However, it should be noted that the 'Katsura Shinto' (Katsura New Party) established after the period of Taisho Seihen was the forerunner of the Rikken Minseito (Party of Democratic Constitutionalism), which would lead party politics along with the Seiyukai (later, Katsura Shinto was developed into the Rikken Doshikai [Party of Comrades of Constitutionalism] and then into the Kenseikai [Party of Constitutionalism]).
しかし、大正政変を経て誕生した「桂新党」（立憲同志会→憲政会）は立憲政友会とともに政党政治をリードすることになる立憲民政党の前身である。