatives 234 Giichi Tanaka posing.jpg Tanaka Giichi Rikken Seiyūkai 22.41%, 103 seats 217 114 4,244,385 43.06% 20.86pp Osachi_Hamaguchi_posing.jpg Hamaguchi Osachi Constitutional Democratic Party (Japan) Did not exist 216 New 4,251,771 43.14% New 1928 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, combined vote share.svg Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi Rikken Seiyūkai Tanaka Giichi Rikken Seiyūkai General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1928,Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, p281Colegrove Kenneth 1928 The Japanese General Election of 1928 https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400116612/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 22 2 401–407 10.2307/1945477 1945477 147606313 0003-0554 subscription the first after the passing of the Universal Manhood Suffrage Law in 1925 which introduced universal male suffrage for men 25 years and over.Colegrove Kenneth 1929 Labor Parties in Japan https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400113000/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 23 2 329–363 10.2307/1945218 1945218 145649163 0003-0554 subscription The ruling Rikken Seiyūkai led by Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi won one more seat than the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party led by Hamaguchi Osachi, although the Constitutional Democratic Party had received slightly more votes. The hung parliament led to the Tanaka government continuing in office. Electoral system Following electoral reforms in 1925, the 466 members of the House of Representatives were elected from multi-member constituencies with between three and five seats. Voting had previously been restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 3 yen a year in direct taxation, but the reforms had also abolished the taxation requirement.Mackie & Rose, p276 As a result, the electorate increased from 3.3 million in the 1924 elections to 12.4 million. Results Constitutional Democratic Party 4251771 216 New Rikken Seiyūkai 4244385 217 +114 Labour-Farmer Party 184040 2 New Jitsugyo Doshikai 166250 4 New Social Democratic Party 120044 4 New Japan Labour-Farmer Party 94626 1 New Kakushintō 81324 3 New Japan Farmers Party 44000 0 New #FF0000 Others 669756 19 –50 111888 +2 12408678 Mackie & Rose, Voice Japan File:Japan House of Representatives 1928 2.svg By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonRSRMJDSDPKL-FPJL-FPOthersInd. Aichi175102Akita743Aomori642Chiba11641Ehime972Fukui5221Fukuoka1896111Fukushima1165Gifu9531Gunma945Hiroshima1376Hokkaido201091Hyōgo1987112Ibaraki1165Ishikawa633Iwate761Kagawa633Kagoshima12291Kanagawa1156Kōchi624Kumamoto1055Kyoto114412Mie9432Miyagi8251Miyazaki514Nagano13661Nagasaki936Nara523Niigata156711Ōita743Okayama10721Okinawa532Osaka2151312Saga633Saitama11542Shiga532Shimane6141Shizuoka1385Tochigi945Tokushima633Tokyo3114161Tottori422Toyama624Wakayama6231Yamagata844Yamaguchi972Yamanashi5311Total46621721644321118 Aftermath The Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin was assassinated by the Japanese army in June 1928. Tanaka denounced the army for this, but lost support and was forced to resign in July 1929. Opposition leader Hamaguchi became Prime Minister and formed a new government. References Category:General elections in Japan Japan General Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results