2018 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election

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2018 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election
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Candidate Shinzo Abe Shigeru Ishiba
Leader's seat Yamaguchi 4th Tottori 1st
LDP MPs 329 (81.84%)73 (18.16%)
Members224 (55.31%)181 (44.69%)
Total votes553 (68.53%)254 (31.47%)
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Election results
President before election

Shinzo Abe

Elected President

Shinzo Abe

A presidential election was held on 20 September 2018 to elect the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan for a new 3-year term. Incumbent president Shinzo Abe was running for re-election after a rule change in 2017 that allowed him to run for a third term. [1]

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Abe's subsequent victory [2] led to him staying as prime minister for just under two years. In this time, on 22 November 2019, he broke the record for the nation's longest-serving prime ministership previously held by Taro Katsura, who had served three times between 1901 and 1913. He also served the longest uninterrupted term by 24 August 2020, ahead of Eisaku Satō's 2,797 days, before resigning four days later.

Background

Scandals

In March 2018, it was revealed that the Finance Ministry (with finance minister Tarō Asō at its head) had falsified documents presented to the parliament in relation to the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, to remove 14 passages implicating Abe. [3] It has been suggested that the scandal could cost Abe his seat as the Liberal Democratic Party's leader. [3] A Kyodo poll showed the Japanese government popularity's has fallen as low as 30% from 44% in February. [4]

Candidates

Nominated

Candidate(s)Date of birthNotable positionsParty faction(s)District(s)AnnouncedReference(s)
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Shinzo Abe 		21 September 1954
(age 63)		President of the LDP (2006-2007, since 2012)
Prime Minister (2006–2007, since 2012)
Member of the House of Representatives (since 1993)
Chief Cabinet Secretary (2005–2006)		None
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Yamaguchi 4th district 		26 August [5]
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Shigeru Ishiba 		4 February 1957
(age 61)		Member of the House of Representatives (since 1986)
Defense Minister (2007–2008)
2008, 2012 LDP leadership candidate 		Suigetsukai
(Ishiba)
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Tottori 1st district 		1 September [6] [7]

Supporters

List of Supporters
CandidatesShinzo Abe [8] Shigeru Ishiba [9]
Leader of Supporters Seiko Hashimoto Hidehisa Otsuji
Campaign Manager Akira Amari Yoshihisa Furukawa
Supporters Hirotaka Ishihara
Seishiro Eto
Toshiaki Endo
Toshitaka Ōoka
Tetsushi Sakamoto
Katsuei Hirasawa
Noriko Horiuchi
Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi
Hiromichi Watanabe
Shigeharu Aoyama
Haruko Arimura
Masahisa Sato
Emiko Takashina
Yoshifumi Tsuge
Ichiro Tsukada
Takashi Hanyuda
Toru Miki
Toshiei Mizuochi 		Junichi Ishii
Yoshifumi Matsumura
Kazuhiko Aoki
Saburo Shimada
Shoji Maitate
Satoshi Nakanishi
Seiichiro Murakami
Gen Nakatani
Kisaburo Tokai
Keiichiro Tachibana
Tatsuya Ito
Norihisa Tamura
Ryosei Akazawa
Masaaki Taira
Mamoru Fukuyama
Yoshinori Tadokoro
Saichi Kamiyama
Hiroyuki Togashi

Expressed intention but did not have enough supporters for nomination

Speculative

Declined

Results

Full result
CandidateMPsParty membersTotal
Votes %Popular votesAllocated votes %Votes %
Shinzo Abe 当32981.84%355,48722455.31%553
68.53%
Shigeru Ishiba 7318.16%286,00318144.69%254
31.47%
Total402100.00%641,490405100.00%807100.00%

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