March 1898 Japanese general election

March 1898 Japanese general election

← September 1894 March 1898 August 1898 →
All 300 seats in the House of Representatives 151 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Itagaki Taisuke Ōkuma Shigenobu Shinagawa Yajirō Party Jiyutō Shimpotō Kokumin Kyōkai Last election 107  – 32 Seats won 105 103 29 Seat change 2  – 3
Prime Minister before election Itō Hirobumi Independent Prime Minister after election Itō Hirobumi Independent

Politics of Japan
Government Constitution of Japan History Laws
The Monarchy Emperor of Japan Naruhito Crown Prince Fumihito Imperial House Imperial Household Agency
Legislature National Diet House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima (LDP) Vice-Speaker Hirotaka Akamatsu (CDP) House of Councillors Akiko Santō (LDP) Toshio Ogawa (CDP)
Executive Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida (LDP) Deputy Prime Minister of Japan Vacant Cabinet Ministries Administrative Agencies
Judiciary Supreme Court of Japan Chief Justice Naoto Ōtani Intellectual Property High Court
Administrative divisions Prefectures Governors Subprefectures Districts Municipalities Submunicipalities
Elections House of Councillors 2010 2013 2016 2019 House of Representatives 2009 2012 2014 2017
Political parties Liberal Democratic Constitutional Democratic Democratic Party for the People Other parties
Foreign relations Foreign policy Visa policy
Japan portal Other countries
v t

General elections were held in Japan in March 1898.

Campaign[]

A total of 605 candidates contested the elections; the Liberal Party nominated the most with 233, Shimpotō had 174, Kokumin Kyōkai 52 and 26. The remaining 118 candidates were independents.

Results[]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Party			105	–2
	Shimpotō			103	New
	Kokumin Kyōkai			29	–3
				26	New
	Independents			37	+3
Total				300	0
Total votes		396,046	–
Registered voters/turnout		452,637	87.50
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan

References[]

• Robert A. Scalapino (Ed. by) Robert E. Ward (1973), Political Development in Modern Japan, United States: Princeton University Press.
• Mahendra Prakash (2004), Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003, New Delhi: JNU[1].

This Japanese elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t