1980 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1977 Japanese House of Councillors election 1977 1983 Japanese House of Councillors election 1983 126 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors 127 130x130px 22 June 1980 Masayoshi Ohira.jpg Masayoshi ŌhiraŌhira died ten days before the elections. Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 124 seats, 35.8% 135 11 23,778,190 42.5% 6.7% Ichio Asukata Crop.png Ichio Asukata Japan Socialist Party 56 seats, 17.3% 47 9 7,341,828 13.1% 4.2% Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 28 seats, 14.2% 26 2 6,669,387 11.9% 2.3% Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 16 seats, 8.4% 12 4 4,072,019 7.3% 1.1% Kasuga-Ikko-1.jpg Kasuga Ikkō Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 11 seats, 6.7% 11 3,364,478 6.0% 0.7% Yohei Kono 1985.jpg Yōhei Kōno New Liberal Club 4 seats, 3.9% 2 2 351,291 0.6% 3.3% 350px Results of the election, showing the winning candidates in each prefecture and the national block. President of the Houseof Councillors Ken Yasui Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Masatoshi Tokunaga Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 22 June 1980. On 16 May the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) brought no-confidence motion before the Diet relating to corruption issues, proposing more defense spending and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives to withdraw its backing from the government. Unexpectedly, 69 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members of the Diet from the Fukuda Takeo, Miki Takeo and Hidenao Nakagawa factions abstained from voting on the motion. The government was defeated by 56 votes in total of 243 and resigned. For the first time elections for both the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives were elected at the same time. In the elections of both the houses the LDP gained a majority. Results File:Japan House of Councillors 1980.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Democratic Party 23778190 21 24533083 48 66 69 135 +11 Japan Socialist Party 7341828 9 12715880 13 25 22 47 –9 Kōmeitō 6669387 9 2817379 3 14 12 26 –2 Japanese Communist Party 4072019 3 6652311 4 5 7 12 –4 Democratic Socialist Party 3364478 3 2917239 2 6 5 11 0 Socialist Democratic Federation 627273 1 2 1 3 New New Liberal Club 351291 0 349989 0 2 0 2 –2 Other parties 1675494 1 628056 1 0 2 2 – Independents 8077786 3 6086621 5 5 8 13 +4 Vacant 1 0 1 1 – 4341399 3618584 125 127 252 0 80925034 80925034 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 wonLDPJSPKōmeitōJCPDSPSDFOthersInd.Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido4211Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okinawa11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi22Tokushima11Tokyo4112Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5021993413Total12669221276118 Notes References About Japan Series (1999), Changing Japanese Politics, No. 24, Tokyo: Foreign Press Center. Mahendra Prakash (2004), Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003, New Delhi: JNU. https://archive.today/20070712184335/http://www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/jpn80par.html Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House House Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results