2026 Japanese general election

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Early general elections were held in Japan on 8 February 2026 in all constituencies, including proportional blocks, to elect all 465 seats of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet.[1]

Registered103,211,224 (Decrease0.64%)
Turnout56.26% (Increase2.41pp; Const. votes)
56.25% (Increase2.40pp; PR votes)
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All 465 seats in the House of Representatives
233 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered103,211,224 (Decrease0.64%)
Turnout56.26% (Increase2.41pp; Const. votes)
56.25% (Increase2.40pp; PR votes)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sanae Takaichi Yoshihiko Noda
Tetsuo Saito		 Hirofumi Yoshimura
Fumitake Fujita
Party LDP Centrist Reform Ishin
Leader's seat Nara 2nd Chiba 14th
Chūgoku PR		 Did not stand[a]
Osaka 12th
Last election 191 seats 172 seats[b] 38 seats
Seats before 198 167 34
Seats won 316 49 36
Seat change Increase 125 Decrease 123 Decrease 2
Constituency vote 27,710,493 12,209,686 3,742,161
% and swing 49.09% (Increase10.63pp) 21.63% (Decrease8.73pp)[b] 6.63% (Decrease4.52pp)
Regional vote 21,026,139 10,438,831 4,943,330
% and swing 36.72% (Increase9.99pp) 18.23% (Decrease13.90pp)[b] 8.63% (Decrease0.73pp)
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Yuichiro Tamaki Sohei Kamiya Takahiro Anno
Party DPP Sanseitō Team Mirai
Leader since 7 May 2018 17 March 2020 8 May 2025
Leader's seat Kagawa 2nd Did not stand[c] Did not stand[c]
Last election 28 seats 3 seats Did not exist
Seats before 27 2 0
Seats won 28 15 11
Seat change Steady Increase 12 Increase 11
Constituency vote 4,243,282 3,924,223 156,853
% and swing 7.52% (Increase3.19pp) 6.95% (Increase4.45pp) 0.28% (New)
Regional vote 5,572,951 4,260,620 3,813,349
% and swing 9.73% (Decrease1.59pp) 7.44% (Increase4.01pp) 6.66% (New)
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Tomoko Tamura Taro Yamamoto Kazuhiro Haraguchi
Takashi Kawamura
Party JCP Reiwa Genzei–Yukoku
Leader since 18 January 2024 1 April 2019 24 January 2026
Leader's seat Tokyo PR Did not stand Saga 1st
(lost re-election)
Aichi 1st
Last election 8 seats 9 seats Did not exist
Seats before 8 8 5
Seats won 4 1 1
Seat change Decrease 4 Decrease 8 Increase 1
Constituency vote 2,283,885 255,496 354,617
% and swing 4.05% (Decrease2.76pp) 0.45% (Decrease0.35pp) 0.63% (New)
Regional vote 2,519,807 1,672,499 814,874
% and swing 4.40% (Decrease1.76pp) 2.92% (Decrease4.06pp) 1.42% (New)
Prime Minister before election

Sanae Takaichi
LDP

 Elected Prime Minister

Sanae Takaichi
LDP

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Election board in Shibuya, Tokyo

The election took place nearly four months into Sanae Takaichi's tenure as Prime Minister of Japan, which began on 21 October after she won the 2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election and formed the Liberal Democratic Party–Japan Innovation Party coalition (LDP–JIP). The election also saw the debut of the newly formed Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), a new political party formed as a merger between the primary opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and Komeito, the LDP's former longtime coalition partner. Takaichi described the election as a public referendum on her leadership as prime minister, and of the LDP–JIP coalition.[2]

The LDP won a historic landslide victory, with the party regaining its majority in the House and setting a new postwar record for the most seats won by a single party with 316 seats. This gave the party a two-thirds supermajority in its own right, and surpassed the previous record of 308 seats won by the Democratic Party of Japan in 2009 and the LDP record of 300 seats won in 1986. Meanwhile, the CRA severely underperformed, losing more than two-thirds of its pre-election seats and leading to the resignations of party co-leaders Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito after the election.[3] Other parties that gained seats included the ultraconservative and far-right party Sanseitō and the new e-democracy party Team Mirai.

Analysts credited the LDP's victory to Takaichi's high personal popularity at the time of the election, particularly among young voters and conservatives who had previously defected from the party, as well as to CDP and Komeito voters who opposed their parties' merger declining to support the CRA.[4][5][6] The Economist described the result as a personal mandate for Takaichi, and a repudiation of the CRA.[7] The LDP's victory marked a reversal of fortune from the 2023–2024 slush fund scandal that had cost the party its majority in the previous election, with 41 of the 43 LDP candidates linked to the scandal winning their races.[8]

Background

Resignation of Shigeru Ishiba

The 2024 Japanese general election and 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election both resulted in the loss of majorities for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito governing coalition under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.[9][10] After both elections, Ishiba invoked a parliamentary plurality in both houses, and stated that he believed the LDP had a responsibility to lead the government, as it would in most other parliamentary democracies.[11] Pressure continued to mount on Ishiba to resign as the LDP president, but he refused and said he planned to continue serving as Prime Minister.[12]

On 7 September, Ishiba announced that he would resign as president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.[13][14][15] Ishiba stated he sought to claim "responsibility" as party leader for losses in recent elections, and to avoid dividing the party.[16] Ishiba's announcement effectively cancelled the emergency election process entirely. He instead instructed LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama, whose resignation had not been accepted by Ishiba, to begin the process to hold an extraordinary presidential election.[17] Ishiba said he determined that now was the "appropriate time" to step aside, after a written version of the Japan–U.S. tariff agreement had been finalized.[18] Ishiba promised to continue serving as Prime Minister until a new leader was elected, and did not endorse a candidate in the subsequent election. His tenure lasted about one year.[19] In the 2025 LDP leadership election on 5 October, Takaichi was elected as the LDP's first female president. In her first acts as party president, Takaichi appointed Tarō Asō as vice president and Shun'ichi Suzuki as secretary-general of the LDP.[20]

Premiership of Sanae Takaichi

See also: Liberal Democratic Party–Japan Innovation Party coalition

On 10 October, Komeito chief representative Tetsuo Saito announced that it would leave the ruling coalition, over disagreements with Takaichi's leadership and the party's handling of the 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal, ending 26 years of the LDP–Komeito coalition.[21] Following this, the vote to confirm Takaichi as prime minister was delayed to 20 October.[21] On 20 October, Takaichi and the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) leader Hirofumi Yoshimura agreed to sign a coalition agreement. Takaichi was elected prime minister by the Diet on 21 October, with the support of Ishin and independents, and the right-wing conservative coalition was formed.[22]

Early election call

On 13 January 2026, it emerged that Takaichi had communicated her intention to dissolve the House of Representatives,[23][24] when it re-convened on 23 January to senior LDP officials.[25][26] Subsequently, the LDP instructed its prefectural chapters to register general election candidates by 19 January.[27] Japanese national broadcaster NHK reported that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications had instructed prefectural election boards to prepare for a general election.[28] In response to an apparently leaked LDP projection of the results of an election, LDP officials said that "260 seats seems like too much in reality", and that "within the party, it's assumed that at least a simple majority of 233 seats will be won".[29] On 19 January, Takaichi officially announced her intention to dissolve the House of Representatives on 23 January at a press conference.[30] Campaigning would begin on 27 January, with election day beginning after polls opened on 8 February. It was the shortest election campaign in Japan's postwar history.[31]

CDP–Komeito merger

Main article: Centrist Reform Alliance

In response to the reports of an imminent election, the CDP considered forming a new political alliance with opposition parties to run a single proportional representation list against the LDP, potentially including Komeito, who previously had a 26-year alliance with the governing LDP.[32] The CDP also instructed its prefectural chapters to meet with Komeito's local organisations, and Diet members to seek electoral cooperation.[33] On 14 January, it was found that the cooperation between the CDP and Komeito had begun with view to a merger of the two parties.[34] The merged party would caucus separately in the House of Councillors, but operate as a single party in the House of Representatives, with current CDP leader Yoshihiko Noda and Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito serving as co-leaders.[35] The merged party's proposed name was Chūdō Kaikaku (中道改革; Centrist Reform),[36][37] before its official name was finalised as Chūdō Kaikaku Rengō (中道改革連合; lit. Centrist Reform Alliance) (CRA).[38] Saito said that Noda would be named prime minister if the CRA won the election.[39]

Komeito announced it would not contest any constituency seats in favour of running in the proportional blocks.[40] Jiji Press created a model of the constituency seats which projected that the LDP would win 97 constituency seats and the CDP would win 139 with the results of the 2024 election.[41] Nippon Television projected that, with a hypothetical CDP–Komeito merger, the LDP would retain just 60 of its 132 single member districts with the 2024 election.[42] As a result of this merger, the new CRA would now have 172 seats in the National Diet, thus significantly weakening the LDP's already fragile grip on power.[43][44][45]

Electoral system

See also: Elections in Japan

The 465 seats of the House of Representatives are contested via parallel voting. Of these, 289 members are elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting, while 176 members are elected in 11 multi-member constituencies via party list proportional representation. Candidates from parties with legal political party-list, which requires either ≥5 Diet members or ≥1 Diet member and ≥2% of the nationwide vote in one tier of a recent national election, are allowed to stand in a constituency and be present on the party list. If they lose their constituency vote, they may still be elected in the proportionally allocated seats; however, if such a dual candidate wins less than 10% of the vote in their majoritarian constituency, they are also disqualified as a proportional candidate.[46]

Political parties

See also: List of political parties in Japan
More information Parties, Leader(s) ...
Parties Leader(s) Ideology Seats Status
Last election At dissolution
Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi Conservatism (Japanese)
191 / 465
198 / 465
 Governing
coalition
Japan Innovation Party Hirofumi Yoshimura
Fumitake Fujita		 Libertarianism
38 / 465
34 / 465
Centrist Reform
Alliance		 Constitutional Democratic Party Yoshihiko Noda Centrism
148 / 465
167 / 465
 Opposition
Komeito Tetsuo Saito
24 / 465
Democratic Party For the People Yuichiro Tamaki Conservatism (Japanese)
28 / 465
27 / 465
Reiwa Shinsengumi Taro Yamamoto Progressivism
9 / 465
8 / 465
Japanese Communist Party Tomoko Tamura Communism
8 / 465
4 / 465
Tax Cuts Japan and Yukoku Alliance Kazuhiro Haraguchi
Takashi Kawamura		 Right-wing populism Did not exist
5 / 465
Sanseitō Sohei Kamiya Right-wing populism
3 / 465
2 / 465
Conservative Party of Japan Naoki Hyakuta Ultranationalism
3 / 465
1 / 465
Social Democratic Party Mizuho Fukushima Social democracy
1 / 465
0 / 465
Independents and others N/a N/a
12 / 465
15 / 465
 Mixed
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Candidates by party
Source: NHK
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Campaign

More information Party, Before election ...
Number of registered candidates by party[47]
Party Before election Const. PR Running in both Total
LDP198285319267337
CRA167202234200236
Ishin3487868489
DPP27102103101104
JCP8158235176
Reiwa818251231
Genyu513181318
Sansei21825547190
CPJ1620620
SDP0815815
Mirai0615615
CES00202
Others011––11
Ind.1541––41
Total4651,1199157491,285
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The press conference where Takaichi announced her intention to hold an early general election

Riding on the high approval ratings of her cabinet, the snap election was seen as a power move to boost Sanae Takaichi's mandate and gain a majority in the lower house,[30] which was only one seat away if including the Nippon Ishin No Kai.[48][49][50] Takaichi also announced that she would resign as prime minister if the ruling bloc did not win a majority.[51] The LDP was campaigning on its promises of increased spending, tax cuts, in the name of "responsible yet aggressive fiscal policy", and a new security strategy by abolishing the "five categories" which restricted defence equipment exports to non-combat purposes.[52] The party also looked to tighten rules on foreign acquisition of housing and land.[53]

Despite being the largest opposition party after the merge, the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) target of changing the government apparently faded into the background given the prevalent multi-party situation which made it difficult for a single party to gain a majority. The coalition aimed to accelerating political restructuring, with the possibility of the Democratic Party for the People (DPP) and part of the LDP joining the coalition after the election in mind.[51] Komeito candidates only ran in proportional representation seats in this election, with its voters' inclination becoming a focus of attention due to the previously longstanding cooperative relationship with the LDP.[51] The party campaigned on "putting ordinary citizens first and their livelihoods at the center" and lowering the consumption tax on food to zero, as well as the LDP slush fund scandal, by proposing stricter rules on corporate and group donations.[53][54]

Nippon Ishin No Kai, LDP coalition partner, recommended LDP candidates in over 80 constituencies.[51] The reports of an election prompted both Yoshimura (governor of Osaka Prefecture) and Hideyuki Yokoyama (mayor of Osaka) to resign from their posts with the aim of running for re-election alongside the general election, as well as to seek endorsement of the Osaka Metropolis Plan.[55] The party said to carry out reforms that the LDP had not been able to implement, with the focus on national security, economic security and economic growth and the aim to reduce consumption tax on food to zero.[54]

The right-leaning DPP, which gained significant ground in the 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election, pledged to ensure that everyone's take-home pay would be increased by 60,000 yen per year.[54] It also called for consumption tax reduction to 5% until wage growth stabilised at 2% above inflation.[53] The Japan Communist Party (JCP) called for immediate cut of consumption tax to 5% and its eventual abolition, while sought to legalise the option of separate surnames for married couples and same-sex marriage, as well as correcting the gender pay gap,[53] while the left-wing pacifist Reiwa Shinsengumi campaigned on abolishing the consumption tax, providing a stopgap cash payment of 100,000 yen, lowering social insurance premiums and not participating in the war business.[54]

On 24 January, two new minor right-wing parties, Tax Cuts Japan and Yukoku Alliance and the New Unionist Party, were announced by former MPs Kazuhiro Haraguchi (also former Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications) and Takashi Kawamura, along with the independents.[56][57] Five incumbent MPs have joined the party, qualifying it for national party status.[58] The party also campaigned on abolishing the consumption tax and investing in developing hypersonic missiles.[53][54] Sohei Kamiya, the leader of the far-right political party Sanseitō, said that the party plans to field candidates in LDP constituencies where the incumbent has "advocated multicultural coexistence".[59] It campaigned on abolishing the consumption tax, while also opposing the "excessive acceptance of immigrants" by limiting their numbers.[54]

Debates

More information Date, Host ...
2026 Japanese general election debates
Date Host Format Venue
  •  P  Present
  •  I  Invited
  •  S  Surrogate
  •  NI  Not invited
  •  A  Absent
  •  N  No debate
LDP CRA Ishin DPP Reiwa JCP Genyu Sansei CPJ SDP Mirai
26 January Japan National Press Club Debate Japan National Press Club, Tokyo[60] P
Takaichi		 P
Noda		 P
Fujita		 P
Tamaki		 P
Ōishi		 P
Tamura		 NI
Haraguchi		 P
Kamiya		 NI
Hyakuta		 NI
Fukushima		 NI
Anno
1 February NHK (Nichiyō Tōron) Debate NHK Broadcasting Center, Tokyo[61] S
Tamura		 P
Saito		 P
Yoshimura		 P
Tamaki		 P
Ōishi		 P
Tamura		 P
Haraguchi		 P
Kamiya		 P
Hyakuta		 P
Fukushima		 P
Anno
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Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2026 Japanese general election
LOESS curve of the party identification polling for the 2026 Japanese general election with a 7-day average

Seat projections

This section is an excerpt from Opinion polling for the 2026 Japanese general election § Seat projections.[edit]

Color key:   Exit poll

More information Fieldwork date, Publication/ Newspapers ...
Seat projections from analysts (district seats + proportional representation)
Fieldwork date Publication/
Newspapers		 Sample size Analysts LDP CRA Ishin DPFP Reiwa JCP Genyu Sansei CPJ SDP Mirai Ind./
Oth.		 Gov. Opp. Gov.
Majority
8 Feb 2026 Election results – – 316
(249+67)		 49
(7+42)		 36
(20+16)		 28
(8+20)		 1
(0+1)		 4
(0+4)		 1
(1+0)		 15
(0+15)		 0 0 11
(0+11)		 4
(4+0)		 352 113 +119
8 Feb 2026 FNN exit poll[62] – – 292–329 36–66 30–38 22–33 0–3 2–7 1–2 10–16 0–2 0–1 8–13 6 324–365 79–143 +91–132
8 Feb 2026 ANN exit poll[63] – – 313 44 35 30 3 5 2 15 0 0 12 6 348 117 +115
8 Feb 2026 TV Tokyo exit poll[64] – – 314 50 35 30 0 3 2 14 0 0 9 8 349 116 +116
8 Feb 2026 NNN exit poll[65] – – 305 54 36 32 1 5 2 13 0 0 9 8 341 124 +108
8 Feb 2026 NHK exit poll[66] – – 274–328 37–91 28–38 18–35 0–2 3–8 0–3 5–14 0–1 0 7–13 3–8 302–366 73–175 +69–133
8 Feb 2026 JNN exit poll[67] – – 321 50 35 29 0 3 2 11 0 0 8 6 356 109 +123
3–5 Feb 2026 Mainichi/JNN[68][69] ? – 238–330 55–130 25–38 16–28 0–2 2–9 1–3 5–14 0–5 0 2–8 3–8 263–368 84–207 +30–135
3–5 Feb 2026 Nikkei[70] ? – ≥233
3–5 Feb 2026 Yomiuri[71] 356,593 – >261 <100 ~34 <27 <9 <8 1 ~10 1 0 ~10 ~6 >295 <170 +62
31 Jan – 1 Feb 2026 Asahi[72] ? – 292
(220+72)		 74
(32+42)		 32
(19+13)		 29
(9+20)		 4
(0+4)		 7
(1+6)		 1
(1+0)		 11
(0+11)		 0
(0+0)		 0
(0+0)		 8
(0+8)		 7
(7+0)		 324 141 +91
28–29 Jan 2026 Mainichi/JNN[73][74] 248,714 – 208–296 84–161 29–37 21–33 0 2–7 1–2 7–15 0 0 3–8 5–9 237–333 123–235 +4–100
28 Jan 2026 Shūkan Bunshun[75] – Masashi Kubota 205[d]
(135+70)		 167
(120+47)		 29
(14+15)		 27
(11+16)		 6
(0+6)		 6
(1+5)		 2
(2+0)		 15
(0+15)		 1
(0+1)		 0 1
(0+1)		 6
(6+0)		 234 231 +1
27–28 Jan 2026 Nikkei[76] ? – ≥233
27–28 Jan 2026 Yomiuri[77] 296,268 – >261 ~100 ~34 ~27 <9 <8 1–2 ~10 1 0 ~10 ~6 >295 <170 +62
20 Jan 2026 Asahi TV News – Kijimae Yamamoto 232 124 33 35 7 5 0 19 3 0 1 6 265 200 +32
15 Dec 2025 Weekly Gendai[78] – – 211[e]
(146+65)		 163[f]
(104+59)		 33
(21+12)		 30
(10+20)		 7
(0+7)		 7
(0+7)		 1
(1+0)		 6
(0+6)		 0
(0+0)		 0
(0+0)		 – 7
(7+0)		 244 221 +11
12 Nov 2025 Shūkan Bunshun[79] – Masashi Kubota 241
(168+73)		 122[g]
(83+39)		 32
(17+15)		 26
(9+17)		 6
(0+6)		 6
(1+5)		 – 19
(0+19)		 1
(0+1)		 0
(0+0)		 1
(0+1)		 11
(11+0)		 273 192 +40
27 Oct 2024 2024 election results – – 191
(132+59)		 172[h]
(108+64)		 38
(23+15)		 28
(11+17)		 9
(0+9)		 8
(1+7)		 – 3
(0+3)		 3
(1+2)		 1
(1+0)		 – 12
(12+0)		 237[i] 228 +4
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Turnout

Overall turnout was estimated at 55.68% in single-seat districts, higher than the last election's relatively low turnout of 53.85%. Early voting turnout in 2026 amounted to over 27 million voters or 26% of the electorate, a new all-time high for both national parliamentary (Representatives/Councillors) elections. This was attributed to the harsh winter weather during the election.[80][81]

Results

Further information: Results of the 2026 Japanese general election

The LDP won a landslide victory, with the party winning an outright two-thirds supermajority and regaining its majority status in the chamber.[82] The LDP's total of at least 316 seats is the most ever won by a party in Japanese post-war electoral history,[83][84] surpassing the previous record of 308 seats won by the DPJ in the 2009 election and its own record of 300 seats in the 1986 election, as well as its previous record in terms of the share of seats from the 1960 election. The total LDP–JIP coalition, including 36 seats from JIP, now composed three-fourths of the House of Representatives.[4] It was also the first time that the second-place party had less than 50 seats in Japan's postwar history.[5]

The LDP actually won enough votes to get 330 seats; however, due to so few district candidates from the LDP losing, it did not have enough candidates to fill its seats in the proportional tier. The LDP therefore forfeited 14 seats to other parties, including 6 in the Southern Kantō block, 5 in the Tokyo block, 2 in the Hokuriku-Shin'etsu block, and 1 in the Chūgoku block. These 14 seats went to the CRA (6), DPP (2), Ishin (2), Team Mirai (2), Sanseitō (1), and Reiwa Shinsengumi (1). Meanwhile, Team Mirai forfeited two seats in the Kinki block, as its district candidates did not cross the 10% eligibility threshold to be elected from the proportional tier; these two seats went to the CRA and Ishin.[85]

More information Party, Proportional ...
PartyProportionalConstituencyTotal
seats		+/–
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Liberal Democratic Party21,026,13936.726727,710,49349.09249316+125
Centrist Reform Alliance10,438,80118.234212,209,64221.63749–123
Democratic Party For the People5,572,9519.73204,243,2827.528280
Japan Innovation Party4,943,3308.63163,742,1616.632036–2
Sanseitō4,260,6207.44153,924,2236.95015+12
Team Mirai3,813,7496.6611156,8530.28011New
Japanese Communist Party2,519,8074.4042,283,8854.0504–4
Reiwa Shinsengumi1,672,4992.921255,4960.4501–8
Conservative Party of Japan1,455,5632.54097,7530.1700–3
Tax Cuts Japan and Yukoku Alliance814,8741.420354,6170.6311New
Social Democratic Party728,6021.270148,6660.2600–1
Consideration the Euthanasia System13,0140.02000
Independent Alliance [ja]16,8290.0300New
Nihon Yamato Party15,2130.0300New
Japan Liberal Party12,8850.0200New
The Path to Rebirth [ja]12,4920.0200New
First Star2,6860.0000New
World Peace Party2,4240.0000New
Future Progressive Party2,0680.0000New
Nuclear Fusion Party9160.0000New
Party of the Heart7950.00000
Independents1,253,3462.2244–8
Total57,259,949100.0017656,446,725100.002894650
Valid votes57,259,94998.6254,446,72697.12
Invalid/blank votes799,7691.381,614,9942.88
Total votes58,059,718100.0056,061,720100.00
Registered voters/turnout103,211,22356.25103,211,22454.32
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications[86]
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By constituency

Cartogram of single-member constituencies and proportional blocs
More information Prefecture, Total seats ...
Prefecture Total
seats		 Seats won
LDP Ishin DPP CRA Genyu Ind.
Aichi 16 12 3 1
Akita 3 2 1
Aomori 3 3
Chiba 14 13 1
Ehime 3 3
Fukui 2 2
Fukuoka 11 10 1
Fukushima 4 4
Gifu 5 5
Gunma 5 5
Hiroshima 6 6
Hokkaido 12 11 1
Hyōgo 12 11 1
Ibaraki 7 5 1 1
Ishikawa 3 3
Iwate 3 2 1
Kagawa 3 1 1 1
Kagoshima 4 3 1
Kanagawa 20 20
Kōchi 2 2
Kumamoto 4 4
Kyoto 6 4 1 1
Mie 4 4
Miyagi 5 5
Miyazaki 3 1 1 1
Nagano 5 5
Nagasaki 3 2 1
Nara 3 3
Niigata 5 5
Ōita 3 3
Okayama 4 4
Okinawa 4 4
Osaka 19 1 18
Saga 2 2
Saitama 16 16
Shiga 3 3
Shimane 2 2
Shizuoka 8 8
Tochigi 5 4 1
Tokushima 2 2
Tokyo 30 30
Tottori 2 2
Toyama 3 3
Wakayama 2 1 1
Yamagata 3 3
Yamaguchi 3 3
Yamanashi 2 2
Total 289 249 20 8 7 1 4
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By PR block

More information PR block, Total seats ...
PR block Total
seats		 LDP CRA DPP Ishin Sansei Mirai JCP Reiwa
Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats Votes (%) Seats
Chūgoku 10 43.2 5 20.6 2 9.1 1 7.1 1 8.4 1 — — 3.7 0 2.9 0
Hokkaido 8 37.0 4 24.6 3 8.9 1 3.8 0 6.6 0 5.5 0 5.4 0 3.1 0
Hokuriku–Shinetsu 10 42.1 3 19.8 4 9.8 1 7.0 1 8.7 1 — — 4.3 0 3.0 0
Kinki 28 30.4 10 14.3 5 7.0 2 23.2 8 6.8 2 5.9 0 5.1 1 2.6 0
Kyushu 20 39.9 10 18.7 4 8.0 2 5.9 1 8.2 2 5.9 1 3.3 0 3.3 0
Northern Kanto 19 37.0 8 19.3 4 10.3 2 5.3 1 8.3 2 7.7 1 4.2 1 3.0 0
Shikoku 6 42.0 4 18.2 1 13.0 1 7.4 0 8.4 0 — — 4.2 0 3.0 0
Southern Kanto 23 35.6 4 19.2 7 10.6 3 6.2 2 7.2 2 9.2 3 4.2 1 2.7 1
Tohoku 12 41.2 6 21.2 3 9.9 1 4.2 0 7.1 1 6.0 1 4.0 0 3.1 0
Tōkai 21 37.7 10 17.2 4 12.0 3 5.7 1 7.6 2 6.9 1 3.5 0 3.1 0
Tokyo 19 33.1 3 16.5 5 11.0 3 5.7 1 6.3 2 13.1 4 6.0 1 2.6 0
Total 176 36.7 67 18.2 42 9.7 20 8.6 16 7.4 15 6.7 11 4.4 4 2.9 1
Source: NHK
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Party-list vote by prefecture

More information Prefecture, Party-list vote (%) ...
Prefecture Party-list vote (%)
LDP CRA DPP Ishin Sansei Mirai JCP Reiwa
Aichi 36.0 16.3 12.2 6.3 7.4 7.4 3.6 2.9
Akita 44.3 17.1 14.8 5.5 5.3 4.4 3.4 2.4
Aomori 42.2 22.6 8.5 3.6 6.6 5.1 4.4 3.5
Chiba 37.0 20.3 10.2 5.2 7.4 8.4 4.0 2.6
Ehime 44.7 19.9 8.8 6.8 9.7 — 3.2 3.1
Fukui 45.7 15.6 10.0 7.6 11.9 — 2.3 2.4
Fukuoka 37.3 18.5 8.7 6.9 8.3 7.3 3.5 2.9
Fukushima 42.2 23.6 7.8 3.7 7.3 5.3 4.1 2.8
Gifu 40.9 17.3 9.9 5.4 8.2 6.2 3.3 3.6
Gunma 38.5 18.7 8.8 4.6 10.2 6.9 4.3 3.1
Hiroshima 40.1 21.0 10.3 8.3 8.2 — 3.5 3.0
Hokkaido 37.0 24.6 8.9 3.8 6.6 5.5 5.4 3.1
Hyōgo 33.9 16.1 7.1 17.8 7.0 6.4 4.2 2.7
Ibaraki 40.8 18.5 9.8 5.4 8.3 6.5 3.3 2.9
Ishikawa 44.7 15.3 10.9 8.7 9.6 — 3.0 2.9
Iwate 38.5 22.2 9.9 3.7 7.4 5.8 4.8 3.9
Kagawa 39.4 15.0 23.3 6.9 6.6 — 2.7 2.3
Kagoshima 44.6 19.3 6.2 5.0 8.3 6.0 2.6 2.8
Kanagawa 34.2 18.2 11.2 7.1 7.0 10.0 4.4 2.7
Kōchi 41.0 20.0 8.7 5.5 8.5 — 8.6 3.6
Kumamoto 43.0 17.0 6.6 6.2 9.8 5.8 2.8 3.2
Kyoto 32.3 15.2 7.5 14.9 6.5 6.8 9.1 2.8
Mie 38.8 21.5 8.2 5.7 8.1 5.9 3.2 3.1
Miyagi 39.1 21.9 8.3 4.8 8.1 7.8 4.0 2.8
Miyazaki 41.4 19.2 9.8 6.4 7.7 4.2 2.7 3.1
Nagano 36.6 22.9 9.8 6.7 8.1 — 6.6 3.7
Nagasaki 42.7 18.5 10.7 5.9 6.9 4.9 2.8 2.9
Nara 43.6 12.6 7.9 15.2 5.2 5.0 4.2 2.1
Niigata 43.5 22.6 8.5 5.8 7.6 — 3.7 2.9
Ōita 38.2 21.6 7.6 5.7 8.3 5.1 3.2 2.8
Okayama 44.5 20.1 8.6 6.7 8.2 — 4.0 2.7
Okinawa 35.3 19.6 6.8 4.2 7.8 5.0 6.3 6.4
Osaka 23.6 13.3 6.2 32.3 6.7 5.6 4.8 2.6
Saga 42.9 16.7 6.5 3.9 7.8 4.9 2.0 2.6
Saitama 34.2 19.8 11.0 5.5 7.7 8.7 4.8 2.9
Shiga 36.4 12.7 8.9 15.6 7.4 6.5 4.9 3.3
Shimane 45.4 22.5 7.8 5.2 7.7 — 4.2 2.9
Shizuoka 38.8 16.8 14.5 4.7 7.3 6.6 3.4 3.4
Tochigi 40.9 18.8 9.6 5.4 8.5 6.2 2.7 3.2
Tokushima 41.6 17.9 10.6 10.9 8.4 — 3.7 3.2
Tokyo 33.1 16.5 11.0 5.7 6.3 13.1 6.0 2.6
Tottori 39.6 28.0 8.1 5.2 7.7 — 4.0 2.8
Toyama 45.6 14.3 11.5 8.5 9.0 — 3.2 2.6
Wakayama 40.1 15.3 7.6 13.5 7.6 4.5 4.9 2.7
Yamagata 42.9 16.7 14.0 3.9 6.7 5.7 3.4 3.5
Yamaguchi 47.1 17.2 8.4 7.0 9.5 — 3.1 3.0
Yamanashi 40.7 22.2 7.9 4.2 7.5 5.9 3.9 3.3
Total votes 36.7 18.2 9.7 8.6 7.4 6.7 4.4 2.9
Source: NHK
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Aftermath

An election was held in both houses to elect the next prime minister.

House of Representatives

More information House of Representatives, Choice ...
18 February 2026
221st Special National Diet
Absolute majority (233/465) required
House of Representatives
Choice Party Votes
checkYSanae Takaichi Liberal Democratic Party
354 / 465
Junya Ogawa Centrist Reform Alliance
50 / 465
Yuichiro Tamaki Democratic Party For the People
28 / 465
Sohei Kamiya Sanseitō
15 / 465
Takahiro Anno Team Mirai
11 / 465
Tomoko Tamura Japanese Communist Party
4 / 465
Takashi Kawamura Tax Cuts Japan and Yukoku Alliance
1 / 465
Fumiyo Okuda Reiwa Shinsengumi
1 / 465
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House of Councillors

More information House of Councillors, Choice ...
18 February 2026
221st Special National Diet
Absolute majority (125/248) required
House of Councillors
Choice Party Votes
First ballot Runoff
checkYSanae Takaichi Liberal Democratic Party
123 / 248
125 / 248
Junya Ogawa Centrist Reform Alliance
58 / 248
65 / 248
Yuichiro Tamaki Democratic Party For the People
25 / 248
 Eliminated
Sohei Kamiya Sanseitō
15 / 248
Tomoko Tamura Japanese Communist Party
7 / 248
Fumiyo Okuda Reiwa Shinsengumi
5 / 248
Shunichi Mizuoka Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
5 / 248
Yōichi Iha Independent
2 / 248
Naoki Hyakuta Conservative Party of Japan
2 / 248
Mizuho Fukushima Social Democratic Party
2 / 248
Takahiro Anno Team Mirai
1 / 248
Blank ballot
1 / 248
8 / 248
Invalid ballot
48 / 248
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Yoshimura ran in the concurrent 2026 Osaka gubernatorial election
  2. [b]
    As CDP and Komeito
  3. [c]
    Sits in the House of Councillors for the national PR block
  4. [d]
    LDP-Independents: 2 (2+0)
  5. [e]
    LDP-Independents: 1 (1+0)
  6. [f]
    CDP: 143 (103+40); Komeito: 20 (1+19)
  7. [g]
    CDP: 105 (82+23); Komeito: 17 (1+16)
  8. [h]
    CDP: 148 (104+44); Komeito: 24 (4+20)
  9. [i]
    LDP: 191; Ishin: 38; Independents: 8

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