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1932 Japanese general election

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FieldValue
countryEmpire of Japan
typeparliamentary
previous_election1930 Japanese general election
previous_year1930
next_election1936 Japanese general election
next_year1936
seats_for_electionAll 466 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats234
election_date20 February 1932
image1[[File:Inukai_Tsuyoshi.jpg150x150px]]
leader1Tsuyoshi Inukai
party1Rikken Seiyūkai
last_election137.69%, 174 seats
seats1301
seat_change1127
popular_vote15,683,137
percentage158.20%
swing120.51pp
image2[[File:Wakatsuki_Reijiro.jpg150x150px]]
leader2Reijiro Wakatsuki
party2Rikken Minseitō
last_election252.48%, 273 seats
seats2146 seats
seat_change2127
popular_vote23,442,326
percentage235.25%
swing217.23pp
image3[[File:Isoo_abe.jpg150x150px]]
leader3Abe Isoo
party3Shakai Minshūtō
last_election31.67%, 2 seats
seats33
seat_change31
popular_vote3125,758
percentage31.29%
swing30.38pp
image4[[File:Aso Hisashi.jpg150x150px]]
leader4Asō Hisashi
party4Rōnō Taishūtō
color4f94f05
last_election4–
seats42
seat_change4New party
popular_vote4127,459
percentage41.31%
swing4New party
image5KST
party5Kakushintō
last_election50.53%, 3 seats
seats52
seat_change51
popular_vote536,839
percentage50.38%
swing50.15pp
map_image1932 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, combined vote share.svg
map_size400px
map_captionDistricts shaded according to winners' vote strength
titlePrime Minister
posttitlePrime Minister after election
before_electionTsuyoshi Inukai
before_partyRikken Seiyūkai
after_electionTsuyoshi Inukai
after_partyRikken Seiyūkai

General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1932. They were the last elections before the May 15 Incident, which marked the temporary end of party politics in Japan. Rikken Seiyūkai won 301 of the 466 seats in the House of Representatives.

Background

In 1931, the ruling Rikken Minseitō opposed the Mukden Incident, which was engineered by the military. The anti-war Foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara and Prime Minister Wakatsuki Reijirō were criticized for their intervention in military and was accused of "serious corruption". After the resignation of the Reijirō Cabinet, some right-wing members of the ruling party formed a coalition with the opposition Rikken Seiyūkai and elected Inukai Tsuyoshi as prime minister.

Before the elections, some businessmen and candidates were assassinated by the right-wing.

Results

Despite assassinations of anti-war politicians, Rikken Minseitō was unpopular because of its mishandling of the economic crisis. The ruling right-wing Rikken Seiyūkai led by Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi won a landslide victory.

By prefecture

PrefectureTotal
seatsSeats wonRikken SeiyūkaiRikken MinseitōSDPRōnō TaishūtōKakushintōInd.Rikken Seiyūkai}};"Rikken Minseitō}};"Social Democratic Party (Japan, 1926)}};"Kakushintō}};"Independent}};"Aichi17Akita7Aomori6Chiba11Ehime9Fukui5Fukuoka18Fukushima11Gifu9Gunma9Hiroshima13Hokkaido20Hyōgo19Ibaraki11Ishikawa6Iwate7Kagawa6Kagoshima12Kanagawa11Kōchi6Kumamoto10Kyoto11Mie9Miyagi8Miyazaki5Nagano13Nagasaki9Nara5Niigata15Ōita7Okayama10Okinawa5Osaka21Saga6Saitama11Shiga5Shimane6Shizuoka13Tochigi9Tokushima6Tokyo31Tottori4Toyama6Wakayama6Yamagata8Yamaguchi9Yamanashi5Total46630114632212
1151
43
42
83
72
32
12321
731
63
63
76
1361
1171
821
42
61
42
12
65
411
631
731
531
62
5
76
54
221
1041
52
91
41
10101
42
83
32
24
85
63
42
1513111
211
42
51
53
72
41

References

References

  1. Bernd Martin (2006) ''Japan and Germany in the Modern World'', Berghahn Books, p136
  2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306195346/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1932/99/00008437.html Voice Japan]
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