Next Japanese general election
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The next Japanese general elections are scheduled on or before 31 October 2025, as required by the constitution. Voting will take place in all Representatives constituencies including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet has to resign after a general House of Representatives election in the first post-election Diet session (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election will also lead to a new designation election of the Prime Minister in the Diet, and the appointment of a new cabinet (even if the same ministers are re-appointed).
Current composition[]
In-House Groups [innai] kaiha |
Parties | Representatives | |
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Liberal Democratic Party Jiyūminshutō / Mushozoku no Kai Liberal Democratic Party |
LDP | 262 | |
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan Rikken Minshutō・Mushozoku Constitutional Democratic Party |
CDP, SDP, Independents | 97 | |
Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) Nippon Ishin no Kai・Mushozoku no Kai Nippon Ishin no Kai |
Ishin | 41 | |
Komeito Kōmeitō |
Kōmeitō | 32 | |
Democratic Party for the People Kokumin Minshutō |
DPFP | 11 | |
Japanese Communist Party Nihon Kyōsantō |
JCP | 10 | |
Yushi no Kai Yūshi no Kai |
5 | ||
Reiwa Shinsengumi Reiwa Sinsengumi |
Reiwa | 3 | |
Independents | Independent | 4 | |
Total | 465 | ||
Reapportionment[]
The electoral district will be readjusted according to the results of the 2020 Japan census. Originally, it was intended to readjust in the last election, but it was held in the existing constituencies not long after the census results came out.[2][3]
Newly created seats[]
Ten new districts and three new block seats will be created.
- 1. Tokyo-26th
- 2. Tokyo-27th
- 3. Tokyo-28th
- 4. Tokyo-29th
- 5. Tokyo-30th
- 6. Kanagawa-19th
- 7. Kanagawa-20th
- 8. Saitama-16th
- 9. Aichi-16th
- 10. Chiba-14th
- 11. 18th Tokyo block seat
- 12. 19th Tokyo block seat
- 13. 23rd Minami-Kanto block seat
Seats to be eliminated[]
Ten districts and three block seats will be eliminated.
- 1. Hiroshima-7th
- 2. Miyagi-6th
- 3. Niigata-6th
- 4. Fukushima-5th
- 5. Okayama-5th
- 6. Shiga-4th
- 7. Yamaguchi-4th
- 8. Ehime-4th
- 9. Nagasaki-4th
- 10. Wakayama-3rd
- 11. 13th Tohoku block seat
- 12. 11th Hokurikushinetsu block seat
- 13. 11th Chugoku block seat
References[]
- ^ House of Representatives: 会派名及び会派別所属議員数 (Names and number of members of kaiha/parliamentary groups/caucuses) (Japanese), Strength of the In-House Groups in the House of Representatives (English), retrieved October 4, 2021.
- ^ "小選挙区「10増10減」へ 国勢調査受け、次々回から". The Asahi Shimbun(in Japanese, 25 June 2021). Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ "衆院小選挙区「10増10減」 アダムズ方式で格差是正―政府、来年にも法案提出". Jiji Press(in Japanese, 25 June 2021). Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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