Japan 2005 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 296 of 480 seats with 38.2% of the vote; 67.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 7.6 points on 2003.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 296 | +59 | 38.2 | +3.2 | 25,887,798 |
| Democratic Party of Japan | 113 | −64 | 31.0 | −6.4 | 21,036,425 |
| Komeito | 31 | −3 | 13.3 | −1.6 | 8,987,620 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 9 | 0 | 7.3 | −0.6 | 4,919,187 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 7 | +1 | 5.5 | +0.4 | 3,719,522 |
| New Party Nippon | 1 | 2.4 | 1,643,506 | ||
| People's New Party | 4 | 1.7 | 1,183,073 | ||
| New Party Daichi | 1 | 0.6 | 433,938 | ||
| Independents | 18 | +7 |
± is the change against the Japan 2003 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 25,887,798
- Democratic Party of Japan 21,036,425
- Komeito 8,987,620
- Japanese Communist Party 4,919,187
- Japan Socialist Party 3,719,522
- New Party Nippon 1,643,506
- People's New Party 1,183,073
- New Party Daichi 433,938
- Independents
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
67.5% of the 103,067,966 registered voters cast a ballot (69,532,186 ballots), up 7.6 points on 2003. 67,811,069 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1990 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party38.2% of votes61.7% of seats
- Democratic Party of Japan31.0% of votes23.5% of seats
- Komeito13.3% of votes6.5% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party7.3% of votes1.9% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party5.5% of votes1.5% of seats
- People's New Party1.7% of votes0.8% of seats
- New Party Nippon2.4% of votes0.2% of seats
- New Party Daichi0.6% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 19.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.7 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Democratic Party of Japan by 7.2 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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