This article presents detailed results of the 1996 Japanese general election. The results are separated into each of the eleven proportional representation blocks and their corresponding prefectures. In the following tables, candidates elected via single-member district are highlighted in green, while candidates elected via proportional representation are highlighted in red.

Electoral system

This was the first election to the House of Representatives condicted using parallel voting. In the 1996 election, 300 members were elected in single-member districts and 200 via party-list proportional representation in eleven multi-member constituencies, referred to as "PR blocks". Single-member districts are apportioned between prefectures and numbered (1st, 2nd, etc). Candidates may run solely in a single-member district, solely in PR, or both (dual listing). Dual listed candidates must win at least 10% of the vote in their single-member district in order to be eligible for election via PR. Dual listed candidates who win their single-member district race are not eligible for election via PR.

Candidates on PR lists may be ranked sequentially or, if they are dual listed, ranked equally with one another. If ranked equally, the best-loser ratio (sekihairitsu) of each candidate determines the order of election. This number is determined by dividing their single-member district votes by those of the winning candidate in that district. In this way, the losing candidates who performed best will be elected first.

If a party wins more seats than they have eligible candidates in a PR block, their seats will be distributed to other parties in accordance with the PR formula.

Hokkaido block

+ Single-member constituency results in Hokkaido Constituency Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up % Hokkaido 1st Takahiro Yokomichi DP 102,577 45.9 46,312 Eiichi Masugi LDP 25.2 Hokkaido 2nd NFP 73,697 34.7 10,173 Takamori Yoshikawa LDP 29.9 Hokkaido 3rd Gaku Ishizaki LDP 54,275 26.3 2,796 Satoshi Arai DP 25.0 Hokkaido 4th LDP 58,371 30.7 5,039 Koji Suzuki NFP 28.1 Hokkaido 5th Nobutaka Machimura LDP 113,282 49.8 51,436 Kentaro Ono NFP 27.2 Hokkaido 6th DP 76,572 48.7 29,963 Hiroshi Imazu LDP 29.7 Hokkaido 7th Eiko Kaneta LDP 65,955 34.4 3,406 DP 32.6 Hokkaido 8th Yoshio Hachiro DP 110,305 47.5 15,605 LDP 40.8 Hokkaido 9th Yukio Hatoyama DP 131,936 52.8 63,143 Tatsuo Takahashi LDP 27.5 Hokkaido 10th Tadamasa Kodaira DP 100,489 49.8 27,848 Shōichi Watanabe LDP 36.0 Hokkaido 11th Shōichi Nakagawa LDP 97,428 53.5 30,178 Ryuji Ikemoto DP 37.0 Hokkaido 12th Tsutomu Takebe LDP 92,114 52.0 22,143 DP 39.5 Hokkaido 13th NFP 83,490 42.8 27,999 Muneo Suzuki LDP 28.4

+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio DP 835,042 (31.8%) 3 1 Seiichi Ikehata 2 3 Seiichi Kaneta LDP 740,677 (28.2%) 3 1 Muneo Suzuki Hokkaido 13th 66.4% 2 Takamori Yoshikawa Hokkaido 2nd 86.2% 2 Hokkaido 8th 85.8% NFP 552,847 (21.1%) 2 1 2 Kaori Maruya JCP 396,923 (15.1%) 1 1 Hokkaido 3rd 74.8%

Tohoku block

+ Single-member constituency results in Tohoku Constituency Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up % Aomori 1st Yūji Tsushima LDP 86,411 43.6 14,412 Ryuichi Kudo NFP 36.4 Aomori 2nd Akinori Eto LDP 63,672 41.9 765 Shingo Mimura NFP 41.4 Aomori 3rd Tadamori Ōshima LDP 96,628 52.5 15,168 Masami Tanabu NFP 44.2 Aomori 4th Tarō Kimura NFP 101,059 52.4 30,469 LDP 36.6 Iwate 1st Takuya Tasso NFP 67,420 40.6 17,755 Tokuichiro Tamazawa LDP 29.9 Iwate 2nd Shun'ichi Suzuki LDP 95,913 47.6 12,875 Kentaro Kudo NFP 41.2 Iwate 3rd NFP 103,952 57.5 45,071 LDP 32.6 Iwate 4th Ichirō Ozawa NFP 125,619 64.7 87,137 SDP 19.8 Miyagi 1st Kazuo Aichi NFP 77,817 40.8 21,280 Tomiko Okazaki DP 29.7 Miyagi 2nd Masashi Nakano LDP 68,137 35.8 5,604 NFP 32.9 Miyagi 3rd Hiroshi Mitsuzuka LDP 81,784 53.1 28,634 Kenichi Mukade NFP 34.5 Miyagi 4th Soichiro Ito LDP 75,196 44.7 15,760 Kazuhiro Nitta NFP 35.3 Miyagi 5th Jun Azumi DP 54,550 40.1 4,411 NFP 36.8 Miyagi 6th LDP 70,765 45.0 651 Masamitsu Oishi NFP 44.6 Akita 1st NFP 95,194 45.5 10,569 Koji Futada LDP 40.4 Akita 2nd Hosei Norota LDP 86,677 54.9 32,546 SDP 34.3 Akita 3rd LDP 150,956 57.9 65,566 Hajime Terata NFP 32.7 Yamagata 1st Michihiko Kano NFP 81,047 48.3 20,299 Toshiaki Endo LDP 36.2 Yamagata 2nd Takehiko Endo Ind. 94,211 50.9 19,711 Tetsuo Kondo LDP 40.3 Yamagata 3rd LDP 88,389 58.1 33,749 Shosuke Saito Ind. 35.9 Yamagata 4th Koichi Kato LDP 112,033 65.8 73,894 Takayoshi Sagae NFP 22.4 Fukushima 1st Tatsuo Sato LDP 102,950 40.4 9,603 Ind. 36.6 Fukushima 2nd Takumi Nemoto LDP 100,102 49.3 11,441 Teruhiko Mashiko NFP 43.6 Fukushima 3rd Hiroyuki Arai LDP 91,747 46.2 3,533 Kōichirō Genba DP 44.4 Fukushima 4th Kōzō Watanabe NFP 93,960 48.7 6,317 LDP 45.5 Fukushima 5th Goji Sakamoto NFP 79,027 38.2 337 Naoki Tanaka LDP 38.1

+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio LDP 1,630,777 (35.3%) 6 1 2 3 4 Koji Futada Akita 1st 88.8% 4 Toshiaki Endo Yamagata 1st 74.9% 4 Tokuichiro Tamazawa Iwate 1st 73.6% NFP 1,532,987 (33.2%) 6 1 2 Yoshihisa Inoue 3 4 5 6 DP 513,410 (11.1%) 2 1 2 Kōichirō Genba Fukushima 3rd 96.1% JCP 442,790 (9.6%) 1 1 SDP 382,271 (8.3%) 1 1 Akita 2nd 62.4%

Northern Kanto block

+ Single-member constituency results in Northern Kanto Constituency Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up % Ibaraki 1st Norihiko Akagi LDP 114,796 52.7 51,727 NFP 29.0 Ibaraki 2nd Fukushiro Nukaga LDP 109,139 61.9 55,001 Yoshiharu Tokoi NFP 30.7 Ibaraki 3rd LDP 89,822 50.0 30,742 Yoji Nagaoka NFP 32.9 Ibaraki 4th Seiroku Kajiyama LDP 112,977 68.3 74,949 Zenichiro Saito NFP 23.0 Ibaraki 5th LDP 69,369 51.2 15,872 Akihiro Ohata DP 39.8 Ibaraki 6th Yuya Niwa LDP 110,495 57.0 71,123 Kunio Kobayashi NFP 20.3 Ibaraki 7th Kishirō Nakamura Ind. 100,175 53.6 27,967 Katsuya Tanaka NFP 38.7 Tochigi 1st Hajime Funada Ind. 127,503 63.4 70,263 Susumu Yanase DP 28.4 Tochigi 2nd Koya Nishikawa LDP 73,393 52.6 17,954 Mamoru Kobayashi DP 39.7 Tochigi 3rd Yoshimi Watanabe LDP 90,082 83.5 72,092 Shozo Maki JCP 16.5 Tochigi 4th Tsutomu Sato LDP 117,851 53.3 34,468 Kenji Yamaoka NFP 37.7 Tochigi 5th Toshimitsu Motegi LDP 77,659 47.5 7,592 Hatsuhiro Shindo NFP 42.8 Gunma 1st Kōji Omi LDP 110,103 49.9 52,078 NFP 26.3 Gunma 2nd Takashi Sasagawa NFP 81,026 47.1 21,796 Osamu Morita LDP 34.4 Gunma 3rd Yoshio Yatsu LDP 85,562 51.5 44,110 Hiroyoshi Sasagawa NFP 24.9 Gunma 4th Yasuo Fukuda LDP 73,674 46.0 28,540 Minoru Komai NFP 28.2 Gunma 5th Keizō Obuchi LDP 127,052 70.7 93,834 Miyuki Shibayama DP 18.5 Saitama 1st Hikaru Matsunaga LDP 85,109 39.0 5,179 NFP 36.6 Saitama 2nd NFP 76,252 36.6 610 Yoshitaka Shindō LDP 36.3 Saitama 3rd Hiroshi Imai NFP 63,841 31.4 9,138 Takuji Noguchi LDP 26.9 Saitama 4th Kiyoshi Ueda NFP 72,420 39.3 25,551 Chuko Hayakawa LDP 25.4 Saitama 5th LDP 63,120 30.9 9,088 Zenjiro Kaneko NFP 26.4 Saitama 6th Kaneshige Wakamatsu NFP 71,944 36.9 8,439 Shigeru Chatani LDP 32.6 Saitama 7th Kiyoshi Nakano NFP 74,905 39.0 30,138 Toru Komiyama LDP 23.3 Saitama 8th Masayoshi Namiki NFP 50,712 31.2 2,928 LDP 29.4 Saitama 9th Matsushige Ono LDP 77,998 37.8 31,527 DP 22.5 Saitama 10th Taimei Yamaguchi LDP 74,839 46.4 31,195 Tetsuhisa Matsuzaki DP 27.0 Saitama 11th LDP 78,705 39.1 26,930 Taneaki Tanami Ind. 25.7 Saitama 12th Toshio Masuda NFP 76,105 40.4 3,278 Toshio Kojima LDP 38.6 Saitama 13th Shinako Tsuchiya Ind. 112,112 58.6 61,817 Makoto Setoi JCP 26.3 Saitama 14th LDP 77,260 39.9 1,139 NFP 39.3

+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio LDP 1,962,854 (34.9%) 8 1 Yasuhiro Nakasone 2 3 Mayumi Moriyama 4 Genichiro Sata 5 19 20 21 Yoshitaka Shindō Saitama 2nd 99.2% NFP 1,500,349 (26.7%) 6 1 2 3 4 5 Nobuaki Futami 6 DP 965,328 (17.2%) 4 1 Yukio Edano Saitama 5th 81.4% 1 Akihiro Ohata Ibaraki 5th 77.1% 1 Mamoru Kobayashi Tochigi 2nd 75.5% 1 Ritsuo Hosokawa Saitama 3rd 71.1% JCP 722,792 (12.8%) 2 1 2 Saitama 7th 53.7% SDP 282,201 (5.0%) 1 1 Saitama 6th 24.8%

Southern Kanto block

+ Single-member constituency results in Southern Kanto Constituency Elected member Votes % Margin Runner-up % Chiba 1st Hideo Usui LDP 77,679 42.7 37,585 Minoru Murai NFP 22.0 Chiba 2nd LDP 75,939 37.1 15,538 Kazuhira Nakamura NFP 29.5 Chiba 3rd NFP 84,846 39.9 11,592 Hirokazu Matsuno LDP 34.4 Chiba 4th Shōichi Tanaka LDP 73,792 32.0 105 Yoshihiko Noda NFP 31.9 Chiba 5th DP 67,032 32.2 4,081 LDP 30.3 Chiba 6th Hiromichi Watanabe LDP 60,801 39.2 5,529 DP 35.7 Chiba 7th LDP 71,306 36.4 17,822 NFP 27.3 Chiba 8th Yoshitaka Sakurada LDP 69,539 34.0 6,799 Hiroyuki Nagahama NFP 30.7 Chiba 9th Yukio Jitsukawa NFP 79,539 36.3 3,872 Kenichi Mizuno LDP 34.5 Chiba 10th Motoo Hayashi LDP 114,010 63.9 69,602 NFP 24.9 Chiba 11th Eisuke Mori LDP 116,195 61.6 70,301 Koichi Hatsutani NFP 24.3 Chiba 12th Yasukazu Hamada LDP 102,570 54.0 41,487 Kei Morita DP 32.2 Kanagawa 1st Jun Matsumoto LDP 55,360 26.4 866 DP 26.0 Kanagawa 2nd Yoshihide Suga LDP 70,459 32.2 4,554 NFP 30.2 Kanagawa 3rd Tomoo Nishikawa NFP 60,360 31.3 3,660 Hachiro Okonogi LDP 29.4 Kanagawa 4th LDP 46,389 25.1 7,664 Keiichiro Asao NFP 21.0 Kanagawa 5th Keishu Tanaka NFP 81,289 35.9 22,557 Issei Suzuki LDP 25.9 Kanagawa 6th Motohisa Ikeda DP 60,290 31.0 5,108 NFP 28.4 Kanagawa 7th Tsuneo Suzuki LDP 75,599 33.8 21,324 Terumichi Suzuki NFP 24.3 Kanagawa 8th Hiroshi Nakada NFP 66,313 35.9 26,451 Masafumi Matsuzaki LDP 21.6 Kanagawa 9th Shigefumi Matsuzawa NFP 72,147 35.1 21,724 Eiichi Ogawa LDP 24.5 Kanagawa 10th NFP 70,276 31.2 1,384 Kazunori Tanaka LDP 30.6 Kanagawa 11th Junichiro Koizumi LDP 118,955 58.2 65,432 Tadatsugu Miyachi NFP 26.2 Kanagawa 12th Ikuzo Sakurai LDP 51,360 30.7 849 Yoichiro Esaki NFP 30.1 Kanagawa 13th NFP 73,773 34.0 1,751 Akira Amari LDP 33.2 Kanagawa 14th Hirohisa Fujii NFP 83,010 36.9 30,443 LDP 23.4 Kanagawa 15th Taro Kono LDP 84,723 36.4 13,297 NFP 30.7 Kanagawa 16th Yoshiyuki Kamei LDP 88,325 51.1 52,030 Hidemi Terachi NFP 21.0 Kanagawa 17th Yōhei Kōno LDP 105,282 44.7 46,277 Ind. 25.1 Yamanashi 1st Eiichi Nakao LDP 52,111 38.9 6,823 Azuma Koshiishi DP 33.8 Yamanashi 2nd Mitsuo Horiuchi LDP 90,567 65.7 58,742 Kobun Sugimoto NFP 23.1 Yamanashi 3rd Shōmei Yokouchi LDP 87,683 69.2 55,946 Hitomi Nagatani JCP 25.1

+Proportional representation results Party Votes Seats Rank Elected member Constituency Ratio LDP 1,820,846 (29.0%) 7 1 2 Shozaburo Nakamura 3 4 Akira Amari Kanagawa 13th 97.6% 4 Hachiro Okonogi Kanagawa 3rd 93.9% 8 9 Kazunori Tanaka Kanagawa 10th 98.0% NFP 1,667,552 (26.6%) 7 1 2 3 4 Isamu Ueda 5 Shigeyuki Tomita 6 7 DP 1,331,850 (21.2%) 5 1 2 Sakihito Ozawa 3 4 Kanagawa 1st 98.4% 4 Chiba 6th 90.9% JCP 881,751 (14.0%) 3 1 Kazuo Shii 2 Kanagawa 10th 68.9% 3 Kanagawa 5th 45.8% SDP 403,875 (6.4%) 1 1 Shigeru Itō Kanagawa 8th 34.3%

Tokyo block