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1996 Japanese general election information


1996 Japanese general election
Japan
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All 500 seats in the House of Representatives
251 seats needed for a majority
Turnout59.65% (Decrease7.61pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Liberal Democratic Ryutaro Hashimoto 32.76 239 +16
New Frontier Ichirō Ozawa 28.04 156 0
Democratic Naoto Kan 16.10 52 New
Communist Tetsuzo Fuwa 13.08 26 +11
Social Democratic Takako Doi 6.38 15 −55
New Party Sakigake Shoichi Ide [ja] 1.05 2 −11
Democratic Reform Teiko Sasano [ja] 0.03 1 New
Independents 9 −21
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Districts and PR districts, shaded according to winners' vote strength.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Liberal Democratic
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Liberal Democratic

General elections were held in Japan on 20 October 1996. A coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Party Sakigake and the Social Democratic Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of the LDP won the most seats.

These were the first elections after the 1994 electoral reform. Previously, each district was represented by multiple members, sometimes from the same party, causing intra-party competition. Under the new rules, each district nominated one representative, elected using first-past-the-post voting. A separate party-list vote was introduced for voters to choose their favored party in addition to votes for individual candidates, as a way to more accurately approximate the seats in the House of Representatives of Japan to the actual party votes, in an effort to achieve more proportional representation.

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