JAPAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 29 JULY 2007 ================================================================================ Elections to the Sangi-in (House of Councillors) Source: Asahi Shinbun The Japanese Government has posted no election statistics on the Internet, and to my knowledge publishes no statistics in English. These statistics are from the Asahi Shinbun website. I make no claims as to their finality or accuracy. Parties -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * JMt - Jiyu Minshu-to (Liberal Democratic Party, LDP) * Mt - Minshu-to (Democratic Party, DP) * KSt - Kokumin Shin-to (People's New Party, PNP) * Kt - Komei-to) Clean Government Party) * NKt - Nihon Kyosan-to (Japan Communist Party, JCP) * SMt - Shakai Minshu-to (Social Democratic Party, SDP) * StN - Shin-to Nihon (New Party Japan, NPJ) The House of Councillors consists of 242 members who serve six-year terms. Half the members are elected every three years. In 2007, therefore, 121 members were elected. Of these 73 were elected from the 47 prefectural districts and 48 were elected from a nationwide list by proportional representation. NATIONAL SUMMARY OF SEATS ========================================================================== Party Prectural Proportional From 2001 Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 2 7 12 20 -03 Democratic Party 40 20 32 109 +28 Japan Communist Party - 3 5 7 -02 Liberal Democratic Party 23 14 64 83 -27 New Party Japan - 1 - 1 +01 People's New Party 1 1 2 4 00 Social Democratic Party - 2 3 5 -01 Others 5 - 3 8 +05 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 73 48 121 242 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS: PROPORTIONAL SEATS ========================================================================== Party Votes % Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clean Government Party 7,765,328 13.2 -02.2 7 -1 Democratic Party 23,256,242 39.5 +01.7 20 +1 Japan Communist Party 4,407,932 07.5 -00.3 3 -1 Liberal Democratic Party 16,544,728 28.1 -01.9 14 -1 New Party Japan 1,770,707 03.0 1 +1 People's New Party 1,269,209 02.2 1 +1 Social Democratic Party 2,634,713 04.5 -00.7 2 Others 1,264,819 02.1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 58,913,678 48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------