New Liberal Club
Appearance
New Liberal Club 新自由クラブ Shin-jiyū-kurabu | |
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Leader | Yōhei Kōno[1] |
Secretary-General | Takeo Nishioka[1] |
Founded | 25 June 1976[1] |
Dissolved | 15 August 1986[1] |
Split from | Liberal Democratic Party[1] |
Merged into | Liberal Democratic Party[1][2] |
Ideology | Conservatism[2] Neoconservatism[2] Neoliberalism[2] Decentralization[1] Progressivism[3] |
New Liberal Club (新自由クラブ, Shin-jiyū-kurabu) was a political party in Japan that was founded on 25 June 1976 as a breakaway from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the LDP in December 1983, with the New Liberal's president, Seiichi Tagawa, serving as the Minister of Home Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.[4]
It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.
List of leaders of the New Liberal Club
No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | |
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Took Office | Left Office | |||
1 | Yōhei Kōno | June 1976 | February 1979 | |
2 | Seiichi Tagawa | February 1979 | June 1984 | |
3 | Yōhei Kōno | June 1984 | August 1986 |
Election results
Election year | Candidates | # of seats won | Change | Status |
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1976 | 25 | 17 / 511
|
Opposition | |
1979 | 31 | 4 / 511
|
13 | Opposition |
1980 | 25 | 12 / 511
|
8 | Opposition |
1983 | 17 | 8 / 511
|
4 | Government |
1986 | 12 | 6 / 512
|
2 | Opposition |
Election year | Seats | Status | |
---|---|---|---|
Total | Contested | ||
1977 | 3 / 252
|
3 / 126
|
Opposition |
1980 | 2 / 252
|
0 / 126
|
Opposition |
1983 | 3 / 252
|
2 / 126
|
Opposition |
1986 | 1 / 252
|
1 / 126
|
Opposition |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典の解説 [The Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia's explanation]. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Kato, Tetsuro [in Japanese]. 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)の解説 [The Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica's explanation]. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
- ^ Beeman, Michael L. (2002). Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-0415249690. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
- ^ "Former minister Tagawa dies at 91". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. August 9, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- 新自由クラブ関係文書 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
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