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Results of the 1979 general election in Japan for the House of Representatives. A total of 511 seats were contested:
Parties | Candidates | Votes[3] | % | Seats | +/- (last gen. election) |
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Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | 322 | 24,084,130 | 44.59% | 248 | 1 | |
Japanese Socialist Party (JSP) | 157 | 10,643,450 | 19.71% | 107 | 16 | |
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) | 128 | 5,625,527 | 10.42% | 39 | 22 | |
Justice Party | 64 | 5,282,682 | 9.78% | 57 | 2 | |
Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) | 53 | 3,663,691 | 6.78% | 35 | 6 | |
New Liberal Club (NLC) | 31 | 1,631,811 | 3.02% | 4 | 13 | |
Social Democratic Federation (SDF) | 7 | 368,660 | 0.68% | 2 | (2) | |
Center-left opposition | 155 | 10,946,847 | 20.25% | 98 | 3 | |
Others | 33 | 69,101 | 0.13% | 0 | 0 | |
Independents | 96 | 2,641,064 | 4.89% | 19 | 2 | |
Totals (Turnout 68.0%, incl. invalid votes) | 891 | 54,010,120 | 100.00% | 511 | 0 |
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