Japan · Completed

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18

Name: Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18
Start: 1990-02-18
Location: Japan

Feb 18, 1990

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: Japan
Next national election: Feb 18, 1990
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedFeb 18, 1990

Published contest rules

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  "early": true,
  "electorate": 90322908,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 25,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 512,
  "validVotes": 65704311,
  "votesCast": 66215906
}

Candidates

Minshu Shakai-tō

Party

Affiliated party: Minshu Shakai-tō

no party affiliation

Party

Affiliated party: no party affiliation

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

one seat

Party

Affiliated party: one seat

Socialist Democratic Federation

Party

Affiliated party: Socialist Democratic Federation

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 — 1990-02-18 · DSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 3,178,949
Seats: 14
Original value: 4.84
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · LDP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 30,315,417
Seats: 275
Original value: 46.16
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · Progressive Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 281,793
Seats: 1
Original value: 0.43
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · United Socialist Democratic Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 566,957
Seats: 4
Original value: 0.86
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · Komeito

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 5,242,675
Seats: 45
Original value: 7.98
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · Independents

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 4,807,524
Seats: 21
Original value: 7.32
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · JSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 16,025,473
Seats: 136
Original value: 24.35
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1990-02-18 · JCP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 5,226,987
Seats: 16
Original value: 7.96
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