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Japan general election, 2005

Japanese general election, 2005
Japan
2003 ←
11 September 2005 → 2009
outgoing members ← → members elected

All 480 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan
241 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 67.51%
  First party Second party Third party
  Junichiro Koizumi 8p062906pm-0202-398h cropped 2.jpg Katsuya Okada-Public speaking-2-20050409.jpg   NKP  
Leader Junichiro Koizumi Katsuya Okada Takenori Kanzaki
Party Liberal Democratic Democratic New Kōmeitō
Leader since 24 April 2001 18 May 2004 7 November 1998
Leader's seat Kanagawa-11th Mie-3rd Kyūshū PR
Last election 237 seats
43.85% (district)
34.96% (block)
177 seats
36.66% (district)
37.39% (block)
34 seats
1.49% (district)
14.78% (block)
Seats before 212 177 34
Seats won 296 113 31
Seat change Increase 84 Decrease 64 Decrease 3
Popular vote 32,518,389 (district)
25,887,798 (block)
24,804,786 (district)
21,036,425 (block)
981,105 (district)
8,987,620 (block)
Percentage 47.77% (district)
38.18% (block)
36.44% (district)
31.02% (block)
1.44% (district)
13.25% (block)

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Kazuo Shii cropped.jpg Mizuho Fukushima cropped.jpg PNP
Leader Kazuo Shii Mizuho Fukushima Tamisuke Watanuki
Party Communist Social Democratic People's New
Leader since 24 November 2000 15 November 2003 17 August 2005
Leader's seat Minami-Kantō PR not contesting (Coun.) Toyama-3rd
Last election 9 seats
8.13% (district)
7.76% (block)
6 seats
2.87% (district)
5.12% (block)
new party
Seats before 9 5 4
Seats won 9 7 4
Seat change 0 Increase 2 0
Popular vote 4,937,375 (district)
4,919,187 (block)
996,007 (district)
3,719,522 (block)
432,679 (district)
1,183,073 (block)
Percentage 7.25% (district)
7.25% (block)
1.46% (district)
5.49% (block)
0.64% (district)
1.74% (block)

  Seventh party Eighth party
  Yasuo tanaka 20140903.jpg 鈴木宗男.jpg
Leader Yasuo Tanaka Muneo Suzuki
Party New Party Nippon New Party Daichi
Leader since 21 August 2005 18 August 2005
Leader's seat not contesting (Governor of Nagano) Hokkaidō PR
Last election new party new party
Seats before 3 0
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Decrease 2 Increase 1
Popular vote 137,172 (district)
1,643,506 (block)
16,698 (district)
433,938 (block)
Percentage 0.20% (district)
2.42% (block)
0.02% (district)
0.64% (block)

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Parliamentary districts won by

Prime Minister before election

Junichiro Koizumi
Liberal Democratic

Prime Minister-designate

Junichiro Koizumi
Liberal Democratic


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Junichiro Koizumi
Liberal Democratic

Junichiro Koizumi
Liberal Democratic

A general election in Japan was held on 11 September 2005 for all 480 seats of the House of Representatives of Japan, the lower house of the Diet of Japan, almost two years before the end of the term taken from the last election in 2003. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called the election after bills to privatize Japan Post were voted down in the upper house (which cannot be dissolved), despite strong opposition within his own Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) (LDP).

The election handed a landslide victory to Koizumi's LDP, with the party winning 296 seats, the largest share in postwar politics. With its partner, New Komeito, the governing coalition then commanded a two-thirds majority in the lower house, allowing them to pass legislative bills over the objections of the upper house and (though the government did not attempt this) to approve amendments to the Constitution, then submit them to the upper house and a national referendum.

The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which advocated a change of government during campaign, suffered a devastating loss, winning only 113 seats against 175 seats it held going into the election. The setback led the DPJ leader Katsuya Okada to resign, and raised a question whether the DPJ can remain an alternative to the LDP in the future elections.


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