1932 Japanese general election
20 February 1932
All 466 seats in the House of Representatives
234 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Tsuyoshi Inukai Reijiro Wakatsuki Abe Isoo
Party Rikken Seiyūkai Rikken Minseitō Shakai Minshūtō
Leader's seat Okayama-2nd Peers Tōkyō-2
Last election 174 seats 273 seats 2 seats
Seats won 301 146 seats 3
Seat change Increase 127 Decrease 127 Increase 1
Popular vote 5,683,137 3,442,326 125,758
Percentage 58.20% 35.25% 1.29%
Swing Increase 20.51% Decrease 17.23pp Decrease 0.38pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
KST
Leader Asō Hisashi
Party Rōnō Taishūtō Kakushintō
Leader's seat Tōkyō-5 (lost)
Last election – 3 seats
Seats won 2 2
Seat change New party Decrease 1
Popular vote 127,459 36,839
Percentage 1.31% 0.38%
Swing New party Decrease 0.15pp
Prime Minister before election

Tsuyoshi Inukai
Rikken Seiyūkai

 Prime Minister after election

Tsuyoshi Inukai
Rikken Seiyūkai

General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1932.[1] 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.

Background

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.

Results

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.

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Rikken Seiyūkai5,683,13758.20301+127
Rikken Minseitō3,442,32635.25146–127
Social Democratic Party125,7581.293+1
Rōnō Taishūtō127,4591.312New
Kakushintō36,8390.382–1
Other parties1,4450.010–
Independents347,6683.5612+7
Total9,764,632100.004660
Valid votes9,764,63299.50
Invalid/blank votes49,0360.50
Total votes9,813,668100.00
Registered voters/turnout13,103,67974.89
Source: Voice Japan

By prefecture

Prefecture Total
seats		 Seats won
Rikken Seiyūkai Rikken Minseitō SDP Rōnō Taishūtō Kakushintō Ind.
Aichi 17 11 5 1
Akita 7 4 3
Aomori 6 4 2
Chiba 11 8 3
Ehime 9 7 2
Fukui 5 3 2
Fukuoka 18 12 3 2 1
Fukushima 11 7 3 1
Gifu 9 6 3
Gunma 9 6 3
Hiroshima 13 7 6
Hokkaido 20 13 6 1
Hyōgo 19 11 7 1
Ibaraki 11 8 2 1
Ishikawa 6 4 2
Iwate 7 6 1
Kagawa 6 4 2
Kagoshima 12 12
Kanagawa 11 6 5
Kōchi 6 4 1 1
Kumamoto 10 6 3 1
Kyoto 11 7 3 1
Mie 9 5 3 1
Miyagi 8 6 2
Miyazaki 5 5
Nagano 13 7 6
Nagasaki 9 5 4
Nara 5 2 2 1
Niigata 15 10 4 1
Ōita 7 5 2
Okayama 10 9 1
Okinawa 5 4 1
Osaka 21 10 10 1
Saga 6 4 2
Saitama 11 8 3
Shiga 5 3 2
Shimane 6 2 4
Shizuoka 13 8 5
Tochigi 9 6 3
Tokushima 6 4 2
Tokyo 31 15 13 1 1 1
Tottori 4 2 1 1
Toyama 6 4 2
Wakayama 6 5 1
Yamagata 8 5 3
Yamaguchi 9 7 2
Yamanashi 5 4 1
Total 466 301 146 3 2 2 12

References

  1. ↑ Bernd Martin (2006) Japan and Germany in the Modern World, Berghahn Books, p136
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