New Liberal Club
Appearance
New Liberal Club 新自由クラブ Shin-jiyū-kurabu | |
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Leader | Yōhei Kōno |
Secretary-General | Takeo Nishioka |
Founded | June 25, 1976 |
Dissolved | August 15, 1986 |
Split from | Liberal Democratic Party |
Merged into | Liberal Democratic Party |
Ideology | Progressivism[1] |
New Liberal Club (新自由クラブ, Shin-jiyū-kurabu) was a political party in Japan that was founded on 25 June 1976 as a breakaway from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the LDP in December 1983, with the New Liberal's president, Seiichi Tagawa, serving as the Minister of Home Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.[2]
It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.
Leaders of the New Liberal Club
[edit]No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | |
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Took office | Left office | |||
1 | Yōhei Kōno | ![]() |
June 1976 | February 1979 |
2 | Seiichi Tagawa | February 1979 | June 1984 | |
3 | Yōhei Kōno | ![]() |
June 1984 | August 1986 |
Election results
[edit]House of Representatives
[edit]Election year | Leader | Candidates | # of seats won | Change | Status |
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1976 | Yōhei Kōno | 25 | 17 / 511
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Opposition |
1979 | 31 | 4 / 511
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Opposition | |
1980 | 25 | 12 / 511
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Opposition | |
1983 | 17 | 8 / 511
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Government | |
1986 | 12 | 6 / 512
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Opposition |
House of Councillors
[edit]Election year | Leader | Seats | Status | |
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Total | Contested | |||
1977 | Yōhei Kōno | 3 / 252
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3 / 126
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Opposition |
1980 | 2 / 252
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0 / 126
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Opposition | |
1983 | 3 / 252
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2 / 126
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Opposition | |
1986 | 1 / 252
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1 / 126
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Opposition |
References
[edit]- ^ Beeman, Michael L. (2002). Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-0415249690. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
- ^ "Former minister Tagawa dies at 91". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. August 9, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- 新自由クラブ関係文書 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the House of Representatives (Lower House) of the National Diet
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seats in the National Diet
- Yūshi (4)
- NHK (2)
- Okinawa Social Mass (1)
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