Japan 1980 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 284 of 511 seats with 47.9% of the vote; 74.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 6.6 points on 1979.
- Japan
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 284 | +36 | 47.9 | +3.3 | 28,262,441 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 107 | 0 | 19.3 | −0.4 | 11,400,747 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 29 | −10 | 9.8 | −0.6 | 5,803,613 |
| Komeito | 33 | −24 | 9.0 | −0.8 | 5,329,942 |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 32 | −3 | 6.6 | −0.2 | 3,896,728 |
| Independents | 11 | −8 | 3.5 | −1.4 | 2,056,967 |
| New Liberal Club | 12 | +8 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1,766,396 |
| Socialist Democratic Federation | 3 | +1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 402,832 |
± is the change against the Japan 1979 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 28,262,441
- Japan Socialist Party 11,400,747
- Japanese Communist Party 5,803,613
- Komeito 5,329,942
- Democratic Socialist Party 3,896,728
- Independents 2,056,967
- New Liberal Club 1,766,396
- Socialist Democratic Federation 402,832
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
74.6% of the 80,925,034 registered voters cast a ballot (60,338,440 ballots), up 6.6 points on 1979. 59,028,837 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1958 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party47.9% of votes55.6% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party19.3% of votes20.9% of seats
- Komeito9.0% of votes6.5% of seats
- Democratic Socialist Party6.6% of votes6.3% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party9.8% of votes5.7% of seats
- New Liberal Club3.0% of votes2.3% of seats
- Socialist Democratic Federation0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 28.6 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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