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General elections were held inJapan on 20 February 1936.[1]Rikken Minseitō emerged as the largest party in theHouse of Representatives, winning 205 of the 466 seats and securing a slim majority with parties in support of the government. Following the elections, anattempted coup took place on 26 February.
The 466 members of the House of Representatives were elected from multi-member constituencies with between three and five seats.[2]
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Rikken Minseitō | 4,444,413 | 39.92 | 205 | +59 | |
| Rikken Seiyūkai | 4,188,029 | 37.62 | 174 | –127 | |
| Shōwakai | 531,772 | 4.78 | 20 | New | |
| Shakai Taishūtō | 518,844 | 4.66 | 18 | +13 | |
| Kokumin Dōmei | 421,632 | 3.79 | 15 | New | |
| Others | 1,027,988 | 9.23 | 34 | +22 | |
| Total | 11,132,678 | 100.00 | 466 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 11,132,678 | 98.96 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 116,886 | 1.04 | |||
| Total votes | 11,249,564 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 14,304,546 | 78.64 | |||
| Source: Voice Japan[3] | |||||
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rikken Minseitō | Rikken Seiyūkai | Shōwakai | Shakai Taishūtō | Kokumin Dōmei | Others | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 17 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Akita | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Aomori | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Chiba | 11 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Ehime | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Fukui | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Fukuoka | 18 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Fukushima | 11 | 6 | 5 | |||||
| Gifu | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Gunma | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Hiroshima | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Hokkaido | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Hyōgo | 19 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ibaraki | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Iwate | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Kagawa | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Kagoshima | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Kanagawa | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Kōchi | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Kyoto | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Mie | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Miyagi | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Miyazaki | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nagano | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Niigata | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Ōita | 7 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Okayama | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Okinawa | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Osaka | 21 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Saga | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Saitama | 11 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Shimane | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Shizuoka | 13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tochigi | 9 | 6 | 3 | |||||
| Tokushima | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Tokyo | 31 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tottori | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Toyama | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Yamagata | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Total | 466 | 205 | 174 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 28 |
