Next Japanese general election
The next Japanese general elections are scheduled on or before 31 October 2025, as required by the constitution. Voting will take place in all Representatives constituencies including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet has to resign after a general House of Representatives election in the first post-election Diet session (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election will also lead to a new designation election of the Prime Minister in the Diet, and the  appointment of a new cabinet (even if the same ministers are re-appointed). Reapportionment. The electoral district will be readjusted according to the results of the 2020 Japan census. Originally, it was intended to readjust in the last election, but it was held in the existing constituencies not long after the census results came out. Newly created seats. Ten new districts and three new block seats will be created. Seats to be eliminated. Ten districts and three block seats will be eliminated.