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2021 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election

{{short description|Political party leadership elections in Japan}}

{{use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 2021 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election

| flag_image = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (2020).svg

| type = legislative

| seats_for_election = 572 points for the first round
286 points needed to avoid a runoff

| vote_type = Caucus

| previous_election = 2020 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election | previous_year = 2020

| next_election = 2024 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election | next_year = 2024

| election_date = 30 November 2021

| 1blank = First Round

| 2blank = Runoff

| image2 = 160x160px

| candidate2 = Seiji Osaka

| color2 = CC0033

| leaders_seat2 = Rep for Hokkaido-8th

| 1data2 = 148 (25.9%)

| 2data2 = 128 (38.4%)

| image4 = 160x160px

| candidate4 = Junya Ogawa

| color4 = 007F5E

| leaders_seat4 = Rep for Kagawa-1st

| 1data4 = 133 (23.3%)

| 2data4 = Eliminated

| image1 = 160x160px

| candidate1 = Kenta Izumi

| color1 = E69117

| leaders_seat1 = Rep for Kyoto-3rd

| 1data1 = 189 (33.0%)

| 2data1 = 205 (61.6%)

| image5 = 160x160px

| candidate5 = Chinami Nishimura

| color5 = 0B75D9

| leaders_seat5 = Rep for Niigata-1st

| 1data5 = 102 (17.8%)

| 2data5 = Eliminated

| map =

|

| title = Leader

| before_election = Yukio Edano

| after_election = Kenta Izumi

}}

The 2021 Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan presidential election took place on 30 November 2021 to elect the next president of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan after the inaugural leader of the party, Yukio Edano, announced his intention to resign as party leader citing the party's poor performance in the 2021 general election.{{Cite web|date=2 November 2021|title=CDP leader Yukio Edano to quit post after poor election results|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/02/national/cdp-leader-yukio-edano-quit-post-poor-election-results/|access-date=3 November 2021|website=The Japan Times}}

Background

Founded in October 2017 as a split from the Democratic Party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan achieved the status of the opposition's largest force after the 2017 general election, when it became the second largest party in the Diet, with 55 seats in the House of Representatives. In September 2020, the party was re-established following a merger with most of the DPP and SDP caucuses, and some independent lawmakers. After the merger, the number of seats rose to 110.

In order to increase the weight of the opposition, the CDP decided to establish joint candidacies with three other progressive parties (JCP, SDP and Reiwa Shinsengumi) in most of the electoral districts for the 2021 general election.

Although the cooperation strategy and a slight increase in votes for the party had led to an increase in the seats obtained compared to 2017 (from 55 to 96), these were still inferior to the number of seats held by the party before the vote (110). Furthermore, the majority of polls predicted better results for the CDP. Therefore, Yukio Edano decided to step down, so that a new leadership could reorganize the party in view of the elections for the Upper House in the summer of 2022.

Timeline

=2021=

  • 2 November – Yukio Edano announces his resignation as party president.
  • 13 November – Party officials announce the election will be held on 30 November 2021.
  • 17 November - Kenta Izumi, Seiji Osaka and Chinami Nishimura announced their candidacies.
  • 18 November - Junya Ogawa announced his candidacy.
  • 19 November – Campaign officially began.
  • 22 November – The first of three public debate between the leadership candidates was held.
  • 30 November - The leadership election was held, in which Kenta Izumi won.

Candidates

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;width:100%"

! colspan="2" style="width:110px;" | Candidate(s)

! Date of birth

! class="unsortable" | Current position

! Party faction

! Electoral district

File:泉健太公式プロフィール写真(2009).jpg Kenta Izumi

| style="background:#E69117 |

| {{birth date|1974|7|29|df=y}}
{{small|(age 47)}}

| Member of the House of Representatives
{{small|(since 2003)}}

{{Hidden|Previous offices held|

  • Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet Office {{small|(2009–2010)}}

}}

| Shin Seiken Kenkyūkai
(Izumi)

| File:Flag of Kyoto Prefecture.svg Kyoto 3rd district

File:Seiji Ōsaka 201101 (cropped).jpg Seiji Osaka

| style="background:#CC0033 |

| {{birth date|1959|4|27|df=y}}
{{small|(age 62)}}

| Member of the House of Representatives
{{small|(since 2005)}}

{{Hidden|Previous offices held|

}}

| Sanctuary
(Kondō)

| File:Flag of Hokkaido Prefecture.svg Hokkaido 8th district

File:Chinami Honda cropped 1 Chinami Honda 200909.jpg Chinami Nishimura

| style="background:#0B75D9 |

| {{birth date|1967|1|13|df=y}}
{{small|(age 54)}}

| Member of the House of Representatives
{{small|(since 2003)}}

{{Hidden|Previous offices held|

}}

| Kuni no Katachi Kenkyūkai
(Kan)

| File:Flag of Niigata Prefecture.svg Niigata 1st district

File:Junya Ogawa 2009.jpg Junya Ogawa

| style="background:#005F47 |

| {{birth date|1971|4|18|df=y}}
{{small|(age 50)}}

| Member of the House of Representatives
{{small|(since 2005)}}

{{Hidden|Previous offices held|

}}

| Sanctuary
(Kondō)

| File:Flag of Kagawa Prefecture.svg Kagawa-1st

=Declined=

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;width:100%"

! Candidate(s)

! Date of birth

! class="unsortable" | Current position

! Party faction

! Electoral district

File:Hiroshi Ogushi.jpg Hiroshi Ogushi{{cite web|date=4 November 2021|title=Younger guns aiming for CDP top post to renew the ailing party|url=https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14475015|access-date=4 November 2021|website=The Asahi Shimbun}}{{cite web|date=3 November 2021|url=https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021110300708/|title=Ogushi May Run for Leader of Top Japan Opposition CDP|access-date=3 November 2021|website=Nippon.com}}

| {{birth date|1965|8|31|df=y}}
{{small|(age 56)}}

| Member of the House of Representatives
{{small|(since 2005)}}

{{Hidden|Previous offices held|

  • Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance {{small|(2009–2010)}}
  • Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet Office {{small|(2011–2012)}}
  • Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Reconstruction {{small|(2012)}}
  • Special Advisor to the Prime Minister {{small|(2012)}}

}}

|

| File:Flag of Saga Prefecture.svg Saga 2nd district

= Recommenders =

class="wikitable"

|+ List of recommenders {{cite news |url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASPCM46VPPCMULEI002.html | title=立憲代表選、4陣営の推薦人は計90人　国会議員の7割固まる | newspaper=the Asahi Shinbun| date=2021-11-19 | accessdate=2021-11-19 }}

! Candidate

! Seiji Osaka

! Junya Ogawa

! Kenta Izumi

! Chinami Nishimura

Recommenders

| style="vertical-align:top" |Kaori Ishikawa

Kureha Otsuki
Shoichi Kondo
Kaname Tsutsumi
Daiki Michishita
Tatsumaru Yamaoka
Michiyoshi Yunoki
Yoshifu Arita
Takashi Esaki
Masahito Ozawa
Kenji Katsube
Makiko Kishi
Yoshitaka Saito
Maiko Tajima
Masayoshi Nataniya
Shinkun Haku
Yoshio Hachiro
Shunichi Mizuoka
Takashi Moriya
Tadatomo Yoshida

| style="vertical-align:top" |Yoichiro Aoyagi

Shunsuke Ito
Shuji Inatomi
Hiroshi Ogushi
Soichiro Okuno
Takayuki Ochiai
Saori Kamata
Makiko Kikuta
Kentaro Genma
Kazuya Kondo
Shu Sakurai
Takeshi Shina
Yoichi Shiraishi
Yosuke Suzuki
Kaname Tajima
Yoshio Tezuka
Manabu Terada
Katsuhito Nakajima
Kazuma Nakatani
Hajime Yatagawa
Shunji Yuhara
Hiroyuki Konishi
Ayaka Shiomura
Hiroyuki Nagahama
Kuniyoshi Noda

| style="vertical-align:top" |Yamato Aoyama

Yutaka Arai
Nobuhiko Isaka
Takeshi Kozu
Yuichi Goto
Koji Sato
Go Shinohara
Mitsu Shimojo
Seiichi Suetsugu
Yoshinori Suematsu
Hisashi Tokunaga
Takeshi Noma
Akio Fukuda
Sumio Mabuchi
Toshikazu Morita
Katsuhiko Yamada
Kazunori Yamanoi
Tsunehiko Yoshida
Eiji Kidoguchi
Yukimasa Koga
Masayo Tanabu
Jiro Hata
Hiroe Makiyama
Shinji Morimoto
Takanori Yokosawa

| style="vertical-align:top" |Tomoko Abe

Masako Okawara
Akiko Okamoto
Nobuhiro Koyama
Naoto Kan
Takashi Shinohara
Masaharu Nakagawa
Hiroyuki Moriyama
Makoto Yamazaki
Harumi Yoshida
Yuki Waseda
So Watanabe
Noriko Ishigaki
Taiga Ishikawa
Michihiro Ishibashi
Sakura Uchikoshi
Ryohei Kawata
Hideya Sugio
Hiroto Kumagai
Yuichi Mayama

Opinion polls

class="wikitable mw-datatable sortable mw-collapsible" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;line-height:14px;"

! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" width="100px" |Fieldwork date

! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" width="100px" |Polling firm

! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" width="100px" |Sample size

! class="unsortable" |Kenta Izumi

! class="unsortable" |Seiji Osaka

! class="unsortable" |Chinami Nishimura

! class="unsortable" |Junya Ogawa

! class="unsortable" |Hiroshi Ogushi

! class="unsortable" |Kenji Eda

! class="unsortable" |Sumio Mabuchi

! class="unsortable" |Kōichirō Genba

! class="unsortable" |Renhō

! class="unsortable" |Akira Nagatsuma

! class="unsortable" |Katsuya Okada

! width="40px" class="unsortable" |Others

! width="40px" class="unsortable" |{{abbr|NOT|None of these}}/

{{abbr|UD|Undecided and Don't know}}/{{abbr|NA|no answer}}

style="background:#E69117" |

! style="background:#CC0033" |

! style="background:#0B75D9" |

! style="background:#005F47" |

! style="background:" |

! style="background:#B8CE43" |

! style="background:#1E5051" |

! style="background:" |

! style="background:#DA5196" |

! style="background:" |

! style="background:" |

! style="background:#444444" |

! style="background:#999999" |

20–21 Nov 2021

|[https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/hst/poll/202111/ ANN]

|1,031

| style="background:#E69117; color:white" |12

|8

|10

|9

|–

|–

|–

|–

|–

|–

|–

|–

| style="background:#EEEEEE;" |61

10–11 Nov 2021

|[https://www.chunichi.co.jp/digican/shuin2021_yoron?sjkd_page=cont_KA613b0d7b468bd_KA6197121d3a512 Kyodo News]

|520

| style="background:#E69117; color:white" |8.1

|–

|3.6

|6.7

|2.4

|–

|7.2

|6.7

|–

|–

|–

|5.9

| style="background:#EEEEEE;" |59.4

10–11 Nov 2021

|[https://x.com/AsiaElects/status/1459457760697933824 Nikkei/TV Tokyo]

|852

|3

|2

|–

|6

|1

|4

|4

|4

| style="background:#DA5196; color:white" |14

|11

|7

|–

| style="background:#EEEEEE;" |44

Results

An extraordinary party convention was held at a hotel in Tokyo on the afternoon of November 30. Following the announcement of the results of the "local vote" by local lawmakers, party members and supporters, which was closed on the 29th, parliamentarians and prospective official candidates voted.

From the first round of the vote, Izumi was 1st (189 points), Osaka was 2nd (148 points), Ogawa was 3rd (133 points), and Nishimura was 4th (102 points). None of the four candidates reached the majority of 572 votes in total, so Izumi and Osaka advanced to the final vote of the top two. As a result of a final vote by a member of parliament, prospective official candidate, and representatives from 47 prefectures, Izumi, who got 205 points, defeated Osaka, who got 128 points, and was elected as the new leader of the party.{{Cite web|title=立憲民主党代表選 泉氏が新代表に選出|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20211130/k10013367901000.html|website=NHKニュース|accessdate=2021-11-30|last=日本放送協会|date=2021-11-30|language=Japanese}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;font-size:95%;"

|+ Full result{{Cite web|title=【公告】2021年11月立憲民主党代表選挙の結果に関する公告|url=https://cdp-japan.jp/news/20211130_2641|website=Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan|accessdate=2024-09-23|date=2021-11-30|language=Japanese}}

rowspan="3" | Candidate
colspan="2" |Diet members

! colspan="2" |Diet candidates

! colspan="3" |Local assembly members

! colspan="3" |Party members

! colspan="2" |Prefectural chapters

! colspan="3" |Total

Votes

!%

!Votes

!%

!Popular votes

!Allocated votes

!%

!Popular votes

!Allocated votes

!%

!Votes

!%

!colspan=2|Votes

!%

colspan="16" |1st Round
style="text-align:left"|Kenta Izumi

|94

33.6%233.3%3694632.2%15,2004732.9%colspan=2 rowspan=4 {{N/A|N/A}}189align=center|{{percentage bar|33.0hex=0D378A}}33.0%
style="text-align:left"|Seiji Osaka

|58

20.7%466.7%3854833.6%12,4113826.6%148align=center|{{percentage bar|25.9hex=0D378A}}25.9%
style="text-align:left"|Junya Ogawa

|72

25.7%00.0%2192718.9%10,9123423.8%133align=center|{{percentage bar|23.3hex=0D378A}}23.3%
style="text-align:left"|Chinami Nishimura

|56

20.0%00.0%1832215.4%7,6662416.8%102align=center|{{percentage bar|17.8hex=0D378A}}17.8%
Total

!style="text-align:right"| 280

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!style="text-align:right"| 6

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!style="text-align:right"| 1,156

!style="text-align:right"| 143

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!style="text-align:right"| 46,189

!style="text-align:right"| 143

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!colspan=2|

!style="text-align:right"| 572

!

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

colspan="16" |2nd Round
style="text-align:left"|Kenta Izumi

|168

60.0%233.3%colspan=6 rowspan=2 {{N/A|N/A}}3574.5%205align=center|{{percentage bar|61.6hex=0D378A}}61.6%
style="text-align:left"|Seiji Osaka

|112

40.0%466.7%1225.5%128align=center|{{percentage bar|38.4hex=0D378A}}38.4%
style="text-align:left"|Junya Ogawa

|colspan="15" {{N/A|Eliminated}}

style="text-align:left"|Chinami Nishimura

|colspan="15" {{N/A|Eliminated}}

Total

!style="text-align:right"| 280

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!style="text-align:right"| 6

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!colspan=6|

!style="text-align:right"| 47

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

!style="text-align:right"| 333

!

!style="text-align:right"| 100.0%

References

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