2007 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan parliamentary 2004 Japanese House of Councillors election 2004 2010 Japanese House of Councillors election 2010 121 of the 242 seats in the House of Councillors 122 July 29, 2007 130x130px Constituency vote % and swing National vote % and swing Ichiro Ozawa cropped 3 Yoshitaka Kimoto and Ichiro Ozawa 20010718.jpg Ichirō Ozawa Democratic Party (Japan, 1998) 82 seats 60 109 27 24,006,818 40.45% (1.36pp) 23,256,247 39.48% (1.69pp) Shinzō Abe 20060926 (cropped).jpg Shinzō Abe Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 115 seats 37 83 32 18,606,193 31.35% (3.74pp) 16,544,761 28.08% (1.95pp) Akihiro Ōta 20121227 (cropped).jpg Akihiro Ota Komeito 24 seats 9 20 4 3,534,672 5.96% (2.11pp) 7,765,329 13.18% (2.23pp) Kazuo Shii cropped.jpg Kazuo Shii Japanese Communist Party 9 seats 3 7 2 5,164,572 8.70% (1.14pp) 4,407,933 7.48% (0.32pp) Mizuho Fukushima cropped.jpg Mizuho Fukushima Social Democratic Party (Japan) 5 seats 2 5 1,352,018 2.28% (0.53pp) 2,634,714 4.47% (0.88pp) Tamisuke Watanuki 2009.jpg Tamisuke Watanuki People's New Party Did not exist 2 4 New 1,111,005 1.87% (New) 1,269,209 2.15% (New) Yasuo tanaka 20140903 (cropped).jpg Yasuo Tanaka New Party Nippon Did not exist 1 1 New — 1,770,707 3.01% (New) 2007 Japanese House of Councillors election.svg 400px Constituency and proportional representation (bottom right) election result President of the House of Councillors Chikage Oogi Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Satsuki Eda Democratic Party (Japan, 1998) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on July 29, 2007.http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070712page_id=622 Japan News Review - Upper House election campaigning sees official kick off 2007-07-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20071014015130/http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070712page_id=622 2007-10-14 dead Abe has high hopes for Diet session | The Japan Times Online The date was originally to be July 22, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) decided in mid-June to extend the session of the House for a week to finish up legislative business; this step was criticised due to the short-term delay.http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200706200072.html The Asahi Shimbun The House of Councillors consists of 242 members who serve six-year terms. Approximately half the members are elected every three years. The previous elections took place in 2004 when Junichiro Koizumi, Abe's predecessor, was in office. The house ended its 166th session on July 5, 2007, marking the unofficial beginning of campaign. The official campaign began on July 12.http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070713TDY01004.htm February 2022 The ruling coalition of Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito lost control, creating the first divided Diet (opposition control of the House of Councillors) since 1999. The LDP became the second party for the first time, while the DPJ became first party for the first time. Background The DPJ had 79 seats (82 including shin-ryokufukai) after the 2004 Upper House elections, winning 50 out of the 121 up for election, gaining 12, compared to the LDP's 49. As of February 17, 2007, the DPJ held 82 seats to the LDP's 111. Ichirō Ozawa, the leader of the DPJ, addressed a workers' May Day rally in Yoyogi Park on April 28, 2007, setting out the party's agenda for the election. He pledged that the key policy areas would be an end to 'self-righteous' government, pension and medical reforms, and that the DPJ would 'stand in the shoes of workers, residents, and taxpayers'. Reports throughout 2007 showed Shinzō Abe's approval ratings falling,Support for Abe falls below 40% | The Japan Times Online and public support for the DPJ's position on the recent pension scandal.Abe approval rating hits all-time low Several other scandals right up until the start of official campaigning did not improve the outlook for the LDP. Political issues Loss of records for millions of payments in the national pension system. Series of gaffes by cabinet members, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Hakuo Yanagisawa and the Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma, who later resigned. Financial scandals of two Ministers of Agriculture, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who later committed suicide, and his successor Norihiko Akagi, who resigned after the election. Results Results of the 2007 Japanese House of Councillors election According to results by NHK, the LDP lost its majority in the Upper House. Meanwhile, the DPJ managed to gain the largest margin since its formation in 1996.http://www.nhk.or.jp/english/ NHK ONLINE English 2007-07-29 2009-09-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20090920123446/http://www.nhk.or.jp/english/ dead LDP's coalition partner New Komeito lost 3 of its twelve seats.The polls are in: Historical loss for Abe, LDP, opposition grabs overwhelming majority https://web.archive.org/web/20071014015255/http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070730page_id=1166 2007-10-14 , Japan News Review Although the opposition made it clear that they intended to officially ask for Abe's resignation, he vowed to "continue pitching" for leadership.http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070730page_id=1184 Abe on precarious foothold, opposition demands resignation 2007-07-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20071021165200/http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070730page_id=1184 2007-10-21 dead Most of the candidates who received international coverage were defeated in the elections - including Alberto Fujimori, Kaori Tahara, Kanako Otsuji, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, and Yuko Tojo.http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070730page_id=1188 Fujimori, Ainu, Lesbian, inventor and Tojo's granddaughter all defeated in election 2007-07-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20141025210957/http://www.japannewsreview.com/politics/politics/20070730page_id=1188 2014-10-25 dead Notable candidates who were elected included iconoclastic former Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka, who achieved one seat for his own New Party Nippon, and ethnic Finn Marutei Tsurunen, who was re-elected with the sixth-highest vote count on the DPJ party list. The election resulted in the removal of numerous LDP councillors representing doctors, dentists, the construction industry and other special interest groups. Historically, such individuals had been elected solely by the votes of members of their own industries.Cucek Michael Japan's Meaningless Election https://thediplomat.com/2010/07/japans-meaningless-election/?allpages=yes 13 January 2014 The Diplomat 10 July 2010 File:Japan_House_of_Councillors_2007.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Democratic Party of Japan 23256247 20 24006818 40 49 60 109 +27 Liberal Democratic Party 16544761 14 18606193 23 46 37 83 –32 New Komeito Party 7765329 7 3534672 2 11 9 20 –4 Japanese Communist Party 4407933 3 5164572 0 4 3 7 –2 Social Democratic Party 2634714 2 1352018 0 3 2 5 0 New Party Nippon 1770707 1 0 1 1 New People's New Party 1269209 1 1111005 1 2 2 4 New Women's Party 673560 0 0 0 0 0 Article 9 Net 273745 0 185773 0 0 0 0 New Ishin Seito Shimpu 170510 0 129222 0 0 0 0 0 Kyōsei Shintō 146985 0 128622 0 0 0 0 New Other parties 33565 0 1 0 1 – Independents 5095168 7 6 7 12 +5 121 121 242 0 58914134 59347629 1889101 1464700 103710035 103710035 MIC, National Diet Detailed results Elected + Prefectural districts Constituency Previous members Elected members Votes % Status Hokkaido & Tohoku Hokkaido Katsuya Ogawa DPJ Katsuya Ogawa DPJ 1,018,597 36.0 DPJ hold Chūichi Date LDP Chūichi Date LDP 757,463 26.8 LDP hold Aomori Tsutomu Yamazaki LDP Kōji Hirayama DPJ 305,642 49.0 DPJ gain from LDP Iwate Tatsuo Hirano DPJ Tatsuo Hirano DPJ 437,814 62.6 DPJ hold Miyagi Tomiko Okazaki DPJ Tomiko Okazaki DPJ 549,183 52.7 DPJ hold Jiro Aichi LDP Jiro Aichi LDP 359,099 34.5 LDP hold Akita Katsutoshi Kaneda LDP Daigo Matsuura Ind. 319,631 50.4 Ind. gain from LDP Yamagata Masatoshi Abe LDP Yasue Funayama DPJ 371,071 57.3 DPJ gain from LDP Fukushima Hiroko Wada ja 和田洋子 DPJ Emi Kaneko DPJ 503,423 49.9 DPJ hold Toyoaki Ota ja 太田豊秋 LDP Masako Mori LDP 372,857 37.0 LDP hold Kanto Ibaraki Moto Kobayashi ja 小林元 (政治家) DPJ Yukihisa Fujita DPJ 540,174 43.4 DPJ hold Yasu Kano ja 狩野安 LDP Tamon Hasegawa LDP 427,297 34.3 LDP hold Tochigi Hiroyuki Tani DPJ Hiroyuki Tani DPJ 484,900 53.9 DPJ hold Masayuki Kunii ja 国井正幸 LDP Seat abolished LDP loss Gunma Ichita Yamamoto LDP Ichita Yamamoto LDP 530,114 62.0 LDP hold Giichi Tsunoda DPJ Seat abolished DPJ loss Saitama Hiroshi Takano ja 高野博師 Komei Kuniko Koda DPJ 745,517 23.5 DPJ gain from Komei Taizo Sato ja 佐藤泰三 LDP Toshiharu Furukawa LDP 684,270 21.6 LDP hold Ryuji Yamane DPJ Ryuji Yamane DPJ 665,063 21.0 DPJ hold Chiba Akira Imaizumi ja 今泉昭 DPJ Hiroyuki Nagahama DPJ 666,241 25.2 DPJ hold Hiroyuki Kurata ja 倉田寛之 LDP Junichi Ishii LDP 541,701 20.5 LDP hold New seat Ken Kagaya DPJ 477,402 18.1 DPJ win Tokyo Yasuo Ogata JCP Masako Ōkawara DPJ 1,087,743 18.4 DPJ gain from JCP Natsuo Yamaguchi Komei Natsuo Yamaguchi Komei 794,936 13.5 Komei hold Kan Suzuki DPJ Kan Suzuki DPJ 780,662 13.2 DPJ hold Sanzo Hosaka ja 保坂三蔵 LDP Tamayo Marukawa LDP 691,367 11.7 LDP hold New seat Ryūhei Kawada Ind. 683,629 11.6 Ind. win Kanagawa Akira Matsu Komei Hiroe Makiyama DPJ 1,010,866 25.4 DPJ gain from Komei Yutaka Kobayashi LDP Yutaka Kobayashi LDP 895,752 22.5 LDP hold Yoriko Kawaguchi LDP Masashi Mito DPJ 781,533 19.7 DPJ gain from LDP Chubu Niigata Takahiro Kuroiwa DPJ Ichiro Tsukada LDP 403,497 32.1 LDP gain from DPJ Yuko Mori DPJ Yuko Mori DPJ 355,901 28.3 DPJ hold Toyama Kōtarō Nogami LDP Takashi Morita Ind. 291,714 50.1 Ind. gain from LDP Ishikawa Tetsuo Kutsukake LDP Yasuo Ichikawa DPJ 272,366 46.9 DPJ gain from LDP Fukui Ryuji Matsumura LDP Ryuji Matsumura LDP 193,617 47.5 LDP hold Yamanashi Mahito Nakajima ja 中島真人 LDP Harunobu Yonenaga DPJ 242,586 55.3 DPJ gain from LDP Nagano Yuichiro Hata DPJ Yuichiro Hata DPJ 538,690 47.9 DPJ hold Hiromi Yoshida LDP Hiromi Yoshida LDP 301,635 26.8 LDP hold Gifu Tsuyako Ōno LDP Takao Fujii Ind. 466,008 46.1 Ind. gain from LDP Kenji Hirata DPJ Kenji Hirata DPJ 445,489 44.1 DPJ hold Shizuoka Kazuya Shimba DPJ Kazuya Shimba DPJ 823,184 47.1 DPJ hold Yutaka Takeyama ja 竹山裕 LDP Takao Makino LDP 549,375 31.4 LDP hold Aichi Kohei Otsuka DPJ Kohei Otsuka DPJ 880,856 26.4 DPJ hold Seiji Suzuki LDP Seiji Suzuki LDP 734,153 22.0 LDP hold Tamotsu Yamamoto ja 山本保 Komei Kuniko Tanioka DPJ 720,777 21.6 DPJ gain from Komei Mie Chiaki Takahashi DPJ Chiaki Takahashi DPJ 527,935 59.4 DPJ hold Kansai Shiga Hidetoshi Yamashita ja 山下英利 LDP Hisashi Tokunaga DPJ 325,365 50.2 DPJ gain from LDP Kyoto Koji Matsui DPJ Koji Matsui DPJ 501,979 43.6 DPJ hold Yoshihiro Nishida ja 西田吉宏 LDP Shoji Nishida LDP 362,274 31.4 LDP hold Osaka Takashi Yamamoto DPJ Satoshi Umemura DPJ 1,281,502 33.2 DPJ hold Kazuyoshi Shirahama Komei Kazuyoshi Shirahama Komei 836,903 21.7 Komei hold Shuzen Tanigawa LDP Shuzen Tanigawa LDP 732,175 18.9 LDP hold Hyogo Yasuhiro Tsuji DPJ Yasuhiro Tsuji DPJ 1,086,682 44.1 DPJ hold Yoshitada Konoike LDP Yoshitada Konoike LDP 860,568 34.9 LDP hold Nara Vacant LDP Tetsuji Nakamura DPJ 359,584 52.5 DPJ gain from LDP Wakayama Hiroshige Sekō LDP Hiroshige Sekō LDP 256,577 52.3 LDP hold Chugoku Tottori Takayoshi Tsuneda ja 常田享詳 LDP Yoshihiro Kawakami DPJ 168,380 51.5 DPJ gain from LDP Shimane Shuntaro Kageyama ja 景山俊太郎 LDP Akiko Kamei PNP 217,707 50.9 PNP gain from LDP Okayama Toranosuke Katayama LDP Yumiko Himei DPJ 451,185 49.4 DPJ gain from LDP Hiroshima Vacant LDP Koji Sato DPJ 570,823 43.9 DPJ gain from LDP Kensei Mizote LDP Kensei Mizote LDP 389,881 30.0 LDP hold Yamaguchi Yoshimasa Hayashi LDP Yoshimasa Hayashi LDP 419,947 56.7 LDP hold Shikoku Tokushima Shuji Kitaoka ja 北岡秀二 LDP Tomoji Nakatani DPJ 206,457 54.0 DPJ gain from LDP Kagawa Kenji Manabe LDP Emiko Uematsu DPJ 257,548 53.6 DPJ gain from LDP Ehime Katsutsugu Sekiya ja 関谷勝嗣 LDP Toshirō Tomochika Ind. 378,813 51.3 Ind. gain from LDP Kochi Kohei Tamura ja 田村公平 LDP Norio Takeuchi DPJ 166,220 44.7 DPJ gain from LDP Kyushu & Okinawa Fukuoka Tsukasa Iwamoto DPJ Tsukasa Iwamoto DPJ 1,003,170 46.8 DPJ hold Masaji Matsuyama LDP Masaji Matsuyama LDP 791,152 36.9 LDP hold Saga Takao Jinnouchi LDP Minoru Kawasaki DPJ 210,452 49.6 DPJ gain from LDP Nagasaki Tadashi Taura ja 田浦直 LDP Yukishige Okubo DPJ 352,953 49.0 DPJ gain from LDP Kumamoto Issui Miura ja 三浦 一水 LDP Nobuo Matsuno DPJ 440,742 48.4 DPJ gain from LDP Oita Hiroko Goto (politician) Hiroko Goto ja 後藤博子 PNP Yōsuke Isozaki LDP 199,523 32.6 LDP gain from PNP Miyazaki Toshifumi Kosehira LDP Itsuki Toyama Ind. 196,685 37.6 Ind. gain from LDP Kagoshima Yoshito Kajiya LDP Yoshito Kajiya LDP 402,541 47.6 LDP hold Okinawa Junshiro Nishime ja 西銘順志郎 LDP Keiko Itokazu Ind. 376,460 60.2 LDP hold +Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Elected member Pref.votes DPJ 23,256,242 (39.5%) 20 Kumiko Aihara 507,792 Saori Yoshikawa 306,577 Ai Aoki 297,035 Hajime Ishii 292,272 Shuji Ikeguchi 255,451 Marutei Tsurunen 242,740 Mieko Kamimoto 224,994 Yoshiro Yokomine 211,829 Masashi Fujiwara 194,080 Takanori Kawai 171,084 Naoki Kazama 169,723 Toshiharu Todoroki 166,969 Kusuo Oshima 153,779 Takeo Nishioka 151,375 Azuma Konno 111,457 Yoshinobu Fujiwara 110,126 Koshin Fujitani 79,656 Kunihiko Muroi 72,545 Yasuhiro Oe 68,973 Takashi Yamamoto 67,611 LDP 16,544,728 (28.1%) 14 Yōichi Masuzoe 470,571 Toshio Yamada 449,183 Kyoko Nakayama 385,913 Kazuya Maruyama 272,348 Yoriko Kawaguchi 261,404 Masahisa Sato 251,579 Hidehisa Otsuji 230,299 Midori Ishii 228,166 Nobuaki Sato 227,098 Hiroyuki Yoshiie 223,068 Seiko Hashimoto 221,361 Akiko Santō 203,323 Seiichi Eto 202,315 Haruko Arimura 201,301 Komei 7,765,328 (13.2%) 7 Kanae Yamamoto 1,027,543 Kentaro Koba 706,996 Hiroshi Yamamoto 619,837 Kiyohiko Toyama 612,972 Takao Watanabe 558,206 Shuichi Kato 392,897 Yuichiro Uozumi 231,500 JCP 4,407,932 (7.5%) 3 Satoshi Inoue 189,458 Tomoko Kami 76,878 Yoshiki Yamashita 55,911 SDP 2,634,713 (4.5%) 2 Seiji Mataichi 218,856 Tokushin Yamauchi 145,659 NPN 1,770,707 (3.0%) 1 Yasuo Tanaka 458,221 PNP 1,269,209 (2.2%) 1 Shozaburo Jimi 117,590 References Japan House Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:July 2007 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