Japan 2012 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 294 of 480 seats with 27.6% of the vote; 59.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 9.9 points on 2009.
- Japan
- Held
Result
- Liberal Democratic Party294
- Democratic Party of Japan57
- Japan Restoration Party54
- Komeito31
- Your Party18
- Tomorrow Party of Japan9
- Japanese Communist Party8
- Independents5
- Japan Socialist Party2
- New Party Daichi1
- People's New Party1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 294 | +175 | 27.6 | +0.9 | 16,624,457 |
| Japan Restoration Party | 54 | 20.4 | 12,262,228 | ||
| Democratic Party of Japan | 57 | −251 | 16.0 | −26.4 | 9,628,653 |
| Komeito | 31 | +10 | 11.8 | +0.3 | 7,116,474 |
| Your Party | 18 | +13 | 8.7 | +4.4 | 5,245,586 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 8 | −1 | 6.1 | −0.9 | 3,689,159 |
| Tomorrow Party of Japan | 9 | 5.7 | 3,423,915 | ||
| Japan Socialist Party | 2 | −5 | 2.4 | −1.9 | 1,420,790 |
| New Party Daichi | 1 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 346,848 |
| Happiness Realization Party | 0 | 0.4 | 216,150 | ||
| People's New Party | 1 | −2 | 0.1 | −1.6 | 70,847 |
| Independents | 5 | −1 |
± is the change against the Japan 2009 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 16,624,457
- Japan Restoration Party 12,262,228
- Democratic Party of Japan 9,628,653
- Komeito 7,116,474
- Your Party 5,245,586
- Japanese Communist Party 3,689,159
- Tomorrow Party of Japan 3,423,915
- Japan Socialist Party 1,420,790
- New Party Daichi 346,848
- Happiness Realization Party 216,150
- People's New Party 70,847
- 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
59.3% of the 103,959,866 registered voters cast a ballot (61,662,947 ballots), down 9.9 points on 2009. 60,179,888 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1996 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party27.6% of votes61.3% of seats
- Democratic Party of Japan16.0% of votes11.9% of seats
- Japan Restoration Party20.4% of votes11.3% of seats
- Komeito11.8% of votes6.5% of seats
- Your Party8.7% of votes3.8% of seats
- Tomorrow Party of Japan5.7% of votes1.9% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party6.1% of votes1.7% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party2.4% of votes0.4% of seats
- New Party Daichi0.6% of votes0.2% of seats
- People's New Party0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 25.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.8 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Restoration Party 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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