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Asia · JPN
Japan
Japan is a country in Asia. Its national elections, how its government is chosen and the records on this site follow.
Most recent national election: the House of Representatives election of February 8, 2026. Its official count is published by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications election information and is not on this site yet.
Everything live for Japan, in one place.
This is the complete published scope—not a directory of agency links. Each layer below is normalized into Election.org's permanent country record and kept separate from planned coverage.
12published layers
5visible gaps
JPcountry code
electoral-management sourcePublished now
national election-authority linkPublished now
parliamentary institution namesPublished now
official 2024 House quick-result publicationPublished now
all 47 prefecture aggregatesPublished now
all 289 single-member districtsPublished now
all 1,113 named single-member candidate resultsPublished now
all 14 filing-party categoriesPublished now
both national ballot layersPublished now
all 465 published winning seatsPublished now
historical result APIPublished now
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Japan
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- permanent country ID
- electoral-management source
- national election-authority link
- parliamentary institution names
- official 2024 House quick-result publication
- all 47 prefecture aggregates
- all 289 single-member districts
- all 1,113 named single-member candidate results
- all 14 filing-party categories
- both national ballot layers
- all 465 published winning seats
- historical result API
Still missing
- proportional block-level results and candidate lists
- current member tenure roster
- political finance
- prefectural and local election adapters
- Japanese-language interface
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National results adapter live
Election.org dataset · live
2024 House results
Open the complete source-bounded national result layer currently published for Japan.
Open the full datasetCoverage inventory · live12 published layers
See every result, geography, person, institution, and source layer Election.org currently publishes for Japan.
See the complete inventoryGovernment power · mappedWho selects whom?
Trace 8 sourced formal relationships among 4 national institutions.
Open the power mapPublic data · liveJapan API record
Read the stable country ID, coverage state, attached sources, and explicit gaps in a human-friendly record view.
View the API recordEvidence layerSources and methodology
Audit the election authority, electoral-management record, parliament sources, and Election.org coverage limits for Japan.
Audit the source layerOfficial institutions and source trail.
These links support the country record above. They are the evidence layer—not the main Election.org experience.
Election administration: Mixed
International IDEA's published electoral-management model for Japan, source year 2026. This is a reproduced source label, not an Election.org rating.
Open International IDEA sourceMinistry of Internal Affairs and Communications election information
Government election-information portal
Open official institutionNational Diet
House of RepresentativesHouse of Councillors
Institution names are mapped to the IPU Parline country/chamber layer; current membership counts are not copied into this release.
Verify with IPU ParlinePopulation 123,975,371
World Bank Population, total for 2024. This value defines the reproducible major-country cohort; it is not an Election.org rank or judgment of importance.
Open the World Bank sourceCite this page
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