The 2018 Democratic Party for the People leadership election was held on 4 September 2018. It was the party's first leadership election since its formation in May 2018 from the merger of the Democratic Party and the majority faction of

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. The race was held to choose a successor to interim leaders

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and Kohei Otsuka. The elected leader was slated to serve a 3-year term. Interim co-leader Tamaki won the leadership election by a large margin against Representative Keisuke Tsumura.

Candidates

Running

, member of the

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for Kagawa 2nd district and interim party co-leader. * Keisuke Tsumura, member of the

for

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and former Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office.

Results

References

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