Abstract
The Study on the political circumstances regarding the first general election for the Congressmen held in 1890 in Hyogo prefecture has been neglected except for the third election district which two countries in Tamba region be long to. Expecially, no research on the sixth district has been found in the past. This study focuses on the sixth district which covers three Harima counties: Kato, Kasai, and Taka. In the sixth district, three nominees competed each other for a single seat of Congress assigned for the Hyogo prefecture. Three nominees were; Tajiro Takase from Aikoku-Koto (Patriot Republic party), Kanzaburo Maruoka from Kaishinto (Reconstruction Party), and Shintaro Nishimura from a Neutral Party. The purpose of this study was to shed light on the profiles of three nominees and political parties and analyze the facts of the election activities based on the local newspapers such as Kobe Yushin Nippo (Kobe Daily News) and Kobe Shimbun (Kobe Newspaper) as a principal source. The study showed that the population of the electorate in the sixth district were exclusively high as twice as the nation wide average in terms of the voter's ratio per thousands. The election in the area triggered a fierce competition among the three parties and it was an epitome of the reality of the first election in Hyogo prefecture.
