| Election Name: | 1998 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Country: | Japan |
| Flag Year: | 1870 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1995 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Previous Year: | 1995 |
| Next Election: | 2001 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
| Seats For Election: | 126 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors |
| Majority Seats: | 127 |
| Election Date: | 12 July 1998 |
| Image1: | Ryutaro Hashimoto 19960111.jpg |
| Leader1: | Ryutaro Hashimoto |
| Party1: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| Last Election1: | 107 seats, 27.3% |
| Seats After1: | 102 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 14,128,719 |
| Percentage1: | 25.2% |
| Swing1: | 2.1pp |
| Leader2: | Naoto Kan |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (Japan, 1998) |
| Last Election2: | – |
| Seats After2: | 47 |
| Seat Change2: | New |
| Popular Vote2: | 12,209,685 |
| Percentage2: | 21.8% |
| Swing2: | New |
| Image3: | The-Zenei-1967-January-Special-1.png |
| Leader3: | Tetsuzo Fuwa |
| Party3: | Japanese Communist Party |
| Last Election3: | 14 seats, 9.5% |
| Seats After3: | 23 |
| Seat Change3: | 9 |
| Popular Vote3: | 8,195,078 |
| Percentage3: | 14.6% |
| Swing3: | 5.1pp |
| Image4: | Hamayotsu_Toshiko_1-1.jpg |
| Leader4: | Toshiko Hamayotsu |
| Party4: | Komeito |
| Last Election4: | Did not contest |
| Seats After4: | 22 |
| Seat Change4: | 11 |
| Popular Vote4: | 7,748,301 |
| Percentage4: | 13.8% |
| Swing4: | – |
| Image5: | Takako Doi in Tokyo congressist election 2.jpg |
| Leader5: | Takako Doi |
| Party5: | Social Democratic Party (Japan) |
| Last Election5: | 38 seats, 16.9% |
| Seats After5: | 13 |
| Seat Change5: | 25 |
| Popular Vote5: | 4,370,763 |
| Percentage5: | 7.8% |
| Swing5: | 9.1pp |
| Image6: | Ichiro Ozawa cropped 3 Yoshitaka Kimoto and Ichiro Ozawa 20010718.jpg |
| Leader6: | Ichirō Ozawa |
| Party6: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1998) |
| Last Election6: | – |
| Seats After6: | 12 |
| Seat Change6: | New |
| Popular Vote6: | 5,207,813 |
| Percentage6: | 9.3% |
| Swing6: | New |
| President of the House of Councillors | |
| Before Election: | Juro Saito |
| Before Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| After Election: | Juro Saito |
| After Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 12 July 1998.
The LDP under Ryūtarō Hashimoto had restored single-party government in 1996 and was now aiming to also regain clear control of the House of Councillors where it was several seats short of a majority. Instead, it lost 13 seats in the election giving the opposition clear control. Prime minister Hashimoto resigned. Keizō Obuchi was elected LDP president on July 24, defeating Seiroku Kajiyama and Junichirō Koizumi.
On July 30, 1998, Obuchi was designated as prime minister by the Diet against the vote of the House of Councillors where DPJ president Naoto Kan beat Obuchi by 142 to 103 votes. Obuchi entered coalition negotiations in late 1998. In January 1999, the LDP entered a ruling coalition with Ichirō Ozawa's Liberal Party, bringing the government within few seats of a majority; in October 1999, New Komeito also entered the coalition, ending the divided Diet.
| Northern Japan | |||||||||||||
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| District | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party) Vote share | ||||||||
| Hokkaidō | 2 (−2) | Hisashi Kazama | Komeito | 2 seats lost by reapportionment LDP, DPJ and Komeito incumbents retired LDP hold DPJ incumbent re-elected DPJ gains top tōsen | Naoki Minezaki (DPJ) 31.2% Yoshio Nakagawa (LDP) 28.1% Tomoko Uchiyama (JCP) 23.5% Kentarō Ono (LP) 6.3% Shirō Kayano (SDP) 5.7% Masami Mizuyoshi (NSP) 1.3% Ken'ichi Sawada (YLP) 1.3% Ryōko Matsukawa (LL) 1.3% Hideo Murata (I) 1.1% Nobuhito Sendai (Ishin) 0.3% | ||||||||
| Noriyuki Nakao | DPJ | ||||||||||||
| Naoki Minezaki | DPJ | ||||||||||||
| Masaaki Takagi | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Aomori | 1 | Kanpei Matsuo | Independent (ex-NFP) | Incumbent retired Independent (joined IA) | Masami Tanabu (I) 46.7% Akiyoshi Kaneiri (LDP) 36.0% Chizuko Takahashi (JCP) 9.3% Kiyohiko Narumi (I) 7.1% Keiko Saitō (LL) 0.9% | ||||||||
| Iwate | 1 | Motoo Shiina | bgcolor=#eee | Independent | Incumbent re-elected (joined IA) | bgcolor=#eee | Motoo Shiina (I) 38.5% Riki Nakamura (I) 34.6% Shizuko Abe (SDP) 13.7% Norikatsu Sugawara (JCP) 9.5% Fumiko (?) Yamada (?) 3.7% | ||||||
| Miyagi | 2 (+1) | Kaname Endō | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup DPJ gains top tōsen | Mitsuru Sakurai (DPJ) 26.0% Ichirō Ichikawa (I) 23.2% Kaname Endō (LDP) 14.0% Sayuri Kamata (I) 11.2% Michiko Satō (JCP) 10.6% Yoshihiro Satō (SDP) 7.1% Yukio Nakazawa (I) 3.4% Kikumi Hayasaka (WP) 2.3% Akemi Ishikawa (LL) 2.2% | ||||||||
| valign=top | 1 seat gained by reapportionment LDP hold | ||||||||||||
| Akita | 1 | Man Sasaki | LDP | Incumbent retired LDP hold | Shigenobu Saitō (LDP) 39.9% Tatsurō Nakajima (DPJ) 27.1% Kazuko Ogiwara (JCP) 14.3% Mamoru Kudō (SDP) 13.6% Shunsaku Hiramoto (NSP) 3.2% Haruo Hashimoto (LL) 1.9% | ||||||||
| Yamagata | 1 | Teibin Suzuki | LDP | Incumbent retired LDP hold | Kōichi Kishi (LDP) 49.3% Toshiko Muraki (DPJ) 17.8% Shōji Tanabe (SDP) 16.1% Masaru Aoki (JCP) 10.1% Eiko Gotō (LL) 6.6% | ||||||||
| Fukushima | 2 | Seigo Suzuki | LDP | Incumbent retired LDP hold Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup DPJ gains top tōsen | Yūhei Satō (I – DPJ) 32.6% Mitsuhide Iwaki (LDP) 24.9% Shizuo Satō (LDP) 23.6% Hideki Satō (JCP) 10.6% 4 other candidates (I/NSP/YLP/LL) 8.3% | ||||||||
| Shizuo Satō | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Eastern and Central Japan | |||||||||||||
| District | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share | ||||||||
| Ibaraki | 2 | Itsuo Nomura | LDP | NSP incumbent retired LDP incumbent lost re-election LDP hold DPJ pickup DPJ gained top tōsen | Akira Gunji (DPJ) 27.9% Kōichi Kuno (LDP) 23.1% Itsuo Nomura (LDP) 19.2% Osamu Ojima (JCP) 10.1% Hiromitsu Mutō (LP) 7.0% Mariko Yoshioka (WP) 5.6% Hiroyuki Sugimori (NSP) 3.4% Takao Gunji (LL) 2.7% Masao Kataniwa (YLP) 1.0% | ||||||||
| Osamu Yatabe | NSP | ||||||||||||
| Tochigi | 2 | Itten Kamiyoshihara | LDP | Incumbent re-elected Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup DPJ gained top tōsen | Susumu Yanase (DPJ) 39.7% Tetsurō Yano (LDP) 24.7% Itten Kamiyoshihara (LDP) 19.0% Setsuko Nomura (JCP) 8.3% Iwao Takahashi (SDP) 4.1% Takuo Inaba (I) 1.9% Ichirō Yamada (YLP) 1.7% Tsuneaki Umeki (LL) 0.6% | ||||||||
| Tetsurō Yano | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Gunma | 2 | Hirofumi Nakasone | LDP | Incumbents re-elected | Hirofumi Nakasone (LDP) 33.7% Kōsei Ueno (LDP) 25.4% Shio Yamazaki (I) 19.3% Yoshikazu Arima (JCP) 15.2% Yurika Kiya (LL) 6.3% | ||||||||
| Kōsei Ueno | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Saitama | 3 (+1) | Noriyuki Sekine | LDP | LDP incumbent lost re-election Independent (ex-NFP) pickup Independent gained top tōsen | Takujirō Hamada (I) 22.6% Renzō Togashi (JCP) 19.9% Toshio Fujii (DPJ) 19.0% Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) 14.3% Minoru Kurihara (LDP) 12.0% Fumihiro Himori (SDP) 5.4% Mieko Yana (LL) 3.2% Tadashi Hosokawa (NSP) 1.6% Kazushige Yamada (YLP) 1.1% Setsuo Yamaguchi (I) 0.7% Masakazu Imazawa (Ishin) 0.2% | ||||||||
| Hideyuki Seya | SDP | SDP incumbent retired JCP pickup | |||||||||||
| 1 seat gained by reapportionment DPJ pickup | |||||||||||||
| Chiba | 2 | Wakako Hironaka | Independent | Incumbents re-elected | Wakako Hironaka (I) 32.3% Yutaka Inoue (LDP) 31.4% Makoto Nakajima (JCP) 21.2% Keiko Machiyama (WP) 5.0% Etsuko Nagata (NSP) 4.6% Tsuneari Murata (LL) 3.4% Kunihide Yoshinaga (YLP) 2.1% | ||||||||
| Yutaka Inoue | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Tokyo | 4 | Toshiko Hamayotsu | Komeito | Komeito incumbent re-elected DPJ pickup DPJ gained top tōsen | Toshio Ogawa (DPJ) 19.2% Toshiko Hamayotsu (Komeito) 18.1% Miyo Inoue (JCP) 16.8% Atsuo Nakamura (I) 13.4% Kiyoko Ono (LDP) 11.6% Kōji Tsukahara (LDP) 8.4% Tetsu Ueda (I) 4.3% Shunsuke Iwasaki (SDP) 3.8% Hiroko Suzuki (WP) 0.8% Shintarō Kō (LL) 0.8% Yoshimori Inori (SPP) 0.7% Eiko Toyama (NSP) 0.7% Isao Nakamura (YLP) 0.6% 10 other candidates 0.7% | ||||||||
| Kōichirō Ueda | JCP | ||||||||||||
| vacant (last held by Kensaku Morita, LDP) | LDP incumbent lost re-election JCP incumbent retired JCP hold NPH pickup | ||||||||||||
| Kiyoko Ono | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Kanagawa | 3 (+1) | Fumio Saitō | LDP | DPJ incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup DPJ gains top tōsen | Keiichirō Asao (DPJ) 18.0% Kimie Hatano (JCP) 14.8% Keiko Chiba (DPJ) 14.3% Marutei Tsurunen (I) 14.1% Fumio Saitō (LDP) 13.0% Tomoko Abe (SDP) 8.4% Isao Makishima (LDP) 8.0% Takashi Hidaka (LP) 6.8% Yoshiko Bannai (NSP) 0.8% Katsuo Satō (YLP) 0.5% 5 other candidates 1.4% | ||||||||
| Keiko Chiba | DPJ | ||||||||||||
| bgcolor=#FFAAAA valign=top | 1 seat gained by reapportionment JCP pickup | ||||||||||||
| Niigata | 2 | Kazuo Majima | LDP | SDP incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election LDP hold (Tanaka was retroactively recognized as LDP candidate) | Naoki Tanaka (I) 24.6% Kinuko Ōbuchi (SDP) 22.1% Kazuo Majima (LDP) 20.2% Yukio Hoshino (I) 18.7% Kanji Igarashi (JCP) 8.2% Satoshi Honda (LP) 3.8% Kazuaki Meguro (LL) 2.4% | ||||||||
| Kinuko Ōbuchi | SDP | ||||||||||||
| Toyama | 1 | Yoshio Nagata | LDP | Incumbent re-elected post-election: incumbent died within 3 months, DPJ pickup by kuriage-tōsen | Yoshio Nagata (LDP) 47.7% Masaaki Tanibayashi (DPJ) 21.1% Shigeru Tajiri (SDP) 17.3% Kazuyuki Izumino (JCP) 11.0% Hisayoshi Nakada (LL) 2.9% | ||||||||
| Ishikawa | 1 | Tetsuo Kutsukake | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election Independent pickup (joined IA) | Sōta Iwamoto (I) 45.1% Tetsuo Kutsukake (LDP) 42.4% Yōko Onishi (JCP) 9.4% Hideyuki Tanebe (LL) 3.1% | ||||||||
| Fukui | 1 | Masaaki Yamazaki | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Masaaki Yamazaki (LDP) 52.3% Keimin Kyōtō (DPJ) 28.6% Kunihiro Uno (JCP) 10.5% Kyōko Murata (LL) 8.6% | ||||||||
| Yamanashi | 1 | Tetsurō Shimura | LDP | Incumbent retired DPJ pickup | Azuma Koshiishi (I) 43.3% Tsukasa Hosaka (LDP) 39.9% Akiko Endō (JCP) 10.8% Yūko Kamata (LP) 7.8% Masako Fukasawa (LL) 1.5% | ||||||||
| Nagano | 2 | Toshimi Kitazawa | DPJ | Incumbent re-elected Incumbent retired LDP pickup | Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ) 38.6% Masatoshi Wakabayashi (LDP) 23.3% Norihisa Yamaguchi (JCP) 18.2% Yukio Nunome (SDP) 10.4% Shin'ichirō Shimojō (I) 6.8% Shigeo Kusama (I) 1.2% Yutaka Tanaka (LL) 1.2% Keisaburō Okuhara (I) 0.3% | ||||||||
| Kiyoshi Imai | DPJ | ||||||||||||
| Gifu | 2 (+1) | Jun'ichi Kasahara | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election Independent pickup (joined DPJ, then LDP) | Iwao Matsuda (I) 25.0% Yasuo Yamashita (DPJ) 22.9% Takeyuki Watanabe (I) 19.6% Jun'ichi Kasahara (LDP) 18.6% Hiroyuki Yamamoto (JCP) 11.7% Yasuhiro Sonoda (LL) 2.3% | ||||||||
| 1 seat gained by reapportionment DPJ pickup | |||||||||||||
| Shizuoka | 2 | Kazuhiko Kimiya | LDP | SDP incumbent retired LDP incumbent lost re-election LDP hold Independent pickup (joined DPJ in '99) Independent gains top tōsen | bgcolor=#ccc | Tōru Unno (I – DPJ, Komeito, SDP) 32.6% Yoshihiko Yamashita (LDP) 20.9% Kazuhiko Kimiya (LDP) 17.2% Yukihiro Shimazu (JCP) 15.2% Nobuko Iwaki (LP) 8.2% Naoko Hara (LL) 6.0% | |||||||
| Aoki Shinji | SDP | ||||||||||||
| Aichi | 3 | Hiroshi Ōki | LDP | LDP incumbent retired LDP incumbent lost re-election 2 DPJ pickups DPJ gains top tōsen | Yoshitake Kimata (DPJ) 17.4% Taisuke Satō (DPJ) 15.9% Hiroko Hatta (JCP) 15.8% Hiroshi Ōki (LDP) 15.5% Yasuoki Urano (LDP) 14.3% Yuzuru Tsuzuki (I) 7.6% Teruko Sugimoto (SDP) 5.5% Hachirō Ishikawa (LP) 3.2% Chieko Igarashi (WP) 1.6% Nobuyuki Watanabe (LL) 1.1% Mikio Yamashita (YLP) 0.8% Yoshiaki Yamazaki (I) 0.4% Takayoshi Itō (I) 0.3% 3 other candidates 0.5% | ||||||||
| Kiyohiro Araki | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Yuzuru Tsuzuki | bgcolor=#ccc | Independent (later LP) | Independent incumbent lost re-election JCP pickup | ||||||||||
| Mie | 1 | Jūrō Saitō | Independent | Incumbent re-elected | Jūrō Saitō (I) 45.8% Chiaki Takahashi (I) 34.1% Kazuhisa Imai (JCP) 15.5% Noriyasu Sakamoto (LL) 4.6% | ||||||||
| Western Japan | |||||||||||||
| District | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share | ||||||||
| Shiga | 1 | Eisuke Kawamoto | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Eisuke Kawamoto (LDP) 46.1% Takashi Ōkubo (I) 28.2% Toshirō Hayashi (JCP) 20.9% Seiichi Katō (LL) 4.8% | ||||||||
| Kyōto | 2 | Yukio Hayashida | LDP | JCP incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent retired Independent pickup (joined DPJ in '99) | bgcolor=#ccc | Tetsurō Fukuyama (I) 35.5% Tokiko Nishiyama (JCP) 33.9% Naohiko Yamamoto (LDP) 27.8% Takeshi Yotsui (LL) 2.8% | |||||||
| Tokiko Nishiyama | JCP | ||||||||||||
| Ōsaka | 3 | Kiyoshi Nishikawa | bgcolor=#eee | Independent (joined IA) | Independent and Komeito incumbents re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election JCP pickup | bgcolor=#eee | Kiyoshi Nishikawa (I) 26.4% Eiichi Yamashita (Komeito) 21.8% Takeshi Miyamoto (JCP) 18.1% Kazutaka Tsuboi (LDP) 14.3% Masahiro Nakatsukasa (DPJ) 13.6% Yumiko Nagasaki (SDP) 2.9% Kazuko Doi (WP) 0.7% Kōji Morimoto (LL) 0.7% Jun'ichi Maeda (NSP) 0.5% Setsuko Ōki (YLP) 0.3% Toshio Nakano (I) 0.2% Yasuo Yamaguchi (I) 0.2% Ryūichi Nakatani (Ishin) 0.1% | ||||||
| Eiichi Yamashita | Komeito | ||||||||||||
| Kazutaka Tsuboi | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Hyōgo | 2 (−1) | Chōji Ashio | LDP | valign=bottom | DPJ incumbent re-elected DPJ gains top tōsen | Shōji Motooka (DPJ) 39.0% Tatsumi Ōsawa (JCP) 25.2% Chōji Ashio (LDP) 22.9% Yūzō Nakanishi (NSP) 5.0% Toyoaki Tagawa (LL) 2.5% Yumiko Hiraoka (I) 2.3% Kimura (YLP) 1.7% Genji Shimizu (I) 1.4% | |||||||
| Shōji Motooka | DPJ | LDP incumbent lost re-election JCP pickup | |||||||||||
| Kōjin Katakami | Independent (Ex-Komeitotō) | 1 seat lost by reapportionment Independent incumbent retired | |||||||||||
| Nara | 1 | Minao Hattori | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Minao Hattori (LDP) 38.3% Kazuyasu Hamaue (I) 31.7% Sachiho Yamamura (JCP) 23.2% Hiroshi Mukai (LL) 6.7% | ||||||||
| Wakayama | 1 | Yōsuke Tsuruho | LP | Incumbent re-elected | Yōsuke Tsuruho (LP) 42.7% Isao Maeda (LDP) 37.9% Yasuhisa Hara (JCP) 17.1% Motonori Kishi (LL) 2.3% | ||||||||
| Tottori | 1 | Shigenobu Sakano | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Shigenobu Sakano (LDP) 39.9% Kōtarō Tamura (I) 31.6% Tadamiki Matsunaga (SDP) 14.3% Tomoko Ichitani (JCP) 12.8% Yutaka Okino (LL) 1.5% | ||||||||
| Shimane | 1 | Mikio Aoki | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Mikio Aoki (LDP) 49.9% Setsumi Tamura (DPJ) 27.9% Yōko Sasaki (JCP) 13.0% Katsumi Kanō (SDP) 6.5% Masashi Yamaguchi (LL) 2.8% | ||||||||
| Okayama | 2 | Norifumi Katō | LDP | LDP incumbent re-elected DPJ incumbent lost re-election DPJ hold DPJ gains top tōsen | Satsuki Eda (DPJ) 39.3% Norifumi Katō (LDP) 29.9% Junji Ichii (DPJ) 12.5% Katsunobu Katō (I) 7.9% Yūichi Kakiuchi (JCP) 7.5% Mitsuo Kobiki (SDP) 2.2% Kyōji Nakamura (LL) 0.4% Gō Nakashima (Ishin) 0.3% | ||||||||
| Junji Ichii | DPJ | ||||||||||||
| Hiroshima | 2 | Hiroshi Miyazawa | LDP | LDP incumbent retired NSP incumbent lost re-election LDP hold DPJ pickup | Ikuo Kamei (LDP) 27.0% Minoru Yanagida (I) 22.6% Nobuya Okuhara (LDP) 21.9% Akira Ishida (SDP) 9.4% Hiroshi Nikaidō (JCP) 9.1% Kimiko Kurihara (NSP) 7.7% Tomoko (?) Hirasawa (LL) 2.3% | ||||||||
| Kimiko Kurihara | NSP | ||||||||||||
| Yamaguchi | 1 | Hideo Futatsugi | LDP | Incumbent retired Independent pickup (joined IA) | Masuo Matsuoka (I) 45.7% Eiichi Gōshi (LDP) 33.8% Hirokazu Fujimoto (JCP) 14.8% Tadao Sasaki (LL) 3.2% Seiichirō Hirata (YLP) 2.5% | ||||||||
| Tokushima | 1 | Kōji Matsuura | LDP | bgcolor=#ccc colspan=2 | Incumbent lost re-election Independent pickup (joined Green Conf. in '02) | Sekiko Takahashi (I) 45.7% Kōji Matsuura (LDP) 36.8% Hitoshi Fujita (JCP) 11.8% Kazutomo Yano (NSP) 4.5% Takeshi Nara (LL) 1.3% | |||||||
| Kagawa | 1 | Takushi Hirai | LP | Incumbent retired LDP pickup | Toshio Yamauchi (LDP) 43.5% Shigeaki Katō (SDP) 28.1% Yōko Shirakawa (JCP) 22.4% Kiyotaka Maeda (LL) 5.9% | ||||||||
| Ehime | 1 | Takeshi Noma | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Takeshi Noma (LDP) 46.9% Mutsumi Hayashi (I) 29.4% Keiko Tanida (JCP) 14.3% Keisuke Hino (LP) 7.4% Makoto Utsunomiya (LL) 2.0% | ||||||||
| Kōchi | 1 | Sadao Hirano | LP | Incumbent retired LDP pickup | Hiroyuki Morishita (LDP) 41.5% Ruriko Nishioka (I) 32.4% Shin'ichirō Nishimura (I) 15.9% Mika Suagahara (LP) 8.4% Takuji Nakamae (LL) 1.8% | ||||||||
| Southern Japan | |||||||||||||
| District | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share | ||||||||
| Fukuoka | 2 (−1) | vacant (last held by Kazunobu Yokoo, Komeito) | SDP incumbent retired LDP incumbent re-elected Komeito hold (independent joined Komeitotō) | Kazuo Hirotomo (I) 30.3% Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP) 27.7% Kazue Fujita (I) 20.0% Toyoomi Tsuno (JCP) 14.4% Yukimi Kamemoto (WP) 2.9% Yoshio Nakamura (YLP) 2.2% Shizuko Tanebe (LL) 1.8% Haruhiko Saitō (I) 0.7% | |||||||||
| Shirō Watanabe | SDP | ||||||||||||
| Gōtarō Yoshimura | LDP | 1 seat lost by reapportionment | |||||||||||
| Saga | 1 | Hiromi Iwanaga | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Hiromi Iwanaga (LDP) 47.5% Yōko Kōmoto (I) 34.6% Hideko Tanaka (JCP) 11.8% Yasuhiro Fukagawa (LL) 6.1% | ||||||||
| Nagasaki | 1 | Sōichirō Matsutani | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Sōichirō Matsutani (LDP) 42.1% Yūji Mitsuno (I) 37.9% Kieko Nishimura (JCP) 13.1% Kazuko Teraoka (LL) 6.9% | ||||||||
| Kumamoto | 2 | Yūshin Morizumi | LDP | Incumbent retired Incumbent lost re-election LDP hold DPJ pickup DPJ gains top tōsen | Ryōichi Honda (DPJ) 34.2% Hitoshi Kimura (LDP) 28.7% Masaru Urata (LDP) 24.8% Etsuko Nishikawa (JCP) 10.0% Kayoko Annaka (LL) 2.3% | ||||||||
| Masaru Urata | LDP | ||||||||||||
| Ōita | 1 | Ban Kugimiya | DPJ | Incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup | Toshiya Nakamichi (LDP) 35.4% Ban Kugimiya (DPJ) 34.3% Fujisaki (SDP) 21.8% Masami Doi (JCP) 7.6% Hideyuki Ozaki (LL) 0.9% | ||||||||
| Miyazaki | 1 | Mitsuhiro Uesugi | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Mitsuhiro Uesugi (LDP) 66.2% Chika Nagatomo (JCP) 23.4% Kōsaburō Haruta (LL) 10.4% | ||||||||
| Kagoshima | 2 | Kichio Inoue | LDP | LDP incumbent re-elected Independent incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup | Hiroshi Moriyama (LDP) 27.9% Kichio Inoue (LDP) 27.0% Kazuto Kamiyama (I) 26.1% Yūichi Yasuda (LL) 12.2% Mitsuharu Iwaizako (JCP) 6.8% | ||||||||
| Kazuto Kamiyama | Independent (ex-JSP) | ||||||||||||
| Okinawa | 1 | Sōkō Shimabuku | bgcolor=#eee | Independent | Incumbent re-elected (joined IA) | bgcolor=#eee | Sōkō Shimabuku (I) 45.5% Kenjirō Nishida (LDP) 44.5% Hiroshi Kinjō (LL) 8.0% Hiroyuki Kinjō (I) 1.3% Mitsuo Matayoshi (WECP) 0.7% | ||||||
| Nationwide proportional | |||||||||||||
| District | Seats up | Incumbents by party | Result | Party votes/share seats elected candidates | |||||||||
| Proportional | 50 | LDP 17< | --of the 19 LDP members, two had joined NFP→LP!--> DPJ 11 | --> Komeito/Ex-Komeitotō 7 | --> SDP/ex-JSP 6 | --> JCP 4 LP 2 | --> 2Club 1 | --> NSP/ex-JSP 1 | --> I/ex-JNP 1 | --> | LDP −3 DPJ +1 JCP +4 Komeito 0 LP +3 SDP −2 Others −2 I (ex-JNP) -1 | LDP 14,128,719/25.17% → 14 seats: Akito Arima Masakuni Murakami Toshisada Oka Yoshihisa Ōshima Daizō Nozawa Issei Anan Chieko Nōno Akio Satō Eisuke Hinode Tokio Kanō Tomoko Sasaki Masashi Waki Tsuguo Morita Kimitaka Kuze | |
| DPJ 12,209,685/21.75% → 12 seats: Yōko Komiyama Kiyoshi Imai Yoriko Madoka Mitsuharu Warashina Masayuki Naoshima Masamitsu Naitō Kenji Katsuki Yukiko Kawahashi Kiyoshi Hasegawa Yoshimitsu Takashima Toshikazu Hori Takenori Emoto | |||||||||||||
| JCP 8,195,078/14.6% → 8 seats: Hiroshi Tachiki Tadayoshi Ichida Emi Iwasa Yoshinori Yoshioka Yoshitaka Ikeda Akira Koike Toshiko Hayashi Chikashi Koizumi | |||||||||||||
| Komeito 7,748,301/13.80% → 7 seats: Hiroshi Tsuruoka Kunihiro Tsuzuki Kōji Morimoto Kiyohiro Araki Hisashi Kazama Tamaki Sawa Katsuyuki Hikasa | |||||||||||||
| LP 5,207,813/9.28% → 5 seats: Shin'ya Izumi Hajimu Irisawa Sadao Hirano Hideo Watanabe Shigeaki Tsukihara | |||||||||||||
| SDP 4,370,763/7.79% → 4 seats: Mizuho Fukushima Sadao Fuchigami Masako Ōwaki Masakazu Yamamoto | |||||||||||||
| Others (aggregate) 3,492,073/6.22%, no seats | |||||||||||||
| Source: The Senkyo[1] | |||||||||||||
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