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This was the first general election in Japan since 1955 wherein no party secured at least 200 seats. The Democratic Party for the People (DPP) won 28 seats, surpassing Komeito to become the fourth-largest party in the chamber. The DPP emerged as a key player in the aftermath of the election as the LDP sought to negotiate their cooperation on a ...
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 ...
General elections are scheduled to be held in Japan no later than 27 October 2028 to elect all 465 seats of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet. Voting will take place in all constituencies , including 289 single-seat electoral districts and 176 proportional blocks.
The Japanese Communist Party withdrew 22 candidates in total, with only 106 candidates running for the JCP in total. This number was the lowest amount of candidates fielded by the JCP since the first election following Japan's electoral reform in 1996. [33]
29.01 104 +47 Ishin 11.15 23 +7 JCP 6.81 1 0 DPP 4.33 11 +5 Komeito 1.35 4 −5 Social Democratic 0.52 1 0 CPJ 0.29 1 New Independents 4.67 12 0 This lists parties that won seats.
The October 2024 general election resulted in the loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito governing coalition in the House of Representatives under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, [3] with the possibility of the ruling coalition suffering another "major defeat" at the House of Councillors election if opposition parties unite their candidates.
In order to officially qualify as a candidate in the election, a candidate must be an LDP member of the National Diet and must receive a nomination from at least 20 fellow LDP Diet members. The LDP selects its leader via a two-round election involving both LDP members of the Diet and dues-paying party members from across Japan. In the first ...
The winner of this election, Yoshihiko Noda led the party in the 2024 Japanese general election, and will led them in the 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election. Former Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Party of Japan Yoshihiko Noda won the election in a second round runoff, defeating opponent Yukio Edano , former party ...