Shūgiin election 2005

The 2005 Shūgiin election took place on September 11, 2005. She was the 44th election to Shūgiin , the Japanese lower house. In the dispute over the privatization of the Japanese postal service, MPs from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were expelled by Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi and founded the New People's Party and the New Party of Japan. Koizumi dissolved parliament and put up strong, loyal candidates, so-called "assassins", against these "rebels" in the new elections. He viewed the elections as a referendum on his reform course.

Participation and outcome

The turnout was 67.51% for direct elections and 67.46% for proportional representation.

Political party		Constituencies			Proportional representation			Total seats	modification
Political party		be right	proportion of	Seats	be right	proportion of	Seats	Total seats	to the last election	on the composition before the election
	Liberal Democratic Party	32,518,389.918	47.77%	219	25,887,798	38.18%	77	296	+59	+84
	Kōmeitō	981.105, 000	1.44%	8th	8.987.602	13.25%	23	31	−3	−3
	Democratic Party	24,804,786.739	36.44%	52	21,036,425	31.02%	61	113	−64	−64
	Communist Party of Japan	4,937,375,030	7.25%	0	4,919,817	7.25%	9	9	0	0
	Social Democratic Party	996,007.697	1.46%	1	3,719,522	5.49%	6th	7th	+1	+2
	New People's Party	432,679, 000	0.46%	2	1,183,073	1.74%	2	4th	+4	0
	New Japan Party	137.172, 000	0.20%	0	1,643,506	2.42%	1	1	+1	−2
	New party Daichi	16,698, 000	0.02%	0	433.938	0.64%	1	1	+1	+1
	Independent and Others (*)	3,242,078,540	4.76%	18th	-			18th	+1	−14
total		68,066,291.924	100%	300	67,811,069	100%	180	480	0	+4 (vacancies)

(*) Of the 18 independent candidates elected, 13 were post-privatization opponents / "rebels"

For an explanation of the decimal places in the election results, see Elections in Japan: “proportional fractional votes” .

Regional overview

Overview of won seats according to regional blocks
block	Constituencies			Proportional representation
block	LDP	DPJ	Others	LDP	DPJ	Kōmei	KPJ	Others
Hokkaidō	4th	8th	0	3	3	1	0	Daichi 1
Tōhoku	17th	7th	Independent 1	6th	5	1	1	SDP 1
North Kantō	27	4th	Independent 1	9	7th	2	1	SDP 1
Tokyo	23	1	Kōmei 1	(8 →) 7	6th	2	1	SDP (0 →) 1
South Kantō	28	2	Kōmei 1, Independent 3	10	7th	3	1	SDP 1
Hokuriku - Shin'etsu	13	5	NVP 1, Independent 1	5	4th	1	0	NVP 1
Tōkai	21st	10	Independent 2	9	8th	3	1	0
Kinki	34	8th	Kōmei 6	11	9	4th	3	SDP 1, Nippon 1
Chūgoku	16	2	NVP 1, Independent 1	5	3	2	0	NVP 1
Shikoku	11	1	Independent 1	3	2	1	0	0
Kyushu	25th	4th	SDP 1, Independent 8th	9	7th	3	1	SDP 1
total	219	52	29	77	61	23	9	10

In the Tokyo proportional representation bloc , the LDP had nominated too few candidates, one seat went to the SDP.

Effects

The landslide victory of the governing coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Kōmeitō strengthened Prime Minister Koizumi, who was able to carry out the post-privatization as planned. In addition, the coalition won a two-thirds majority of the seats, which gives it the opportunity to overrule the House of Lords if necessary . Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada resigned after his party's heavy losses.

In the election, 43 women received seats, i. H. almost 9%, and for the first time exceeded the proportion of women in the Shūgiin election in 1946 , when women's suffrage was introduced and many (male) politicians were banned from office.

Web links

Official results from Sōmushō (Japanese)
Election Special 2005 the Asahi Shimbun (Japanese)

Individual evidence

↑ 比例で得た自民の１議席、候補者不足し社民へ東京 . In: asahi.com . September 12, 2005. Retrieved October 25, 2017 (Japanese).
↑ 自民の「圧勝度」戦後２位議席占有率６１．７％ . In: Asahi Shimbun. September 12, 2005. Retrieved December 18, 2012 (Japanese).

[1] 比例で得た自民の１議席、候補者不足し社民へ東京 . In: asahi.com . September 12, 2005. Retrieved October 25, 2017 (Japanese).

[2] 自民の「圧勝度」戦後２位議席占有率６１．７％ . In: Asahi Shimbun. September 12, 2005. Retrieved December 18, 2012 (Japanese).