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The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the main opposition party led by former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, achieved its best result in its history, increasing its seat count from 96 to 148. This was the first general election in Japan since 1955 wherein no party secured at least 200 seats.
Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba won a rare runoff vote to stay in power despite his scandal-hit governing ... It was the worst result for the LDP, which has ruled Japan for 65 of the past ...
Single-member constituency results in Yamaguchi [43] Constituency Incumbent Party Status Elected Member Yamaguchi-1st: Masahiro Kōmura: LDP Reelected. Masahiro Kōmura Yamaguchi-2nd: Nobuchiyo Kishi: LDP Reelected. Nobuchiyo Kishi Yamaguchi-3rd: Yoshimasa Hayashi: LDP Reelected. Yoshimasa Hayashi Yamaguchi-4th: Shinji Yoshida: LDP Move to PR ...
Shigeru Ishiba, president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was seen dozing off in parliament on Monday where he was reelected as the prime minister.. Video footage showed Mr ...
The Japanese political process has two types of elections.. National elections (国政選挙, kokusei senkyo); Subnational/local elections (地方選挙, chihō senkyo); While the national level features a parliamentary system of government where the head of government is elected indirectly by the legislature, prefectures and municipalities employ a presidential system where chief executives ...
Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister after winning his party’s leadership contest on Friday, following a crowded race that ended in a runoff vote.
After Kishida announced that he would step down in 2024, Ishiba ran for the fifth and final time in the LDP presidential election where he defeated Sanae Takaichi in a second round run-off, becoming the new party leader and prime minister–designate, and was formally elected Prime Minister by the National Diet on 1 October 2024. [2]
The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day. 32 prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a mandate from the Emperor.