# 2009 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election

A presidential election was held in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan on 28 September 2009 after the incumbent party leader and outgoing Prime Minister of Japan Tarō Asō announced that he would resign after losing badly in the general election held on 30 August 2009. Asō announced on 8 September he would resign on 16 September 2009, which he did as planned.

## Candidates

In order to run in the election, a candidate must have the support of at least twenty LDP MPs. Since there are 387 LDP Diet members and 141 prefectural LDP representatives (three for each of the 47 prefectural chapters), there is a total of 528 votes.
Former finance minister Sadakazu Tanigaki announced on 13 September 2009 he would stand in the election. Tanigaki had also been a candidate in the 2006 leadership election, where he came in third place behind Shinzō Abe and Tarō Asō. Yasutoshi Nishimura and Tarō Kōno (son of former LDP leader Yōhei Kōno) are the other two announced candidates.
Farm minister Shigeru Ishiba was also considered a possible candidate, but he did not stand.

### Declared

| Candidate(s) | Date of birth | Current position | Party faction | Electoral district |
| Sadakazu Tanigaki | (1945-03-07)7 March 1945 (age 64) | Member of the House of Representatives (since 1983) Other offices Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission (2002–2003) Minister of Finance (2003–2006) Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2008) | Kōchikai (Koga) | Kyoto 5th |
| Taro Kono | (1963-01-10)10 January 1963 (age 46) | Member of the House of Representatives (since 1996) Previous offices held Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2002) State Minister of Justice (2005–2006) | Ikōkai (Asō) | Kanagawa 15th |
| bSize = 120 Yasutoshi Nishimura | (1962-10-15)15 October 1962 (age 46) | Member of the House of Representatives (since 2003) Previous offices held Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (2008–2009) | Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai (Machimura) | Hyōgo 9th |

### Recommenders

List of recommenders :
| Candidates | Yasutoshi Nishimura | Taro Kono | Sadakazu Tanigaki |
| Leader of recommenders | Katsunobu Kato | Masahiko Shibayama | Takashi Tanihata |
| Person in charge | Ryota Takeda | Masaaki Taira | Ryotaro Tanose |
| Recommenders | Ichirō Kamoshita | Jiro Aichi | Masatoshi Ishida |
| Recommenders | Tarō Kimura | Shinji Inoue | Nobuteru Ishihara |
| Recommenders | Shigeo Kitamura | Hideaki Ōmura | Masahiro Imamura |
| Recommenders | Ryū Shionoya | Katsuyuki Kawai | Takeshi Iwaya |
| Recommenders | Sanae Takaichi | Yoriko Kawaguchi | Yasuhiro Ozato |
| Recommenders | Hiroshi Hase | Shinobu Kandori | Yuriko Koike |
| Recommenders | Kunio Hatoyama | Akio Koizumi | Genichiro Sata |
| Recommenders | Motohisa Furukawa | Ken Saitō | Tsuyoshi Takagi |
| Recommenders | Keiji Furuya | Isshu Sugawara | Wataru Takeshita |
| Recommenders | Norio Mitsuya | Hiroshige Sekō | Koichi Tani |
| Recommenders | Yūji Yamamoto | Kazunori Tanaka | Takeshi Tokuda |
| Recommenders | Kaoru Yosano | Kotaro Tamura | Seiichiro Murakami |
| Recommenders | Seiichi Eto | Ichiro Tsukada | Hiroshi Moriyama |
| Recommenders | Yōsuke Isozaki | Keiko Nagaoka | Shinya Izumi |
| Recommenders | Shinsuke Suematsu | Katsuei Hirasawa | Issei Kitagawa |
| Recommenders | Kyoko Nakayama | Kazuya Maruyama | Masahisa Sato |
| Recommenders | Toshiharu Furukawa | Ichita Yamamoto | Satoshi Ninoyu |
| Recommenders | Eriko Yamatani | Hiroyuki Yoshiie | Masako Mori |

## Campaign

A public debate was held on 19 September 2009. Tanigaki was elected with 300 of 498 ballots.

## Results

| Candidates | Diet members | Party members | Total |
| Sadakazu Tanigaki | 120 | 180 | 300 |
| Taro Kono | 35 | 109 | 144 |
| Yasutoshi Nishimura | 43 | 11 | 54 |
| Grand Total | 198 | 300 | 498 |
* 1 invalid vote