Japanese general election, March 1898

March 1898

All 300 seats to the House of Representatives
151 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Itagaki Taisuke	Ōkuma Shigenobu	Shinagawa Yajirō
Party	Jiyutō	Shimpotō	Kokumin Kyōkai
Last election	107	–	32
Seats won	105	103	29
Seat change	2	–	3

Prime Minister before election

Itō Hirobumi
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

Itō Hirobumi
Independent

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General elections were held in Japan in March 1898.

Campaign

A total of 605 candidates contested the elections; the Jiyūtō nominated the most with 233, Shimpotō had 174, Kokumin Kyōkai 52 and Yamashita Club 26. The remaining 118 candidates were independents.

Results

Party	Seats	+/–
Jiyūtō	105	–2
Shimpotō	103	New
Kokumin Kyōkai	29	–3
Yamashita Club	26	New
Independents	37	–
Total	300	0

References

Robert A. Scalapino (Ed. by) Robert E. Ward (1973), Political Development in Modern Japan, United States: Princeton University Press.
Mahendra Prakash (2004), Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003, New Delhi: JNU .

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