General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1936.[1] Rikken Minseitō emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 205 of the 466 seats. Following the elections, an attempted coup took place on 26 February.
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Electoral system edit
The 466 members of the House of Representatives were elected from multi-member constituencies with between three and five seats.[2]
Results edit
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Rikken Minseitō | 4,444,413 | 39.92 | 205 | +59 | |
| Rikken Seiyūkai | 4,188,029 | 37.62 | 174 | –127 | |
| Shōwakai | 531,772 | 4.78 | 20 | New | |
| Shakai Taishūtō | 518,844 | 4.66 | 18 | +13 | |
| Kokumin Dōmei | 421,632 | 3.79 | 15 | New | |
| Others | 1,027,988 | 9.23 | 34 | +22 | |
| Total | 11,132,678 | 100.00 | 466 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 11,132,678 | 98.96 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 116,886 | 1.04 | |||
| Total votes | 11,249,564 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 14,304,546 | 78.64 | |||
| Source: Voice Japan | |||||
By prefecture edit
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rikken Minseitō | Rikken Seiyūkai | Shōwakai | Shakai Taishūtō | Kokumin Dōmei | Others | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 17 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Akita | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Aomori | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Chiba | 11 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Ehime | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Fukui | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Fukuoka | 18 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Fukushima | 11 | 6 | 5 | |||||
| Gifu | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Gunma | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Hiroshima | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Hokkaido | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Hyōgo | 19 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ibaraki | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Iwate | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Kagawa | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Kagoshima | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Kanagawa | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Kōchi | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Kyoto | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Mie | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Miyagi | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Miyazaki | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nagano | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Niigata | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Ōita | 7 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Okayama | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Okinawa | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Osaka | 21 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Saga | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Saitama | 11 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Shimane | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Shizuoka | 13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tochigi | 9 | 6 | 3 | |||||
| Tokushima | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Tokyo | 31 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tottori | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Toyama | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Yamagata | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Total | 466 | 205 | 174 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 28 |
Notes edit
- ^ Combined performance of Social Democratic Party and Rōnō Taishūtō.
References edit
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