1980 Japanese general election
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General elections were held in
Unexpectedly, 69 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members of the Diet from the Fukuda Takeo, Miki Takeo and Hidenao Nakagawa factions abstained from voting on the motion. The government was defeated by 56 votes in total of 243 and resigned.
For the first time, elections for both houses of the Diet were called in June 1980. During the election, Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party died during the campaign. Ōhira had expected the vote of no confidence to fail, and was visibly shaken when it passed by a margin of 243–187. Sixty-nine members of his own LDP, including Fukuda, abstained. Given the choice of resigning or calling new elections, Ōhira chose the latter and began campaigning for LDP candidates. He was hospitalized for exhaustion on 31 May and died of a massive heart attack 12 days later.
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Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Liberal Democratic Party | 28,262,442 | 47.88 | 284 | +36 | |
Japan Socialist Party | 11,400,748 | 19.31 | 107 | 0 | |
Japanese Communist Party | 5,803,613 | 9.83 | 29 | –10 | |
Kōmeitō | 5,329,942 | 9.03 | 33 | –24 | |
Democratic Socialist Party | 3,896,728 | 6.60 | 32 | –4 | |
New Liberal Club | 1,766,396 | 2.99 | 12 | +8 | |
Socialist Democratic Federation | 402,832 | 0.68 | 3 | +1 | |
Other parties | 109,168 | 0.18 | 0 | – | |
Independents | 2,056,967 | 3.48 | 11 | –8 | |
Total | 59,028,836 | 100.00 | 511 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 59,028,836 | 97.82 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,313,492 | 2.18 | |||
Total votes | 60,342,328 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 80,925,034 | 74.57 | |||
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, National Diet |
By prefecture
Prefecture | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||
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LDP | JSP | Kōmeitō | DSP | JCP | NLC | SDF | Ind. | ||
Aichi | 22 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||
Akita | 8 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
Aomori | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Chiba | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Ehime | 9 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
Fukui | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Fukuoka | 19 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
Fukushima | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Gifu | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Gunma | 10 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
Hiroshima | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Hokkaido | 22 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Hyōgo | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Ibaraki | 12 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
Ishikawa | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Iwate | 8 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
Kagoshima | 11 | 9 | 2 | ||||||
Kanagawa | 19 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Kōchi | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Kumamoto | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Kyoto | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Mie | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Miyagi | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Miyazaki | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Nagano | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Nara | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Niigata | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | |||||
Ōita | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Okayama | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Okinawa | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Osaka | 26 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ||
Saga | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Saitama | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Shiga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Shimane | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
Shizuoka | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tochigi | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | |||||
Tokushima | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Tokyo | 43 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | |
Tottori | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Toyama | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Wakayama | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Yamagata | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Yamanashi | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Total | 511 | 284 | 107 | 33 | 32 | 29 | 12 | 3 | 11 |