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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on July 11, 2010. In the previous elections in 2007 the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had lost its majority to the Democratic Party (DPJ), which managed to gain the largest margin since its formation in 1996.[1] The House of Councillors is elected by halves to six-year terms. The seats up for election in 2010 were last contested in the 2004 election.
Background
On 11 June 2008, a non-binding censure motion was passed by parliament's opposition-controlled House of Councillors against then Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. Filed by the DPJ and two other parties, it was the first censure motion against a prime minister under Japan's post-war constitution. Ahead of the G8 summit, it attacked his handling of domestic issues including an unpopular medical plan and called for a snap election or his resignation. On 12 June a motion of confidence was passed by the lower house's ruling coalition to counter the censure.[2][3][4] Fukuda abruptly announced he was retiring as leader. Taro Aso won the subsequent election, which was held on 22 September 2008.[5]
In the 2009 lower house election, the DPJ gained an historic majority, being the first non-LDP party to hold a majority in that house since the LDP's formation[6] and is scheduled to lead the second non-LDP government in the aforementioned time period (with upper house allies the Social Democratic Party of Japan and the People's New Party[7]). Following the election, Aso resigned as LDP president. Sadakazu Tanigaki was elected the leader of LDP on September 28, 2009.[8]
The House of Councillors election in 2010 was viewed as potentially leading to the extinction of the LDP. Some of the LDP's most popular councillors, such as Yoichi Masuzoe and Kaoru Yosano, left the party prior to the election. However, the DPJ's popularity had been negatively impacted by fundraising scandals surrounding its president Yukio Hatoyama and secretary general Ichiro Ozawa, both of whom resigned on June 2, 2010. Naoto Kan became prime minister after Hatoyama's resignation and proposed a controversial increase in the consumption tax to shore up Japanese public finances. The campaign season was only three weeks long, which frustrated efforts to have policy debates between the two major parties and the numerous third parties in the election.[9]
Pre-election composition
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66 | 44 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 51 | 55 |
Coalition seats not up | DPJ seats up | O | NK | YP | LDP seats up | Opposition seats not up |
Results
The result of the election was declared on July 12, 2010. The ruling DPJ lost many of its seats and the opposition LDP gained more seats in comparison to the last election, held in 2007. Your Party performed well in this election, while the DPJ's junior coalition partner, the People's New Party, performed poorly.[10]
Party | National | Constituency | Seats | |||||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– | |||
Democratic Party of Japan | 18,450,139 | 31.56 | 16 | 22,756,000 | 38.97 | 28 | 62 | 44 | 106 | –3 | ||
Liberal Democratic Party | 14,071,671 | 24.07 | 12 | 19,496,083 | 33.38 | 39 | 33 | 51 | 84 | +1 | ||
Your Party | 7,943,649 | 13.59 | 7 | 5,977,391 | 10.24 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 | New | ||
New Komeito Party | 7,639,433 | 13.07 | 6 | 2,265,818 | 3.88 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 19 | –1 | ||
Japanese Communist Party | 3,563,557 | 6.10 | 3 | 4,256,400 | 7.29 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | –1 | ||
Social Democratic Party | 2,242,735 | 3.84 | 2 | 602,684 | 1.03 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | –1 | ||
Sunrise Party | 1,232,207 | 2.11 | 1 | 328,475 | 0.56 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | New | ||
New Renaissance Party | 1,172,395 | 2.01 | 1 | 625,431 | 1.07 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | New | ||
People's New Party | 1,000,036 | 1.71 | 0 | 167,555 | 0.29 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | –1 | ||
Happiness Realization Party | 229,026 | 0.39 | 0 | 291,810 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | New | ||
Spirit of Japan Party | 493,620 | 0.84 | 0 | 296,697 | 0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||
Women's Party | 414,963 | 0.71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Other parties | 22,150 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||||
Independents | 1,314,313 | 2.25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | –9 | |||||
Total | 58,453,431 | 100.00 | 48 | 58,400,807 | 100.00 | 73 | 121 | 121 | 242 | 0 | ||
Valid votes | 58,453,996 | 97.02 | 58,400,808 | 96.92 | ||||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,793,766 | 2.98 | 1,853,292 | 3.08 | ||||||||
Total votes | 60,247,762 | 100.00 | 60,254,100 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 104,029,135 | 57.91 | 104,029,135 | 57.92 | ||||||||
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, National Diet |
DPJ nomination strategy in multi-member districts
DPJ secretary-general Ichirō Ozawa had decided on an offensive strategy for nominating candidates in multi-member districts (MMDs): The DPJ was to nominate two candidates in all MMDs with the exceptions of Niigata where an SDP-affiliated independent incumbent was in the race and Fukuoka where a PNP incumbent sought reelection. This strategy was reaffirmed after Ozawa's resignation in June 2010[11] even though the DPJ's support rate had significantly fallen by then and winning both seats in a SNTV two-member district requires a very high margin in terms of party votes and an equal distribution of votes on the two candidates.
The strategy failed: all two-member districts split seats evenly between DPJ and LDP in 2010. In some districts the party even risked losing both seats due to vote splitting,[12] a danger that did not materialize in the election result.
The LDP on the other hand nominated only one candidate per MMD – exceptions being Miyagi, Chiba and Tokyo –, thus concentrating all LDP votes on one candidate.
The election results in MMDs gave 20 seats to the DPJ, 18 to the LDP, three to the Kōmeitō and three to Your Party. The only districts where the DPJ won two seats and an advantage in seats over the LDP were Tokyo (5 seats) where administrative reform minister Renhō received a record 1.7 million votes and Toshio Ogawa ranked fourth and DPJ stronghold Aichi (3 seats) where DPJ candidates only finished second and third behind LDP newcomer Masahito Fujikawa.
LDP gains
Part of the LDP victory were the results in the 29 single-member districts where the DPJ received roughly 7 million votes winning eight districts while the LDP received 8.25 million votes and 21 seats, among them seven pickups compared to the pre-election composition of the chamber:
- Aomori, Akita, Tottori and Nagasaki from the DPJ
- Kagawa and Tokushima from the NRP, both from former LDP members, and
- Tochigi which had been a two-member district until 2010 with seats held by DPJ and NRP.
The LDP also gained seven additional seats in two-member districts, but exclusively seats it had previously lost by party switchovers or resignations:
- in Hokkaidō from the Sunrise Party,
- in Niigata where Naoki Tanaka had switched parties together with his wife Makiko from an SDP-affiliated independent,
- in Gifu from an ex-LDP independent,
- in Nagano a vacant seat previously held by the LDP,
- in Hiroshima and Fukuoka from the PNP and
- only in Shizuoka directly from the DPJ where the Democrats had held both seats up because of the resignation of Yukiko Sakamoto in 2009 and the DPJ's victory in the resulting by-election.
The vote in the districts with three (Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi, Ōsaka) or five (Tōkyō) seats up went clearly to the DPJ with a 3.5 million vote edge over the LDP, but produced only a two-seat difference in the House of Councillors: the LDP won six, the DPJ eight seats.
If compared to the 2004 election when the same class of Councillors was last elected, the LDP only gained five prefectural district seats and lost three seats in the nationwide proportional representation.
By prefecture
Elected candidates in bold
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
- Miyagi is counted as an LDP hold because Ichikawa was an LDP member and remained with the LDP parliamentary group up to the election. He ran as an independent after failing to gain the party's official nomination in Miyagi.
Northern Japan | |||||
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Prefecture | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share |
Hokkaidō | 2 | Yoshio Nakagawa | Sunrise | Incumbents retired Democratic hold Liberal Democratic pickup |
Gaku Hasegawa (LDP) 34.3% Eri Tokunaga (DPJ – PNP, NPD) 25.6% Masahi Fujikawa (DPJ) 20.5% Ken'ichi Nakagawa (YP) 11.6% Kazuya Hatayama (JCP) 7.2% Makoto Ōbayashi (HRP) 0.8% |
Naoki Minezaki | Democratic | ||||
Aomori | 1 | Masami Tanabu | Democratic | Incumbent retired Liberal Democratic pickup |
Tsutomu Yamazaki (LDP) 46.8% Rina Hatano (DPJ – PNP) 36.3% Sekio Masuta (SPJ) 8.0% Yō Yoshimata (JCP) 5.1% Kiyohiko Yamada (SDP) 3.9% |
Iwate | 1 | Ryō Shuhama | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected | Ryō Shuhama (DPJ – PNP) 54.2% Yukifumi Takahashi (LDP) 30.4% Masahiro Isawa (SDP) 8.5% Sadakiyo Segawa (JCP) 6.9% |
Miyagi | 2 | Ichirō Ichikawa | Liberal Democratic (see note) |
Liberal Democratic incumbent lost re-election Democratic incumbent re-elected Liberal Democratic hold |
Yutaka Kumagai (LDP) 26.8% Mitsuru Sakurai (DPJ – PNP) 24.4% Hiromi Itō (DPJ – PNP) 16.5% Ichirō Ichikawa (I) 11.0% Fumihiro Kikuchi (YP) 10.8% Tetsuo Kanno (SDP) 5.2% Mikio Katō (JCP) 4.5% Yoshiaki Murakami (HRP) 0.7% |
Mitsuru Sakurai | Democratic | ||||
Akita | 1 | Yōetsu Suzuki | Democratic | Incumbent lost re-election Liberal Democratic pickup |
Hiroo Ishii (LDP) 55.6% Yōetsu Suzuki (DPJ) 38.3% Kazuhisa Fujita (JCP) 6.1% |
Yamagata | 1 | Kōichi Kishi | Liberal Democratic | Incumbent re-elected | Kōichi Kishi (LDP) 43.6% Yōsei Umetsu (DPJ) 36.8% Hiroaki Kawano (YP) 14.6% Toshio Ōta (JCP) 5.0% |
Fukushima | 2 | Teruhiko Mashiko | Democratic | Incumbents re-elected | Teruhiko Mashiko (DPJ) 34.4% Mitsuhide Iwaki (LDP) 34.1% Mitsunori Okabe (DPJ) 15.6% Kazumasa Sugamoto (YP) 9.4% Tomo Iwabuchi (JCP) 6.5% |
Mitsuhide Iwaki | Liberal Democratic | ||||
Eastern and Central Japan | |||||
Prefecture | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share |
Ibaraki | 2 | Hiroshi Okada | Liberal Democratic | Incumbents re-elected | Hiroshi Okada (LDP) 38.7% Akira Gunji (DPJ) 23.8% Tomohiro Nagatsuka (DPJ) 15.9% Shigenori Ōkawa (YP) 11.7% Rie Yoshida (SPJ) 5.1% Nobutoshi Inaba (JCP) 3.9% Kōki Nakamura (HRP) 0.9% |
Akira Gunji | Democratic | ||||
Tochigi | 1 | Susumu Yanase | Democratic | 1 seat lost by reapportionment New Renaissance incumbent retired Democratic incumbent lost re-election Liberal Democratic pickup |
Michiko Ueno (LDP) 36.2% Susumu Yanase (DPJ – PNP) 35.6% Daiju Araki (YP) 25.0% Kazunori Koike (JCP) 3.2% |
Tetsurō Yano | New Renaissance | ||||
Gunma | 1 | Yukio Tomioka | Democratic | 1 seat lost by reapportionment Democratic incumbent lost re-election Liberal Democratic incumbent re-elected |
Hirofumi Nakasone (LDP) 60.6% Yukio Tomioka (DPJ) 31.2% Setsuko Takahashi (JCP) 8.2% |
Hirofumi Nakasone | Liberal Democratic | ||||
Saitama | 3 | Chiyako Shimada | Democratic | Liberal Democratic and Justice incumbents re-elected Democratic incumbent lost re-election Democratic hold |
Masukazu Sekiguchi (LDP) 20.6% Makoto Nishida (Kōmei) 18.7% Motohiro Ōno (DPJ) 17.5% Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) 17.1% Tsukasa Kobayashi (YP) 13.1% Gaku Itō (JCP) 6.5% Kōji Nakagawa (NRP) 2.7% Fumihiro Himori (SDP) 2.3% Kōsei Hasegawa (I) 1.2% Hirotoshi Inda (HRP) 0.3% |
Masakazu Sekiguchi | Liberal Democratic | ||||
Makoto Nishida | Justice | ||||
Chiba | 3 | Wakako Hironaka | Democratic | 1 seat gained by reapportionment Democratic incumbent retired Liberal Democratic incumbent lost re-election Democratic and Liberal Democratic hold Your pickup |
Hiroyuki Konishi (LDP) 20.2% Kuniko Inoguchi (DPJ) 19.3% Ken'ichi Mizuno (YP) 17.9% Ayumi Michi (DPJ) 17.4% Kazuyasu Shiina (LDP) 14.9% Kazuko Saitō (JCP) 6.2% Hisashi Koga (NRP) 2.5% Satoshi Shimizu (JIP) 1.1% Masahiko Makino (HRP) 0.5% Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2010_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.
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