48th Japanese general election

2014 ←

on or before 13 December 2018

All 475 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan: 295 first-past-the-post in single-member districts, 180 by d'Hondt proportional in 11 regional blocs

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Shinzō Abe	Renhō	Natsuo Yamaguchi
Party	Liberal Democratic	Democratic	Komeito
Leader since	26 September 2012	1 October 2016	8 September 2009
Leader's seat	Yamaguchi-4th	not contesting (Coun.)	not contesting (Coun.)
Last election	291 seats 48.1% (district) 33.11% (block)	New	35 seats 1.5% (district) 13.71% (block)
Seats before	290 seats	97 seats	35 seats

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Kazuo Shii	Ichirō Matsui
Party	Communist	Initiatives
Leader since	24 November 2000	2 November 2015
Leader's seat	Minami-Kantō PR	not contesting (Gov. of Osaka)
Last election	21 seats 13.3% (district) 11.37% (block)	New
Seats before	21 seats	15 seats

Parliamentary districts not including proportional blocks

Prime Minister before election

Shinzō Abe
Liberal Democratic

Prime Minister-designate

TBD

Shinzō Abe
Liberal Democratic

TBD

The 48th general election of members of the House of Representatives (第48回衆議院議員総選挙, dai-yonjūhachikai Shūgiin giin sōsenkyo^?) is due to take place on or before 13 December 2018, a barring by Constitution of Japan. Voting will take place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan – 295 single-member districts and eleven proportional blocks –, in order to appoint all 475 members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the 717-member bicameral National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet has to resign after a general House of Representatives election in the first post-election Diet session (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election will also lead to a new designation election of the prime minister in the Diet, and the appointment of a new cabinet (even if the same ministers are re-appointed).

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