1989 Japanese House of Councillors election

none November 2019 Japan parliamentary 1986 Japanese House of Councillors election 1986 1992 Japanese House of Councillors election 1992 126 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors 127 150x150px 23 July 1989 Constituency vote % and swing National vote % and swing 65.01% (6.31pp) Sosuke Uno 1977.png Sōsuke Uno Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 140 seats 36 109 31 17,466,406 30.70% (14.37pp) 15,343,455 27.32% (11.26pp) Takako Doi 19910417.jpg Takako Doi Japan Socialist Party 41 seats 46 66 25 15,009,451 26.38% (4.87pp) 19,688,252 35.05% (17.85pp) Kōshirō Ishida Hosokawa Cabinet 19930809 kaidan2.jpg Koshiro Ishida Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 24 seats 10 20 4 2,900,947 5.10% (0.70pp) 6,097,971 10.86% (2.11pp) Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 16 seats 5 14 2 5,012,424 8.81% (2.61pp) 3,954,408 7.04% (2.43pp) Rengo no Kai Did not exist 11 12 New 3,878,783 6.82% (New) — Eiichi Nagasue 197102.jpg Eiichi Nagasue Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 12 seats, 6.9% 3 8 4 2,066,533 3.63% (0.93pp) 2,726,419 4.85% (2.02pp) 350px Results of the election, showing the winning candidates in each prefecture and the national PR block President of the Houseof Councillors Yoshihiro Tsuchiya Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Yoshihiro Tsuchiya Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 23 July 1989. There were several controversial issues dominating the pre-election atmosphere, all of which reflected negatively on the ruling LDP. The most important, according to most polls, was the introduction of an unpopular 3% consumption tax law which had been forced through the Diet by Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita despite boycotts by the opposition parties, an act which hurt the LDP's image with the public. A second issue was the infamous Recruit scandal, which induced the resignation of Takeshita and his cabinet members, and damaged the public's impression of the LDP's integrity. There was also resistance to the LDP's gradual adoption of import liberalisation of food products, which lost the party their traditional rural voters resentful of farm imports. Life after harakiri Charles Smith Far Eastern Economic Review 15–17 10 August 1989 Also, incumbent Prime Minister Sōsuke Uno's sex scandal had come to light only a month earlier. The result of all of this negative feeling towards the LDP was an unprecedented victory for the Japan Socialist Party (JSP), roughly doubling its share of the popular vote when compared to the previous House of Councillors elections, and being the only major pre-existing party to see a net increase in its share of the popular vote; the other opposition parties, which had more success in the past while the JSP stagnated, saw net decreases in both popular votes as well as seat numbers. Moreover, although the Japanese Communist Party has historically contributed to vote splitting by fielding candidates in every district, the overall decline in support for the JCP is thought to have helped jointly-backed opposition candidates in this election. In any event, the JSP would cooperate with the other opposition parties in order to form a majority coalition over a minority LDP, a historical first for the House of Councillors.Baerwald Hans H. 1989 Japan's House of Councillors Election: A Mini-Revolution? https://www.jstor.org/stable/2644829 Asian Survey 29 9 833–841 10.2307/2644829 2644829 0004-4687 subscription Meanwhile, the LDP lost the popular vote in an election for the first time in its history, and the only one-seat districts won by the LDP were Toyama, Shiga, and Wakayama. The LDP's losses were strongest in single-member constituencies, but less strongly felt in multi-member constituencies, no doubt partly due to the above-mentioned relative lack of vote splitting in this election. After this election, the LDP designated as its new leader Toshiki Kaifu, who belonged to the same historical faction as Takeo Miki, and who, like Miki, was reform-minded; ironically, Kaifu later defected from the LDP in the mid-1990s in order to join the opposition, although he eventually returned to the LDP in the 21st century. Results File:Japan_House of Councillors_1989.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Japan Socialist Party 19688252 20 15009451 26 20 46 66 +25 Liberal Democratic Party 15343455 15 17466406 21 73 36 109 –31 Kōmeitō 6097971 6 2900947 4 10 10 20 –4 Japanese Communist Party 3954408 4 5012424 1 9 5 14 –2 Democratic Socialist Party 2726419 2 2066533 1 5 3 8 –4 Dainiin Club 1250022 1 1 1 2 –1 Tax Affairs Party 1179939 1 889633 1 1 2 3 +1 Sports and Peace Party 993989 1 0 1 1 New Rengo no Kai 3878783 11 1 11 12 New Other parties 4936873 0 2312733 1 1 1 2 – Independents 7362723 10 5 10 15 +8 2262734 1546732 126 126 252 0 89891358 89891358 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 4 January 2006 National Diet By constituency ConstituencyTotalseatsSeats wonJSPLDPRengoKōmeitōJCPDSPTAPDCSPPOthersInd.Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido41111Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima211Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okinawa11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo41111Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National502015642111Total1264636111053211110 References About Japan Series (1999), Changing Japanese Politics, No. 24, Tokyo: Foreign Press Center. 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