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
editThe 466 members of the House of Representatives were elected from multi-member constituencies with between three and five seats.[2]
Results
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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
editPrefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
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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.
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