Japan 1983 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 250 of 511 seats with 45.8% of the vote; 67.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.6 points on 1980.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 250 | −34 | 45.8 | −2.1 | 25,982,785 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 112 | +5 | 19.5 | +0.2 | 11,065,082 |
| Komeito | 58 | +25 | 10.1 | +1.1 | 5,745,751 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 26 | −3 | 9.3 | −0.5 | 5,302,485 |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 38 | +6 | 7.3 | +0.7 | 4,129,907 |
| Independents | 16 | +5 | 4.9 | +1.4 | 2,768,735 |
| New Liberal Club | 8 | −4 | 2.4 | −0.6 | 1,341,584 |
| Socialist Democratic Federation | 3 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 38,104 |
± is the change against the Japan 1980 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 25,982,785
- Japan Socialist Party 11,065,082
- Komeito 5,745,751
- Japanese Communist Party 5,302,485
- Democratic Socialist Party 4,129,907
- Independents 2,768,735
- New Liberal Club 1,341,584
- Socialist Democratic Federation 38,104
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
67.9% of the 84,252,608 registered voters cast a ballot (57,238,897 ballots), down 6.6 points on 1980. 56,779,701 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party45.8% of votes48.9% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party19.5% of votes21.9% of seats
- Komeito10.1% of votes11.4% of seats
- Democratic Socialist Party7.3% of votes7.4% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party9.3% of votes5.1% of seats
- New Liberal Club2.4% of votes1.6% of seats
- Socialist Democratic Federation0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 26.3 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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