House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 22 June 1980. On 16 May the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) brought no-confidence motion before the Diet relating to corruption issues, proposing more defense spending and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives to withdraw its backing from the government. Unexpectedly, 69 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members of the Diet from the Fukuda Takeo, Miki Takeo and Hidenao Nakagawa factions abstained from voting on the motion. The government was defeated by 56 votes in total of 243 and resigned. For the first time elections for both the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives were elected at the same time. In the elections of both the houses the LDP gained a majority.
Results
By constituency ConstituencyTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōJCPDSPSDFOthersInd.Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido4211Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okinawa11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi22Tokushima11Tokyo4112Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5021993413Total12669221276118
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References
About Japan Series (1999), Changing Japanese Politics, No. 24, Tokyo: Foreign Press Center. Mahendra Prakash (2004), Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003, New Delhi: JNU.