Japan · Completed

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05

Name: Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05
Start: 1976-12-05
Location: Japan

Dec 5, 1976

Elections

Stale

Jurisdiction: Japan
Next national election: Dec 5, 1976
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedDec 5, 1976

Published contest rules

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  "early": false,
  "electorate": 77926588,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 53,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 511,
  "validVotes": 56612765,
  "votesCast": 57231992
}

Candidates

Minshu Shakai-tō

Party

Affiliated party: Minshu Shakai-tō

Nihon Kyōsan-tō

Party

Affiliated party: Nihon Kyōsan-tō

Japan Socialist Party

Party

Affiliated party: Japan Socialist Party

Kōmeitō

Party

Affiliated party: Kōmeitō

Liberal Democratic Party

Party

Affiliated party: Liberal Democratic Party

Shin-jiyū-kurabu

Party

Affiliated party: Shin-jiyū-kurabu

no party affiliation

Party

Affiliated party: no party affiliation

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · DSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 3,554,076
Seats: 29
Original value: 6.28
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · independent

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 3,227,463
Seats: 21
Original value: 5.70
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · JSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 11,713,009
Seats: 123
Original value: 20.69
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · NLC

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,363,985
Seats: 17
Original value: 4.18
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · JCP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 5,878,192
Seats: 17
Original value: 10.38
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · LDP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 23,653,626
Seats: 249
Original value: 41.78
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1976-12-05 · Komeito

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 6,177,300
Seats: 55
Original value: 10.91
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

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Forecasts

Partial

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

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Media profile

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

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Campaign signals

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Sources

1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
2Wikimedia CommonsPER-FILE · Aug 9, 2026
3Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026