2001 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election

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2001 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election
 200024 April 2001 (2001-04-24)2003 
  Junichiro Koizumi 20010426 (cropped 2).jpg Ryutaro Hashimoto cropped 2 Ryutaro Hashimoto 19960111.jpg
Candidate Junichiro Koizumi Ryutaro Hashimoto
Diet vote175140
Prefectural vote12315
Total298155

  Taro Aso 20031119.jpg Shizuka Kamei 1996.jpg
Candidate Taro Aso Shizuka Kamei
Diet vote31-
Prefectural vote0-
Total31Withdrew

President before election

Yoshiro Mori

Elected President

Junichiro Koizumi

The 2001 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 24 April 2001 to elect the President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

Contents

Overview

On 10 March 2001, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori summoned the five top LDP officials to his office. At this meeting, Mori stated that "we will bring forward this autumn's LDP presidential election", effectively announcing his resignation. [1] On March 13, at the LDP convention held at the Nippon Budokan, Mori announced, "We will hold an early presidential election". [2] With the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election looming in June, the LDP's Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members issued a protest statement expressing dissatisfaction with Mori's "confusing resignation announcement". However, with the convention over, the LDP began the process of electing the next president. [1] Koizumi was elected.

Koizumi's term expired in September of that year, the remainder of Mori's term. Mori asked Koga to "increase the local votes," and Koga replied, "I'll do it because it's the president's order," increasing the prefectural vote count from one to three. [3] Shizuka Kamei, who had been running, concluded a policy agreement with Junichiro Koizumi and withdrew from the general election, supporting Koizumi instead (though after the election, Koizumi unilaterally reneged on all policy agreements). [4] [5] The date for the presidential election was then set for September, when the term of office expired. However, as a special measure, the party asked party members in the Diet whether they wanted to run prior to the announcement. Only one (Junichiro Koizumi) expressed interest in running. Therefore, Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected without a vote, and at the general meeting of both houses of the National Diet, which replaced the party convention on 10 August 2001, Junichiro Koizumi was reappointed as President.

Prefectural votes, which correspond to local votes, were expanded from one to three. Local primaries were held in 45 prefectures, excluding Hiroshima and Yamaguchi. The prefectural votes were awarded using a winner-take-all system, with the top candidate in the prefectural primary receiving three votes.

Campaign

Candidates

CandidateTaro AsoRyutaro HashimotoShizuka KameiJunichiro Koizumi
Taro Aso 20031119.jpg Ryutaro Hashimoto 2000.jpg Shizuka Kamei 2009.jpg Junichiro Koizumi 20010426 (cropped).jpg
ExperienceMember of the House of Representatives

(Fukuoka 8th district) Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy (2000-2001)

Member of the House of Representatives

Okayama 4th districtPrime Minister (1996-1998)

Member of the House of Representatives

Hiroshima 6th districtLiberal Democratic Party Policy Research Council (1999-2001)

Member of the House of Representatives

Kanagawa 11th districtMinister of Health, Labour and Welfare (1996-1998)

Faction Shikōkai Heisei Kenkyūkai Shisuikai Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai
Home prefecture Fukuoka Prefecture Okayama Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture
List of endorsements
CandidateTaro AsoRyutaro HashimotoShizuka KameiJunichiro Koizumi
Endorser Hideyuki Aizawa Osamu Takatori  [ ja ] Yasuhiro Nakasone Masajuro Shiokawa
Yozo Ishikawa Hiromu Nonaka Takami Eto Hiroshi Mitsuzuka
Tsuneo Suzuki Fumio Kyūma Shizuo Satō Shozaburo Nakamura
Eisuke Mori Hosei Norota Keiji Furuya Kosuke Ito
Katsuhito Asano Tadahiro Matsushita Takeo Kawamura Kayoko Shimizu  [ ja ]
Takeshi Iwaya Takamori Yoshikawa Toshikatsu Matsuoka Kunishige Kamamoto
Hideo Usui Makoto Taki Kōki Kobayashi Hiroo Nakashima
Norihiko Akagi Masatoshi Kurata Yukihiro Yoshida  [ ja ] Taku Yamasaki
Akira Shichijo Yūko Obuchi Isao Matsumiya Yoshiyuki Kamei
Seiko Noda Juro Saito Yoshitake Masuhara Akira Amari
Mayumi Moriyama Shigenobu Sakano Shonosuke Hayashi Kisaburō Tokai
Yoshiro Hayashi Yutaka Okano Kyoko Nishikawa Kazunori Tanaka
Shunichi Suzuki Mitsuhiro Uesugi Hiroyuki Kurata Toshio Yamauchi
Kazuna Matsumoto Ryotaro Sudo Yasushi Kano Koichi Kato
Hiroyuki Arai Shuntaro Kageyama Sanzo Hosaka Teiichi Tanigaki
Hiroyuki Morishita Yuya Niwa Tsukako Ohno Gen Nakatani
Shunichi Yamaguchi Yoshitaka Murata Hirohide Uozumi Koichi Kishi
Hachiro Okonogi Kazuzo Miyamoto Tomoharu Yoda Jun Iwasaki
Yasukazu Hamada Ichiro Ichikawa Taro Nakayama Makiko Tanaka
Shozo Konoike Keisuke Sunada Hideki Miyazaki Masayoshi Hirasawa

Results

Total votesDiet votesPrefectural votes
Junichiro Koizumi 298 votes175 votes123 votes
Ryutaro Hashimoto 155 votes140 votes15 votes
Taro Aso 31 votes31 votes0 votes
Shizuka Kamei Withdrew after prefectural vote counting
Blank vote3 votes0 votes3 votes

References

  1. 1 2 『平成政治史 2』, pp. 162–163.
  2. 山崎拓 (29 July 2016). "山崎拓がいま明かす、「小泉純一郎総理誕生秘録」". 現代ビジネス (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. 五百旗頭真伊藤元重薬師寺克行 『森喜朗 自民党と政権交代』 朝日新聞社、2007年、276頁。 ISBN   978-4022503381
  4. Kamei, Shizuka (2014). 晋三よ! 国滅ぼしたもうことなかれ :(傘張り浪人決起する)[Shinzo! Don't destroy the country again! (Umbrella-holding ronin rise up)] (in Japanese). Media Pal. p. 149. ISBN   978-4896108422.
  5. Bungei Shunjū February 2018 issue, pages 273-274: The 2005 General Election Was a Fight with Junichiro, Shizuka Kamei

Further reading