1976 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1972 Japanese general election 1972 1979 Japanese general election 1979 All 511 seats in the House of Representatives 256 73.45% ( 1.69pp) 130x130px 5 December 1976 Takeo_Miki_19741209.jpg Takeo Miki Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 46.85%, 271 seats 249 22 23,653,626 41.78% 5.07pp Tomomi-Narita-1.png Tomomi Narita Japan Socialist Party 21.90%, 118 seats 123 5 11,713,009 20.69% 1.21pp Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 8.46%, 29 seats 55 26 6,177,300 10.91% 2.45pp Kasuga-Ikko-1.jpg Kasuga Ikkō Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 6.98%, 19 seats 29 10 3,554,076 6.28% 0.70pp Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 10.49%, 38 seats 17 21 5,878,192 10.38% 0.11pp Yohei Kono 1985.jpg Yōhei Kōno New Liberal Club Did not exist 17 New 2,363,985 4.18% New 400px Elected MPs and the leading party by vote share in each multimember district 400px Districts where the LDP (green) or opposition (blue) won most seats; teal for ties Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Takeo Miki Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Takeo Fukuda Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) General elections were held in Japan on 5 December 1976. Voter turnout was 73.45%. This election was noted for seeing 124 newcomers win seats for the first time, along with the defeat of some legacy candidates, signalling a generational shift in the Japanese political landscape.Dixon Karl 1977 The 1976 General Election in Japan https://www.jstor.org/stable/2756299 Pacific Affairs 50 2 208–230 10.2307/2756299 2756299 0030-851X subscription To date, the 1976 election has been the only post-war general election triggered by an expiration of the term of the House of Representatives; all other post-war elections have been instigated by a dissolution of the House by the Cabinet. While the Liberal Democratic Party wound up, as usual, with more seats than any competing party, it lost 22 seats to fall short of a majority, winning 249 of 511 races (47%),第27章　公務員・選挙 http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150215091026/http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm 2015-02-15 making this the first time they lost their majority. The 1976 election was heavily informed by the Lockheed bribery scandals and became popularly known as the Lockheed Election ロッキード選挙 rokkīdo senkyo.これまでの衆議院選挙 http://www.doyukai.or.jp/politics/history.pdf Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) 27 January 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20150131051313/http://www.doyukai.or.jp/politics/history.pdf 2015-01-31 dead The incumbent Prime Minister, Takeo Miki, was seen as a reformer within his own party, and he did not obstruct the investigations into the Lockheed scandal as some of those in his party had desired. Despite this, Miki's cabinet had lukewarm approval ratings, with positive ratings across different news sources ranging from 41-47% and negative ones being lower at 12-27%. The scandal reflected poorly on the LDP and the party lost 22 seats from the last election, in the process losing its majority control over the House of Representatives for the first time since the party's founding. However, when the LDP's showing is combined with the votes cast for the spin-off New Liberal Club as well as independents who were not endorsed by the LDP but joined the party after this election, the total number of votes for conservative candidates actually saw an overall increase. The two left-wing opposition parties, the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, saw noticeable setbacks. The JSP did gain seats, but it was only five, and in the process two former chairmen (Kōzō Sasaki and Seiichi Katsumata) and the incumbent vice-chairman and former chairman Saburō Eda all lost their seats. The JCP suffered far worse, losing 21 seats and falling to less than half its number of seats compared to the last election, likely due to protest votes going towards the new moderate options such as the NLC instead of the JCP. The main winners among the traditional opposition were the moderate parties. In the case of Kōmeitō, the party recovered from scandals in the 1972 general elections by distancing itself from Soka Gakkai and putting up non-Soka Gakkai adherents as candidates in the 1975 local elections as well as this election. Komeito also reinforced its image as an anti-LDP party by endorsing various leftist campaigns. On the other hand, the Democratic Socialist Party, which did see a slight decrease in popular votes, nonetheless had managed to gain ten seats in this election. Following the election, Miki resigned as LDP leader after the LDP's poor showing and Takeo Fukuda was elected the new LDP leader and prime minister. Results File:Japan House of Representatives 1976.svg Liberal Democratic Party 23653626 249 −22 Japan Socialist Party 11713009 123 +5 Komeitō 6177300 55 +26 Japanese Communist Party 5878192 17 −21 Democratic Socialist Party 3554076 29 +10 New Liberal Club 2363985 17 New Other parties 45114 0 −2 Independents 3227463 21 +7 623857 77926588 +20 Statistics Bureau of Japan Seats won per district 350px LDP 350px JSP 350px Kōmeitō 350px JCP 350px DSP 350px NLC 350px Independent By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōDSPJCPNLCInd.Aichi22851413Akita844Aomori7511Chiba1683212Ehime9621Fukui4211Fukuoka198542Fukushima12831Gifu9711Gunma1073Hiroshima1263111Hokkaido2291021Hyōgo20844112Ibaraki125412Ishikawa651Iwate8521Kagawa642Kagoshima1183Kanagawa1935335Kōchi52111Kumamoto106211Kyoto10212221Mie95211Miyagi95211Miyazaki62112Nagano13841Nagasaki942111Nara52111Niigata157512Ōita752Okayama10532Okinawa52111Osaka26837341Saga541Saitama157422Shiga52111Shimane532Shizuoka1482121Tochigi105311Tokushima5311Tokyo43148102423Tottori422Toyama642Wakayama6411Yamagata853Yamaguchi95211Yamanashi541Total5112491235529171721 References Japan Category:1976 elections in Japan Category:General elections in Japan Category:December 1976 in Asia Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results