Japanese House of Councillors election, 1986

6 July 1986

126 (of the 252) seats in the House of Councillors

	First party	Second party

Leader	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Masashi Ishibashi
Party	Liberal Democratic	Socialist
Last election	137	44
Seats won	143	42
Seat change	+6	-2

President of the House
of Councillors before election

Elected President of the House
of Councillors

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Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1986.

Note that only half of this House of Councillors was up for election. The results show the whole legislature following the elections.

Results

**Summary of the 6 July 1986 Japanese House of Councillors election results^[1]^[2]**
Parties		Prefectural constituency vote			National PR vote			Total seats won	Not up	Post-election composition
Parties		Votes^[3]	%	Seats	Votes^[3]	%	Seats	Total seats won	Not up	Post-election composition
	Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)	26,111,258	45.07%	50	22,132,573	38.58%	22	72	71	143
	New Liberal Club (NLC)	–			1,367,291	2.38%	1	1	1	2
	Ruling coalition	26,111,258	45.07%	50	23,499,864	40.97%	23	73	72	145
	Japanese Socialist Party (JSP)	12,464,579	21.51%	11	9,869,088	17.20%	9	20	21	41
	Japanese Communist Party (JCP)	6,617,487	11.42%	4	5,430,838	9.47%	5	9	7	16
	Justice Party	2,549,037	4.40%	3	7,438,501	12.97%	7	10	14	24
	Democratic Socialist Party (DSP)	2,643,370	4.56%	2	3,940,325	6.87%	3	5	7	12
	Tax Party	327,444	0.57%	0	1,803,051	3.14%	1	1	1	2
	New Salaryman Party	–			1,759,484	3.07%	1	1	2	3
	Second Chamber Club	–			1,455,532	2.54%	1	1	1	2
	Social Democratic Federation (SDF)	–						0	1	1
	Center-left opposition	5,519,851	9.53%	5	16,396,893	28.58%	13	18	26	44
	Others	1,192,801	2.06%	0	2,166,059	3.78%	0	0	0	0
	Independents	6,032,259	10.41%	6	–			6	0	6
Totals		57,938,236	100.00%	76	57,326,742	100.00%	50	126	126	252
Turnout		71.36%			71.32%			–

↑ Interparliamentary Union (IPU), 1986 Sangiin election
↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Statistics Department, Long-term statistics, chapter 27: Public servants and elections, sections 27-11 to 27-14 Elections for the House of Councillors
↑ 3.0 3.1 Fractional votes rounded to full numbers