User:Asakura Akira/Diet directory

Diet of Japan reference and redlink lists.

= House of Representatives =

Representatives

 * All HR members since 1996: de:Benutzer:Asakura Akira/Projekt Kokkai/Übersicht Shūgiin (should be complete until November 2021)

Parliamentary groups since 1945
See also: NDL, Reference 2005.4, 主要政党の変遷と国会内勢力の推移, pp.72–75 party flowchart

For now, compiled from &. Probably not usable as a reference in the main article space; but after verifying individual numbers with published scientific and official sources, I'm confident that the numbers are generally correct. (And at least I find them both useful and informative in this compiled form.) There are several Japanese language Diet yearbooks, political directories etc. that could eventually be used as reference – I still hope and look for a more easily accessible (preferably in English & on the internet) reliable source.

Seat numbers for ruling parties are in bold (not including cooperation partners outside the cabinet) in the State of Japan. In the Empire of Japan, the prime minister was appointed and the cabinet was – at least not formally – dependent on having a stable majority in either chamber of the Diet. (EdNote: might eventually change this for the Taishō democracy and immediate postwar years as constitutional practice made an electoral mandate, at least to some degree, more important and there was usually a link between the government and political parties with at least a significant presence in the HR)



= House of Councillors =

Councillors

 * All historical HC members including by-elections & PR replacements: de:Benutzer:Asakura Akira/Projekt Kokkai/Übersicht Sangiin (under construction, Hokkaidō to Kantō complete)

Parliamentary groups
Source: House of Councillors library: Parliamentary group strengths (1st to 192nd Diet) (also see Parliamentary groups flowchart (pdf version))

Seat numbers fro ruling parties are in bold (not including cooperation partners outside the cabinet). Note: The Ryokufūkai, though not always formally involved in coalition negotiations or included in the cabinet, was willing to cooperate with both the Socialist/Democratic as well as the Liberal governments, sometimes requiring negotiation on individual pieces of legislation. The Democratic Party split over the formation of the 3rd Yoshida Cabinet (January 1949–): While some Democrats entered the coalition, others were opposed to the Yoshida government. Yet, both parties are in bold in the first election period. Not in bold is the joint NLC/SDF parliamentary group during the 2nd Nakasone Cabinet as only the New Liberal Club was part of the ruling coalition (and was only needed in the HR for a majority).

Diet sessions:
 * regular session (nowadays usually opened in January, 150 days)
 * (E) extraordinary session (usually called in late summer or autumn)
 * (S) special session (after an early HR general election to elect HR president & vice president and the prime minister)
 * emergency sessions (緊急集会, kinkyū shūkai) of the HC are called in urgent situations when the HR is dissolved and the Diet cannot be convened (called twice in history: in 1952 to select members of the central election commission and in 1953 to pass a provisional budget and revisions to electoral laws)

By-elections
= House of Peers =

= Control of both houses since 1955 = A visual draft for a more sophisticated, but not yet comprehensive version of this is now at de:Benutzer:Asakura Akira/Projekt Kokkai as a collapsible collapsed table showing parliamentary majorities for each individual government.

= Thresholds (incomplete WIP) =

Parliamentary thresholds
Notes (###have yet to go through the list and re-check all entries###):
 * Unless specified otherwise, majority refers to the majority of those present and casting valid votes.
 * The actual threshold for some initiatives is initiator+specified number of members.

Legal election-related thresholds
(Not effective thresholds arising from electoral systems. For those, see Threshold of inclusion, Threshold of exclusion and/or individual articles on relevant electoral systems (FPTP, SNTV, d'Hondt-PR).)

Legal thresholds (法定得票, hōtei tokuhyō)
If a candidate wins in terms of the electoral system, but fails the threshold, a repeat election must be held for the seat/office.

Deposits (供託金, kyōtakukin)
= Appendix D: Parliamentary/elections dictionary (incomplete WIP) =