51st House of Representatives election

What the House list prints

• 51st election. The dissolved Diet is the 220th (ordinary session). The dissolution date is 23 January 2026.
• The election date is 8 February 2026.
• The Diet after the election is the 221st (special session). It was convoked on 18 February 2026.

The session list marks the end of the 220th Diet as a dissolution on 23 January 2026. It lists the 222nd (extraordinary) session as convoked on 5 October 2026 for 69 days, and the end-date cell was empty when the page was read.

Article 45 says the term of members of the House of Representatives is four years, and that a dissolution ends the term before it expires. Article 54 says a general election is held within 40 days of dissolution and the Diet is convoked within 30 days of the election. The Ministry’s account of the size is 289 single-member seats and 176 proportional seats.

Gap. Party seat totals are not copied here. The House list read on 17 October 2026 prints the date and does not print a results table.