1924 Japanese general election

1924 Japanese general election
10 May 1924
All 464 seats in the House of Representatives
233 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Kato Takaaki Tokonami Takejirō
Party Kenseikai Seiyūhontō
Leader's seat House of Peers Kagoshima 1st
Last election 27.11%, 110 seats Did not exist
Seats before 103 149
Seats won 151 111
Seat change 41 New
Popular vote 872,533 730,077
Percentage 29.35% 24.56%
Swing 2.24pp New
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Takahashi Korekiyo Inukai Tsuyoshi
Party Rikken Seiyūkai Kakushin Club
Leader's seat Iwate 1st Okayama 4nd
Last election 55.77%, 278 seats Did not exist
Seats before 129 43
Seats won 103 30
Seat change 175 New
Popular vote 666,317 182,720
Percentage 22.41% 6.15%
Swing 33.36pp New
Prime Minister before election

Kiyoura Keigo
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Kato Takaaki
Kenseikai

General elections were held in Japan on 10 May 1924. No party won a majority of seats, resulting in Kenseikai, Rikken Seiyūkai and the Kakushin Club forming the country's first coalition government led by Katō Takaaki.

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