Japan 1979 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 248 of 511 seats with 44.6% of the vote; 68.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.4 points on 1976.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 248 | −1 | 44.6 | +2.8 | 24,084,140 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 107 | −16 | 19.7 | −1.0 | 10,643,450 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 39 | +22 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 5,625,527 |
| Komeito | 57 | +2 | 9.8 | −1.1 | 5,282,682 |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 35 | +6 | 6.8 | +0.5 | 3,663,691 |
| Independents | 19 | −2 | 4.9 | −0.8 | 2,641,064 |
| New Liberal Club | 4 | −13 | 3.0 | −1.2 | 1,631,811 |
| Socialist Democratic Federation | 2 | 0.7 | 368,660 |
± is the change against the Japan 1976 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 24,084,140
- Japan Socialist Party 10,643,450
- Japanese Communist Party 5,625,527
- Komeito 5,282,682
- Democratic Socialist Party 3,663,691
- Independents 2,641,064
- New Liberal Club 1,631,811
- Socialist Democratic Federation 368,660
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
68.0% of the 80,169,924 registered voters cast a ballot (54,518,515 ballots), down 5.4 points on 1976. 54,010,121 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1947 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party44.6% of votes48.5% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party19.7% of votes20.9% of seats
- Komeito9.8% of votes11.2% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party10.4% of votes7.6% of seats
- Democratic Socialist Party6.8% of votes6.8% of seats
- New Liberal Club3.0% of votes0.8% of seats
- Socialist Democratic Federation0.7% of votes0.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.3 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 24.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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