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Japan Elections, Parliament, and Official Sources
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Japan
Explore Japan's official 2024 House of Representatives quick-result publication: all 47 prefectures, both ballot layers, 14 filing-party categories, turnout, ballot accounting, 465 winning seats, permanent pages, and public API records.
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JPcountry code
electoral-management sourcePublished now
national election-authority linkPublished now
parliamentary institution namesPublished now
official 2024 House quick-result publicationPublished now
all 47 prefecture aggregatesPublished now
all 289 single-member districtsPublished now
all 1,113 named single-member candidate resultsPublished now
all 14 filing-party categoriesPublished now
both national ballot layersPublished now
all 465 published winning seatsPublished now
historical result APIPublished now
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- permanent country ID
- electoral-management source
- national election-authority link
- parliamentary institution names
- official 2024 House quick-result publication
- all 47 prefecture aggregates
- all 289 single-member districts
- all 1,113 named single-member candidate results
- all 14 filing-party categories
- both national ballot layers
- all 465 published winning seats
- historical result API
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2024 House results
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Election administration
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International IDEA's published electoral-management model for Japan, source year 2026. This is a reproduced source label, not an Electionpedia rating.
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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications election information
Government election-information portal
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National Diet
House of RepresentativesHouse of Councillors
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123,975,371
World Bank Population, total for 2024. This value defines the reproducible major-country cohort; it is not an Electionpedia rank or judgment of importance.
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