2024 Japanese general election

27 October 2024
All 465 seats in the House of Representatives
233 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered103,880,749 (Decrease1.39%)[1]
Turnout53.84% (Decrease2.13pp; Const. votes)
53.84% (Decrease2.14pp; PR votes)
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Yosuke Suzuki with Yoshihiko Noda 2024-10-20(3) (cropped).jpg
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Leader Shigeru Ishiba Yoshihiko Noda Nobuyuki Baba
Party LDP CDP Innovation
Leader's seat Tottori 1st Chiba 14th Osaka 17th
Last election 259 seats 96 seats 41 seats
Seats before 247 98 44
Seats won 191 148 38
Seat change Decrease 68 Increase 52 Decrease 3
Constituency vote 20,867,762 15,740,860 6,048,103
% and swing 38.46% (Decrease9.62pp) 29.01% (Decrease0.95pp) 11.15% (Increase2.79pp)
Regional vote 14,582,690 11,564,222 5,105,127
% and swing 26.73% (Decrease7.93pp) 21.20% (Increase1.20pp) 9.36% (Decrease4.65pp)
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Yuichiro Tamaki Keiichi Ishii Tarō Yamamoto
Party Democratic Party For the People Komeito Reiwa
Leader's seat Kagawa 2nd Northern Kanto PR
(lost re-election)		 Did not stand[a]
Last election 11 seats 32 seats 3 seats
Seats before 7 32 3
Seats won 28 24 9
Seat change Increase 16 Decrease 8 Increase 6
Constituency vote 2,349,584 730,401 425,445
% and swing 4.33% (Increase2.16pp) 1.35% (Decrease0.17pp) 0.78% (Increase0.35pp)
Regional vote 6,172,434 5,964,415 3,805,060
% and swing 11.32% (Increase6.81pp) 10.93% (Decrease1.45pp) 6.98% (Increase3.12pp)
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
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Sohei Kamiya 2023-2-19(1) (cropped).jpg
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Leader Tomoko Tamura Sohei Kamiya Naoki Hyakuta
Party Communist Sanseitō Conservative Party of Japan
Leader's seat Tokyo PR Did not stand[b] Did not stand[b]
Last election 10 seats Did not contest Did not exist
Seats before 10 0 0
Seats won 8 3 3
Seat change Decrease 2 New New
Constituency vote 3,695,807 1,357,189 155,837
% and swing 6.81% (Increase2.22pp) 2.50% (New) 0.29% (New)
Regional vote 3,362,966 1,870,347 1,145,622
% and swing 6.16% (Decrease1.09pp) 3.43% (New) 2.10% (New)
Districts and PR districts, shaded according to winners' vote strength
Prime Minister before election

Shigeru Ishiba
LDP

 Elected Prime Minister

Shigeru Ishiba
LDP

General elections were held in Japan on 27 October 2024 due to the early dissolution of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet, by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.[2] Voting took place in all constituencies, including proportional blocks, to elect all 465 members of the House of Representatives.

The majority party, the LDP, was very unpopular among voters because of the 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal.[3] Because of this, the party's coalition partner Komeito lost their parliamentary majority in the lower house for the first time since 2009, with the LDP suffering its second-worst result in its history, winning only 191 seats. The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the main opposition party led by former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, had its best result in its history, increasing its seat count from 96 to 148. This was the first general election in Japan since 1955 where no party won at least 200 seats.[4][5]

Ishiba was re-elected Prime Minister in the Diet on 11 November as head of an LDP-Komeito minority government.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sits in the House of Councillors for the Tokyo at-large district
  2. 1 2 Sits in the House of Councillors for the national PR block

References

  1. ↑ "令和6年10月27日執行 衆議院議員総選挙・最高裁判所裁判官国民審査 速報資料". 総務省. Archived from the original on 29 December 2024.
  2. ↑ "自民･石破総裁 あす衆院解散の意向を表明へ 総選挙１０月１５日公示、２７日投開票で最終調整｜FNNプライムオンライン". FNNプライムオンライン. 2024-09-29. Archived from the original on 2024-09-29. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  3. ↑ "【党首発言】衆議院選挙 各党の受け止めは". NHK. 2024-10-28. Archived from the original on 1 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Japan PM vows to maintain coalition makeup after election defeat". Kyodo News. 2024-10-28. Archived from the original on 28 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "立憲民主党「敵失」で勢い 自公過半割れ実現も比較第一党ならず「初めの一歩」". 産経新聞. 2024-10-28. Archived from the original on 30 November 2024.
  6. ↑ "Japan's parliament re-elects PM Shigeru Ishiba despite bruising election result". The Guardian. 2024-11-11. Archived from the original on 11 November 2024. Retrieved 2024-11-11.


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