2014 Japanese general election

General elections were held in Japan on 14 December 2014. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks to elect the members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet resigns in the first post-election Diet session after a general House of Representatives election (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election also led to a new election of the prime minister in the Diet, won by incumbent Shinzō Abe, and the appointment of a new cabinet (with some ministers re-appointed). The voter turnout in this election remains the lowest in Japanese history.

2014 Japanese general election

14 December 2014

All 475 seats in the House of Representatives of Japan
238 seats needed for a majority
Turnout52.65%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Shinzō Abe Banri Kaieda Kenji Eda
Party Liberal Democratic Democratic Innovation
Last election 294 seats 57 seats
Seats won 291 73 41
Seat change Decrease3 Increase16 New
Popular vote 17,658,916 9,775,991 8,382,699
Percentage 33.11% 18.33% 15.72%
Swing Increase5.49pp Increase2.84pp New

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Natsuo Yamaguchi Kazuo Shii Takeo Hiranuma
Party Komeito Communist Future Generations
Last election 31 seats 8 seats
Seats won 35 21 2
Seat change Increase4 Increase13 New
Popular vote 7,314,236 6,062,962 1,414,919
Percentage 13.71% 11.37% 2.65%
Swing Increase1.81pp Increase5.20pp New

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Tadatomo Yoshida Ichirō Ozawa
Party Social Democratic People's Life
Last election 2 seats
Seats won 2 2
Seat change Steady New
Popular vote 1,314,441 1,028,721
Percentage 2.46% 1.93
Swing Increase0.08pp New

districts and PR districts, shaded according to winners' vote strength.

Prime Minister before election

Shinzō Abe
Liberal Democratic

Elected Prime Minister

Shinzō Abe
Liberal Democratic

Background

In 2012, the Democratic Party government under Yoshihiko Noda decided to raise the Japanese consumption tax. This unpopular moved allowed the Liberal Democratic Party under Shinzo Abe to regain control of the Japanese government in the 2012 Japanese general election. Abe proceeded to implement a series of economic programs known as "Abenomics" in a bid to stimulate the economy. Despite these programs, Japan entered a technical recession in mid-2014, which Abe blamed on the consumption tax hike, even though many members of the LDP supported the hike. Abe called a snap election on November 18, in part for the purpose of winning LDP backing to postpone the hike and pursue the Abenomics package.[1][2]

The LDP government was widely expected to win the election in a landslide, and many observers viewed the snap election as a mechanism for Abe to entrench his government at a time of relative popularity.[3]

Under 2013 changes to the electoral law designed to reduce malapportionment, district boundaries in 17 prefectures were redrawn and five districts are eliminated without replacement (one each in Fukui, Yamanashi, Tokushima, Kōchi and Saga). The number of first-past-the-post seats is reduced to 295, the total number of seats decreases to 475.[4]

Opinion polls

Parties' approval ratings from 2013–14

(Source: NHK)

Date Lead
LDP DPJ JRP PFG NKP YP PLP JCP SDP GW NRP UP JIP Other No Party Undecided
5–7 December 38.1% 11.7% 0.1% 5.9% 0.3% 4.3% 0.9% 0.0% 3.7% 0.1% 26.3% 8.5% 11.8%
7–9 November 36.6% 7.9% 0.2% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 3.5% 0.6% 1.2% 0.1% 40.0% 7.7% 3.4%
11–13 October 40.2% 5.6% 0.1% 4.1% 0.5% 0.1% 3.3% 0.9% 1.4% 0.1% 35.0% 8.8% 5.2%
5–7 September 40.4% 5.4% 0.7% 0.1% 4.3% 0.0% 0.2% 3.3% 0.5% 0.1% 0.4% 36.9% 7.8% 3.5%
8–10 August 36.7% 6.4% 1.0% 0.3% 3.0% 0.2% 0.3% 3.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 39.4% 8.8% 2.7%
11–13 July 34.3% 4.8% 1.7% 3.6% 0.5% 0.3% 3.4% 0.9% 0.1% 0.3% 42.5% 7.6% 8.2%
6–8 June 36.9% 5.1% 1.1% 4.0% 0.4% 0.1% 2.8% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 42.4% 6.7% 5.5%
9–11 May 41.4% 5.6% 1.1% 3.7% 0.2% 0.3% 2.4% 0.9% 0.2% 0.1% 37.2% 6.9% 4.2%
11–13 April 38.1% 7.4% 1.3% 3.4% 0.9% 0.2% 3.6% 0.6% 0.1% 0.2% 37.2% 5.2% 0.9%
7–9 March 38.7% 6.5% 1.1% 2.2% 0.8% 0.1% 3.3% 0.8% 0.4% 0.1% 40.0% 5.2% 1.3%
7–9 February 36.2% 5.8% 1.3% 3.9% 1.1% 0.3% 3.3% 1.4% 0.5% 0.2% 41.0% 5.2% 4.8%
11–13 January 40.4% 5.8% 1.6% 2.8% 0.8% 0.1% 1.6% 0.7% 0.1% 0.3% 40.3% 5.5% 0.1%
2014
6–8 December 36.7% 7.8% 2.1% 2.8% 1.2% 0.2% 3.1% 0.6% 0.0% 38.7% 6.8% 2.0%
8–10 November 41.9% 5.2% 1.8% 4.4% 1.9% 0.3% 3.3% 0.4% 0.3% 35.1% 5.6% 6.8%
12–14 October 36.1% 5.2% 2.1% 3.8% 1.2% 0.2% 4.0% 0.5% 0.3% 41.8% 4.9% 5.7%
6–8 September 40.3% 5.5% 2.2% 4.4% 2.1% 0.0% 3.2% 0.7% 0.2% 34.6% 6.8% 5.7%
9–11 August 37.9% 7.3% 4.6% 4.6% 3.2% 0.2% 3.5% 0.8% 0.9% 30.8% 6.2% 7.1%
5–7 July 42.5% 8.0% 2.7% 5.3% 3.1% 0.5% 3.7% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 24.5% 8.4% 18.0%
7–9 June 41.7% 5.8% 1.5% 5.1% 1.5% 0.1% 2.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 34.6% 7.0% 7.1%
10–12 May 43.4% 5.3% 2.4% 3.7% 2.3% 0.3% 2.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 33.3% 6.1% 10.1%
5–7 April 43.6% 6.1% 2.1% 3.7% 1.3% 0.4% 2.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 34.5% 5.6% 9.1%
8–10 March 40.1% 7.0% 3.9% 4.4% 3.1% 0.3% 2.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 31.8% 6.6% 8.3%
10–12 February 40.4% 7.0% 5.3% 3.1% 2.6% 0.3% 2.1% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 31.7% 6.3% 8.7%
12–14 January 37.8% 7.6% 6.5% 4.0% 3.7% 0.5% 2.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 30.8% 5.4% 7.0%
2013
Cabinet approval/disapproval ratings
Approval (blue) and Disapproval (red) Ratings for Second and Third Abe Cabinet
Date PM
Approval Disapproval
5–7 December Shinzo Abe 47% 38%
7–9 November Shinzo Abe 44% 38%
11–13 October Shinzo Abe 52% 34%
5–7 September Shinzo Abe 58% 28%
8–10 August Shinzo Abe 51% 33%
11–13 July Shinzo Abe 47% 38%
6–8 June Shinzo Abe 52% 32%
9–11 May Shinzo Abe 56% 29%
11–13 April Shinzo Abe 52% 31%
7–9 March Shinzo Abe 51% 30%
7–9 February Shinzo Abe 52% 33%
11–13 January Shinzo Abe 54% 31%
2014
21–22 December[5] Shinzo Abe 49% 34%
6–8 December Shinzo Abe 50% 35%
8–10 November Shinzo Abe 60% 25%
12–14 October Shinzo Abe 58% 26%
6–8 September Shinzo Abe 59% 23%
9–11 August Shinzo Abe 57% 29%
5–7 July Shinzo Abe 57% 25%
7–9 June Shinzo Abe 62% 20%
10–12 May Shinzo Abe 65% 18%
5–7 April Shinzo Abe 66% 19%
23–24 March[6] Shinzo Abe 69% 6%
9–10 March[7] Shinzo Abe 76% 22%
8–10 March Shinzo Abe 66% 18%
10–12 February Shinzo Abe 64% 20%
8–10 February[8] Shinzo Abe 71% 18%
12–14 January Shinzo Abe 64% 22%
11–13 January[8] Shinzo Abe 68% 24%
2013

Results

Constituency Cartogram

The LDP lost a small number of seats but slightly enlarged its majority coalition with Komeito. Turnout was a record low, and many voters viewed the election as a waste of time and money. DPJ president Banri Kaieda lost his seat in Tokyo while the Japanese Communist Party doubled in strength.[9][10] The right-leaning Japan Innovation Party and Party for Future Generations lost seats.[11]

PartyProportionalConstituencyTotal
seats
+/–
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Liberal Democratic Party17,658,91633.116825,461,44948.10223291–3
Democratic Party of Japan9,775,99118.333511,916,84922.513873+16
Japan Innovation Party8,382,69915.72304,319,6468.161141New
Komeito7,314,23613.7126765,3901.45935+4
Japanese Communist Party6,062,96211.37207,040,17013.30121+13
Party for Future Generations1,414,9192.650947,3961.7922New
Social Democratic Party1,314,4412.461419,3470.79120
People's Life Party1,028,7211.930514,5750.9722New
Happiness Realization Party260,1110.49000
Shiji Seitō Nashi104,8540.2000New
New Renaissance Party16,5970.03000
Genzei Nippon32,7590.0600New
Future Party4,8830.0100New
Katsuko Inumaru and Republican Party4,6680.01000
World Economic Community Party1,4160.00000
Independents1,511,2422.8588+3
Total53,334,447100.0018052,939,790100.00295475–5
Valid votes53,334,44797.4552,939,79096.71
Invalid/blank votes1,398,2832.551,801,5623.29
Total votes54,732,730100.0054,741,352100.00
Registered voters/turnout103,962,78552.65103,962,78452.65
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, CLEA

By prefecture

Prefecture Total
seats
Seats won
LDP DPJ JIP Komeito PFG PLP JCP SDP Ind.
Aichi 15 8 6 1
Akita 3 3
Aomori 4 4
Chiba 13 11 2
Ehime 4 4
Fukui 2 2
Fukuoka 11 11
Fukushima 5 3 1 1
Gifu 5 5
Gunma 5 5
Hiroshima 7 6 1
Hokkaido 12 8 3 1
Hyōgo 12 7 1 1 2 1
Ibaraki 7 5 1 1
Ishikawa 3 3
Iwate 4 1 2 1
Kagawa 3 2 1
Kagoshima 5 4 1
Kanagawa 18 13 2 1 1 1
Kōchi 2 2
Kumamoto 5 4 1
Kyoto 6 4 2
Mie 5 3 2
Miyagi 6 5 1
Miyazaki 3 3
Nagano 5 3 1 1
Nagasaki 4 4
Nara 4 3 1
Niigata 6 5 1
Ōita 3 2 1
Okayama 5 4 1
Okinawa 4 1 1 1 1
Osaka 19 9 1 5 4
Saga 2 1 1
Saitama 15 12 2 1
Shiga 4 4
Shimane 2 2
Shizuoka 8 6 2
Tochigi 5 4 1
Tokushima 2 2
Tokyo 25 22 1 1 1
Tottori 2 2
Toyama 3 3
Wakayama 3 2 1
Yamagata 3 3
Yamaguchi 4 4
Yamanashi 2 1 1
Total 295 223 38 11 9 2 2 1 1 8

By PR block

PR block Total
seats
Seats won
LDP DPJ JIP Komeito JCP SDP
Chūgoku 11 5 2 1 2 1
Hokkaido 8 3 2 1 1 1
Hokuriku–Shinetsu 11 5 3 1 1 1
Kinki 29 9 4 8 4 4
Kyushu 21 8 3 3 4 2 1
Northern Kanto 20 8 4 3 3 2
Shikoku 6 3 1 1 1
Southern Kanto 22 8 4 4 3 3
Tohoku 14 5 4 2 2 1
Tokai 21 8 5 3 3 2
Tokyo 17 6 3 3 2 3
Total 180 68 35 30 26 20 1

Notable losses

The most high-profile LDP candidate to lose re-election is Agriculture Minister Koya Nishikawa, who lost by 199 votes (0.2%) to former Governor of Tochigi Akio Fukuda.[12] He was questioned in October after allegedly receiving financial support from a fraudulent company.[13]

Amongst the DPJ members to lose their seats were party leader Banri Kaieda.[14] Party for Future Generations leader Shintaro Ishihara was also unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat after receiving a low position on his party's representative ballot.[14]

Former leader of the now-dissolved Your Party and six-term representative for Tochigi-3rd district Yoshimi Watanabe was also defeated.[15]

The JCP gained its first single-seat constituency seat since the 1996 election. Amidst a growing anti-base movement in Okinawa, JCP candidate Seiken Akamine unseated LDP incumbent Kōnosuke Kokuba in a night marked with a nationwide JCP surge.[16]

Representatives

Members of House of Representatives elected from single-seat constituency

 LDP   Komei   DPJ   JIP   JCP   SDP   PLP   PFG   Independent 

Hokkaido 1st Takahiro Yokomichi 2nd Takamori Yoshikawa 3rd Hirohisa Takagi 4th Hiroyuki Nakamura 5th Nobutaka Machimura
6th Takahiro Sasaki 7th Yoshitaka Itō 8th Seiji Osaka 9th Manabu Horii 10th Hisashi Inatsu
11th Yūko Nakagawa 12th Arata Takebe
Aomori 1st Jun Tsushima 2nd Akinori Eto 3rd Tadamori Ōshima 4th Tarō Kimura
Iwate 1st Takeshi Shina 2nd Shunichi Suzuki 3rd Toru Kikawada 4th Ichirō Ozawa
Miyagi 1st Tōru Doi 2nd Kenya Akiba 3rd Akihiro Nishimura 4th Shintaro Ito 5th Jun Azumi
6th Itsunori Onodera
Akita 1st Hiroyuki Togashi 2nd Katsutoshi Kaneda 3rd Nobuhide Minorikawa
Yamagata 1st Toshiaki Endo 2nd Norikazu Suzuki 3rd Ayuko Kato
Fukushima 1st Yoshitami Kameoka 2nd Takumi Nemoto 3rd Kōichirō Genba 4th Shinji Oguma 5th Masayoshi Yoshino
Ibaraki 1st Yoshinori Tadokoro 2nd Fukushiro Nukaga 3rd Yasuhiro Hanashi 4th Hiroshi Kajiyama 5th Akihiro Ohata
6th Yuya Niwa 7th Kishirō Nakamura
Tochigi 1st Hajime Funada 2nd Akio Fukuda 3rd Kazuo Yana 4th Tsutomu Sato 5th Toshimitsu Motegi
Gunma 1st Genichiro Sata 2nd Toshirō Ino 3rd Hiroyoshi Sasagawa 4th Tatsuo Fukuda 5th Yūko Obuchi
Saitama 1st Hideki Murai 2nd Yoshitaka Shindō 3rd Hitoshi Kikawada 4th Mayuko Toyota 5th Yukio Edano
6th Atsushi Oshima 7th Saichi Kamiyama 8th Masahiko Shibayama 9th Taku Otsuka 10th Taimei Yamaguchi
11th Ryuji Koizumi 12th Atsushi Nonaka 13th Shinako Tsuchiya 14th Hiromi Mitsubayashi 15th Ryosei Tanaka
Chiba 1st Kaname Tajima 2nd Takayuki Kobayashi 3rd Hirokazu Matsuno 4th Yoshihiko Noda 5th Kentaro Sonoura
6th Hiromichi Watanabe 7th Ken Saitō 8th Yoshitaka Sakurada 9th Masatoshi Akimoto 10th Motoo Hayashi
11th Eisuke Mori 12th Yasukazu Hamada 13th Takaki Shirasuka
Kanagawa 1st Jun Matsumoto 2nd Yoshihide Suga 3rd Hachiro Okonogi 4th Keiichiro Asao 5th Manabu Sakai
6th Isamu Ueda 7th Keisuke Suzuki 8th Kenji Eda 9th Hirofumi Ryu 10th Kazunori Tanaka
11th Shinjiro Koizumi 12th Tsuyoshi Hoshino 13th Akira Amari 14th Jiro Akama 15th Taro Kono
16th Yūichi Goto 17th Karen Makishima 18th Daishiro Yamagiwa
Yamanashi 1st Katsuhito Nakajima 2nd Kotaro Nagasaki
Tokyo 1st Miki Yamada 2nd Kiyoto Tsuji 3rd Hirotaka Ishihara 4th Masaaki Taira 5th Kenji Wakamiya
6th Takao Ochi 7th Akira Nagatsuma 8th Nobuteru Ishihara 9th Isshu Sugawara 10th Yuriko Koike
11th Hakubun Shimomura 12th Akihiro Ōta 13th Ichiro Kamoshita 14th Midori Matsushima 15th Mito Kakizawa
16th Hideo Ōnishi 17th Katsuei Hirasawa 18th Masatada Tsuchiya 19th Yohei Matsumoto 20th Seiji Kihara
21st Kiyoshi Odawara 22nd Tatsuya Ito 23rd Masanobu Ogura 24th Kōichi Hagiuda 25th Shinji Inoue
Niigata 1st Toru Ishizaki 2nd Kenichi Hosoda 3rd Takahiro Kuroiwa 4th Megumi Kaneko 5th Tadayoshi Nagashima
6th Shuichi Takatori
Toyama 1st Hiroaki Tabata 2nd Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi 3rd Keiichiro Tachibana
Ishikawa 1st Hiroshi Hase 2nd Hajime Sasaki 3rd Shigeo Kitamura
Fukui 1st Tomomi Inada 2nd Tsuyoshi Takagi
Nagano 1st Takashi Shinohara 2nd Shunsuke Mutai 3rd Yōsei Ide 1st Shigeyuki Goto 5th Ichiro Miyashita
Gifu 1st Seiko Noda 2nd Yasufumi Tanahashi 3rd Yoji Muto 4th Kazuyoshi Kaneko 5th Keiji Furuya
Shizuoka 1st Yōko Kamikawa 2nd Tatsunori Ibayashi 3rd Hiroyuki Miyazawa 4th Yoshio Mochizuki 5th Goshi Hosono
6th Shu Watanabe 7th Minoru Kiuchi 8th Ryu Shionoya
Aichi 1st Hiromichi Kumada 2nd Motohisa Furukawa 3rd Shoichi Kondo 4th Shōzō Kudo 5th Hirotaka Akamatsu
6th Hideki Niwa 7th Shiori Yamao 8th Tadahiko Ito 9th Yasumasa Nagasaka 10th Tetsuma Esaki
11th Shinichiro Furumoto 12th Kazuhiko Shigetoku 13th Kensuke Ōnishi 14th Sōichirō Imaeda 1st Yukinori Nemoto
Mie 1st Jiro Kawasaki 2nd Masaharu Nakagawa 3rd Katsuya Okada 4th Norihisa Tamura 5th Norio Mitsuya
Shiga 1st Fujitaka Ōoka 2nd Kenichiro Ueno 3rd Nobuhide Takemura 4th Takaya Muto
Kyoto 1st Bunmei Ibuki 2nd Seiji Maehara 3rd Kensuke Miyazaki 4th Hideyuki Tanaka 5th Sadakazu Tanigaki
6th Kazunori Yamanoi
Osaka 1st Hidetaka Inoue 2nd Akira Satō 3rd Shigeki Sato 4th Yasuhide Nakayama 5th Tōru Kunishige
6th Shinichi Isa 7th Naomi Tokashiki 8th Takashi Ōtsuka 9th Kenji Harada 10th Kiyomi Tsujimoto
11th Yukari Sato 12th Tomokatsu Kitagawa 13th Kōichi Munekiyo 14th Takashi Tanihata 15th Naokazu Takemoto
16th Kazuo Kitagawa 17th Nobuyuki Baba 18th Takashi Endo 19th Hodaka Maruyama
Hyōgo 1st Nobuhiko Isaka 2nd Kazuyoshi Akaba 3rd Yoshihiro Seki 4th Hisayuki Fujii 5th Koichi Tani
6th Masaki Ōgushi 7th Kenji Yamada 8th Hiromasa Nakano 9th Yasutoshi Nishimura 10th Kisabro Tokai
11th Takeaki Matsumoto 12th Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Nara 1st Sumio Mabuchi 2nd Sanae Takaichi 3rd Shinsuke Okuno 4th Taido Tanose
Wakayama 1st Shuhei Kishimoto 2nd Masatoshi Ishida 3rd Toshihiro Nikai
Tottri 1st Shigeru Ishiba 2nd Ryosei Akazawa
Shimane 1st Hiroyuki Hosoda 2nd Wataru Takeshita
Okayama 1st Ichiro Aizawa 2nd Takashi Yamashita 3rd Takeo Hiranuma 4th Gaku Hashimoto 5th Katsunobu Kato
Hiroshima 1st Fumio Kishida 2nd Hiroshi Hiraguchi 3rd Katsuyuki Kawai 4th Toshinao Nakagawa 5th Minoru Terada
6th Shizuka Kamei 7th Fumiaki Kobayashi
Yamaguchi 1st Masahiko Kōmura 2nd Nobuo Kishi 3rd Takeo Kawamura 4th Shinzo Abe
Tokushima 1st Masazumi Gotoda 2nd Shunichi Yamaguchi
Kagawa 1st Takuya Hirai 2nd Yuichiro Tamaki 3rd Keitaro Ohno
Ehime 1st Yasuhisa Shiozaki 2nd Seiichiro Murakami 3rd Toru Shiraishi 4th Koichi Yamamoto
Kōchi 1st Gen Nakatani 2nd Yūji Yamamoto
Fukuoka 1st Takahiro Inoue 2nd Makoto Oniki 3rd Atsushi Koga 4th Hideki Miyauchi 5th Yoshiaki Harada
6th Kunio Hatoyama 7th Satoshi Fujimaru 8th Tarō Asō 9th Asahiko Mihara 10th Kōzō Yamamoto
11th Ryota Takeda
Saga 1st Kazuhiro Haraguchi 2nd Yasushi Furukawa
Nagasaki 1st Tsutomu Tomioka 2nd Kanji Kato 3rd Yaichi Tanigawa 4th Seigo Kitamura
Kumamoto 1st Minoru Kihara 2nd Takeshi Noda 3rd Tetsushi Sakamoto 4th Hiroyuki Sonoda 5th Yasushi Kaneko
Ōita 1st Shuji Kira 2nd Seishiro Eto 3rd Takeshi Iwaya
Miyazaki 1st Shunsuke Takei 2nd Taku Etō 3rd Yoshihisa Furukawa
Kagoshima 1st Okiharu Yasuoka 2nd Masuo Kaneko 3rd Takeshi Noma 4th Yasuhiro Ozato 5th Hiroshi Moriyama
Okinawa 1st Seiken Akamine 2nd Kantoku Teruya 3rd Denny Tamaki 4th Toshinobu Nakasato

By-election

YearMonth and dateDistrictWinnerPartyVacancyPartyNotes
2015 There was a reason for the implementation, but it was originally scheduled to hold a by-election in Hokkaido 5th district, but it was postponed to the next election due to apportionment lawsuit. There were no national elections in 2015.
2016 April 24 Hokkaido-5th Yoshiaki Wada LDP Nobutaka Machimura LDP Machimura died on June 1, 2015.
Kyoto-3rd Kenta Izumi DP Kensuke Miyazaki LDP Miyazaki resigned as a member of the House of Representatives on February 16, 2016 to take responsibility for his adultery.
October 23 Fukuoka-6th Jiro Hatoyama Independent Kunio Hatoyama LDP Hatoyama died on June 21, 2016.
Tokyo-10th Masaru Wakasa LDP Yuriko Koike LDP Koike resigned as a member of the House of Representatives July 14, 2016 to run for 2016 Tokyo gubernatorial election.
2017 Aomori-4th Tarō Kimura LDP Kimura died on July 25, 2017.
Niigata-5th Tadayoshi Nagashima LDP Nagashima died on August 18, 2017.
Ehime-3rd Toru Shiraishi LDP Shiraishi died on March 17, 2017.
  • By-election for Aomori 4th district, Niigata 5th district, and Ehime 3rd district was scheduled to be held in October 2017, but by-election was canceled because the House of Representatives was dissolved and 2017 Japanese general election was held.

Members of House of Representatives elected from proportional representation block

 LDP   Komei   DPJ   JIP   JCP   SDP 

Hokkaido Tohoku Northern Kanto Southern Kanto Tokyo Hokurikushinetsu Tokai Kinki Chugoku Shikoku Kyushu
1 Koichi Watanabe Ichiro Kanke Koya Nishikawa Shinichi Nakatani Tsukasa Akimoto Taku Yamamoto Junji Suzuki Takashi Nagao Toshiko Abe Teru Fukui Kazuchika Iwata
2 Takako Suzuki Emi Kaneko Yasuko Komiyama Tomoko Abe Akihisa Nagashima Eiichiro Washio Yasuhiro Nakane Sakihito Ozawa Toshifumi Kojima Junya Ogawa Yasuyuki Eda
3 Hiroshi Imazu Takashi Fujiwara Hideki Makihara Noriko Miyagawa Fumiaki Matsumoto Hiroaki Saito Takaaki Katsumata Yuzuru Takeuchi Michiyoshi Yunoki Mamoru Fukuyama Yoichi Anami
4 Satoshi Arai Sekio Masuda Keiichi Ishii Kazumi Ōta Akira Kasai Toyofumi Yoshida Masato Imai Hiroyuki Ōnishi Tetsuo Saito Noritoshi Ishida Hiroshi Ōgushi
5 Hidemichi Sato Yōsuke Kondō Yūnosuke Sakamoto Shigeyuki Tomita Takayuki Ochiai Yutaka Komatsu Yoshinori Ōguchi Yasushi Adachi Masayoshi Shintani Hiroyuki Yokoyama Yorihisa Matsuno
6 Kazuya Hatayama Yoshihisa Inoue Tetsuya Shiokawa Kazuo Shii Yōsuke Takagi Makiko Kikuta Yutaka Banno Keiji Kokuta Takashi Takai Takakazu Seto Kosaburo Nishime
7 Kazuo Maeda Hinako Takahashi Kazuyuki Nakane Hiroyuki Yoshiie Hayato Suzuki Yasufumi Fujino Shuhei Aoyama Kenta Izumi Michitaka Ikeda Takaaki Tamura
8 Kenko Matsuki Chizuko Takahashi Takeshi Miyazaki Soichiro Okuno Jin Matsubara Yoshio Urushibara Nobuko Motomura Noboru Kamitani Yoshinobu Ohira Kiyohiko Toyama
9 Hidenori Hashimoto Akimasa Ishikawa Norihiro Nakayama Megumi Maekawa Hitoshi Kiuchi Yoshitaka Ikeda Tomohiko Kinoshita Keisuke Tsumura Kōnosuke Kokuba
10 Manabu Terata Mitsunari Okamoto Yoichiro Aoyagi Toru Miyamoto Chinami Nishimura Mitsunori Okamoto Tomoko Ukishima Keigo Masuya Yoshiaki Takaki
11 Shigeaki Katsunuma Yoshihiro Suzuki Hiroaki Kadoyama Akihiro Hatsushika Shigeyoshi Sukeda Yoshio Maki Hiroshi Ando Keiichi Furuta Takuma Miyaji
12 Toshihide Muraoka Keiko Nagaoka Noriko Furuya Masaru Wakasa Sei Ōmi Hirofumi Yoshimura Masami Kawano
13 Kazuko Kōri Koichi Takemasa Kimie Hatano Michiyo Takagi Wataru Ito Takeshi Miyamoto Masakazu Hamachi
14 Yūichi Mayama Saeko Umemura Kentaro Motomura Naoto Kan Nobuhiro Koyama Tatsuo Kawabata Natsumi Higa
15 Tomohiro Konno Noriko Horiuchi Tsuneo Akaeda Kenji Kanda Tomu Tanigawa Rintaro Ogata
16 Asako Omi Gō Shinohara Saori Ikeuchi Naohisa Matsuda Yasuto Urano Hajime Yoshikawa
17 Keiichi Koshimizu Tomohiro Yamamoto Takakane Kiuchi Yukihiro Shimazu Naoya Higuchi Masahisa Miyazaki
18 Takashi Ishizeki Yōsuke Kamiyama Tetsuya Yagi Shohei Okashita Shozo Majima
19 Nobuyuki Fukushima Hideo Tsunoda Katsumasa Suzuki Sayuri Uenishi Nobuhiro Yoshida
20 Yayoi Kimura Mineyuki Fukuda Yoshikazu Shimada Tadashi Shimizu Mikio Shimoji
21 Kazuko Saito Yasuhiro Nakagawa Hirofumi Kado Masahiro Imamura
22 Masashi Mito Issei Tajima
23 Kenta Matsunami
24 Susumu Hamamura
25 Kazuhide Ōkuma
26 Nobuhisa Ito
27 Masahito Moriyama
28 Terufumi Horiuchi
29 Hirofumi Hirano

People who were elected in PR following the resignation of another member of the House of Representatives

YearMonthblockWinnerPartyVacancyNotes
2015 October Kinki Tamotsu Shiiki JIP Hirofumi Yoshimura Yoshimura resigned as a member of the House of Representatives on October 1, 2015, to run for 2015 Osaka mayoral election.
2016 April Kinki Keiro Kitagaki DPJ Kenta Izumi Izumi lost his job as a member of the House of Representatives on April 12, 2016, to run for the by-election in Kyoto 3rd district.
October Tokyo Tsuyoshi Tabata LDP Masaru Wakasa Wakasa lost his job as a member of the House of Representatives October 11, 2016, to run for the by-election in Tokyo 10th district.
2017 July Tohoku Izumi Yoshida DPJ Kazuko Kōri Kōri lost her job as a member of the House of Representatives on July 9, 2017, to run for 2017 Sendai mayoral election.

Aftermath

In November 2015, the Grand Bench of the Supreme Court ruled that the inequality in vote weight due to malapportionment was still in an unconstitutional state (iken jōtai); however, as in previous such rulings, it dismissed the demand to invalidate the election.[17][18]

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