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✶ 小選挙区候補者 · 8 Feb 2026

Dual candidates
and zombies.

1,119 people stood in Japan's 289 districts in February 2026. 749 of them were also on their party's list, so losing the district was not always the end: 92 came back as list members (復活当選, “revived election”), the winners critics call zombies. 311 won less than a tenth of the vote and lost their ¥3 million deposit.

52median age of district candidates
92district losers revived on the list
311deposits forfeited · ¥933 million
273 women among district candidates (24.4%)

Candidate explorer

Age
–candidates match
–median age
–won a district
–revived on the list
–lost the ¥3m deposit
District candidates. Column headers sort the table.
Party Status Outcome

Status, age, party and dual candidacy as MIC prints them (age on polling day). Best-loser ratio: the candidate's votes as a percentage of the district winner's, printed only for dual candidates above 1/10 of the vote. Each district links to its result.

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Age · 年齢

Who is
on the ballot.

The minimum age for the House of Representatives is 25. Half the 2026 field was 52 or older; 56% were new (新), 37% were members of the dissolved House (前) and 7% former members trying to return (元).

Candidates by age · elected in colour
  1. 25–29 29 · 3 won
  2. 30–39 121 · 24 won
  3. 40–49 321 · 104 won
  4. 50–59 321 · 109 won
  5. 60–69 239 · 106 won
  6. 70–79 80 · 31 won
  7. 80+ 8 · 4 won
Median age by party · range from youngest to oldest
  1. SDP (8) 65.5
  2. Genzei (13) 58
  3. JCP (158) 57.5
  4. CPJ (6) 56.5
  5. LDP (285) 55
  6. CRA (202) 55
  7. Ind. (41) 55
  8. Reiwa (18) 53.5
  9. Other (11) 53
  10. Ishin (87) 51
  11. DPFP (102) 46
  12. Sanseito (182) 44
  13. Mirai (6) 40.5

New, incumbent, former · by party

新 new前 incumbent元 former

Best-loser ratio · 惜敗率

How close
is close enough.

A party may give several dual candidates the same rank on its list. When it does, the seats go to them in order of their best-loser ratio: their district votes as a percentage of the winner's. MIC prints the ratio to three decimals. A dual candidate who wins the district leaves the list; one who gets less than a tenth of the district vote is struck from it.

In 2026, 487 dual candidates lost their districts. 92 were revived; 73 were struck for falling under 10%. The lowest ratio that still came back was 19.606% (伊藤けいすけ, Sanseito, Gifu 3). The highest that did not was 98.584% (原口一博, Genzei, Saga 1, Kyushu).

Best-loser ratio of every dual candidate who lost their district · 2026 revived on the list not revived lowest ratio revived in the block
  1. Hokkaido 北海道 3 of 15 revived · 1 struck
  2. Tohoku 東北 5 of 28 revived · 6 struck
  3. Northern Kanto 北関東 8 of 39 revived · 6 struck
  4. Southern Kanto 南関東 13 of 51 revived · 4 struck
  5. Tokyo 東京都 11 of 61 revived · 16 struck
  6. Hokuriku-Shinetsu 北陸信越 6 of 24 revived · 3 struck
  7. Tokai 東海 11 of 48 revived · 14 struck
  8. Kinki 近畿 20 of 73 revived · 9 struck
  9. Chugoku 中国 2 of 23 revived · 2 struck
  10. Shikoku 四国 3 of 13 revived · 1 struck
  11. Kyushu 九州 10 of 39 revived · 11 struck

Dot colour is the party. A ratio decides only between candidates a party ranked equally; a high ratio does not help a candidate whose party won no seat, or who was ranked below the party's last seat.

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Margins · 接戦

The closest
districts.

The ten districts with the smallest margin between first and second, 2026
DistrictWinnerRunner-upMargin
Hokkaido 10 神谷ひろし CRA わたなべ孝一 LDP revived 99.971% 21 0.01%
Osaka 19 谷川とむ LDP いとう信久 Ishin revived 98.779% 713 0.45%
Kagawa 1 小川じゅんや CRA 平井卓也 LDP revived 98.868% 829 0.49%
Saga 1 岩田かずちか LDP 原口一博 Genzei 1,192 0.65%
Akita 3 村岡としひで DPFP みのり川信英 LDP revived 97.133% 2,510 1.45%
Ibaraki 6 国光あやの LDP 青山やまと Ind. 2,544 1.02%
Kagoshima 3 野間たけし CRA 小里やすひろ LDP revived 96.909% 2,736 1.57%
Ibaraki 1 田所よしのり LDP 福島のぶゆき Ind. 2,867 1.36%
Kanagawa 9 上原まさひろ LDP 笠ひろふみ CRA revived 95.993% 3,507 1.87%
Hyogo 1 もりやま正仁 LDP いさか信彦 CRA 4,108 1.88%

Women · 女性

68
of 465 elected.

273 of the 1,119 district candidates were women (24.4%), and 68 of the 465 members elected (14.6%). MIC publishes these counts by party, but it does not publish sex for individual candidates, so the explorer above cannot filter by it.

Women and men among district candidates and all winners, by party, 2026
Party District candidates Women Elected (district + list)
Sanseito 81 of 182 45% 8 of 15
Reiwa Shinsengumi 8 of 18 44% 0 of 1
Japanese Communist Party 58 of 158 37% 2 of 4
Democratic Party for the People 26 of 102 25% 8 of 28
Centrist Reform Alliance 42 of 202 21% 8 of 49
Minor parties 2 of 11 18% 0 of 0
Independent 7 of 41 17% 0 of 5
Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) 12 of 87 14% 1 of 36
Liberal Democratic Party 30 of 285 11% 39 of 315
Genzei Nippon–Yukoku Rengo 1 of 13 8% 0 of 1

Parties with 10 or more district candidates. MIC 候補者数 and 当選人数 tables by party and sex.

2024 and 2026

Two elections,
sixteen months apart.

District candidates, 2024 and 2026 general elections
27 Oct 20248 Feb 2026
District candidates1,1121,119
Median age5452
Also on a list (dual)650749
New · 新658631
Revived on the list13092
Deposits forfeited314311

Rules and data

How to read
this page.

Dual candidacy · 重複立候補

A party with five or more Diet members, or 2% of the vote at a recent national election, may put its district candidates on its list too, and give any number of them the same rank (Public Offices Election Act, art. 86-2(1) and (6)). List seats go in list order; ties within a rank go by best-loser ratio (art. 95-2(3)).

The deposit · 供託金

A district candidate deposits ¥3 million (art. 92), forfeited to the state below one tenth of the valid votes (art. 93). A list candidate costs the party ¥6 million, or ¥3 million if also standing in a district. The same one-tenth line strikes a dual candidate from the list (art. 95-2(6)).

What MIC publishes

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省) prints each district's candidates with age, party, new/incumbent/former status, occupation, votes, dual candidacy and best-loser ratio. Names appear as on the ballot list (often with a given name in kana) and as registered. There are no photographs and no per-candidate sex.

Rounding

MIC's vote totals can carry fractions, because ballots naming a surname two candidates share are split between them (art. 68-2). Candidate votes here are MIC's printed whole numbers; ratios are MIC's own, which it computes before rounding.