Japan general election, 2000

Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Representatives) of the Japanese Diet were held on 25 June 2000.

These statistics are from the newspaper Asahi Shimbun of 26 and 27 June 2000.

Parties:

• Clean Government Party (Komeito) (Komei-to)
• Democratic Party (DP) (Minshu-to)
• Japan Communist Party (JCP) (Nihon Kyosan-to)
• Liberal Party (LP) (Jiyu-to)
• Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (Jiyu Minshu-to)
• Social Democratic Party (SDP) (Shakai Minshu-to)

The House of Representatives 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
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These figures are an aggregation of votes cast in the 
Block constituencies. 
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                                          Seats
Party                    Votes     %      Con   Blk Total
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Clean Government       7,637,456   13.1     5    24    29
Communist              6,601,348   11.3     -    20    20
Democratic            14,834,091   25.5    82    47   129
Liberal                5,781,733   09.9     1    18    19
Liberal Democratic    16,714,043   28.7   183    56   239
Social Democratic      5,491,698   09.4     4    15    19
Others                 1,125,988   01.9    25     -    25
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Total                 58,186,357          300   180   480
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Con = Constituency seats
Blk = Block seats

Figures for party allegiances are based on those given at the Japanese Diet website. Party allegiances are loose and changeable in Japan and various versions of these figures exist.

The house was dissolved again in October 2003 and the next election was held on November 9.

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive