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1980 Japanese general election

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Field	Value
country	Japan
flag_year	1870
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1979 Japanese general election	previous_year = 1979	election_date = 22 June 1980	next_election = 1983 Japanese general election	next_year = 1983
seats_for_election	All 511 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	256
turnout	74.57% (6.56%)
image_size	130x130px
image1
leader1	Eiichi Nishimura (acting)
party1	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
last_election1	44.59%, 248 seats
seats1	284
seat_change1	36
popular_vote1	28,262,441
percentage1	47.88%
swing1	3.29pp
image2
leader2	Ichio Asukata
party2	Japan Socialist Party
last_election2	19.71%, 107 seats
seats2	107
seat_change2
popular_vote2	11,400,748
percentage2	19.31%
swing2	0.40pp
image3
leader3	Yoshikatsu Takeiri
party3	Kōmeitō (1962–1998)
last_election3	9.78%, 57 seats
seats3	33
seat_change3	24
popular_vote3	5,329,942
percentage3	9.03%
swing3	0.74pp
image4
leader4
party4	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
last_election4	6.78%, 35 seats
seats4	32
seat_change4	4
popular_vote4	3,896,728
percentage4	6.60%
swing4	0.18pp
image5
leader5	Kenji Miyamoto
party5	Japanese Communist Party
last_election5	10.42%, 39 seats
seats5	29
seat_change5	10
popular_vote5	5,803,613
percentage5	9.83%
swing5	0.59pp
image6	[[File:Yohei Kono 1985.jpg	160x160px]]
leader6	Yōhei Kōno
party6	New Liberal Club
last_election6	3.02%, 4 seats
seats6	12
seat_change6	8
popular_vote6	1,766,396
percentage6	2.99%
swing6	0.03pp
map	{{Switcher
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Masayoshi Ito (acting)	before_party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
after_election	Zenkō Suzuki	after_party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

| [[File:1980 Japanese House of Representatives election.svg|400px]] | Elected MPs and the leading party by vote share in each multimember district | [[File:1980 Japanese House of Representatives election, government vs opposition.svg|400px]] | Districts where the LDP (green) or opposition (blue) won most seats; teal for ties

General elections were held in Japan on 22 June 1980. The incumbent Liberal Democratic Party won an overall majority for the first time since 1972.

Campaign

Vote of no confidence in the Ohira cabinet

The election was triggered following a vote of no confidence brought by the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) on 16 May 1980 regarding corruption and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives of Japan (lower house) to withdraw its backing from the LDP government.

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, leading to the fall of the government.

For the first time, the election for the House of Representatives was held in conjunction with the election for the House of Councillors on the same day.

Death of the Prime Minister

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. 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.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Ito became acting prime minister after Ōhira's death. In the elections of both the houses LDP gained a majority. The election results for the lower house are shown in the table below. Yoshio Sakurauchi, the Secretary General of LDP, led the LDP to its greatest victory in fifteen years, capitalizing on the "sympathy vote" generated by Ōhira's death. The Prime Minister was succeeded by Zenkō Suzuki after the election.

Results

Seats won per district
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By prefecture

Prefecture	Total
seats	Seats won	LDP	JSP	Kōmeitō	DSP	JCP	NLC	SDF	Ind.	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}};"	Japan Socialist Party}};"	Kōmeitō (1962–1998)}};"	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)}};"	Japanese Communist Party}};"	New Liberal Club}};"	Socialist Democratic Federation (Japan)}};"	Independent}};"	Aichi	22	Akita	8	Aomori	7	Chiba	16	Ehime	9	Fukui	4	Fukuoka	19	Fukushima	12	Gifu	9	Gunma	10	Hiroshima	12	Hokkaido	22	Hyōgo	20	Ibaraki	12	Ishikawa	6	Iwate	8	Kagawa	6	Kagoshima	11	Kanagawa	19	Kōchi	5	Kumamoto	10	Kyoto	10	Mie	9	Miyagi	9	Miyazaki	6	Nagano	13	Nagasaki	9	Nara	5	Niigata	15	Ōita	7	Okayama	10	Okinawa	5	Osaka	26	Saga	5	Saitama	15	Shiga	5	Shimane	5	Shizuoka	14	Tochigi	10	Tokushima	5	Tokyo	43	Tottori	4	Toyama	6	Wakayama	6	Yamagata	8	Yamaguchi	9	Yamanashi	5	Total	511	284	107	33	32	29	12	3	11
11	2	2	4	1			2
5	3
5	1				1
11	2	2					1
6	3
3			1
9	2	3	2	2		1
9	2				1
6	2			1
7	3
7	3		1				1
11	9	1					1
9	6	2	2	1
9	3
5	1
6	2
4	2
9	2
5	5	3	2	1	3
2	1	1		1
7	2						1
3		2	2	2			1
6	2		1
6	2	1
5			1
7	4		1	1
5	2		1				1
2	1		1	1
8	5						2
5	1		1
6	2	1	1
2	1	1		1
7	3	6	3	6	1
4	1
9	3		1	1	1
2	1		1	1
3	2
8	1	1	2	1			1
6	3		1
4	1
15	7	6	2	7	5	1
2	2
5	1
3	1	1		1
5	2					1
6	2		1
4	1

References

Mahendra Prakash (2004), Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003, New Delhi: JNUhttps://web.archive.org/web/20081218215907/http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=Library.

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