Kenseikai
right|thumb|270px|Wakatsuki Reijirō at a Kenseikai meeting The was a short-lived political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Kenseikai
- Political party.native_name
- 憲政会
- Political party.successor
- Rikken Minseitō
- Political party.ideology
- ConservatismLiberalism
- Political party.headquarters
- Tokyo
- Political party.country
- Japan
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right|thumb|270px|Wakatsuki Reijirō at a Kenseikai meeting The was a short-lived political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
==History== The Kenseikai was founded on 10 October 1916, as a merger of the Rikken Dōshikai (led by Katō Takaaki), Chūseikai (led by Ozaki Yukio) and the Kōyū Club (a minor opposition group). Led by Katō Takaaki, the new party was united by its opposition to the policies of the ruling Rikken Seiyūkai under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu. The party was supported financially by the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, due to family ties with Katō Takaaki. Party leaders included Hamaguchi Osachi and Adachi Kenzō. The merger gave the Kenseikai a total of 198 seats in the Lower House of the Diet of Japan, thus forming a majority, and raised the expectation that Katō Takaaki would become the next prime minister.