Japanese general election, 1932

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20 February, 1932

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All 466 seats to the House of Representatives
234 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Tsuyoshi Inukai	Reijiro Wakatsuki
Party	Seiyūkai	Minseitō
Leader's seat	Okayama-2nd	Peers
Last election	174 seats	273 seats
Seats won	301	146
Seat change	127	127
Popular vote	5,683,137	3,442,326
Percentage	58.20%	35.25%

Prime Minister before election

Tsuyoshi Inukai
Seiyūkai

Prime Minister-designate

Tsuyoshi Inukai
Seiyūkai

General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1932. They were the last elections before the May 15 Incident, which marked the temporary end of party politics in Japan. Rikken Seiyūkai won 301 of the 466 seats in the House of Representatives.

In 1931, the ruling Rikken Minseitō opposed the Mukden Incident, which was engineered by the military. The anti-war Foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara and Prime Minister Wakatsuki Reijirō were criticized for their intervention in military and was accused of "serious corruption". After the resignation of the Reijirō Cabinet, some right-wing members of the ruling party formed a coalition with the opposition Rikken Seiyūkai and elected Inukai Tsuyoshi as prime minister.

Before the elections, some businessmen and candidates were assassinated by the right-wing.

Despite assassinations of anti-war politicians, Rikken Minseitō was unpopular because of its mishandling of the economic crisis. The ruling right-wing Rikken Seiyūkai led by Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi won a landslide victory.

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