| Election Name: | 1995 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Country: | Japan |
| Flag Year: | 1870 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1992 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Previous Year: | 1992 |
| Next Election: | 1998 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
| Seats For Election: | 126 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors |
| Majority Seats: | 127 |
| Election Date: | 23 July 1995 |
| Image1: | Kono Yohei 1-3.jpg |
| Leader1: | Yōhei Kōno |
| Party1: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| Last Election1: | 106 seats, 33.0% |
| Seats After1: | 107 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 11,096,972 |
| Percentage1: | 27.3% |
| Swing1: | 5.7pp |
| Leader2: | Toshiki Kaifu |
| Party2: | New Frontier Party (Japan) |
| Last Election2: | – |
| Seats After2: | 56 |
| Seat Change2: | New |
| Popular Vote2: | 12,506,322 |
| Percentage2: | 30.8% |
| Swing2: | New |
| Image3: | Tomiichi_Murayama_19940630.jpg |
| Leader3: | Tomiichi Murayama |
| Party3: | Japan Socialist Party |
| Last Election3: | 71 seats, 17.6% |
| Seats After3: | 38 |
| Seat Change3: | 33 |
| Popular Vote3: | 6,882,919 |
| Percentage3: | 16.9% |
| Swing3: | 0.7pp |
| Image4: | Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg |
| Leader4: | Kenji Miyamoto |
| Party4: | Japanese Communist Party |
| Last Election4: | 11 seats, 7.8% |
| Seats After4: | 14 |
| Seat Change4: | 3 |
| Popular Vote4: | 3,873,955 |
| Percentage4: | 9.5% |
| Swing4: | 1.7pp |
| Leader5: | Tomio Fujii |
| Party5: | Kōmeitō (1962–1998) |
| Last Election5: | 24 seats, 14.1% |
| Seats After5: | 11 |
| Seat Change5: | 13 |
| Popular Vote5: | – |
| Percentage5: | – |
| Swing5: | – |
| Image6: | Masayoshi_Takemura_Tomiichi_Murayama_Cabinet_19950808.jpg |
| Leader6: | Masayoshi Takemura |
| Party6: | New Party Sakigake |
| Last Election6: | – |
| Seats After6: | 3 |
| Seat Change6: | New |
| Popular Vote6: | 1,455,886 |
| Percentage6: | 3.6% |
| Swing6: | New |
| President of the House of Councillors | |
| Before Election: | Yuji Osada |
| Before Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| After Election: | Bunbei Hara |
| After Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan in 1995.
Because of the circumstances of its creation, the opposition party New Frontier Party held seats in the House of Councillors without having won them in the prior election. Many of them were former members of the LDP.
The elections was historic in that the New Frontier Party replaced the Japanese Socialist Party, which had been the largest opposition party for 38 years, and entered coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. The Socialists lost many seats in this election.
The elections were considered a referendum on the sitting coalition government.[1]
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | NFP | JSP | JCP | NPS | DRP | DC | PPC | Ind. | |||
| Aichi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Akita | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Aomori | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Chiba | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ehime | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Fukui | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Fukuoka | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Fukushima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Gifu | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Gunma | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Hokkaido | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Hyōgo | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ibaraki | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ishikawa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Iwate | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kagawa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kagoshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kanagawa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kōchi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kumamoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kyoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Mie | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Miyagi | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Miyazaki | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Nagano | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Nagasaki | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Nara | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Niigata | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ōita | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Okinawa | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Okayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Osaka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Saga | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Saitama | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Shiga | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Shimane | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Shizuoka | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tochigi | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tokushima | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tokyo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tottori | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Toyama | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Wakayama | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Yamagata | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Yamaguchi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Yamanashi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| National | 50 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 126 | 47 | 40 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |