2026 Japanese general election

An early general election was held in Japan on 8 February 2026 in all constituencies, including proportional blocks, to elect all 465 seats of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet.

The election took place nearly four months into Sanae Takaichi's time as Prime Minister of Japan, which began on 21 October after she won the 2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election and formed the Liberal Democratic Party–Japan Innovation Party coalition (LDP–JIP). The main opposition was the newly formed Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), a new political party formed as a merger between the primary opposition Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and Komeito, the LDP's former longtime coalition partner.

The LDP won a historic landslide victory, with the party keeping its majority in the House and setting a new postwar record for the most seats won by a single party with 316 seats. This gave the party a two-thirds supermajority and passed the last record of 308 seats won by the Democratic Party of Japan in 2009 and the LDP record of 300 seats won in 1986.  Meanwhile, the CRA lost more than two-thirds of its pre-election seats and leading to the resignations of party co-leaders Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito after the election.

Analysts said the LDP's victory was because of Takaichi's high personal popularity at the time of the election, mainly among young voters and conservatives.

## Infobox (election)

- **country**: Japan
- **type**: parliamentary
- **previous election**: 2024 Japanese general election
- **previous year**: 2024
- **next election**: Next Japanese general election
- **next year**: _Next_
- **seats for election**: All 465 seats in the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives
- **majority seats**: 233
- **registered**: 103,211,224 (0.64%)
- **turnout**: 56.26% (2.41pp; Const. votes)
56.25% (2.40pp; PR votes)
- **1blank**: Constituency vote
- **2blank**: % and swing
- **3blank**: Regional vote
- **4blank**: % and swing
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2026 Japanese general election
- **leader1**: Sanae Takaichi
- **party1**: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
- **leader since1**: 2025 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, 4 October 2025
- **leaders seat1**: Nara 2nd district, Nara 2nd
- **last election1**: 191 seats
- **seats before1**: 198
- **seats1**: **316**
- **seat change1**: 125
- **1data1**: **27,710,493**
- **2data1**: **49.09%** (10.63pp)
- **3data1**: **21,026,139**
- **4data1**: **36.72%** (9.99pp)
- **leader2**: Yoshihiko Noda
Tetsuo Saito
- **leader since2**: 15 January 2026
- **leaders seat2**: Chiba 14th district, Chiba 14th
Chūgoku proportional representation block, Chūgoku PR

- **party2**: Centrist Reform Alliance
- **last election2**: 172 seats
- **seats before2**: 167
- **seats2**: 49
- **seat change2**: 123
- **1data2**: 12,209,686
- **2data2**: 21.63% (8.73pp)
- **3data2**: 10,438,831
- **4data2**: 18.23% (13.90pp)
- **leader3**: Hirofumi Yoshimura
Fumitake Fujita
- **party3**: Japan Innovation Party
- **leader since3**: 1 December 2024
8 August 2025
- **leaders seat3**: _Did not stand_
Osaka 12th district, Osaka 12th
- **last election3**: 38 seats
- **seats before3**: 34
- **seats3**: 36
- **seat change3**: 2
- **1data3**: 3,742,161
- **2data3**: 6.63% (4.52pp)
- **3data3**: 4,943,330
- **4data3**: 8.63% (0.73pp)
- **leader4**: Yuichiro Tamaki
- **leader since4**: 7 May 2018
- **leaders seat4**: Kagawa 2nd district, Kagawa 2nd
- **party4**: Democratic Party For the People
- **last election4**: 28 seats
- **seats before4**: 27
- **seats4**: 28
- **1data4**: 4,243,282
- **2data4**: 7.52% (3.19pp)
- **3data4**: 5,572,951
- **4data4**: 9.73% (1.59pp)
- **leader5**: Sohei Kamiya
- **leader since5**: 17 March 2020
- **leaders seat5**: _Did not stand_
- **party5**: Sanseitō
- **last election5**: 3 seats
- **seats before5**: 2
- **seats5**: 15
- **seat change5**: 12
- **1data5**: 3,924,223
- **2data5**: 6.95% (4.45pp)
- **3data5**: 4,260,620
- **4data5**: 7.44% (4.01pp)
- **leader6**: Takahiro Anno
- **leader since6**: 8 May 2025
- **party6**: Team Mirai
- **leaders seat6**: _Did not stand_
- **last election6**: _Did not exist_
- **seats before6**: 0
- **seats6**: 11
- **seat change6**: 11
- **1data6**: 156,853
- **2data6**: 0.28% (_New_)
- **3data6**: 3,813,349
- **4data6**: 6.66% (_New_)
- **leader7**: Tomoko Tamura
- **party7**: Japanese Communist Party
- **leader since7**: 18 January 2024
- **leaders seat7**: Tokyo proportional representation block, Tokyo PR
- **last election7**: 8 seats
- **seats before7**: 8
- **seats7**: 4
- **seat change7**: 4
- **1data7**: 2,283,885
- **2data7**: 4.05% (2.76pp)
- **3data7**: 2,519,807
- **4data7**: 4.40% (1.76pp)
- **party8**: Tax Cuts Japan and Yukoku Alliance
- **leader8**: Kazuhiro Haraguchi
Takashi Kawamura (politician), Takashi Kawamura
- **leader since8**: 24 January 2026
- **leaders seat8**: Saga 1st district, Saga 1st
(_lost re-election_)
Aichi 1st district, Aichi 1st
- **last election8**: _Did not exist_
- **seats before8**: 5
- **seats8**: 1
- **seat change8**: 1
- **1data8**: 354,617
- **2data8**: 0.63% (_New_)
- **3data8**: 814,874
- **4data8**: 1.42% (_New_)
- **leader9**: Taro Yamamoto
- **party9**: Reiwa Shinsengumi
- **leaders seat9**: _Did not stand_
- **leader since9**: 1 April 2019
- **last election9**: 9 seats
- **seats before9**: 8
- **seats9**: 1
- **seat change9**: 8
- **1data9**: 255,496
- **2data9**: 0.45% (0.35pp)
- **3data9**: 1,672,499
- **4data9**: 2.92% (4.06pp)
- **map image**:
- **map caption**: List of Districts of the House of Representatives of Japan, Districts and PR districts
- **title**: Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister
- **before election**: Sanae Takaichi
- **before party**: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
- **after election**: Sanae Takaichi
- **after party**: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
- **elected members**: Representatives elected in the 2026 Japanese general election
- **outgoing members**: Representatives elected in the 2024 Japanese general election