2006 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election

2006 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election

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Candidate Shinzo Abe Tarō Asō Sadakazu Tanigaki LDP  MPs 267 69 66 Party members 197 67 36 Total 464 136 102

President before election Junichiro Koizumi Elected President Shinzo Abe

The 2006 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 20 September 2006 after the incumbent party leader and Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi announced his intention to resign, a year after he led the party to landslide victory in the 2005 snap general election.

Shinzo Abe won the election, ^[1] (only to resign a year later triggering another leadership election). His chief competitors for the position were Sadakazu Tanigaki and Tarō Asō. Yasuo Fukuda was a leading early contender, but ultimately chose not to run. Former Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori, to whose faction both Abe and Fukuda belonged, stated that the faction strongly leant toward Abe. ^[2] Abe was subsequently elected Prime Minister with 339 of 475 votes in the National Diet's lower house and a majority in the upper house. ^[3]

Candidates

Declared

Candidate(s)		Date of birth	Current position	Party faction	Electoral district
Shinzo Abe		(1954-09-21)21 September 1954 (age 51)	Member of the House of Representatives (since 1993) Chief Cabinet Secretary (since 2005) Previous offices held Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (2003–2004)	Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai (Machimura)	Yamaguchi 4th
Tarō Asō		(1940-09-20)20 September 1940 (age 66)	Member of the House of Representatives (1979–1983, since 1986) Minister for Foreign Affairs (since 2005) Previous offices held Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (2003–2005)	Ikōkai (Asō)	Fukuoka 8th
Sadakazu Tanigaki		(1945-03-07)7 March 1945 (age 61)	Member of the House of Representatives (since 1983) Minister of Finance (since 2003) Other offices Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission (2002–2003)	Kōchikai (Koga)	Kyoto 5th

Results

Full result

Candidate	Diet members		Party members		Total
	Votes	%	Allocated votes	%	Votes		%
Shinzo Abe	267	66.4%	197	65.7%	464		66.1%
Tarō Asō	69	17.2%	67	22.3%	136		19.4%
Sadakazu Tanigaki	66	16.4%	36	12.0%	102		14.5%
Grand Total	402	100.0%	300	100.0%	702		100.0%

References

1. Shinzō Abe to Succeed Koizumi as Japan's Next Prime Minister Bloomberg
2. Mori faction unease mounts / Ex-premier stumped over Abe, Fukuda and party leadership race Daily Yomiuri
3. Abe elected as new Japan premier , BBC News. Accessed 26 September 2006.