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1920 Japanese general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1920 Japanese general election
country	Empire of Japan
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1917 Japanese general election	previous_year = 1917	election_date = 10 May 1920	next_election = 1924 Japanese general election	next_year = 1924
seats_for_election	All 464 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	233
image_size	130x130px
image1	Takashi Hara posing.jpg
leader1	Hara Takashi
party1	Rikken Seiyūkai
last_election1	38.80%, 165 seats
seats1	278
seat_change1	113
popular_vote1	1,471,728
percentage1	55.77%
swing1	16.97pp
image2	Takaaki Kato suit.jpg
leader2	Kato Takaaki
party2	Kenseikai
last_election2	35.94%, 121 seats
seats2	110
seat_change2	11
popular_vote2	715,500
percentage2	27.11%
swing2	8.83pp
image3	Inukai Tsuyoshi.jpg
leader3	Inukai Tsuyoshi
party3	Rikken Kokumintō
last_election3	9.68%, 35 seats
seats3	29
seat_change3	6
popular_vote3	140,397
percentage3	5.32%
swing3	4.36pp
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Hara Takashi	before_party = Rikken Seiyūkai
after_election	Hara Takashi	after_party = Rikken Seiyūkai

General elections were held in Japan on 10 May 1920. The result was a victory for the Rikken Seiyūkai party led by Hara Takashi, which won 278 of the 464 seats.

Electoral system

Following electoral reforms in 1919, the 464 members of the House of Representatives were elected in 295 single-member constituencies, 68 two-member constituencies and 11 three-member constituencies. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 3 yen a year in direct taxation, reduced from 10 yen in the 1917 elections, increasing the proportion of the population able to vote to 6%.

Results

References

Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p281
Mackie & Rose, p276

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