Seikō Club

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The Seikō Club (Japanese: 正交倶楽部, "Fairness and Friendship Club") was a political party in Japan.

History

The party was established in December 1918 as a merger of the Seiwa Club and a group of eight independent MPs, and was initially an "Independent Group". In March 1919 it was renamed the Seikō Club, by which time it had 33 MPs.[1] It did poorly in the May 1920 general elections due to a new electoral law that replaced multi-member constituencies with single-member ones. The following month its last four MPs merged with the Shinseikai's sole MP and 20 independent MPs to form the Kōshin Club.[2]

References

  1. Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p. 613
  2. Fukui, p. 550
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