Legislative Branch
By the Constitution, the Diet is the most powerful from the three branches and consists of two houses; the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. The Diet may direct the Emperor in the appointment and removal of the chiefs of the executives and judicial members.
| Alliances and parties | Local constituency vote | PR block vote | Total seats |
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats |
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| Democratic Party (DPJ) | 33,475,335 | 47.43% | 221 | 29,844,799 | 42.41% | 87 | 308 | 193 | 195 | |
| Social Democratic Party (SDP) | 1,376,739 | 1.95% | 3 | 3,006,160 | 4.27% | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's New Party (PNP) | 730,570 | 1.04% | 3 | 1,219,767 | 1.73% | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| New Party Nippon | 220,223 | 0.31% | 1 | 528,171 | 0.75% | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| New Party Daichi | no district candidates | 433,122 | 0.62% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ruling DPJ–SDP–PNP coalition | 35,802,866 | 50.73% | 228 | 35,032,019 | 49.78% | 92 | 320 | 193 | 194 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) | 27,301,982 | 38.68% | 64 | 18,810,217 | 26.73% | 55 | 119 | 181 | 177 | |
| New Komeito Party (NKP) | 782,984 | 1.11% | 0 | 8,054,007 | 11.45% | 21 | 21 | 10 | 10 | |
| Japan Renaissance Party | 36,650 | 0.05% | 0 | 58,141 | 0.08% | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Opposition LDP–NKP coalition | 28,121,613 | 39.84% | 64 | 26,922,365 | 38.26% | 76 | 140 | 192 | 187 | |
| Japanese Communist Party (JCP) | 2,978,354 | 4.22% | 0 | 4,943,886 | 7.03% | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Your Party (YP) | 615,244 | 0.87% | 2 | 3,005,199 | 4.27% | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Others | 1,077,543 | 1.53% | 0 | 466,786 | 0.66% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 1,986,056 | 2.81% | 6 | – | 6 | 0 | 12 | |||
| Totals | 70,581,680 | 100.00% | 300 | 70,370,255 | 100.00% | 180 | 480 | 2* | 0 | |
| Turnout | 69.28% | 69.27% | * | |||||||
| Alliances and parties | Prefectural constituency vote | National PR vote | Elected in 2010 | Seats not up |
Total seats | +/− | |||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | ||||||
| Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Minshutō – 民主党 | 22,756,000.342 | 38.97% | 28 | 8 | 18,450,139.059 | 31.56% | 16 | 2 | 44 | 62 | 106 | 10 | |
| People's New Party (PNP) Kokuminshintō – 国民新党 | 167,555.000 | 0.29% | 0 | 2 | 1,000,036.492 | 1.71% | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| New Party Nippon (NPN) Shintō Nippon – 新党日本 | no candidate | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| DPJ–PNP Coalition | 22,923,555.342 | 39.25% | 28 | 10 | 19,450,175.551 | 33.27% | 16 | 3 | 44 | 66 | 110 | 13 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Jimintō – 自民党 | 19,496,083.000 | 33.38% | 39 | 14 | 14,071,671.422 | 24.07% | 12 | 1 | 51 | 33 | 84 | 13 | |
| New Komeito Party (NKP) Kōmeitō – 公明党 | 2,265,818.000 | 3.88% | 3 | 0 | 7,639,432.739 | 13.07% | 6 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 2 | |
| New Renaissance Party (NRP) Shintō Kaikaku – 新党改革 | 625,431.000 | 1.07% | 0 | 3 | 1,172,395.190 | 2.01% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| former LDP–NKP—NRP Coalition | 22,387,332.000 | 38.33% | 42 | 11 | 22,883,529.351 | 39.15% | 19 | 4 | 61 | 44 | 105 | 7 | |
| Your Party (YP) Minna no Tō – みんなの党 | 5,977,391.485 | 10.24% | 3 | 3 | 7,943,649.369 | 13.59% | 7 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 10 | |
| Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Kyōsantō – 共産党 | 4,256,400.000 | 7.29% | 0 | 0 | 3,563,556.590 | 6.10% | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| Social Democratic Party (SDP) Shamintō – 社民党 | 602,684.000 | 1.03% | 0 | 0 | 2,242,735.155 | 3.84% | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |
| Sunrise Party of Japan (SPJ) Tachini – たち日 | 328,475.000 | 0.56% | 0 | 1 | 1,232,207.336 | 2.11% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Happiness Realization Party (HRP) Kōfuku – 幸福 | 291,810.000 | 0.50% | 0 | 0 | 229,026.162 | 0.39% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Independents | 1,314,313.027 | 2.25% | 0 | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Other parties | 318,847.000 | 0.55% | 0 | 0 | 908,582.924 | 1.55% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total (turnout 57.92%) | 58,400,807.899 | 100.0% | 73 | 1 | 58,453,432.438 | 100.0% | 48 | 0 | 121 | 121 | 242 | 1 | |
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