2009–2026 · 7 elections · JPN
SAGE has legislative election results for Japan from 7 elections between 2009 and 2026: 2009, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The smallest unit is the municipality. The 2026 election has 1,926 municipalities, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.
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Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.
| Year | Election type | Vote type | Round | Units | % located | Votes | Polygons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 2,068 | 100% | 71,100,129 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 2,037 | 100% | 70,581,680 | yes | |||
| 2012 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 1,995 | 100% | 60,179,888 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 1,994 | 100% | 59,626,568 | yes | |||
| 2014 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 1,983 | 100% | 53,334,447 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 1,983 | 100% | 52,939,790 | yes | |||
| 2017 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 2,041 | 100% | 56,932,456 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 1,999 | 100% | 55,607,437 | yes | |||
| 2021 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 1,995 | 100% | 57,465,979 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 1,996 | 100% | 57,667,475 | yes | |||
| 2024 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 1,925 | 100% | 54,549,720 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 1,925 | 100% | 54,261,878 | yes | |||
| 2026 | Legislative (lower house) | Proportional Representation | 1,926 | 100% | 57,259,957 | yes | [map] | |
| Legislative (lower house) | Single-Member District | 1,926 | 100% | 56,446,726 | yes |
csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries
for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet.
rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.
All years: [csv 2.8 MB] [gpkg 2.0 GB] [parquet 2.1 GB] [rds 12.5 GB] [codebook 2.2 MB]
In R or Python:
R: install.packages("sage")
sage::sage_load("Japan", years = 2026)
Python: import sage
sage.sage_load("Japan", years=[2026])
Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse
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