1977 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1974 Japanese House of Councillors election 1974 1980 Japanese House of Councillors election 1980 126 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors 127 130x130px 10 July 1977 Takeo_Fukuda_19761224.jpg Takeo Fukuda Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 126 seats, 44.3% 124 2 18,160,061 35.8% 8.5% File:Tomomi-Narita-1.png Tomomi Narita Japan Socialist Party 62 seats, 15.2% 56 6 8,805,617 17.3% 2.1% Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 24 seats, 12.1% 28 4 7,174,459 14.2% 2.1% Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 20 seats, 9.4% 16 4 4,260,050 8.4% 1.0% Kasuga-Ikko-1.jpg Kasuga Ikkō Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 10 seats, 5.9% 11 1 3,387,541 6.7% 0.8% Yohei Kono 1985.jpg Yōhei Kōno New Liberal Club – 3 New 1,957,902 3.9% New 350px Results of the election, showing the winning candidates in each prefecture and the national block. President of the Houseof Councillors Kazuo Maeda Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Kan Kase Japan Socialist Party House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 10 July 1977. Only half of the House of Councillors was up for election. The main question of this election was whether or not the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would be able to retain its hold on an absolute majority of the seats in the House of Councillors, something it has maintained since the party's founding in 1955. Early forecasts had speculated that this dramatic downturn for the LDP may have been possible, but in the end the LDP kept its razor-thin hold on majority control by having four LDP-allied independents cooperate with it. As per usual for the time, the LDP did very well in the sparsely populated single member districts and even managed to hold its own not only in the two-member districts, but even in the more heavily urbanised three- and four-member districts which were projected to be tough wins for the LDP.Uchida Mitsuru Baerwald Hans H. 1978 The House of Councillors Election in Japan: The LDP Hangs in There https://online.ucpress.edu/as/article-abstract/18/3/301/21332/The-House-of-Councillors-Election-in-Japan-The-LDP?redirectedFrom=fulltext Asian Survey en 18 3 301–308 10.2307/2643222 0004-4687 subscription The LDP's clearest struggling was in the national district, where its popular vote declined by 8.5% when compared to the previous House of Councillors election. In any event, the pessimistic forecasts of the election results ended up influencing the LDP's approach in fielding relatively few candidates, and members of the party believed that if they disregarded the polls and fielded more candidates, they could have won a larger share of the seats in this election. Meanwhile, the Japan Socialist Party also saw a loss in seats (partly due to vote splitting caused by former member Saburō Eda's SCL splinter party siphoning away votes from the JSP.) The Japanese Communist Party also saw a decline in fortunes, with Kōmeitō and the Democratic Socialist Party showing the most promise among well-established opposition parties. Results File:Japan House of Councillors 1977.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Democratic Party 18160061 18 20440157 45 61 63 124 –2 Japan Socialist Party 8805617 10 13403216 17 29 27 56 –6 Komeitō 7174459 9 3206719 5 14 14 28 +4 Japanese Communist Party 4260050 3 5159142 2 11 5 16 –4 Democratic Socialist Party 3387541 4 2318386 2 5 6 11 +1 New Liberal Club 1957902 1 2951976 2 1 3 4 New League for Civil Society 1418855 1 610505 0 0 1 1 New United Progressive Liberals 1381700 1 475560 0 0 1 1 New Women's Party of Japan 161692 0 45328 0 0 0 0 New Other parties 207056 0 702900 1 0 1 1 – Independents 3767662 3 2485292 2 4 5 9 0 Vacant 1 0 1 1 – 2952193 1843415 125 127 252 0 78321715 78321715 Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) https://web.archive.org/web/20110323055016/http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-13.xls 2011-03-23 Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications27-11 Allotted Number, Candidates, Eligible Voters as of Election Day, Voters and Voting Percentages of Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947-2004) http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-11.xls live Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications https://web.archive.org/web/20060104111057/http://www.stat.go.jp:80/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-11.xls 2006-01-04 National Diet By constituency ConstituencyTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōDSPJCPNLCLCSUPLOthersInd.Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido422Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima211Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okinawa11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo41111Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5018109431113Total1266327146531115 References Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results