Japan Election Data, 1958-1990 Codebook Lower House Elections Data ID Identification number. Six digits. The first three digits (starting with 001) are the district number, the next digit is the party code. For conservatives the next digit is the faction code. The final digit is a simple counter. YEAR Year of election (coded as 1958, 1960, etc.). KU Number of the district (See Appendix A). MAG Number of seats in the district. Redistricting in 1967, 1976, and 1986. ELECTORS Number of registered voters in district. Source: Asahi Newspaper Yearbook (Asahi Nenkan). The data coded are "Tonichi yukensha," or registered voters as of the day of the election. NAME Name of the Candidate, 16 characters HA Factional affiliation, conservative candidates only 0 = Missing Data 1 = Sato, Tanaka, Takeshita faction (change dates 1971, 1986) 2 = Kishi, Fukuda, Abe faction 3 = Ideda, Maeo, Ohira, Miyazawa faction 4 = Kono, Nakasone, Watanabe faction 5 = Miki, Komoto, Kaifu faction 6 = Kaya 7 = no factional affiliation 8 = Ono faction 9 = Ichimanda faction 10 = Fujiyama faction 11 = Ishii faction 12 = Old Progressive Party center faction [add!] 13 = Ishibashi faction 14 = 15 = Mizuta faction 16 = Ishida faction 17 = Nakagawa group 18 = Kawashima, Shiina faction 19 = Shiina faction 20 = Funada faction 21 = 22 = Mori faction 23 = Sonoda faction 24 = Murakami faction 25 = Muramatsu faction 26 = Ashida faction 27 = Yoshida faction 30 = Nikaido group INC Incumbency status. =1 if candidate of record is an incumbent, =0 otherwise. Missing data in 1958. MAIN Mainstream status of LDP candidates (and LDP-affiliated independents). =1 if candidate of record belonged to a mainstream faction, =0 otherwise This variable is coded missing (.) if the candidate of record is not a LDP candidate (or affiliated independent). TO Party in Election Year 1 = Liberal Democratic Party 2 = Japan Socialist Party 3 = Clean Government Party 4 = Democratic Socialist Party 5 = Japan Communist Party 6 = New Liberal Club (from the 1990 election the Progressive Party) 7 = Social Democratic League 8 = Minor Party 9 = Independent, no party affiliation or unknown 10 = 11 = Conservative independent 12 = JSP related independent 13 = CGP related independent 14 = DSP related independent 15 = JCP related indepentent 16 = NLC related independent 17 = SDL related independent 18 = independent related to a minor party (a party code of, e.g., 3.4 indicates a fusion candidacy between parties 3 and 4) Electoral Information VOT Number of votes received by candidate of record in given year WL Whether or not the candidate of record won a seat in given year . = did not run 1 = won 0 = lost RANK The candidate of record's rank of finish in given year A rank value of 98 is assigned to "OTHER CANDIDATES" when 1) no other candidate ran, so VOT = 0 2) 2 or more other candidates ran, so the NOT value is a sum NC Number of candidates running in district NCSP Number of candidates of the same party as the candidate of record Appendix A: District Codes KU DISTRICT ------------------------ 1 Hokkaido 1 2 Hokkaido 2 3 Hokkaido 3 4 Hokkaido 4 5 Hokkaido 5 6 Aomori 1 7 Aomori 2 8 Iwate 1 9 Iwate 2 10 Miyagi 1 11 Miyagi 2 12 Akita 1 13 Akita 2 14 Yamagata 1 15 Yamagata 2 16 Fukushima 1 17 Fukushima 2 18 Fukushima 3 19 Ibaragi 1 20 Ibaragi 2 21 Ibaragi 3 22 Tochigi 1 23 Tochigi 2 24 Gumma 1 25 Gumma 2 26 Gumma 3 27 Saitama 1 28 Saitama 5 29 Saitama 2 30 Saitama 3 31 Saitama 4 32 Chiba 1 33 Chiba 4 34 Chiba 2 35 Chiba 3 36 Tokyo 1 37 Tokyo 8 38 Tokyo 2 39 Tokyo 3 40 Tokyo 4 41 Tokyo 5 42 Tokyo 9 43 Tokyo 6 44 Tokyo 10 45 Tokyo 7 46 Tokyo 11 47 Kanagawa 1 48 Kanagawa 4 49 Kanagawa 2 50 Kanagawa 3 51 Kanagawa 5 52 Yamanashi 53 Niigata 1 54 Niigata 2 55 Niigata 3 56 Niigata 4 57 Toyama 1 58 Toyama 2 59 Ishikawa 1 60 Ishikawa 2 61 Fukui 62 Nagano 1 63 Nagano 2 64 Nagano 3 65 Nagano 4 66 Gifu 1 67 Gifu 2 68 Shizuoka 1 69 Shizuoka 2 70 Shizuoka 3 71 Aichi 1 72 Aichi 6 73 Aichi 2 74 Aichi 3 75 Aichi 4 76 Aichi 5 77 Mie 1 78 Mie 2 79 Shiga 80 Kyoto 1 81 Kyoto 2 82 Osaka 1 83 Osaka 6 84 Osaka 2 85 Osaka 3 86 Osaka 7 87 Osaka 4 88 Osaka 5 89 Hyogo 1 90 Hyogo 2 91 Hyogo 3 92 Hyogo 4 93 Hyogo 5 94 Nara 95 Wakayama 1 96 Wakayama 2 97 Tottori 98 Shimane 99 Okayama 1 100 Okayama 2 101 Hiroshima 1 102 Hiroshima 2 103 Hiroshima 3 104 Yamaguich 1 105 Yanaguchi 2 106 Tokushima 107 Kagawa 1 108 Kagawa 2 109 Ehime 1 110 Ehime 2 111 Ehime 3 112 Kochi 113 Fukuoka 1 114 Fukuoka 2 115 Fukuoka 3 116 Fukuoka 4 117 Saga 118 Nagasaki 1 119 Nagasaki 2 120 Kumamoto 1 121 Kumamoto 2 122 Oita 1 123 Oita 2 124 Miyazaki 1 125 Miyazaki 2 126 Kagoshima 1 127 Kagoshima 2 128 Kagaoshima 3 129 Amami 130 Okinawa Appendix B: Dates of Elections May 22, 1958 (1958.5.22) November 20, 1960 (1969.11.20) November 21, 1963 (1963.11.21) January 29, 1967 (1967.1.29) December 27, 1969 (1969.12.27) December 10, 1972 (1972.12.10) December 5, 1976 (1976.12.5) October 7, 1979 (1979.10.7) June 22, 1980 (1980.6.22) December 18, 1983 (1983.12.18) July 6, 1986 (1986.7.6) February 18, 1990 (1990.2.18) Appendix C: Data Dictionary # of Recs: 10493; Size: 870K; LRL: 82; newline delimitted Variable Type Len Pos Label ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ELECTORS Num 6 1-6 HA Num 2 8-9 faction number ID Num 6 11-16 INC Num 1 18 KU Num 3 20-22 district number MAG Num 1 24 district magnitude MAIN Num 1 26 mainstream status (mostly for top 5) NAME Char 16 28-43 name of candidate NC Num 3 45-47 number of candidates NCSP Num 1 49 num cands of same party as cand of rec RANK Num 2 51-52 TO Num 2 54-55 party number TOUT Num 5 57-61 TVOT Num 6 63-68 total votes cast in election VOT Num 6 70-75 votes cast for candidate of record WL Num 1 77 whether candidate won a seat or not YEAR Num 4 79-82