2012 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election

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2012 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election
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  2009 26 September 2012 2015  
  Shinzo Abe 20120501 (cropped).jpg Shigeru Ishiba 20151007 (cropped).jpg Isihara Nobuteru 2012.jpg
Candidate Shinzo Abe Shigeru Ishiba Nobuteru Ishihara
Leader's seat Yamaguchi 4th Tottori 1st Tokyo 8th
First round141 (28.37%)199 (40.04%)96 (19.32%)
Runoff vote108 (54.82%)89 (45.18%)Eliminated

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President before election

Sadakazu Tanigaki

Elected President

Shinzo Abe

A presidential election was held on 26 September 2012 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party for a new 3-year term.

Contents

Background

The leadership election was held on September 26, 2012, when Sadakazu Tanigaki's term of office expired.Three years after last general election, support for the ruling Democratic Party had been weak, and this election had attracted a lot of attention as it was expected to change power in the upcoming general election.

Candidates

At first, it seemed to be a battle centered on the incumbent Tanigaki who showed strong desire for re-election, but as mentioned earlier, it became a presidential election to elect a leading candidate for "next prime minister," so many lawmakers showed their willingness. It was described as a different aspect from the previous factional elections, and "the decline in the power of factions was highlighted". [1] [2]

Declared

Candidate(s)Date of birthCurrent positionParty faction Electoral district
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Shinzo Abe
21 September 1954
(age 58)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1993)
Previous offices held
Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai
(Machimura)
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Yamaguchi 4th
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Shigeru Ishiba
4 February 1957
(age 55)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1986)
Previous offices held
None
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Tottori 1st
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Nobuteru Ishihara
17 April 1957
(age 55)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1990)
Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party
(since 2010)
Previous offices held
Kinmirai Seiji Kenkyūkai
(Yamasaki)
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Tokyo 8th
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Nobutaka Machimura
17 October 1944
(age 67)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1983)
Previous offices held
Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai
(Machimura)
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Hokkaido 5th
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Yoshimasa Hayashi
19 January 1961
(age 51)
Member of the House of Councillors
(since 1995)
Previous offices held
Kōchikai
(Koga)
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Yamaguchi at-large

Withdrawn

Candidate(s)Date of birthCurrent positionsParty factionElectoral District
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Sadakazu Tanigaki
7 March 1945
(age 67)
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
(since 2009)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 1983)
Kōchikai
(Koga)
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Kyoto 5th

Recommenders

List of recommenders
CandidatesShinzo AbeShigeru IshibaNobutaka MachimuraNobuteru IshiharaYoshimasa Hayashi
Leader of recommenders Hakubun Shimomura Ichirō Kamoshita Seiko Hashimoto Ryotaro Tanose Koichi Kishi
Person in charge Akira Amari Hiroshi Kajiyama Hiroyuki Hosoda Toshimitsu Motegi Yoichi Miyazawa
Recommenders Kenya Akiba Masatoshi Ishida Taro Kimura Shinji Inoue Yasushi Kaneko
Tomomi Inada Masazumi Gotoda Shigeo Kitamura Itsunori Onodera Seigo Kitamura
Masahiro Imamura Ken Saitō Ryū Shionoya Yūko Obuchi Takuya Hirai
Taku Eto Norihisa Tamura Tsuyoshi Takagi Kazuyoshi Kaneko Teru Fukui
Katsunobu Kato Masaaki Taira Tsutomu Takebe Fumio Kishida Norio Mitsuya
Katsuyuki Kawai Naokazu Takemoto Yaichi Tanigawa Tetsushi Sakamoto Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi
Minoru Kiuchi Keiichiro Tachibana Hiroshi Hase Isshu Sugawara Yoshio Mochizuki
Genichiro Sata Koichi Tani Hirokazu Matsuno Wataru Takeshita Kozo Yamamoto
Masahiko Shibayama Gen Nakatani Mitsuhide Iwaki Akira Nishino Jiro Aichi
Yoshitaka Shindō Keiko Nagaoka Naoki Okada Takeshi Noda Yoshihiko Isozaki
Sanae Takaichi Shunichi Yamaguchi Yoriko Kawaguchi Motoo Hayashi Kuniko Inoguchi
Keiji Furuya Taku Yamamoto Seiji Suzuki Katsuei Hirasawa Yoshito Kajiya
Haruko Arimura Hiroo Ishii Chūichi Date Midori Ishii Genjiro Kaneko
Yōsuke Isozaki Satsuki Katayama Gaku Hasegawa Masaharu Nakagawa Yutaka Kumagai
Hiroshige Sekō Kenji Kosaka Masako Mori Hirohiko Nakamura Yōsuke Tsuruho
Ichiro Tsukada Masahisa Sato Masaaki Yamazaki Tetsuro Nomura Motoyuki Fujii
Shoji Nishida Yūsuke Nakanishi Junzo Yamamoto Hiromi Yoshida Seiji Matsuyama
Shinpei Matsushita Junko Mihara Kenta Wakabayashi Masashi Waki Toshiei Mizuochi

Results

Full result
Candidate1st Round2nd Round
Diet membersParty membersTotalDiet members
Votes%Popular votesAllocated votes%Votes%Votes%
Shinzo Abe 5427.41140,6688729.00141
28.37108
54.82
Shigeru Ishiba 3417.26233,37616555.00199
40.0489
45.18
Nobuteru Ishihara 5829.4474,5523812.6796
19.32Eliminated
Nobutaka Machimura 2713.7126,46372.3334
6.84Eliminated
Yoshimasa Hayashi 2412.1816,24631.0027
5.43Eliminated
Total197100.00491,305300100.00497100.00197100.00

Ishiba overtook the other candidates to take first place, but failed to win a majority of the votes and ended up in a runoff vote with Abe, the runner-up. As a result of the runoff vote, Abe reversed Ishiba and was elected. [3]

References

  1. 日本テレビ. "自民党総裁選 派閥内調整は難航|日テレNEWS24". 日テレNEWS24 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  2. "自民総裁選、地方票集め混戦模様に". 日本経済新聞 電子版 (in Japanese). 14 September 2012. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  3. "【自民総裁選】挫折経験を胸に、茨の道に切り込む新総裁". Sankei Shinbun. Archived from the original on 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2022-11-11.