General elections were held in

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on 10 August 1902.Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p281 The result was a victory for the

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party, which won 191 of the 376 seats.

Electoral system

Electoral reforms in 1900 had abolished the 253 single and two-member constituencies. The 376 members of the

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were now elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on

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and cities.Mackie & Rose, p276 Voting remained restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation, although 1900 electoral reforms had reduced the figure from 15 yen, increasing the proportion of the population able to vote from 1% to 2%.

Results

References

{{Japanese elections General elections in Japan

1902 elections in Japan August 1902 Election and referendum articles with incomplete results