This article presents detailed results of the
2009 Japanese general election
General elections were held in Japan on August 30, 2009 to elect the 480 members of the House of Representatives. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated the ruling coalition ( Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Party) ...
. It lists all elected Representatives in the 300 single-member districts and the 11 regional proportional representation (PR) blocks. The top PR block replacement candidates to be elected later without vote in cases of death, resignation or disqualification (''kuriage-tōsen'') are also listed, by-elections are not.
Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, English name):
* Ruling coalition
** LDP
Liberal Democratic Party, ''Jiyūminshutō''
** Kōmeitō "Justice Party", ''Kōmeitō'',
New Justice Party Party
** JRP "Reform Club", ''Kaikaku Club'',
Japan Renaissance Party
The was a minor political party in Japan.
History
The NRP is the successor to the Reform Club (改革クラブ), founded by Hideo Watanabe and Hiroyuki Arai in August 2008.
In April 2010, Yōichi Masuzoe, a former Minister of Health, Labour an ...
(cooperated without inclusion in the cabinet)
* Opposition parties
** DPJ "Democratic Party", ''Minshutō'',
Democratic Party of Japan
The was a centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist:
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* to centre-left liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016.
The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic Part ...
** JCP
Japanese Communist Party
The is a left-wing to far-left political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 members belonging to 18,000 branches, it is one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world.
The party advocates the establishment of a democr ...
, ''Nihon Kyōsantō''
** SDP
Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
Active parties
For ...
, ''Shakaiminshutō''
** YP "Everybody's Party", ''Minna no Tō'',
Your Party
is a Japanese parliamentary caucus consisting of Yoshimi Watanabe and Takashi Tachibana, later Satoshi Hamada after Tachibana forfeited his seat, in the House of Councillors. It was also a political party led by Watanabe from 2009 until its d ...
** PNP
People's New Party
The People's New Party (国民新党 ''Kokumin Shintō'', PNP) was a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005 in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a snap electi ...
, ''Kokuminshintō''
** NPN
New Party Nippon
The New Party Nippon (新党日本 ''Shintō Nippon'') was a Japanese political party formed on August 21, 2005. The party was headed by the former Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka, and includes Diet members Kōki Kobayashi (deputy leader), Takashi ...
, ''Shintō Nippon''
** NPD
New Party Daichi
The New Party Daichi (新党大地 ''Shintō Daichi'') is a Japanese political party. The party works based on jurisdiction and administrative divisions. The party's leader is Muneo Suzuki, a former House of Representatives (Japan), Representat ...
, ''Shintō Daichi''
** Other minor parties with candidates: HRP
Happiness Realization Party
The , abbreviated as Kōfuku (), is a Japanese political party founded by Ryuho Okawa on 23 May 2009 "in order to offer the Japanese people a third option" for the elections of August 2009. The HRP is the political wing of the conservative Happy ...
, Honshitsu
"New Party 'The Essential'", WECP
World Economic Community Party, Freeway
"New Party Freeway Club", Smile
"Japan Smile Party", Rinkai
"Forest and Ocean Party"
Hokkaidō
Tōhoku
Northern Kantō
Southern Kantō
Tōkyō
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu
Tōkai
Note that due to undernomination and disqualifications of PR candidates concurrently running in a district but failing to obtain one tenth of the district vote, one seat in Tōkai were reassigned from the original election result d'Hondt distribution; the number of seats each party would have received under the original distribution is given in parentheses.
[Yomiuri Shimbun, August 31, 2009]
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Kinki
Note that due to undernomination and disqualifications of PR candidates concurrently running in a district but failing to obtain one tenth of the district vote, several seats in Kinki were reassigned from the original d'Hondt distribution according to vote shares; the number of seats each party would have received under the original distribution is given in parentheses.
Chūgoku
Shikoku
Kyūshū
References
* Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Official result
* Yomiuri Shimbun
The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are t ...
2009 general election results
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