Japan Election Voter Turnout

Voting took place in all representatives constituencies of japan including proportional blocks in order to appoint members of diet to.

Japan election voter turnout. The lowest voter turnout on record in diet elections including by elections was the 17 8 percent marked in a 1991 upper house by election in saitama prefecture. Tokyo voter turnout among 18 and 19 year old youths in the july 21 house of councillors election stood at 31 33 for constituencies preliminary figure down 17 47 points from the overall. While this was affected by heavy rain that lashed kyushu in southwestern.

It was the fourth worst defeat suffered by a ruling party in japanese history. About 66 5 of eligible voters voted in the 2020 election the highest turnout since 1900. Only about 55 72 of eligible voters voted in the 2016 election.

Voters gave the liberal democratic party a landslide victory ejecting the democratic party from power after three years. The 2020 election saw about 20 million more votes than the 137 million in the 2016 election. As no vote elections become more widespread in the prefectural assembly races the average voter turnout sagged to a new low of 44 08 percent.

Despite being disrupted by typhoon lan the election saw a slight increase in turnout rate of 53 68 percent but still was the second lowest in postwar japan. It was also the first election after the voting age was lowered from 20 to 18. In the 2017 general house of representatives election a record number of more than 21 million japanese voted early.

At the same time overall turnout was low the second lowest in history so in 2017 roughly 38 of all actual voters had voted early. Voter turnout in the july 21 house of councillors election stood at 48 8 for constituencies the second lowest on record. The lowest ever turnout was recorded in 2014.

A general election was held in japan on 16 december 2012.