Japan House of Councillors election 2016 — Results
Election day: July 10, 2016
- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP): 35.91%
- Democratic Party (DP): 20.98%
- Komeito: 13.52%
- Japanese Communist Party (JCP): 10.74%
- Initiatives from Osaka (Ishin): 9.20%
- Social Democratic Party (SDP): 2.74%
- People's Life Party: 1.91%
- Party for Japanese Kokoro: 1.31%
Turnout: 54.70%
About this election
Electoral system
Councillors are elected by parallel voting. In 2016, 73 were chosen in 45 prefectural districts — single-member districts decided by first-past-the-post and larger multi-member districts by single non-transferable vote, in which each elector casts one vote and the top finishers win — and 48 by open-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency. This cycle introduced two merged two-prefecture districts, Tottori–Shimane and Tokushima–Kōchi, to reduce the disparity in the value of a vote between thinly and densely populated areas; both are shaded identically on the map. The prefecture map colours each district by the party that won the most of its seats.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 14.93 points separated Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from Democratic Party (DP).
- The top two shared 56.89% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers