2026 Japanese general election

8 February 2026 (2026-02-08)
All 465 seats in the House of Representatives 233 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	103,211,224 (0.64%)
Turnout	56.26% (2.41pp; Const. votes) 56.25% (2.40pp; PR votes)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Sanae Takaichi Yoshihiko Noda Tetsuo Saito Hirofumi Yoshimura Fumitake Fujita Party LDP Centrist Reform Alliance Innovation Leader's seat Nara 2nd Chiba 14th Chūgoku PR Did not stand[a] Osaka 12th Last election 191 seats 172 seats[b] 38 seats Seats before 198 167 34 Seats won 316 49 36 Seat change 125 123 2 Constituency vote 27,710,493 12,209,686 3,742,161 % and swing 49.09% (10.63pp) 21.63% (8.73pp)[b] 6.63% (4.52pp) Regional vote 21,026,139 10,438,831 4,943,330 % and swing 36.72% (9.99pp) 18.23% (13.90pp)[b] 8.63% (0.73pp)   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Yuichiro Tamaki Sohei Kamiya Takahiro Anno Party Democratic Party For the People Sanseitō Team Mirai Leader's seat Kagawa 2nd Did not stand[c] Did not stand[c] Last election 28 seats 3 seats Did not exist Seats before 27 2 0 Seats won 28 15 11 Seat change Template:No change 12 11 Constituency vote 4,243,282 3,924,223 156,853 % and swing 7.52% (3.19pp) 6.95% (4.45pp) 0.28% (New) Regional vote 5,572,951 4,260,620 3,813,349 % and swing 9.73% (1.59pp) 7.44% (4.01pp) 6.66% (New)   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Tomoko Tamura Kazuhiro Haraguchi Takashi Kawamura Taro Yamamoto Party Communist Tax Cuts Japan and Yukoku Alliance Reiwa Leader's seat Tokyo PR Saga 1st (lost re-election) Aichi 1st Did not stand Last election 8 seats Did not exist 9 seats Seats before 8 5 8 Seats won 4 1 1 Seat change 4 1 8 Constituency vote 2,283,885 354,617 255,496 % and swing 4.05% (2.76pp) 0.63% (New) 0.45% (0.35pp) Regional vote 2,519,807 814,874 1,672,499 % and swing 4.40% (1.76pp) 1.42% (New) 2.92% (4.06pp)
Districts and PR districts
Prime Minister before election Sanae Takaichi LDP Elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi LDP

An early general election was held in Japan on 8 February 2026 in all constituencies, including proportional blocks, to elect all 465 seats of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet.^[1]

The election took place nearly four months into Sanae Takaichi's time as Prime Minister of Japan, which began on 21 October after she won the 2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election and formed the Liberal Democratic Party–Japan Innovation Party coalition (LDP–JIP). The main opposition was the newly formed Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), a new political party formed as a merger between the primary opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and Komeito, the LDP's former longtime coalition partner.^[2]

The LDP won a historic landslide victory, with the party keeping its majority in the House and setting a new postwar record for the most seats won by a single party with 316 seats. This gave the party a two-thirds supermajority and passed the last record of 308 seats won by the Democratic Party of Japan in 2009 and the LDP record of 300 seats won in 1986. Meanwhile, the CRA lost more than two-thirds of its pre-election seats and leading to the resignations of party co-leaders Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito after the election.^[3]

Analysts said the LDP's victory was because of Takaichi's high personal popularity at the time of the election, mainly among young voters and conservatives.^[4][5][6]