2024 Japanese general election

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 (1.39%)
Turnout53.84% (2.13pp; Const. votes)
53.84% (2.14pp; PR votes)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Shigeru Ishiba Yoshihiko Noda Nobuyuki Baba
Party LDP CDP Ishin
Leader's seat Tottori 1st Chiba 14th Osaka 17th
Last election 259 seats 96 seats 41 seats
Seats won 191 148 38
Seat change 68 52 3
Constituency vote 20,867,762 15,740,860 6,048,103
 % and swing 38.46% (9.62pp) 29.01% (0.95pp) 11.15% (2.79pp)
Regional vote 14,582,690 11,564,222 5,105,127
 % and swing 26.73% (7.93pp) 21.20% (1.20pp) 9.36% (4.65pp)
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Yuichiro Tamaki Keiichi Ishii Tarō Yamamoto
Party DPP Komeito Reiwa
Leader's seat Kagawa 2nd Saitama 14th
(lost election)		 Tokyo PR
Last election 11 seats 32 seats 3 seats
Seats won 28 24 9
Seat change 17 8 6
Constituency vote 2,349,584 730,401 425,445
 % and swing 4.33% (2.16pp) 1.35% (0.17pp) 0.78% (0.35pp)
Regional vote 6,172,434 5,964,415 3,805,060
 % and swing 11.32% (6.81pp) 10.93% (1.45pp) 6.98% (3.12pp)
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Tomoko Tamura Sohei Kamiya Naoki Hyakuta
Party JCP Sanseitō CPJ
Leader's seat Tokyo PR H.C. PR Kinki PR
(lost)
Last election 10 seats Did not contest Did not exist
Seats won 8 3 3
Seat change 2 New New
Constituency vote 3,695,807 1,357,189 155,837
 % and swing 6.81% (2.22pp) 2.50% (New) 0.29% (New)
Regional vote 3,362,966 1,870,347 1,145,622
 % and swing 6.16% (1.09pp) 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. Voting took place in all constituencies, including proportional blocks, to elect all 465 members of the House of Representatives.

The election was held one month after Ishiba took office as prime minister, after winning a heated contest in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election on 27 September, following the resignation of Fumio Kishida as party leader due to his low approval rating amid the party-wide slush fund corruption scandal. The dissolution of the Diet was held eight days after the prime minister's inauguration and 26 days before the voting day, both the shortest since the end of World War II.

Amid continued public discontent with the slush fund scandal, the governing LDP and its 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, securing only 191 seats. The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the main opposition party led by former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, achieved its best result in its history, increasing its seat count from 96 to 148. This was the first general election in Japan since 1955 wherein no party secured at least 200 seats.

The Democratic Party for the People (DPP) won 28 seats, surpassing Komeito to become the fourth-largest party in the chamber. The DPP emerged as a key player in the aftermath of the election as the LDP sought to negotiate their cooperation on a policy-by-policy basis in the next Diet session given the LDP's lack of a majority. Komeito suffered further losses including losing all of its seats in Osaka at the expense of the Osaka-based Ishin no Kai as well as the party's newly elected leader Keiichi Ishii losing his seat. Smaller opposition parties also gained seats, including left-wing populist party Reiwa Shinsengumi, right-wing populist party Sanseitō and the newly-formed far-right Conservative Party.

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

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