Japanese general election, 1920

1917 ←

10 May 1920

→ 1924

All 464 seats to the House of Representatives 233 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Hara Takashi	Kato Takaaki
Party	Seiyūkai	Kenseikai
Last election	165 seats, 38.8%	121 seats, 36.0%
Seats won	278	110
Seat change	113	11
Popular vote	1,471,728	715,500
Percentage	56.2%	27.5%
Swing	17.4%	8.5%

	Third party

Leader	Inukai Tsuyoshi
Party	Kokumintō
Last election	35 seats, 9.7%
Seats won	29
Seat change	6
Popular vote	140,397
Percentage	5.4%
Swing	4.3%

Prime Minister before election

Hara Takashi
Seiyūkai

Subsequent Prime Minister

Hara Takashi
Seiyūkai

General elections were held in Japan on 10 May 1920. The result was a victory for the Rikken Seiyūkai party led by Hara Takashi, which won 278 of the 464 seats.

Following electoral reforms in 1919, the 464 members of the House of Representatives were elected in 295 single-member constituencies, 68 two-member constituencies and 11 three-member constituencies. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 3 yen a year in direct taxation, reduced from 10 yen in the 1917 elections, increasing the proportion of the population able to vote to 6%.

...
Wikipedia