47th Japanese general election

47th Japanese general election

2012 ← members On or before 16 December 2016

All 480 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan   First party Second party Third party   Leader Shinzō Abe Banri Kaieda Shintaro Ishihara Tōru Hashimoto Party Liberal Democratic Democratic Restoration Leader since 26 September 2012 25 December 2012 19 January 2013 Leader's seat Yamaguchi-4th Tokyo PR Tokyo PR TBD (Mayor of Osaka) Last election 294 seats 43.01% (district) 27.79% (block) 57 seats 22.81% (district) 15.49% (block) 54 seats 11.64% (district) 20.5% (block) Seats before 294 seats 57 seats 54 seats   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Natsuo Yamaguchi Yoshimi Watanabe Kazuo Shii Party New Kōmeitō Your Communist Leader since 8 September 2009 8 August 2009 24 November 2000 Leader's seat not contesting (Coun.) Tochigi-3rd Minami-Kantō PR Last election 31 seats 1.49% (district) 11.9% (block) 18 seats 4.71% (district) 8.77% (block) 8 seats 7.88% (district) 6.17% (block) Seats before 31 seats 18 seats 8 seats   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   TPJ Leader Ichirō Ozawa Mizuho Fukushima Tomoko Abe Party People's Life Social Democratic Tomorrow Leader since 25 January 2013 15 November 2000 4 January 2012 Leader's seat Iwate-4th not contesting (Coun.) Minami-Kantō PR Last election new party 2 seats 0.76% (district) 2.38% (block) 9 seats 5.02% (district) 5.72% (block) Seats before 7 seats 2 seats 1 seat

Parliamentary districts not including proportional blocks

Prime Minister before election Shinzō Abe Liberal Democratic Prime Minister-designate TBD

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The 47th Japanese general election is due to take place on or before Friday 16 December 2016, a barring by Constitution of Japan. It will see voting take place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan 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.

Polling

Parties' approval ratings from 2013

(Source: NHK)

Date
	LDP	DPJ	JRP	NKP	YP	PLP	JCP	SDP	GW	NRP	Other	No Party	Undecided
10-12 May	43.4%	5.3%	2.4%	3.7%	2.3%	0.3%	2.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	33.3%	6.1%
5-7 April	43.6%	6.1%	2.1%	3.7%	1.3%	0.4%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	34.5%	5.6%
8-10 March	40.1%	7.0%	3.9%	4.4%	3.1%	0.3%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	31.8%	6.6%
10-12 February	40.4%	7.0%	5.3%	3.1%	2.6%	0.3%	2.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	31.7%	6.3%
12–14 January	37.8%	7.6%	6.5%	4.0%	3.7%	0.5%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	30.8%	5.4%

Cabinet Approval/Disapproval Ratings

Date	PM
		Approval	Disapproval
10-12 May	Shinzo Abe	65%	18%
5-7 April	Shinzo Abe	66%	19%
23-24 March	Shinzo Abe	69%	6%
9-10 March	Shinzo Abe	76%	22%
8-10 March	Shinzo Abe	66%	18%
10-12 February	Shinzo Abe	64%	20%
8-10 February	Shinzo Abe	71%	18%
12–14 January	Shinzo Abe	64%	22%
11-13 January	Shinzo Abe	68%	24%