President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Japanese party leader
The president of the Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党総裁, Jiyū-Minshutō Sōsai) is the highest position within Japan's Liberal Democratic Party. The current holder of the position is Shigeru Ishiba, who was elected to the position on 27 September 2024, following his victory in the party's presidential election.[1]
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
自由民主党総裁 (Jiyū-Minshutō Sōsai) | |
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Liberal Democratic Party | |
Type | Party leader |
Term length | Three years, renewable twice consecutively |
Inaugural holder | Ichirō Hatoyama |
Formation | 5 April 1956 |
Deputy | Vice President Secretary-General |
Presidents of the party
changeNo. | President (Lifespan) |
Portrait | Constituency or title | Took office | Left office | Election results | Government | |||
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Party | Prime Minister | Term | ||||||||
Preceding parties: Liberal Party (1950) and Democratic Party (1954) | ||||||||||
Interim Leadership Committee (1955–1956) | ||||||||||
— | Ichirō Hatoyama 鳩山 一郎 (1883–1959) |
Rep for Tokyo 1st | 15 November 1955 | 5 April 1956 | None | LDP | himself | 1954–1956 | ||
Bukichi Miki 三木 武吉 (1884–1956) |
Rep for Kagawa 1st | LDP | Hatoyama I. | 1954–1956 | ||||||
Banboku Ōno 大野 伴睦 (1890–1964) |
Rep for Gifu 1st | |||||||||
Taketora Ogata 緒方 竹虎 (1888–1956) |
Rep for Fukuoka 1st | 28 January 1956 (Died in office) | ||||||||
Tsuruhei Matsuno 松野 鶴平 (1883–1962) |
Cou for Kumamoto | 10 February 1956 | 5 April 1956 | |||||||
President (1956–present) | ||||||||||
1 | Ichirō Hatoyama 鳩山 一郎 (1883–1959) |
Rep for Tokyo 1st | 5 April 1956 | 14 December 1956 | Apr. 1956
Ichirō Hatoyama – 394 Nobusuke Kishi – 4 Others – 15 |
LDP | himself | 1954–1956 | ||
2 | Tanzan Ishibashi 石橋 湛山 (1884–1973) |
Rep for Shizuoka 2nd | 14 December 1956 | 21 March 1957 | Dec. 1956 1st round
Nobusuke Kishi – 223 Tanzan Ishibashi – 151 Mitsujiro Ishii – 137 Dec. 1956 2nd round
Tanzan Ishibashi – 258 Nobusuke Kishi – 251 |
LDP | himself | 1956–1957 | ||
3 | Nobusuke Kishi 岸 信介 (1896–1987) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 1st | 21 March 1957 | 14 July 1960 | 1957
Nobusuke Kishi – 471 Kenzō Matsumura – 2 Tokutaro Kitamura – 1 Mitsujirō Ishii – 1 1959
Nobusuke Kishi – 320 Kenzō Matsumura – 166 Others – 5 |
LDP | himself | 1957–1960 | ||
4 | Hayato Ikeda 池田 勇人 (1899–1965) |
Rep for Hiroshima 2nd | 14 July 1960 | 1 December 1964 | 1960 1st Round
Hayato Ikeda – 246 Mitsujirō Ishii – 194 Aiichirō Fujiyama – 49 Others – 7 1960 2nd Round
Hayato Ikeda – 302 Mitsujirō Ishii – 194 1962
Hayato Ikeda – 391 Eisaku Satō – 17 Others – 20 Jul. 1964
Hayato Ikeda – 242 Eisaku Satō – 160 Aiichirō Fujiyama – 72 Hirokichi Nadao – 1 |
LDP | himself | 1960–1964 | ||
5 | Eisaku Satō 佐藤 栄作 (1901–1975) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 2nd | 1 December 1964 | 5 July 1972 | Nov. 1964
Eisaku Satō – Aiichirō Fujiyama – Ichirō Kōno – 1966
Eisaku Satō – 289 Aiichirō Fujiyama – 89 Shigesaburō Maeo – 47 Hirokichi Nadao – 11 Uichi Noda – 9 Others – 5 1968
Eisaku Satō – 249 Takeo Miki – 107 Shigesaburō Maeo – 95 Others – 25 1970
Eisaku Satō – 353 Takeo Miki – 111 Others – 3 |
LDP | himself | 1964–1972 | ||
6 | Kakuei Tanaka 田中 角榮 (1918–1993) |
Rep for Niigata 3rd | 5 July 1972 | 4 December 1974 | 1972
Tanaka Kakuei – 282 Takeo Fukuda – 180 |
LDP | himself | 1972–1974 | ||
7 | Takeo Miki 三木 武夫 (1907–1988) |
Rep for Tokushima at-large | 4 December 1974 | 23 December 1976 | 1974
Takeo Miki – Takeo Fukuda – Masayoshi Ōhira – Yasuhiro Nakasone – |
LDP | himself | 1974–1976 | ||
8 | Takeo Fukuda 福田 赳夫 (1905–1995) |
Rep for Gunma 3rd | 23 December 1976 | 1 December 1978 | 1976
Takeo Fukuda – Masayoshi Ōhira – |
LDP | himself | 1976–1978 | ||
9 | Masayoshi Ōhira 大平 正芳 (1910–1980) |
Rep for Kagawa 2nd | 1 December 1978 | 12 June 1980 (Died in office) |
1978 1st round
Masayoshi Ōhira – 748 Fukuda Takeo – 638 Yasuhiro Nakasone – 93 Toshio Kōmoto – 46 1978 2nd round
Unopposed |
LDP | himself | 1978–1980 | ||
— | Eiichi Nishimura 西村 英一 (1897–1987) Acting President |
Rep for Ōita 2nd | 12 June 1980 | 15 July 1980 | Acting | LDP | (Ito M.) | 1980; Acting | ||
10 | Zenkō Suzuki 鈴木 善幸 (1911–2004) |
Rep for Iwate 1st | 15 July 1980 | 25 November 1982 | Jul. 1980
Zenko Suzuki – Kiichi Miyazawa – Yasuhiro Nakasone – Toshio Kōmoto – Nov. 1980
Unopposed |
LDP | himself | 1980–1982 | ||
11 | Yasuhiro Nakasone 中曽根 康弘 (1918–2019) |
Rep for Gunma 3rd | 25 November 1982 | 31 October 1987 | 1982 1st Round
Yasuhiro Nakasone – 57.6% (559,673) Toshio Kōmoto – 27.2% (265,078) Shintarō Abe – 8.2% (80,443) Ichirō Nakagawa – 6.8% (66,041) 1982 2nd Round
Unopposed 1984
Unopposed walkover 1986
1-year extension |
LDP | himself | 1982–1987 | ||
12 | Noboru Takeshita 竹下 登 (1924–2000) |
Rep for Shimane at-large | 31 October 1987 | 2 June 1989 | 1987
Noboru Takeshita – Shintarō Abe – Kiichi Miyazawa – |
LDP | himself | 1987–1989 | ||
13 | Sōsuke Uno 宇野 宗佑 (1922–1998) |
Rep for Shiga at-large | 2 June 1989 | 8 August 1989 | Jun. 1989
Sōsuke Uno – Masayoshi Itō – |
LDP | himself | 1989 | ||
14 | Toshiki Kaifu 海部 俊樹 (1931–2022) |
Rep for Aichi 3rd | 8 August 1989 | 30 October 1991 | Aug. 1989 1st round
Toshiki Kaifu – 279 Yoshirō Hayashi – 120 Shintarō Ishihara – 48 Aug. 1989 2nd round
Unopposed |
LDP | himself | 1989–1991 | ||
15 | Kiichi Miyazawa 宮澤 喜一 (1919–2007) |
Rep for Hiroshima 3rd | 31 October 1991 | 29 July 1993 | 1991
Kiichi Miyazawa – 285 Michio Wantanabe – 120 Hiroshi Mitsuzuka – 87 |
LDP | himself | 1991–1993 | ||
16 | Yōhei Kōno 河野 洋平 (born 1937) |
Rep for Kanagawa 5th | 29 July 1993 | 1 October 1995 | 1993 1st round
Yōhei Kōno – 208 Michio Wantanabe – 159 1993 2nd round
Unopposed |
JNP | Hosokawa | 1993–1994 | ||
JRP | Hata | Apr–Jun 1994 | ||||||||
JSP | Murayama (coalition) |
1994–1996 | ||||||||
17 | Ryutaro Hashimoto 橋本 龍太郎 (1937–2006) |
Rep for Okayama 4th | 1 October 1995 | 24 July 1998 | 1995
Ryutaro Hashimoto – 304 Junichiro Koizumi – 87 1997
Unopposed walkover |
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LDP | himself | 1996–1998 | ||||||||
18 | Keizō Obuchi 小渕 恵三 (1937–2000) |
Rep for Gunma 5th | 24 July 1998 | 5 April 2000 | 1998
Keizō Obuchi – 225 Seiroku Kajiyama – 102 Junichiro Koizumi – 84 1999
Keizō Obuchi – 350 Koichi Kato – 113 Taku Yamasaki – 51 |
LDP | himself | 1998–2000 | ||
19 | Yoshirō Mori 森 喜朗 (born 1937) |
Rep for Ishikawa 2nd | 5 April 2000 | 24 April 2001 | 2000
Yoshirō Mori – Mikio Aoki – Masakuni Murakami – Hiromu Nonaka – Shizuka Kamei – |
LDP | himself | 2000–2001 | ||
20 | Junichiro Koizumi 小泉 純一郎 (born 1942) |
Rep for Kanagawa 11th | 24 April 2001 | 20 September 2006 | 2001 1st Round
Junichiro Koizumi – 298 Ryutaro Hashimoto – 155 Tarō Asō – 31 2001 2nd Round
Unopposed 2003 |
LDP | himself | 2001–2006 | ||
21 | Shinzo Abe 安倍 晋三 (1954–2022) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 4th | 20 September 2006 | 23 September 2007 |
Shinzo Abe – 464 Tarō Asō – 136 Sadakazu Tanigaki – 102 |
LDP | himself | 2006–2007 | ||
22 | Yasuo Fukuda 福田 康夫 (born 1936) |
Rep for Gunma 4th | 23 September 2007 | 22 September 2008 |
Yasuo Fukuda – 330 Tarō Asō – 197 |
LDP | himself | 2007–2008 | ||
23 | Tarō Asō 麻生 太郎 (born 1940) |
Rep for Fukuoka 8th | 22 September 2008 | 28 September 2009 | LDP | himself | 2008–2009 | |||
24 | Sadakazu Tanigaki 谷垣 禎一 (born 1945) |
Rep for Kyoto 5th | 28 September 2009 | 26 September 2012 | DPJ | Hatoyama Y. | 2009–2010 | |||
DPJ | Kan | 2010–2011 | ||||||||
DPJ | Noda | 2011–2012 | ||||||||
25 (21) |
Shinzo Abe 安倍 晋三 (1954–2022) |
Rep for Yamaguchi 4th | 26 September 2012 | 14 September 2020 |
Shinzo Abe – 141 Shigeru Ishiba – 199 Nobuteru Ishihara – 96 Nobutaka Machimura 34 Yoshimasa Hayashi – 27
Shinzo Abe – 108 Shigeru Ishiba – 89
Unopposed walkover
Shinzo Abe – 553 Shigeru Ishiba – 254 |
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LDP | himself | 2012–2020 | ||||||||
26 | Yoshihide Suga 菅 義偉 (born 1948) |
Rep for Kanagawa 2nd | 14 September 2020 | 29 September 2021 | LDP | himself | 2020–2021 | |||
27 | Fumio Kishida 岸田 文雄 (born 1957) |
Rep for Hiroshima 1st | 29 September 2021 | 27 September 2024 |
Fumio Kishida – 257 Taro Kono – 170 |
LDP | himself | 2021–2024 | ||
28 | Shigeru Ishiba 石破 茂 (born 1957) |
Rep for Tottori 1st | 27 September 2024 | Incumbent |
Sanae Takaichi – 181 Shigeru Ishiba – 154 Shinjirō Koizumi – 136 Yoshimasa Hayashi – 65 Takayuki Kobayashi – 60 Toshimitsu Motegi – 47 Yōko Kamikawa – 40 Taro Kono – 30 Katsunobu Katō – 22
Shigeru Ishiba – 215 Sanae Takaichi – 194 |
LDP | himself | 2024–present |
References
change- ↑ "Shigeru Ishiba is set to become Japan's next prime minister after winning ruling party leadership election". CNBC. 27 September 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2024.