Next Japanese general election

The next Japanese general elections are scheduled on or before 31 October 2025, as required by the constitution. Voting will take place in all Representatives constituencies including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet has to resign after a general House of Representatives election in the first post-election Diet session (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election will also lead to a new designation election of the Prime Minister in the Diet, and the appointment of a new cabinet (even if the same ministers are re-appointed).

Next Japanese general election
On or before 31 October 2025
All 465 seats of House of Representatives of Japan
233 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Fumio Kishida Kenta Izumi Nobuyuki Baba
Party Liberal Democratic CDP Innovation
Last election 259 96 41
Current seats 260 96 41
Seats needed 137 192
 
Leader Natsuo Yamaguchi Yuichiro Tamaki Kazuo Shii
Party Komeito DPP Communist
Last election 32 11 10
Current seats 32 11 10
Seats needed 201 222 223
 
Leader Tarō Yamamoto Mizuho Fukushima
Party Reiwa Social Democratic
Last election 3 1
Current seats 3 1
Seats needed 230 232
House of Representatives districts after 2022 redistricting
Incumbent Prime Minister

Fumio Kishida
Liberal Democratic


Political parties
See also: List of political parties in Japan
Parties Leader Ideology Seats Status
Last election Before election
Liberal Democratic Party Fumio Kishida Conservatism
259 / 465
260 / 465
 Governing coalition
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan Kenta Izumi Liberalism
96 / 465
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96 / 465
 Opposition
Nippon Ishin no Kai Nobuyuki Baba Conservatism
41 / 465
41 / 465
 Opposition
Komeito Natsuo Yamaguchi Conservatism
32 / 465
32 / 465
 Governing coalition
Democratic Party for the People Yuichiro Tamaki Reformism
11 / 465
11 / 465
 Opposition
Japanese Communist Party Kazuo Shii Communism
10 / 465
10 / 465
 Opposition
Reiwa Shinsengumi Tarō Yamamoto Progressivism
3 / 465
3 / 465
 Opposition
Social Democratic Party Mizuho Fukushima Social democracy
1 / 465
1 / 465
 Opposition

Reapportionment

The electoral district will be readjusted according to the results of the 2020 Japan census. Originally, it was intended to readjust in the last election, but it was held in the existing constituencies not long after the census results came out.[1][2]

Newly created seats

Ten new districts and three new block seats will be created.

  • 1. Tokyo-26th
  • 2. Tokyo-27th
  • 3. Tokyo-28th
  • 4. Tokyo-29th
  • 5. Tokyo-30th
  • 6. Kanagawa-19th
  • 7. Kanagawa-20th
  • 8. Saitama-16th
  • 9. Aichi-16th
  • 10. Chiba-14th
  • 11. 18th Tokyo block seat
  • 12. 19th Tokyo block seat
  • 13. 23rd Minami-Kanto block seat

Seats to be eliminated

Ten districts and three block seats will be eliminated.

  • 1. Hiroshima-7th
  • 2. Miyagi-6th
  • 3. Niigata-6th
  • 4. Fukushima-5th
  • 5. Okayama-5th
  • 6. Shiga-4th
  • 7. Yamaguchi-4th
  • 8. Ehime-4th
  • 9. Nagasaki-4th
  • 10. Wakayama-3rd
  • 11. 13th Tohoku block seat
  • 12. 11th Hokurikushinetsu block seat
  • 13. 11th Chugoku block seat

See also

Notes
  1. 95 - Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan; 1 - Independent

References
  1. "小選挙区「10増10減」へ 国勢調査受け、次々回から" [Single-seat constituencies to increase by 10, decrease by 10]. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. "衆院小選挙区「１０増１０減」 アダムズ方式で格差是正―政府、来年にも法案提出" [House of Representatives single-seat constituency "10 increase, 10 decrease Adams method to correct disparities-government to submit bill next year]. Jiji Press (in Japanese). 25 June 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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