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Japan 1976 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 249 of 511 seats with 41.8% of the vote; 73.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.7 points on 1972.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Democratic Party249−2241.8−5.123,653,626
Japan Socialist Party123+520.7−1.211,713,009
Komeito55+2610.9+2.56,177,300
Japanese Communist Party17−2110.4−0.15,878,192
Democratic Socialist Party29+106.3−0.73,554,076
Independents21+75.7+0.73,227,463
New Liberal Club174.22,363,985

± is the change against the Japan 1972 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Democratic Party 23,653,626
  • Japan Socialist Party 11,713,009
  • Komeito 6,177,300
  • Japanese Communist Party 5,878,192
  • Democratic Socialist Party 3,554,076
  • Independents 3,227,463
  • New Liberal Club 2,363,985

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Turnout

73.4% of the 77,926,588 registered voters cast a ballot (57,231,992 ballots), up 1.7 points on 1972. 56,612,765 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1967 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Democratic Party41.8% of votes48.7% of seats
  • Japan Socialist Party20.7% of votes24.1% of seats
  • Komeito10.9% of votes10.8% of seats
  • Democratic Socialist Party6.3% of votes5.7% of seats
  • Japanese Communist Party10.4% of votes3.3% of seats
  • New Liberal Club4.2% of votes3.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.0 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 21.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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