2021 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election

The **2021 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election** was held on 29 September 2021 to elect the next President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. The winner of the election is expected to lead the party in the upcoming 2021 Japanese general election. Current party President and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on September 3 that he would not run for re-election. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida was elected party leader and became Prime Minister on 4 October.

### Declared

|colspan="2" style="width:150px;"|Candidate(s)|class="unsortable"|Notable positions|Party faction(s)|District(s)|Announced|class="unsortable"|Reference(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Fumio Kishida**|style="background:#B61B28||Member of the House of Representatives Minister of Foreign Affairs Acting Defense Minister|Kōchikai|Hiroshima 1st district|26 August|||
|**Sanae Takaichi**|style="background:#228B22||Member of the House of Representatives Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications||Nara 2nd district|26 August|||
|**Taro Kono**|style="background:#FFA500||Member of the House of Representatives Chair of the National Public Safety Commission Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister of Defense Minister for Administrative Reform & Regulatory Reform|Shikōkai|Kanagawa's 15th district|3 September|||
|**Seiko Noda**|style="background:#9370db||Member of the House of Representatives Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications||Gifu 1st district|5 September|||

### Withdrawn

|colspan="2" style="width:110px;"|Candidate(s)|class="unsortable"|Notable positions|Party faction(s)|District(s)|Announced|Withdrew|class="unsortable"|Reference(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Yoshihide Suga**|style="background:#f2ba42||**Prime Minister** Member of the House of Representatives||Kanagawa 2nd district|17 July|3 September|||

## Results

|rowspan="3" colspan="2"|Candidate|colspan="8"|1st Round|colspan="6"|2nd Round||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Fumio Kishida|style="background:#B61B28;"||style="text-align:right"|**146**|style="text-align:right"|**38.42**|style="text-align:right"|219,338|style="text-align:right"|28.86|style="text-align:right"|110|style="text-align:right"|28.80|style="text-align:right"|**256**|style="text-align:right"|**33.60**|style="text-align:right"|**249**|style="text-align:right"|**65.53**|style="text-align:right"|8|style="text-align:right"|17.02|style="text-align:right"|**257**|style="text-align:right"|**60.19**|
|Taro Kono|style="background:#FFA500;"||style="text-align:right"|86|style="text-align:right"|22.63|style="text-align:right"|**335,046**|style="text-align:right"|**44.08**|style="text-align:right"|**169**|style="text-align:right"|**44.24**|style="text-align:right"|255|style="text-align:right"|33.46|style="text-align:right"|131|style="text-align:right"|34.47|style="text-align:right"|**39**|style="text-align:right"|**82.98**|style="text-align:right"|170|style="text-align:right"|39.81|
|Sanae Takaichi|style="background:#228B22;"||style="text-align:right"|114|style="text-align:right"|30.00|style="text-align:right"|147,764|style="text-align:right"|19.44|style="text-align:right"|74|style="text-align:right"|19.37|style="text-align:right"|188|style="text-align:right"|24.67|colspan="6"||||||||||||
|Seiko Noda|style="background:#9370DB;"||style="text-align:right"|34|style="text-align:right"|8.95|style="text-align:right"|57,927|style="text-align:right"|7.62|style="text-align:right"|29|style="text-align:right"|7.59|style="text-align:right"|63|style="text-align:right"|8.27|colspan="6"||||||||||||

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2021 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election
- **flag image**: Liberal Democratic Party of Japan logo.svg
- **type**: legislative
- **votes for election**: 535 delegates in total
- **needed votes**: 268 or more delegate
- **vote type**: Caucus
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2020 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election
- **previous year**: 2020
- **next election**: 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
- **next year**: 2024
- **election date**: 29 September 2021
- **map caption**: 2021 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Leadership election round 1,2
- **1blank**: LDP National Diet, MPs
- **2blank**: Prefectural votes
- **3blank**: Total
- **4blank**: First round
- **5blank**: Runoff
- **image1**:
- **candidate1**: Fumio Kishida
- **color1**: B61B28
- **leaders seat1**: List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan#Hiroshima Prefecture (7 seats), Hiroshima-1st
- **4data1**: **256 (33.6%)**
- **5data1**: **257 (60.2%)**
- **image2**:
- **candidate2**: Taro Kono
- **color2**: FFA500
- **leaders seat2**: List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan#Kanagawa Prefecture (18 districts), Kanagawa-15th
- **4data2**: 255 (33.4%)
- **5data2**: 170 (39.8%)
- **image4**:
- **candidate4**: Sanae Takaichi
- **color4**: 228B22
- **leaders seat4**: Nara 2nd district, Nara-2nd
- **4data4**: 114 (24.6%)
- **5data4**: _Eliminated_
- **image5**:
- **candidate5**: Seiko Noda
- **color5**: 9370DB
- **leaders seat5**: Gifu 1st district, Gifu-1st
- **4data5**: 63 (8.2%)
- **5data5**: _Eliminated_
- **title**: President
- **before election**: Yoshihide Suga
- **after election**: Fumio Kishida