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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan in 1995.
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Because of the circumstances of its creation, the opposition party New Frontier Party held seats in the House of Councillors without having won them in the prior election. Many of them were former members of the LDP.
The elections was historic in that the New Frontier Party replaced the Japanese Socialist Party, which had been the largest opposition party for 38 years, and entered coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. The Socialists lost many seats in this election.
The elections were considered a referendum on the sitting coalition government.[1]
Results
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| Party | National | Constituency | Seats | |||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– | |||
| New Frontier Party | 12,506,322 | 30.75 | 18 | 11,003,681 | 26.47 | 22 | 16 | 40 | 56 | New | ||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 11,096,972 | 27.29 | 15 | 10,557,547 | 25.40 | 31 | 61 | 46 | 107 | +1 | ||
| Japan Socialist Party | 6,882,919 | 16.92 | 9 | 4,926,003 | 11.85 | 7 | 22 | 16 | 38 | –33 | ||
| Japanese Communist Party | 3,873,955 | 9.53 | 5 | 4,314,830 | 10.38 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 14 | +3 | ||
| New Party Sakigake | 1,455,886 | 3.58 | 2 | 1,059,353 | 2.55 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | New | ||
| Dainiin Club | 1,282,596 | 3.15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Sports and Peace Party | 541,894 | 1.33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | –1 | |||||
| Party for Peace and Citizens | 377,786 | 0.93 | 0 | 579,377 | 1.39 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | New | ||
| Democratic Reform Party | 1,854,175 | 4.46 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | –10 | |||||
| Komeito | 11 | 0 | 11 | –13 | ||||||||
| Other parties | 2,649,930 | 6.52 | 0 | 1,158,004 | 2.79 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | ||
| Independents | 6,120,099 | 14.72 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 15 | +7 | |||||
| Total | 40,668,260 | 100.00 | 50 | 41,573,069 | 100.00 | 76 | 126 | 126 | 252 | 0 | ||
| Valid votes | 40,668,260 | 94.45 | 41,573,069 | 96.51 | ||||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 2,391,861 | 5.55 | 1,501,654 | 3.49 | ||||||||
| Total votes | 43,060,121 | 100.00 | 43,074,723 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 96,759,025 | 44.50 | 96,759,025 | 44.52 | ||||||||
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,[2][3] Tottori Prefecture, National Diet | ||||||||||||
By constituency
edit| Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||||
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| LDP | NFP | JSP | JCP | NPS | DRP | DC | PPC | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Akita | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Aomori | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Chiba | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ehime | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Fukui | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Fukuoka | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Fukushima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Gifu | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Gunma | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Hokkaido | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Hyōgo | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ibaraki | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ishikawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Iwate | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kagawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kagoshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kanagawa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Kōchi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kumamoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kyoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Mie | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Miyagi | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Miyazaki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Nagano | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Nagasaki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Nara | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Niigata | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ōita | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Okinawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Okayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Osaka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Saga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Saitama | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Shiga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Shimane | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Shizuoka | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tochigi | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tokushima | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tokyo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tottori | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Toyama | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Wakayama | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Yamagata | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Yamaguchi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Yamanashi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| National | 50 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Total | 126 | 47 | 40 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
References
edit- ^ Thies, Michael F (1995). "The Japanese House of Councillors election of 1995". Electoral Studies. 14 (4): 464–470. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(96)81773-2. ISSN 0261-3794.
- ^ Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
- ^ "27-11 Allotted Number, Candidates, Eligible Voters as of Election Day, Voters and Voting Percentages of Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947-2004)". Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Archived from the original on 2006-01-04.