Next Japanese general election

Next Japanese general election

2009 ← members On or before 30 August 2013

All 480 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan 241 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party   Leader Yoshihiko Noda Sadakazu Tanigaki Party Democratic Liberal Democratic Leader since 29 August 2011 28 September 2009 Leader's seat Chiba-4th Kyoto-5th Last election 308 seats 47.43% (votes) 42.41% (block) 119 seats 38.68% (votes) 26.73% (block) Seats before 306 117

Parliamentary districts not including proportional blocks

Prime Minister before election Yoshihiko Noda Democratic Prime Minister-designate TBD

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The next Japanese general election is due to take place on or before Friday 30 August 2013, a barring by Constitution of Japan. It will see voting take place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. This will be the 46th general election for Japan since 1890.

Background

Developments towards the election

The last general election took place in 2009 in which the DPJ, led by Yukio Hatoyama, received 42.41% of the proportional block votes and 47.43% of the district votes cast (the next largest party, the LDP, received 26.73% in the proportional and 38.68% in the district vote). Due to the characteristics of the Japanese election system, the DPJ ended up with 308 seats in the Lower House (42.4%), which enabled Hatoyama to become prime minister. Since then Japan has had two further prime minister (Naoto Kan and Yoshihiko Noda) who have come to power without there being a general election.

Current Polling

Graph of poll results since 2009
Democratic   Liberal Democratic   New Komeito   JCP   SDP   YP   Others incl. NPN, PNP, NRP and SP   No Party
Graph of the current Cabinet Approval/Disapproval Ratings

See also

• Elections in Japan
• House of Representatives of Japan
• List of Districts of the House of Representatives of Japan

References