1904 Japanese General Election
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on 1 March 1904.Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p281 The
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party remained the largest in the
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, winning 133 of the 379 seats.


Electoral system

The 379 members of the
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were elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on
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and cities. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation.Mackie & Rose, p276


Results


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{{Japanese elections General elections in Japan
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1904 elections in Japan March 1904 Election and referendum articles with incomplete results