Japan · Completed

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18

Name: Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18
Start: 1983-12-18
Location: Japan

Dec 18, 1983

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: Japan
Next national election: Dec 18, 1983
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 18, 1983

Published contest rules

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  "early": true,
  "electorate": 84252608,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 138,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 511,
  "validVotes": 56779701,
  "votesCast": 57238897
}

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

Socialist Democratic Federation

Party

Affiliated party: Socialist Democratic Federation

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 — 1983-12-18 · Shaminren

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 38,104
Seats: 3
Original value: 0.67
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · NLC

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,341,584
Seats: 8
Original value: 2.36
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · independent

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,768,735
Seats: 16
Original value: 4.88
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · LDP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 25,982,785
Seats: 250
Original value: 45.76
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · DSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 4,129,907
Seats: 38
Original value: 7.27
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · Komeito

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 5,745,751
Seats: 58
Original value: 10.12
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · JSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 11,065,082
Seats: 112
Original value: 19.49
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1983-12-18 · JCP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 5,302,485
Seats: 26
Original value: 9.34
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

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

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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