Japanese general election, 1902

10 August 1902

1903 →

All 376 seats to the House of Representatives
189 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Itō Hirobumi	Ōkuma Shigenobu
Party	Seiyūkai	Kensei Hontō
Last election	–	–
Seats won	191	95
Seat change	–	–
Popular vote	433,763	220,939
Percentage	50.4%	25.7%

Prime Minister before election

Katsura Tarō
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

Katsura Tarō
Independent

General elections were held in Japan on 10 August 1902. The result was a victory for the Rikken Seiyūkai party, which won 191 of the 376 seats.

Electoral reforms in 1900 had abolished the 253 single and two-member constituencies. The 376 members of the House of Representatives were now elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on prefectures and cities.

Voting remained restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation, although 1900 electoral reforms had reduced the figure from 15 yen, increasing the proportion of the population able to vote from 1% to 2%.

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