The 2001 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 24 April 2001 to elect the President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.
Overview On 10 March 2001, Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori summoned the five top LDP officials to his office. At this meeting, Mori stated that "we will bring forward this autumn's LDP presidential election", effectively announcing his resignation. On March 13, at the LDP convention held at the Nippon Budokan, Mori announced, "We will hold an early presidential election". With the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election looming in June, the LDP's Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly members issued a protest statement expressing dissatisfaction with Mori's "confusing resignation announcement". However, with the convention over, the LDP began the process of electing the next president. Koizumi was elected.
As the election had occurred only to fill remainder of Mori's term, Koizumi's term would expire in September 2001. Mori asked Koga to "increase the local votes," and Koga replied, "I'll do it because it's the president's order," increasing the prefectural vote count from one to three.五百旗頭真、伊藤元重、薬師寺克行 『森喜朗 自民党と政権交代』 朝日新聞社、2007年、276頁。 Shizuka Kamei, who had been running, concluded a policy agreement with Junichiro Koizumi and withdrew from the general election, supporting Koizumi instead (though after the election, Koizumi unilaterally reneged on all policy agreements).Bungei Shunjū February 2018 issue, pages 273-274: The 2005 General Election Was a Fight with Junichiro, Shizuka Kamei The date for the presidential election was then set for September, when the term of office expired. However, as a special measure, the party asked party members in the Diet whether they wanted to run prior to the announcement. Only one (Junichiro Koizumi) expressed interest in running. Therefore, Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected without a vote, and at the general meeting of both houses of the National Diet, which replaced the party convention on 10 August 2001, Junichiro Koizumi was reappointed as President.
Prefectural votes, which correspond to local votes, were expanded from one to three. Local primaries were held in 45 prefectures, excluding Hiroshima and Yamaguchi. The prefectural votes were awarded using a winner-take-all system, with the top candidate in the prefectural primary receiving three votes.
Candidates Declared Candidate(s) Date of birth Current position Party faction Electoral district Junichiro Koizumi Member of the House of Representatives Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai Kanagawa 11th Ryutaro Hashimoto Member of the House of Representatives Heisei Kenkyūkai Okayama 4th Tarō Asō Member of the House of Representatives Daiyukai Fukuoka 8th Shizuka Kamei Member of the House of Representatives Shisuikai Hiroshima 6th Recommenders Party regulations require candidates to have the written support at least 20 Diet members, known as recommenders, to run.
Number of supporters by factions CandidatesJunichiro KoizumiRyutaro HashimotoTaro AsoShizuka KameiBanchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo1250Heisei Kenkyūkai11310Daiyukai0060Kinmirai Seiji Kenkyūkai6000Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai70000420Shisuikai000184000No faction1162
Results + Full results CandidateDiet membersParty membersTotal pointsVotes%Popular votes%Allocated votes%Total votes% Junichiro Koizumi 17550.58%12389.13%298 61.57% Ryutaro Hashimoto14040.46%1510.87%155 32.02% Taro Aso318.96%00.00%31 6.41% Shizuka Kamei00.00%00.00%0 0.00% Total346100.00%138100.00%484100.00%Valid votes346100.00%13897.87%48499.38%Invalid and blank votes00.00%32.13%30.62%Turnout346100.00%141100.00%487100.00%Registered voters346100.00%141100.00%487100.00%
Results of Party Members' Votes by Prefecture + Results of Party Members' Votes by PrefecturePrefectureJunichiro KoizumiRyutaro HashimotoTarō AsōShizuka KameiVotes%Votes%Votes%Votes%Aichi00Akita00Aomori00Chiba00Ehime00Fukui00Fukuoka00Fukushima00Gifu00Gunma00HiroshimaNo votes0No votes0No votes0No votes3Hokkaido00Hyōgo00Ibaraki00Ishikawa00Iwate00Kagawa00Kagoshima00Kanagawa27,07777.04%33,4329.76%03,80510.83%06181.76%0Kōchi00Kumamoto00Kyoto00Mie00Miyagi00Miyazaki00Nagano00Nagasaki00Nara00Niigata00Ōita00Okayama0300Okinawa00Osaka00Saga00Saitama00Shiga00Shimane00Shizuoka00Tochigi00Tokushima00Tokyo00Tottori00Toyama00Wakayama00Yamagata00YamaguchiNo votesNo votesNo votes0No votes0Yamanashi00Total1231500
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