2021 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election

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2021 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (2020).svg
  2020 30 November 2021 2024  

572 points for the first round
286 points needed to avoid a runoff
  Kenta Izumi 2022-6-26 (cropped).jpg Seiji Osaka 201101 (cropped 3).jpg
Candidate Kenta Izumi Seiji Osaka
Leader's seatRep for Kyoto-3rd Rep for Hokkaido-8th
First Round189 (33.0%)148 (25.9%)
Runoff205 (61.6%)128 (38.4%)

  Junya Ogawa 2009.jpg Chinami Honda cropped 1 Chinami Honda 200909.jpg
Candidate Junya Ogawa Chinami Nishimura
Leader's seatRep for Kagawa-1st Rep for Niigata-1st
First Round133 (23.3%)102 (17.8%)
RunoffEliminatedEliminated

Leader before election

Yukio Edano

Elected Leader

Kenta Izumi

The 2021 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election took place on 30 November 2021 to elect the next president of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan after the inaugural leader of the party, Yukio Edano, announced his intention to resign as party leader citing the party's poor performance in the 2021 general election. [1]

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Background

Founded in October 2017 as a split from the Democratic Party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan achieved the status of the opposition's largest force after the 2017 general election, when it became the second largest party in the Diet, with 55 seats in the House of Representatives. In September 2020, the party was re-established following a merger with most of the DPP and SDP caucuses, and some independent lawmakers. After the merger, the number of seats rose to 110.

In order to increase the weight of the opposition, the CDP decided to establish joint candidacies with three other progressive parties (JCP, SDP and Reiwa Shinsengumi) in most of the electoral districts for the 2021 general election. Although the cooperation strategy and a slight increase in votes for the party had led to an increase in the seats obtained compared to 2017 (from 55 to 96), these were still inferior to the number of seats held by the party before the vote (110). Furthermore, the majority of polls predicted better results for the CDP. Therefore, Yukio Edano decided to step down, so that a new leadership could reorganize the party in view of the elections for the Upper House in the summer of 2022.

Timeline

2021

Candidates

Candidate(s)Date of birthCurrent positionParty faction Electoral district
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Kenta Izumi
29 July 1974
(age 47)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 2003)
Previous offices held
Shin Seiken Kenkyūkai
(Izumi)
Flag of Kyoto Prefecture.svg
Kyoto 3rd district
Seiji Osaka 201101 (cropped).jpg
Seiji Osaka
27 April 1959
(age 62)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 2005)
Previous offices held
Sanctuary
(Kondō)
Flag of Hokkaido Prefecture.svg
Hokkaido 8th district
Chinami Honda cropped 1 Chinami Honda 200909.jpg
Chinami Nishimura
13 January 1967
(age 54)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 2003)
Previous offices held
Kuni no Katachi Kenkyūkai
(Kan)
Flag of Niigata Prefecture.svg
Niigata 1st district
Junya Ogawa 2009.jpg
Junya Ogawa
18 April 1971
(age 50)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 2005)
Previous offices held
Sanctuary
(Kondō)
Flag of Kagawa Prefecture.svg
Kagawa-1st

Declined

Candidate(s)Date of birthCurrent positionParty faction Electoral district
Hiroshi Ogushi.jpg
Hiroshi Ogushi [2] [3]
31 August 1965
(age 56)
Member of the House of Representatives
(since 2005)
Previous offices held
  • Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance (2009–2010)
  • Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet Office (2011–2012)
  • Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Reconstruction (2012)
  • Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (2012)
Flag of Saga Prefecture.svg
Saga 2nd district

Recommenders

List of recommenders [4]
CandidateSeiji OsakaJunya OgawaKenta IzumiChinami Nishimura
Recommenders Kaori Ishikawa
Kureha Otsuki
Shoichi Kondo
Kaname Tsutsumi
Daiki Michishita
Tatsumaru Yamaoka
Michiyoshi Yunoki
Yoshifu Arita
Takashi Esaki
Masahito Ozawa
Kenji Katsube
Makiko Kishi
Yoshitaka Saito
Maiko Tajima
Masayoshi Nataniya
Shinkun Haku
Yoshio Hachiro
Shunichi Mizuoka
Takashi Moriya
Tadatomo Yoshida
Yoichiro Aoyagi
Shunsuke Ito
Shuji Inatomi
Hiroshi Ogushi
Soichiro Okuno
Takayuki Ochiai
Saori Kamata
Makiko Kikuta
Kentaro Genma
Kazuya Kondo
Shu Sakurai
Takeshi Shina
Yoichi Shiraishi
Yosuke Suzuki
Kaname Tajima
Yoshio Tezuka
Manabu Terada
Katsuhito Nakajima
Kazuma Nakatani
Hajime Yatagawa
Shunji Yuhara
Hiroyuki Konishi
Ayaka Shiomura
Hiroyuki Nagahama
Kuniyoshi Noda
Yamato Aoyama
Yutaka Arai
Nobuhiko Isaka
Takeshi Kozu
Yuichi Goto
Koji Sato
Go Shinohara
Mitsu Shimojo
Seiichi Suetsugu
Yoshinori Suematsu
Hisashi Tokunaga
Takeshi Noma
Akio Fukuda
Sumio Mabuchi
Toshikazu Morita
Katsuhiko Yamada
Kazunori Yamanoi
Tsunehiko Yoshida
Eiji Kidoguchi
Yukimasa Koga
Masayo Tanabu
Jiro Hata
Hiroe Makiyama
Shinji Morimoto
Takanori Yokosawa
Tomoko Abe
Masako Okawara
Akiko Okamoto
Nobuhiro Koyama
Naoto Kan
Takashi Shinohara
Masaharu Nakagawa
Hiroyuki Moriyama
Makoto Yamazaki
Harumi Yoshida
Yuki Waseda
So Watanabe
Noriko Ishigaki
Taiga Ishikawa
Michihiro Ishibashi
Sakura Uchikoshi
Ryohei Kawata
Hideya Sugio
Hiroto Kumagai
Yuichi Mayama

Opinion polls

Fieldwork datePolling firmSample size Kenta Izumi Seiji Osaka Chinami Nishimura Junya Ogawa Hiroshi Ogushi Kenji Eda Sumio Mabuchi Kōichirō Genba Renhō Akira Nagatsuma Katsuya Okada OthersNOT/

UD/NA

20–21 Nov 2021 ANN 1,03112810961
10–11 Nov 2021 Kyodo News 5208.13.66.72.47.26.75.959.4
10–11 Nov 2021 Nikkei/TV Tokyo 85232614441411744

Results

An extraordinary party convention was held at a hotel in Tokyo on the afternoon of November 30. Following the announcement of the results of the "local vote" by local lawmakers, party members and supporters, which was closed on the 29th, parliamentarians and prospective official candidates voted.

From the first round of the vote, Izumi was 1st (189 points), Osaka was 2nd (148 points), Ogawa was 3rd (133 points), and Nishimura was 4th (102 points). None of the four candidates reached the majority of 572 votes in total, so Izumi and Osaka advanced to the final vote of the top two. As a result of a final vote by a member of parliament, prospective official candidate, and representatives from 47 prefectures, Izumi, who got 205 points, defeated Osaka, who got 128 points, and was elected as the new leader of the party. [5]

Full result [6]
Candidate
Diet membersDiet candidatesLocal assembly membersParty membersPrefectural chaptersTotal
Votes%Votes%Popular votesAllocated votes%Popular votesAllocated votes%Votes%Votes%
1st Round
Kenta Izumi 9433.6%233.3%3694632.2%15,2004732.9%N/A189
33.0%
Seiji Osaka 5820.7%466.7%3854833.6%12,4113826.6%148
25.9%
Junya Ogawa 7225.7%00.0%2192718.9%10,9123423.8%133
23.3%
Chinami Nishimura 5620.0%00.0%1832215.4%7,6662416.8%102
17.8%
Total280100.0%6100.0%1,156143100.0%46,189143100.0%572100.0%
2nd Round
Kenta Izumi 16860.0%233.3%N/A3574.5%205
61.6%
Seiji Osaka 11240.0%466.7%1225.5%128
38.4%
Junya Ogawa Eliminated
Chinami Nishimura Eliminated
Total280100.0%6100.0%47100.0%333100.0%

References

  1. "CDP leader Yukio Edano to quit post after poor election results". The Japan Times . 2 November 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  2. "Younger guns aiming for CDP top post to renew the ailing party". The Asahi Shimbun . 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  3. "Ogushi May Run for Leader of Top Japan Opposition CDP". Nippon.com. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  4. "立憲代表選、4陣営の推薦人は計90人 国会議員の7割固まる". the Asahi Shinbun . 19 November 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  5. 日本放送協会 (30 November 2021). "立憲民主党代表選 泉氏が新代表に選出". NHKニュース (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  6. "【公告】2021年11月立憲民主党代表選挙の結果に関する公告". Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (in Japanese). 30 November 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2024.