2025 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election

The **2025 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election** was held on 4 October 2025 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

The election was called after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced that he would resign on 7 September 2025 as President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

In the first round of voting, Sanae Takaichi came in first place during the first round of voting with 31.07% of the vote. Shinjirō Koizumi came in second with 27.84% of the vote, meaning that both Koizumi and Takaichi advanced to the runoff. In the runoff, Takaichi garnered 54.25% of the vote against Koizumi, resulting in the election of the LDP's first woman president and most likely Japan's first woman Prime Minister.

### Declared

|colspan="2" style="width:110px;"|Candidate(s)|Date of birth|class="unsortable"|Current position|Party faction|Electoral district|class="unsortable"|Reference(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Yoshimasa Hayashi**|style="background:#CC0033|||Chief Cabinet Secretary Minister for Foreign Affairs Member of the House of Representatives||Yamaguchi 3rd|||
||**Takayuki Kobayashi**|style="background:#FF7900|||Member of the House of Representatives||Chiba 2nd||
|**Shinjirō Koizumi**|style="background:#9370DB|||Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Member of the House of Representatives||Kanagawa 11th district|||
|**Sanae Takaichi**|style="background:#438C15|||Member of the House of Representatives||Nara 2nd district|||
|**Toshimitsu Motegi**|style="background:#43b3ae|||Secretary–General of the Liberal Democratic Party Minister for Foreign Affairs Member of the House of Representatives||Tochigi 1st district|||

### Declined

- Shigeru Ishiba, incumbent Prime Minister (2024–present); Member of the House of Representatives (1986–present)
- Yōko Kamikawa, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2023–2024); Minister of Justice (2020–2021, 2017–2018, 2014–2015); Member of the House of Representatives (2000–2009, 2012–present)
- Katsunobu Katō, Minister of Finance (2024–present); Chief Cabinet Secretary (2020–2021); Member of the House of Representatives (2003–present) _(endorsed Koizumi)_
- Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister (2021–2024); Member of the House of Representatives (1993–present)
- Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation (2022–2024); Minister for Foreign Affairs (2017–2019); Member of the House of Representatives (1996–present) _(endorsed Koizumi)_
- Seiko Noda, Minister-in-charge of Measures against Declining Birthrate (2021–2022); Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (2017–2018); Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (1998–1999); Member of the House of Representatives (1993–present) _(endorsed Koizumi)_

## Polling

<section begin=Polling />
_(Figures in parentheses are approval ratings of Liberal Democratic Party supporters)_
|rowspan="2"|Fieldwork date|rowspan="2"|Polling firm|rowspan="2"|Sample size|class="unsortable"|Sanae Takaichi|class="unsortable"|Shinjirō Koizumi|class="unsortable"|Yoshimasa Hayashi|class="unsortable"|Takayuki Kobayashi|class="unsortable"|Toshimitsu Motegi|rowspan="2"|Others|rowspan="2"|/ /|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||NTV/JX|(1,210)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**(35)**|(28)|(23)|(5)|(4)|–|(5)||||||||||
||ANN|1,025 (340)|31 (24)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|**33 (41)**|14 (16)|3 (3)|5 (4)|–|14 (12)||||||||||
||Yomiuri|3,143 (519)|25 (28)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|**40 (41)**|16 (13)|5 (8)|4 (4)|–|10 (6)||||||||||
||Kyodo News|(1,044)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**(34.4)**|(29.3)|(19.5)|(3.8)|(5.2)|–|(7.8)||||||||||
||Nikkei/TV Tokyo|915 (284)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**34** (28)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|25 **(33)**|14 (20)|4 (3)|5 (6)|–|18 (9)|||||||||
||NTV/JX|(1,108)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**(34)**|(28)|(17)|(5)|(4)|–|(12)||||||||||
||Sankei/FNN|1,018 (284)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**28.3** (22.5)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|25.7 **(35.2)**|11.1 (18.6)|4 (4)|3.8 (5.3)|–|27 (14.4)|||||||||
||Asahi|1,176 (306)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**28** (24)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|24 **(41)**|9 (10)|5 (3)|4 (8)|–|style="background:#EEEEEE;"|**30** (14)||||||||
||Mainichi/SSRC|1,972 (375)|style="background:#d5f6c1"|**25** (22)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|21 **(40)**|10 (11)|2 (5)|3 (5)|4|style="background:#EEEEEE;"|**34** (17)||||||||
||NTV/JX|(1,010)|(28)|style="background:#d4c6f1"|**(32)**|(15)|(7)|(5)|–|(14)||||||||||
||Senkyo.com/JX|995|23.4|style="background:#d4c6f1"|**26.7**|14.1|3.8|6.5|–|25.4||||||||||

## Results

|rowspan="3" colspan="2"|Candidate|colspan="9"|First Round|colspan="7"|Runoff||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|style="background:#438C15;"||**Sanae Takaichi**|style="text-align:right"|64|style="text-align:right"|21.77%|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|**119**|style="text-align:right"|**40.34%**|style="text-align:right"|183|align="center"||style="text-align:right"|31.07%|style="text-align:right"|**149**|style="text-align:right"|**50.68%**|style="text-align:right"|**36**|style="text-align:right"|**76.60%**|style="text-align:right"|**185**|align="center"||style="text-align:right"|**54.25%**|
|style="background:#9370DB;"||Shinjirō Koizumi|style="text-align:right"|**80**|style="text-align:right"|**27.21%**|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|84|style="text-align:right"|28.48%|style="text-align:right"|164|align=center||style="text-align:right"|27.84%|style="text-align:right"|145|style="text-align:right"|49.32%|style="text-align:right"|11|style="text-align:right"|23.40%|style="text-align:right"|156|align="center"||style="text-align:right"|45.75%|
|style="background:#CC0033;"||Yoshimasa Hayashi|style="text-align:right"|72|style="text-align:right"|24.49%|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|62|style="text-align:right"|21.02%|style="text-align:right"|134|align=center||style="text-align:right"|22.75%|rowspan ="3" colspan="7"||||||||||||||
|style="background:#FF7900;"||Takayuki Kobayashi|style="text-align:right"|44|style="text-align:right"|14.97%|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|15|style="text-align:right"|5.08%|style="text-align:right"|59|align=center||style="text-align:right"|10.02%|||||||||||||||
|style="background:#43B3AE;"||Toshimitsu Motegi|style="text-align:right"|34|style="text-align:right"|11.56%|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|15|style="text-align:right"|5.08%|style="text-align:right"|49|align=center||style="text-align:right"|8.32%|||||||||||||||
|colspan="2"|**Valid votes**|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|||
|colspan="2"|Invalid and blank votes|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|||
|colspan="2"|**Turnout**|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|||
|colspan="2"|Registered voters|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:right"|||

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2025 Liberal Democratic Party leadership election
- **flag image**: 自民党Logo.svg
- **type**: primary
- **votes for election**: 590 delegates (first round), 342 delegates (second round)
- **needed votes**: Majority of delegate
- **vote type**: Caucus
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election
- **previous year**: 2024
- **election date**: 4 October 2025
- **1blank**: LDP National Diet, MPs
- **2blank**: Prefectural votes
- **3blank**: Total
- **4blank**: First round
- **5blank**: Runoff vote
- **1blank**: LDP National Diet, MPs
- **2blank**: Prefectural votes
- **3blank**: Total
- **4blank**: First round
- **5blank**: Runoff vote
- **candidate1**: **Sanae Takaichi**
- **image1**:
- **colour1**: 438C15
- **candidate2**: Shinjirō Koizumi
- **image2**:
- **colour2**: 9370DB
- **candidate3**: Yoshimasa Hayashi
- **image3**:
- **colour3**: CC0033
- **title**: President
- **before election**: Shigeru Ishiba
- **after election**: Sanae Takaichi
- **4data1**: **183 (31.07%)**
- **4data2**: 164 (27.84%)
- **4data3**: 134 (22.75%)
- **5data1**: **185 (54.25%)**
- **5data2**: 156 (45.75%)
- **5data3**: _Eliminated_