Japan House of Councillors election 2025 — Results

Election day: July 20, 2025

Figures from official electoral authorities · last checked 2 Nov 2026, 17:16 UTC
  • Liberal Democratic Party (LDP): 21.64%
  • Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP): 12.50%
  • Democratic Party for the People (DPP): 12.88%
  • Sanseitō: 12.55%
  • Komeito: 8.80%
  • Nippon Ishin no Kai (Ishin): 7.39%
  • Reiwa Shinsengumi: 6.56%
  • Japanese Communist Party (JCP): 4.84%

Turnout: 58.51%

About this election

Electoral system

Of the 125 seats contested, 75 were elected in the 45 prefectural districts and 50 by nationwide open-list proportional representation. The single-member districts use first-past-the-post and the multi-member districts single non-transferable vote, while voters cast a separate party or candidate vote for the national proportional tier. The map shades each prefectural district by its leading party. The LDP led 26 districts — far fewer than in previous cycles — as the Constitutional Democrats, the Democratic Party for the People and independents carried many of the rest; the merged Tottori–Shimane and Tokushima–Kōchi districts are shown identically in both prefectures.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.

In numbers

  • 8.76 points separated Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from Democratic Party for the People (DPP).
  • The top two shared 34.52% of the vote between them, and 8 lists cleared 5%.
  • Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) moved −12.79 points against the 2022 House of Councillors election (34.43% → 21.64%).
  • Support for Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ranged from 100.00% in Fukui to 14.29% in Tokyo — a spread of 85.71 points across 27 regions, and it led in 26 of 47.
  • Turnout of 58.51% is the highest of the 4 House of Councillors elections covered here since 2016.

Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.

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