President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

The  is the highest position within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. The current holder of the position is Sanae Takaichi, who was elected to the position 4 October 2025, following her victory in the party's presidential election, becoming the first female president of the party.

## Presidents of the party

|rowspan="2"|No.|rowspan="2"|President|rowspan="2" class="unsortable"|Portrait|rowspan="2"|Constituency or _title_|rowspan="2"|Took office|rowspan="2"|Left office|rowspan="2"|Election results|colspan="4"|Government||
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|colspan="11" style="background:lightblue;"|**Preceding parties:  Liberal Party (1950) and Democratic Party (1954)**||||||||||||||||
|**Ichirō Hatoyama**||Rep for Tokyo 1st|rowspan="4"|15 November 1955|rowspan="3"|5 April 1956|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|_None_|style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||
|**Bukichi Miki**||Rep for Kagawa 1st|rowspan="4" style="background-color: "||rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|Hatoyama I.|rowspan="4"||||||||
|**Banboku Ōno**||Rep for Gifu 1st|||||||||||||||
|**Taketora Ogata**||Rep for Fukuoka 1st|28 January 1956||||||||||||||
|**Tsuruhei Matsuno**||Cou for Kumamoto|10 February 1956|5 April 1956|||||||||||||
|**Ichirō Hatoyama**||Rep for Tokyo 1st|5 April 1956|14 December 1956|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Tanzan Ishibashi**||Rep for Shizuoka 2nd|14 December 1956|21 March 1957|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Nobusuke Kishi**||Rep for Yamaguchi 1st|21 March 1957|14 July 1960|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Hayato Ikeda**||Rep for Hiroshima 2nd|14 July 1960|1 December 1964|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Eisaku Satō**||Rep for Yamaguchi 2nd|1 December 1964|5 July 1972|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Kakuei Tanaka**||Rep for Niigata 3rd|5 July 1972|4 December 1974|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Takeo Miki**||Rep for Tokushima at-large|4 December 1974|23 December 1976|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Takeo Fukuda**||Rep for Gunma 3rd|23 December 1976|1 December 1978|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Masayoshi Ōhira**||Rep for Kagawa 2nd|1 December 1978|12 June 1980|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**_Eiichi Nishimura** _||_Rep for Ōita 2nd_|_12 June 1980_|_15 July 1980_|align="center"|_Acting_|style="background-color: "|||_(Ito M.)_|||||||
|**Zenkō Suzuki**||Rep for Iwate 1st|15 July 1980|25 November 1982|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Yasuhiro Nakasone**||Rep for Gunma 3rd|25 November 1982|31 October 1987|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Noboru Takeshita**||Rep for Shimane at-large|31 October 1987|2 June 1989|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Sōsuke Uno**||Rep for Shiga at-large|2 June 1989|8 August 1989|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Toshiki Kaifu**||Rep for Aichi 3rd|8 August 1989|30 October 1991|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Kiichi Miyazawa**||Rep for Hiroshima 3rd|31 October 1991|29 July 1993|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|rowspan="3"|**Yōhei Kōno**|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Rep for Kanagawa 5th|rowspan="3"|29 July 1993|rowspan="3"|1 October 1995|rowspan="3" align="left"||style="background-color: "|||Hosokawa||
|style="background-color: "|||Hata||||||||||||||
|style="background-color: ; border-bottom:solid 0 gray"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Murayama _(coalition)_|rowspan="2"|||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**Ryutaro Hashimoto**|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Rep for Okayama 4th|rowspan="2"|1 October 1995|rowspan="2"|24 July 1998|rowspan="2" align="left"||height="20" style="background-color: ; border-top:solid 0 gray"|||||
|style="background-color: "|||_himself_||||||||||||||
|**Keizō Obuchi**||Rep for Gunma 5th|24 July 1998|5 April 2000|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Yoshirō Mori**||Rep for Ishikawa 2nd|5 April 2000|24 April 2001|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Junichiro Koizumi**||Rep for Kanagawa 11th|24 April 2001|20 September 2006|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Shinzo Abe**||Rep for Yamaguchi 4th|20 September 2006|23 September 2007|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Yasuo Fukuda**||Rep for Gunma 4th|23 September 2007|22 September 2008|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Tarō Asō**||Rep for Fukuoka 8th|22 September 2008|28 September 2009|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|rowspan="3"|**Sadakazu Tanigaki**|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Rep for Kyoto 5th|rowspan="3"|28 September 2009|rowspan="3"|26 September 2012|rowspan="3" align="left"||style="background-color: "|||Hatoyama Y.||
|style="background-color: "|||Kan||||||||||||||
|style="background-color: ; border-bottom:solid 0 gray"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Noda|rowspan="2"|||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|**Shinzo Abe**|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Rep for Yamaguchi 4th|rowspan="2"|26 September 2012|rowspan="2"|14 September 2020|rowspan="2" align="left"||height="20" style="background-color: ; border-top:solid 0 gray"|||||
|style="background-color: "|||_himself_||||||||||||||
|**Yoshihide Suga**||Rep for Kanagawa 2nd|14 September 2020|29 September 2021|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Fumio Kishida**||Rep for Hiroshima 1st|29 September 2021|27 September 2024|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Shigeru Ishiba**||Rep for Tottori 1st|27 September 2024|4 October 2025|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_himself_|||||||
|**Sanae Takaichi**||Rep for Nara 2nd|4 October 2025|_Incumbent_|align="left"||style="background-color: "|||_herself_|||||||

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: President
- **insignia**: 自民党Logo.svg
- **image**: Sanae Takaichi portrait (HD) (cropped 2).jpg
- **type**: Party leader
- **incumbent**: Sanae Takaichi
- **incumbentsince**: 4 October 2025
- **formation**: 5 April 1956
- **inaugural**: Ichirō Hatoyama
- **body**: the Liberal Democratic Party
- **insigniacaption**: Logo for the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party
- **native name**:

- **deputy**: Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Vice President
Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party, Secretary-General
- **department**: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party
- **termlength**: Three years,
- **termlength qualified**: renewable twice consecutively