Next Japanese general election

The next Japanese general elections are scheduled on or before 31 October 2025, as required by the constitution. Voting will take place in all Representatives constituencies including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet has to resign after a general House of Representatives election in the first post-election Diet session (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election will also lead to a new designation election of the Prime Minister in the Diet, and the appointment of a new cabinet (even if the same ministers are re-appointed).

Next Japanese general election
On or before 31 October 2025
All 465 seats of House of Representatives of Japan
233 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Fumio Kishida Kenta Izumi Ichirō Matsui
Party Liberal Democratic Constitutional Democratic Innovation
Leader since 29 September 2021 30 November 2021 2 November 2015
Leader's seat Hiroshima-1st Kyoto-3rd Not contesting
(Mayor of Osaka)
Last election 261 96 41
Current seats 261 96 41
Seats needed 137 192
 
Leader Natsuo Yamaguchi Yuichiro Tamaki Kazuo Shii
Party Komeito Democratic for the People Communist
Leader since 8 September 2009 18 December 2020 24 November 2000
Leader's seat Not contesting
(Councillor)		 Kagawa-2nd Minami-Kantō PR
Last election 32 11 10
Current seats 32 11 10
Seats needed 201 222 223
 
Leader Tarō Yamamoto Mizuho Fukushima
Party Reiwa Shinsengumi Social Democratic
Leader since 1 April 2019 22 February 2020
Leader's seat Tokyo PR Not contesting
(Councillor)
Last election 3 1
Current seats 3 1
Seats needed 230 234
Incumbent Prime Minister

Fumio Kishida
Liberal Democratic


Current composition
Composition of the House of Representatives of Japan (as of 28 April 2022)[1]
elected by 2021 Japanese general election (term: 31 October 2021 - 30 October 2025)
In-House Groups
[innai] kaiha		 Parties Seats
by parties		 Seats
Government 295
Liberal Democratic Party
Jiyūminshutō / Mushozoku no Kai
Liberal Democratic Party		LDP 263 263
Komeito
Kōmeitō		Komeito 32 32
Opposition 167
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
Rikken Minshutō・Mushozoku
Constitutional Democratic Party		 CDP 95 97
SDP 1
Independents 1
Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party)
Nippon Ishin no Kai・Mushozoku no Kai
Nippon Ishin no Kai		Nippon Ishin no Kai 41 41
Democratic Party for the People
Kokumin Minshutō・Mushozoku Club		DPFP 11 11
Japanese Communist Party
Nihon Kyōsantō		JCP 10 10
Yushi no Kai
Yūshi no Kai		Yushi no Kai 5 5
Reiwa Shinsengumi
Reiwa Sinsengumi		Reiwa Shinsengumi 3 3
Independents 3
Independents
Mushozoku		 Speaker: Hiroyuki Hosoda (LDP)
Vice Speaker: Banri Kaieda (CDP)		 2 3
Independent 1
Total 465

Reapportionment

The electoral district will be readjusted according to the results of the 2020 Japan census. Originally, it was intended to readjust in the last election, but it was held in the existing constituencies not long after the census results came out.[2][3]

Newly created seats

Ten new districts and three new block seats will be created.

  • 1. Tokyo-26th
  • 2. Tokyo-27th
  • 3. Tokyo-28th
  • 4. Tokyo-29th
  • 5. Tokyo-30th
  • 6. Kanagawa-19th
  • 7. Kanagawa-20th
  • 8. Saitama-16th
  • 9. Aichi-16th
  • 10. Chiba-14th
  • 11. 18th Tokyo block seat
  • 12. 19th Tokyo block seat
  • 13. 23rd Minami-Kanto block seat

Seats to be eliminated

Ten districts and three block seats will be eliminated.

  • 1. Hiroshima-7th
  • 2. Miyagi-6th
  • 3. Niigata-6th
  • 4. Fukushima-5th
  • 5. Okayama-5th
  • 6. Shiga-4th
  • 7. Yamaguchi-4th
  • 8. Ehime-4th
  • 9. Nagasaki-4th
  • 10. Wakayama-3rd
  • 11. 13th Tohoku block seat
  • 12. 11th Hokurikushinetsu block seat
  • 13. 11th Chugoku block seat

References
  1. "会派名及び会派別所属議員数". 衆議院　The House of Representatives, Japan. Retrieved 2022-04-28. (Japanese), Strength of the In-House Groups in the House of Representatives (English), retrieved April 28, 2022.
  2. "小選挙区「10増10減」へ　国勢調査受け、次々回から". The Asahi Shimbun(in Japanese, 25 June 2021). Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  3. "衆院小選挙区「１０増１０減」　アダムズ方式で格差是正―政府、来年にも法案提出". Jiji Press(in Japanese, 25 June 2021). Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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