Japan
The once-dominant Liberal Democratic Party has held large parliamentary majorities in the 1960s until the 1970s when it had to govern with coalitions to command workable majorities.
- Japanese general election, 2005: The ruling Liberal Democratic Party under prime minister Junichiro Koizumi won 296 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives of Japan
- Japanese general election, 2009: Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan defeated the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Taro Aso, winning 308 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives of Japan, ending over five decades of near-continuous LDP rule.
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