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Japan 2026 general election

What was the result of the 2026 general election in Japan?

Provisional result: Liberal Democratic Party won 315 of 465 seats with 36.7% of the party-list vote. 56.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.

  • Japan
  • Held:
  • Provisional result
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan), read 8 November 2026

Which party won the most seats?

Provisional results from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 315 of 465 seats with 36.7% of the vote; 56.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.4 points on 2024.

  • Liberal Democratic Party 315 +124 seats 36.7% +10.0 points
  • Centrist Reform Alliance 49 18.2%
  • Democratic Party for the People 28 0 seats 9.7% −1.6 points
  • Japan Innovation Party 36 −2 seats 8.6% −0.7 points
  • Sanseito 15 +12 seats 7.4% +4.0 points
  • Team Mirai 11 6.7%
  • Japanese Communist Party 4 −4 seats 4.4% −1.8 points
  • Reiwa Shinsengumi 1 −8 seats 2.9% −4.1 points
  • Genzei Nippon and Yukoku Alliance 1 1.4%
  • Seats won
  • Change on the previous election at the right
  • Share of the vote
  • Share at the previous election
  • Change in points at the right

Changes are against the Japan 2024 general election, party by party.

233 of 465 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 36.7%

    Share of the vote won by Liberal Democratic Party

    Liberal Democratic Party won 315 of 465 seats. A majority needs 233.

  2. +124 seats

    Seats gained by Liberal Democratic Party

    The largest gain in seats compared with 2024. Reiwa Shinsengumi lost 8 seats.

  3. 56.3%

    Voter turnout

    Up 2.4 points on 2024.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Democratic Party315+12436.7+10.021,026,140
Centrist Reform Alliance4918.210,438,802
Democratic Party for the People2809.7−1.65,572,951
Japan Innovation Party36−28.6−0.74,943,330
Sanseito15+127.4+4.04,260,620
Team Mirai116.73,813,750
Japanese Communist Party4−44.4−1.82,519,811
Reiwa Shinsengumi1−82.9−4.11,672,500
Conservative Party of Japan0−22.5+0.41,455,563
Genzei Nippon and Yukoku Alliance11.4814,874
Social Democratic Party0−11.3−0.4728,602
Association to Consider the Euthanasia System000.00.013,014
Independent candidates5−8

± is the change against the Japan 2024 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Democratic Party 21,026,140
  • Centrist Reform Alliance 10,438,802
  • Democratic Party for the People 5,572,951
  • Japan Innovation Party 4,943,330
  • Sanseito 4,260,620
  • Team Mirai 3,813,750
  • Japanese Communist Party 2,519,811
  • Reiwa Shinsengumi 1,672,500
  • Conservative Party of Japan 1,455,563
  • Genzei Nippon and Yukoku Alliance 814,874
  • Social Democratic Party 728,602
  • Association to Consider the Euthanasia System 13,014
  • Independent candidates

Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省), results of the 2026 House of Representatives election, under the Public Data License 1.0. The Ministry calls these results preliminary. Shown in our own layout and not presented as the Ministry's own: the turnout, the change on the election before and the indices are worked out by us, and a party's votes are shown as whole numbers, though the Ministry's tables can carry decimals.

Votes and shares are the party-list vote. Seats are the whole House: 289 from single-seat districts and 176 from party lists. The independents together are one row; they stand in the districts only and have no party-list votes.

How many people voted?

56.3% of the 103,211,223 registered voters cast a ballot (58,061,446 ballots), up 2.4 points on 2024. 57,259,957 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 2012 in our data.

How do the votes compare with the seats?

  • Liberal Democratic Party36.7% of votes67.7% of seats
  • Centrist Reform Alliance18.2% of votes10.5% of seats
  • Japan Innovation Party8.6% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Democratic Party for the People9.7% of votes6.0% of seats
  • Sanseito7.4% of votes3.2% of seats
  • Team Mirai6.7% of votes2.4% of seats
  • Japanese Communist Party4.4% of votes0.9% of seats
  • Reiwa Shinsengumi2.9% of votes0.2% of seats
  • Genzei Nippon and Yukoku Alliance1.4% of votes0.2% of seats
  • Conservative Party of Japan2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 23.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.0 by votes and 2.1 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Centrist Reform Alliance by 18.5 points of the vote.

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Sources
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省), Japan, House of Representatives election results. Public Data License 1.0; turnout, changes and indices worked out by us. (source). Licence: Public Data License 1.0 (Japan)