Japan 1990 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 275 of 512 seats with 46.2% of the vote; 73.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.9 points on 1986.
- Japan
- Held
Result
- Liberal Democratic Party275
- Japan Socialist Party136
- Komeito45
- Independents21
- Japanese Communist Party16
- Democratic Socialist Party14
- Socialist Democratic Federation4
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 275 | −25 | 46.2 | −3.3 | 30,315,417 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 136 | +51 | 24.4 | +7.1 | 16,025,473 |
| Komeito | 45 | −11 | 8.0 | −1.4 | 5,242,675 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 16 | −10 | 8.0 | −0.8 | 5,226,987 |
| Independents | 21 | +12 | 7.3 | +1.5 | 4,807,524 |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 14 | −12 | 4.8 | −1.6 | 3,178,949 |
| Socialist Democratic Federation | 4 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 566,957 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.4 | 281,793 |
± is the change against the Japan 1986 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 30,315,417
- Japan Socialist Party 16,025,473
- Komeito 5,242,675
- Japanese Communist Party 5,226,987
- Independents 4,807,524
- Democratic Socialist Party 3,178,949
- Socialist Democratic Federation 566,957
- Unnamed party with one seat 281,793
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
73.3% of the 90,322,908 registered voters cast a ballot (66,215,906 ballots), up 1.9 points on 1986. 65,704,311 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1980 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party46.2% of votes53.7% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party24.4% of votes26.6% of seats
- Komeito8.0% of votes8.8% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party8.0% of votes3.1% of seats
- Democratic Socialist Party4.8% of votes2.7% of seats
- Socialist Democratic Federation0.9% of votes0.8% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.1 (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 21.8 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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