JAPAN
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 16 DECEMBER 2012
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Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Deputies)
Source: Yomiuri Shinbun

Parties
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* CGP - Komei-to (Clean Government Party)
* DPJ - Minshu-to (Democratic Party)
* JCP - Nihon Kyosan-to (Japan Communist Party)
* JRP - Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party)
* LDP - Jiyu Minshu-to (Liberal Democratic Party)
* PNP - Kokumin Shin-to (People's New Party)
* SDP - Shakai Minshu-to (Social-Democratic Party)
* TP - Mirai no To (Tomorrow Party)
* YP - Minna no To (Your Party)

The House of Deputies consists of 480 members, 300 elected from single-member constituencies 
and 180 elected on a proportional basis from eleven multi-member constituencies known as 
Block constituencies.


NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS
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Votes are those polled for the Block constituencies. Votes and seats are compared with those 
won at the 2009 elections. In this tables Seats 1 is the constituency seats, and Seats 2 is 
the Block seats.
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                                                          Seats       Seats      Seats
Party                         Votes       %     Change    1           2          Total
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Liberal Democratic Party      16,624,457  27.6  +00.9     237  +173   57  +2     294   +175
Clean Government Party         7,116,474  11.8  +00.4       9  +9     22  +1      31   +10
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Total LDP-CGP coalition       23,740,931  39.4  +01.3     246  +182   79  +3     325   +185
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Japan Restoration Party       12,262,228  20.4             14  +14    40  +40     54   +54
Democratic Party               9,628,653  16.0  -26.4      27  -194   30  -57     57   -251
Your Party                     5,245,586  08.7  +04.4       4  +2     14  +11     18   +13
Japan Communist Party          3,689,169  06.1  -00.9       -          8  -1       8   -1
Tomorrow Party                 3,423,915  05.7              2  +2      7  +7       9   +9
Social Democratic Party        1,420,790  02.4  -01.9       1  -2      1  -3       2   -5
Others                           768,626  01.3              6  -1      1           7   -1
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Total                         60,179,898                  300        180         480
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