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General elections were held in Japan on 1 September 1894. [1] The Liberal Party remained the largest party, winning 107 of the 300 seats
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Liberal Party | 107 | –13 | |||
| Rikken Kaishintō | 49 | –11 | |||
| Rikken Kakushintō | 39 | -3 | |||
| Kokumin Kyōkai | 32 | –3 | |||
| Teikoku Zaisei Kakushin-kai | 5 | New | |||
| Chūgoku Progressive Party | 4 | New | |||
| Independents | 64 | +30 | |||
| Total | 300 | 0 | |||
| Total votes | 390,687 | – | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 460,483 | 84.84 | |||
| Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan | |||||
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Rikken Kaishintō | Rikken Kakushintō | Kokumin Kyōkai | Teikoku Zaisei Kakushin-kai | Chūgoku Progressive | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Akita | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Aomori | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chiba | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ehime | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Fukui | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fukuoka | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fukushima | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gifu | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gunma | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hiroshima | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Hyōgo | 12 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ibaraki | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ishikawa | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iwate | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kagawa | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kagoshima | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kanagawa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kōchi | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kumamoto | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyoto | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mie | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Miyagi | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Miyazaki | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nagano | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nagasaki | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nara | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Niigata | 13 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ōita | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Okayama | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Osaka | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Saga | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saitama | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Shiga | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Shimane | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Shizuoka | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tochigi | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tokushima | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tokyo | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Tottori | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Toyama | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Wakayama | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Yamagata | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yamaguchi | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Yamanashi | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 300 | 105 | 44 | 40 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 74 |
| Notes: Party affiliation after the general election. | ||||||||
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