2001 Japanese House of Councillors election

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121 of the 247 seats in the House of Councillors 124 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	56.57% (2.27pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– Liberal Democratic Junichiro Koizumi 38.57 110 +8 Democratic Yukio Hatoyama 16.42 59 +12 Komeito Takenori Kanzaki 14.96 23 +1 Communist Tetsuzo Fuwa 7.91 20 −3 Liberal Ichirō Ozawa 7.72 8 −4 Social Democratic Takako Doi 6.63 8 −5 New Conservative Chikage Oogi 2.33 5 +5 Dainiin Club – 1.22 1 +1 Other parties – – 5 +4 Independents – – 8 −18 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Constituency and proportional representation (bottom right) election result President of the House of Councillors before President of the House of Councillors after Yutaka Inoue Liberal Democratic Yutaka Inoue Liberal Democratic

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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 29 July 2001. They were the first national elections since Junichiro Koizumi became Prime Minister after Yoshiro Mori resigned in April 2001. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its election allies, were the major winner, provided Koizumi a strong mandates to move forward with his reform policies. The ruling coalition performed well, and regain their majority in the House of Councillors.

Background

The electoral reform enacted in 2000 became effective for the first time. The number of Councillors per election was reduced by five, by two in the nationwide proportional representation and by one each in Okayama, Kumamoto and Miyazaki. In addition, preference voting was introduced. Instead of a party name, voters could now write the name of a single PR candidate on the ballot. The vote then counts for the party as well as the candidate; the total number of votes for a party list or its candidates determines the number of PR seats a party receives while the candidate votes determine who takes those seats for the party.

As a result of the party realignments of the 1990s, several two-member districts were represented by two Councillors from the same party before the 2001 election. Some of these Councillors lost the official nomination of their party (e.g. in Niigata), others retired (Hokkaidō, Tochigi). Most of these district split seats between ruling coalition and opposition again, in the case of both incumbents seeking re-election resulting in one of the two losing their seat (Nagano, Shizuoka).

Results

Party		National			Constituency			Seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Not up	Won	Total after	+/–
	Liberal Democratic Party	21,114,727	38.57	20	22,299,825	41.04	44	46	64	110	+8
	Democratic Party of Japan	8,990,524	16.42	8	10,066,552	18.53	18	33	26	59	+12
	New Komeito Party	8,187,804	14.96	8	3,468,664	6.38	5	10	13	23	+1
	Japanese Communist Party	4,329,210	7.91	4	5,362,958	9.87	1	15	5	20	–3
	Liberal Party	4,227,148	7.72	4	3,011,787	5.54	2	2	6	8	–4
	Social Democratic Party	3,628,635	6.63	3	1,874,299	3.45	0	5	3	8	–5
	New Conservative Party	1,275,002	2.33	1				4	1	5	New
	Liberal League	780,389	1.43	0	1,243,790	2.29	0	0	0	0	New
	Dainiin Club	669,872	1.22	0				1	0	1	+1
	Freedom and Hope	474,885	0.87	0				0	0	0	New
	Women's Party	469,692	0.86	0	732,153	1.35	0	0	0	0	New
	New Socialist Party of Japan	377,013	0.69	0	386,966	0.71	0	0	0	0	New
	Assembly of Independents	157,204	0.29	0				0	0	0	New
	Ishin Seito Shimpu	59,385	0.11	0	72,066	0.13	0	0	0	0	New
	Other parties				160,508	0.30	0	5	0	5	–
	Independents				5,658,911	10.41	3	5	3	8	–18
Total		54,741,490	100.00	48	54,338,479	100.00	73	126	121	247	–5
Valid votes		54,741,490	95.77		54,338,479	95.10
Invalid/blank votes		2,416,629	4.23		2,800,408	4.90
Total votes		57,158,119	100.00		57,138,887	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		101,309,680	56.42		101,236,029	56.44
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,[1][2] Tottori Prefecture, National Diet

Proportional representation results

The 2001 election was the first to use an open list system (非拘束名簿式) to elect proportional representation seats in the House. Under this system, voters may vote for either a political party or a specific candidate. The proportional seats are distributed among the parties by D'Hondt method according to their overall proportional votes, including candidate votes. The ranking of candidates on each party list is then determined by the candidate votes.

The results for the major parties were as follows (decimals omitted):^[3][4]

1. Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) (LDP): 21,114,727 (party: 14,925,437, candidates: 6,189,290), 38.6%, 20 seats
2. Democratic Party (DPJ): 8,990,524 (party: 6,082,694, candidates: 2,907,830), 16.4%, 8 seats
3. New Komeito (NK): 8,187,804 (party: 1,865,797, candidates: 6,322,007), 15.0%, 8 seats
4. Japan Communist Party (JCP): 4,329,210 (party: 4,065,047, candidates: 264,163), 7.9%, 4 seats
5. Liberal Party (LP): 4,227,148 (party: 3,642,884, candidates: 584,264), 7.7%, 4 seats
6. Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP): 3,628,635 (party: 2,298,104, candidates: 1,330,531), 6.6%, 3 seats
7. Conservative Party of Japan (CP): 1,275,002 (party: 609,382, candidates: 665,620), 2.3%, 1 seat
8. Other parties (aggregate): 2.988.442, 5.5%, no seat

The final ranking of PR candidates and their individual vote counts were as follows:

1. Yoichi Masuzoe (LDP) 1,588,262 2. Kenji Koso (LDP) 478,985 3. Kyosen Ohashi (DPJ) 412,087 4. Kanae Yamamoto (NK) 1,287,549 5. Atsushi Onita (LDP) 460,421 6. Kiyoko Ono (LDP) 295,613 7. Masashi Fujiwara (DPJ) 259,576 8. Tomoko Kami (JCP) 56,999 9. Takeo Nishioka (LP) 121,617 10. Kuniomi Iwai (LDP) 278,521 11. Kentaro Koba (NK) 12. Yoko Tajima (SDP)

13. Seiko Hashimoto (LDP) 14. Hidemasa Otsuji (LDP) 15. Shuji Ikeguchi (DPJ) 16. Kiyohiko Toyama (NK) 17. Keizo Takemi (LDP) 18. Shin Sakurai (LDP) 19. Toshihiro Asahi (DPJ) 20. Hideyo Fudesaka (JCP) 21. Hideaki Tamura (LP) 22. Yukio Danmoto (LDP) 23. Shozo Kusakawa (NK) 24. Hirohide Uozumi (LDP)

25. Masahide Ota (SDP) 26. Hideki Wakabayashi (DPJ) 27. Kayoko Shimizu (LDP) 28. Takao Watanabe (NK) 29. Keishiro Fukushima (LDP) 30. Takeshi Kondo (LDP) 31. Mototaka Ito (DPJ) 32. Satoshi Inoue (JCP) 33. Tadashi Hirono (LP) 34. Tsuneo Morimoto (LDP) 35. Yuichiro Uozumi (NK) 36. Motoyuki Fujii (LDP)

37. Michio Sato (DPJ) 38. Chikage Ogi (CP) 39. Akiko Santo (LDP) 40. Seiji Mataichi (SDP) 41. Akio Koizumi (LDP) 42. Junichi Fukumoto (NK) 43. Mieko Kamimoto (DPJ) 44. Haruko Arimura (LDP) 45. Haruko Yoshikawa (JCP) 46. Yasuhiro Oe (LP) 47. So Nakahara (LDP) 48. Shuichi Kato (NK)

Prefectural races

Elected candidates in bold

Compiled from JANJAN's "The Senkyo"^[5] and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications official election results.^[6]

Notes:

• All incumbents not running for re-election in their prefectural electoral district are counted as retirements even if they ran in the nationwide proportional representation.
• In a multi-member district, there is no difference between Councillors elected with the highest and lower vote shares. Yet, "top tōsen", i.e. being elected with the highest vote, is considered a special achievement and thus noted where changed from the previous election for the same class of Councillors (1995).
• In the results column, independents are counted towards the party they joined in the first Diet session after the election.

Party abbreviations used:

• Ruling coalition
  • LDP Liberal Democratic Party
  • Kōmeitō "Justice Party"
  • CP Conservative Party
• Opposition
  • DPJ Democratic Party
  • JCP Japanese Communist Party
  • SDP Social Democratic Party
  • LP Liberal Party
• I Independent
• Minor parties: IA "Independent Assembly", Dainiin Dainiin Club, LL Liberal League, Ishin Ishin Seitō Shinpū, WP Women's Party, NSP New Socialist Party, Kibō "New Party Freedom and Hope"

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Northern Japan
Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result		Candidates (Party) Vote share
Hokkaidō	2	Hisamitsu Kanno	DPJ	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent retired LDP pickup LDP gains top tōsen		Chūichi Date (LDP) 39.3% Katsuya Ogawa (DPJ) 27.2% Satoshi Miyauchi (JCP) 11.3% Masahito Nishikawa (LP) 7.8% Yoshiko Sugiyama (SDP) 6.6% Tamiko Matsumura (WP) 3.5% Mitsuhiro Yokoyama (I) 1.4% Akifumi Kumagai (LL) 1.3% Nobuyuki Saitō (NSP) 1.0% Nobuhito Sendai (Ishin) 0.5%
		Katsuya Ogawa	DPJ
Aomori	1	Tsutomu Yamazaki	LDP	Incumbent re-elected		Tsutomu Yamazaki (LDP) 53.7% Hideshige Sasaki (I) 18.9% Isamu Moriuchi (I) 18.8% Hiroaki Takayanagi (JCP) 6.0% Kyōko Murata (LL) 2.6%
Iwate	1	Yoshinori Takahashi	LP	Incumbent retired LP hold		Tatsuo Hirano (LP) 41.9% Tokuichirō Tamazawa (LDP) 41.1% Kazue Yabuki (SDP) 8.8% Norikatsu Sugawara (JCP) 6.1% Riki Ishiwatari (LL) 2.2%
Miyagi	2	Tomiko Okazaki	DPJ	DPJ incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election LDP hold		Tomiko Okazaki (DPJ) 32.2% Jirō Aichi (I – LDP, Kōmeitō, CP) 27.5% Hiroaki Kameya (LDP) 25.9% Masatoshi Yoshida (SDP) 6.1% Toshirō Ono (JCP) 5.9% Kiyoharu Satō (LL) 2.3%
		Hiroaki Kameya	LDP
Akita	1	Katsutoshi Kaneda	LDP	Incumbent re-elected		Katsutoshi Kaneda (LDP) 54.2% Kazuo Takamatsu (DPJ) 17.9% Nagahide Sasaki (SDP) 14.6% Toshio Suzuki (JCP) 8.0% Sachiko Saitō (LL) 5.2%
Yamagata	1	Masatoshi Abe	LDP	Incumbent re-elected		Masatoshi Abe (LDP) 51.5% Kanji Kimura (I) 36.1% Toshio Ōta (JCP) 6.4% Fumiyuki Monma (LL) 3.6% Tsuneyoshi Chiba (NSP) 2.4%
Fukushima	2	Toyoaki Ōta	LDP	Incumbents re-elected		Toyoaki Ōta (LDP) 40.5% Hiroko Wada (DPJ) 22.7% Kaori Kanda (I) 11.7% Keiichi Miho (I) 9.8% Masanari Kawada (LP) 7.3% Masayo Niimi (JCP) 6.2% Takao Suzuki (LL) 1.8%
		Hiroko Wada	DPJ
Eastern and Central Japan
Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result		Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share
Ibaraki	2	Yasu Kanō	LDP	Incumbents re-elected		Yasu Kanō (LDP) 49.3% Moto Kobayashi (DPJ) 23.3% Masako Katō (LP) 10.4% Toyomasa Komatsu (JCP) 6.1% Mariko Yoshioka (WP) 5.7% Hiromitsu Mutō (LL) 2.8% Hiroyuki Sugimori (NSP) 2.4%
		Moto Kobayashi	DPJ
Tochigi	2	Junzō Iwasaki	LDP	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent retired DPJ pickup		Masayuki Kunii (LDP) 38.6% Hiroyuki Tani (DPJ) 28.0% Toshikazu Masabuchi (I) 24.3% Setsuko Nomura (JCP) 5.5% Mayumi Yotsumoto (LL) 2.2% Morio Asai (NSP) 1.3%
		Masayuki Kunii	LDP
Gunma	2	Ichita Yamamoto	LDP	Incumbents re-elected		Ichita Yamamoto (LDP) 40.4% Giichi Tsunoda (DPJ) 27.8% Mayumi Yoshikawa (LDP) 24.7% Shinmei Ogasawara (JCP) 5.1% Haruyo Tsuchiya (LL) 2.1%
		Giichi Tsunoda	DPJ
Saitama	3	Hiroshi Takano	Kōmeitō	Kōmeitō and LDP incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen JCP incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup		Taizō Satō (LDP) 25.3% Hiroshi Takano (Kōmeitō) 20.2% Ryūji Yamane (DPJ) 15.1% Sachiko Abe (JCP) 13.5% Yasuko Komiyama (LP) 12.4% Chūkō Hayakawa (I) 4.5% Takeo Amatatsu (SDP) 3.9% Hiroko Hayashi (LL) 2.4% Takuya Ogawa (I) 0.9% Morio Katō (I) 0.7% Setsuo Yamaguchi (I) 0.5% Fumikazu Murata (NSP) 0.4% Masakazu Imazawa (Ishin) 0.2%
		Taizō Satō