House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 6 July 1986 to elect half the seats in the upper house of the Diet . The elections were held alongside elections for the House of Representatives , the second and most recent such instance since 1980.
1986 Japanese House of Councillors election
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Masashi Ishibashi
Yoshikatsu Takeiri
Party
LDP
Socialist
Kōmeitō
Last election
137 seats, 35.3%
44 seats, 16.3%
26 seats, 15.7%
Seats after
140
41
24
Seat change
3
3
2
Popular vote
22,132,573
9,869,088
7,438,501
Percentage
38.6%
17.2%
13.0%
Swing
3.3pp
0.9pp
2.7pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Kenji Miyamoto
Tsukamoto Saburō
Seiichi Tagawa
Party
JCP
Democratic Socialist
New Liberal Club
Last election
14 seats, 8.9%
11 seats, 8.4%
2 seats, 2.7%
Seats after
16
12
2
Seat change
2
1
Popular vote
5,430,838
3,940,325
1,367,291
Percentage
9.5%
6.9%
2.4%
Swing
0.6pp
1.5pp
0.3pp
Party National Constituency Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Not up Won Total after /– Liberal Democratic Party 22,132,573 38.58 22 26,111,258 45.07 50 68 72 140 3 Japan Socialist Party 9,869,088 17.20 9 12,464,579 21.51 11 21 20 41 –3 Kōmeitō 7,438,501 12.97 7 2,549,037 4.40 3 14 10 24 –2 Japanese Communist Party 5,430,838 9.47 5 6,617,487 11.42 4 7 9 16 2 Democratic Socialist Party 3,940,325 6.87 3 2,643,370 4.56 2 7 5 12 1 Tax Affairs Party 1,803,051 3.14 1 327,444 0.57 0 1 1 2 New New Party for Salaried Men 1,759,484 3.07 1 2 1 3 1 Dainiin Club 1,455,532 2.54 1 2 1 3 1 New Liberal Club 1,367,291 2.38 1 1 1 2 0 Other parties 2,166,059 3.78 0 1,192,801 2.06 0 1 0 1 – Independents 6,032,259 10.41 6 1 6 7 1 Vacant 1 0 1 1 – Total 57,362,742 100.00 50 57,938,235 100.00 77 125 127 252 0 Valid votes 57,362,742 93.06 57,938,235 93.94 Invalid/blank votes 4,280,530 6.94 3,735,135 6.06 Total votes 61,643,272 100.00 61,673,370 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 86,426,845 71.32 86,426,845 71.36 Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ,[ 1] [ 2] National Diet