Election of the chairman of the Japanese People's Democratic Party

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The election of the chairman of the Japanese Democratic People's Party ( DVP for short ; 国民 民主党 代表 選 挙 Kokumin Minshutō Daihyō Senkyo ) takes place every three years. Since the Democratic (People's / Progressive) Party (taking into account the predecessor parties Minshutō ( Democratic Party ), DPJ for short , and Minshintō ( Democratic Progressive Party ), DFP for short ) was the largest from 1998 to 2017 with the exception of the reign (2009-2012) Was opposition party, the election mostly decided on the opposition leader in the Shūgiin , the lower house, during the reign over the prime minister.

Procedure

The election of the party chairman takes place every three years at a special party conference in September. In the case of early elections, for example after resigning, an assembly of the democratic members of both houses of parliament can decide - this was the case for all votes from December 2002 to June 2010. If, as is often the case with re-elections, there is only one candidate for election, the chairman is determined by acclamation without voting.

With the establishment of the DFP in March 2016, the electoral procedure and the term of office regulations were adjusted and divided into two types. After the expiry of a regular term of office or if the political circumstances allow it after a resignation, the term of office is called Tōin-sanka-gata ( 党員 参加 型 , for example "type with participation of party members") and lasts an unchanged three years; the election proceeds as before, taking into account the party members. However, if a party chairman resigns at short notice and the political situation does not allow the time required to organize a regular election, the new chairman will be elected at a special party congress by the parliamentary and regional members, known as Tōin-hi-sanka-gata ( 党員 非 参加型 , for example "type without participation of party members"). If there is not enough time available for a special party congress (as was the case with the DPJ) a meeting of all members of parliament can elect the chairman.

history

The voting process varied. The regular pre-election process among national and local MPs, members and registered supporters of the party was only carried out in 2002, 2010, 2012 and 2015. The votes are weighted according to a point system: In the last election in 2018, the votes of the members and supporters together had 284 points and the regional representatives together 71 points. Each vote of a national MP counts for two points in the result. In 2012, the regular term of office was extended from two to three years. The DFP, which was formed in March 2016 through the unification of DPJ and Ishin no Tō , took over the DPJ's election process almost unchanged, as did the successor party DVP, which was founded in May 2018.

Results

“Old” Democratic Party 1996–1998
date Election winner image be right More candidates with votes Eligible voters
September 28, 1996 Yukio Hatoyama , Naoto Kan (Co-Chair) Yukio Hatoyama without voting - -
Naoto Kan
September 16, 1997 Naoto Kan
“New” Democratic Party 1998–2016
date Election winner image be right More candidates with votes Eligible voters
April 27, 1998 Naoto Kan Naoto Kan without voting - -
January 18, 1999 180 Shigefumi Matsuzawa 51, invalid 8 MPs, prefectural associations
September 25, 1999 1st ballot: Yukio Hatoyama Yukio Hatoyama 154 Naoto Kan 109, Takahiro Yokomichi 57, invalid 1
Runoff election: Yukio Hatoyama 182 Naoto Kan 132
September 9, 2000 Yukio Hatoyama without voting - -
September 23, 2002 1st ballot: Yukio Hatoyama 249 points Naoto Kan 221 points, Yoshihiko Noda 182 points,
Takahiro Yokomichi 119 points 		Primaries
Runoff election: Yukio Hatoyama 254 points Naoto Kan 242 points
December 10, 2002 Naoto Kan Naoto Kan 104 Katsuya Okada 79 MPs
May 18, 2004 Katsuya Okada Katsuya Okada without voting - -
September 13, 2004
September 17, 2005 Seiji Maehara Seiji Maehara 96 Naoto Kan 94, invalid 2 MPs
April 7, 2006 Ichirō Ozawa Ichirō Ozawa 119 Naoto Kan 72
September 12, 2006 without voting - -
September 21, 2008
May 16, 2009 Yukio Hatoyama Yukio Hatoyama 124 Katsuya Okada 95, invalid 1 MPs
June 4th 2010 Naoto Kan Naoto Kan 291 Shinji Tarutoko 129, invalid 2
September 14, 2010 721 points Ichirō Ozawa 491 points Primaries: MPs (412 national, 2,382 prefectural and municipal), 342,493 members and registered supporters
August 29, 2011 1st ballot: Banri Kaieda Banri Kaieda 143 Yoshihiko Noda 102, Seiji Maehara 74, Michihiko Kano 52, Sumio Mabuchi 24 MPs
Runoff election: Yoshihiko Noda Yoshihiko Noda 215 Banri Kaieda 177, invalid 3
21 Sep 2012 Yoshihiko Noda 818 points Kazuhiro Haraguchi 154 points, Hirotaka Akamatsu 123 points, Michihiko Kano 113 points Primary elections: 336 MPs in the national parliament, 9 candidates for national elections, 2,030 MPs in prefectural and local parliaments, 326,974 members and registered supporters
Dec 25, 2012 Banri Kaieda Banri Kaieda 90 Sumio Mabuchi 54, invalid 1 MPs
January 18, 2015 1st ballot: Gōshi Hosono Goshi Hosono 298 points Katsuya Okada 294 points, Akira Nagatsuma 168 points Primaries: National MPs and Candidate (s), Prefectural and Local MPs, Members and Registered Supporters
Runoff election: Katsuya Okada Katsuya Okada 133 points Gōshi Hosono 120 points Member of the national parliament and 1 candidate (2016 election)
Democratic Progressive Party 2018-2016
date Election winner image be right More candidates with votes Eligible voters
March 27, 2016 Katsuya Okada Katsuya Okada without voting - -
15th September 2016 Renhō Murata Renhō Murata 503 points Seiji Maehara 230 points, Yūichirō Tamaki 116 points National MPs, Prefectural and Local MPs, Members and Registered Supporters
1st September 2017 Seiji Maehara Seiji Maehara 502 points Yukio Edano 332 points
October 31, 2017 Kōhei Ōtsuka Kōhei Ōtsuka without voting - -
Democratic People's Party since 2018
date Election winner image be right More candidates with votes Eligible voters
May 7, 2018 Kōhei Ōtsuka, Yūichirō Tamaki (Co-Chair) Kōhei Ōtsuka without voting - -
Yūichirō Tamaki
4th September 2018 Yūichirō Tamaki 204 points Keisuke Tsumura  74 points National MPs, Prefectural and Local MPs, Members and Registered Supporters

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Democratic Party: 2010 年 9 月 代表 選 挙 の 有 権 者 数 に 関 す る 公告
  2. ↑ 野 田 首相 が 再 選 ＝ 民主 代表 選 . In: The Wall Street Journal . September 21, 2012, Retrieved September 21, 2012 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 【代表 選 挙】 ２０１２ 年 ９ 月 代表 選 挙 の 有 権 者 数 に 関 す る 公告 . Minshutō, September 4, 2012, accessed September 10, 2012 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ Democratic Party, December 25, 2012: 【代表 選 挙】 ２０１２ 年 １２ 月 民主党 代表 選 挙 の 結果 に 関 す る 公告