Results of the 2009 Japanese general election

Results of the 2009 Japanese general election

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All 480 seats in the House of Representatives 241 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats +/– Democratic Yukio Hatoyama 308 +195 Liberal Democratic Tarō Asō 119 −177 Komeito Akihiro Ota 21 −10 Communist Kazuo Shii 9 0 Social Democratic Mizuho Fukushima 7 0 Your Yoshimi Watanabe 5 New People's New Tamisuke Watanuki 3 −1 New Party Nippon Yasuo Tanaka 1 0 New Party Daichi Muneo Suzuki 1 0 Independents – 6 −12 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Constituency seats
All 300 seats
Turnout	69.21% ( 1.70pp)
Party % Seats +/– Democratic 47.43 221 +169 Liberal Democratic 38.68 64 −155 Social Democratic 1.95 3 +2 People's New 1.04 3 −1 Your 0.87 2 New New Party Nippon 0.31 3 +1 Independents 2.81 6 −12 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Proportional seats
All 180 seats
Turnout	69.19% ( 1.73pp)
Party % Seats +/– Democratic 42.41 87 +26 Liberal Democratic 26.73 55 −22 Komeito 11.45 21 −2 Communist 7.03 9 0 Social Democratic 4.27 4 −2 Your 4.27 5 New New Party Daichi 0.62 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by constituency and PR seats, shaded according to vote strength Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Tarō Asō Liberal Democratic Yukio Hatoyama Democratic

This article presents detailed results of the 2009 Japanese general election. It lists all elected Representatives in the 300 single-member districts and the 11 regional proportional representation (PR) blocks. The top PR block replacement candidates to be elected later without vote in cases of death, resignation or disqualification (kuriage-tōsen) are also listed, by-elections are not.

Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, English name):

• Ruling coalition
  • LDP Liberal Democratic Party, Jiyūminshutō
  • Kōmeitō "Justice Party", Kōmeitō, New Justice Party Party
  • JRP "Reform Club", Kaikaku Club, Japan Renaissance Party (cooperated without inclusion in the cabinet)
• Opposition parties
  • DPJ "Democratic Party", Minshutō, Democratic Party of Japan
  • JCP Japanese Communist Party, Nihon Kyōsantō
  • SDP Social Democratic Party, Shakaiminshutō
  • YP "Everybody's Party", Minna no Tō, Your Party
  • PNP People's New Party, Kokuminshintō
  • NPN New Party Nippon, Shintō Nippon
  • NPD New Party Daichi, Shintō Daichi
  • Other minor parties with candidates: HRP Happiness Realization Party, Honshitsu "New Party 'The Essential'", WECP World Economic Community Party, Freeway "New Party Freeway Club", Smile "Japan Smile Party", Rinkai "Forest and Ocean Party"