Talk:2026 Japanese general election: Difference between revisions

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:I’ve swapped the diagram out with one that should have the correct colours from [[Module:Political party]], as well as keeping the government on one side and the opposition on the other side of the diagram [[User:DimensionalFusion|DimensionalFusion]] ([[User talk:DimensionalFusion|talk]] · she/her) 21:56, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

== Diagram sorting ==

Since {{u|OneTrillionairePro}} keeps reverting my edits, I’ve brought this matter to the talk page. Should the diagram of results by seat show the ideological placements of parties, or should it show the government and opposition? I think it should show government and opposition benches, because otherwise parties like Team Mirai would need to be assigned relative ideological placements, in the current [[:File:House of Representatives Japan 2026.svg]], it’s shown as being “more left wing” than the CRA, but “more right wing” than Reiwa. In comparison, I think showing it by government and opposition would be far more consistent, as I have done at [[:File:Japanese House of Representatives 2026-02-09vg.svg]]. Thoughts? [[User:DimensionalFusion|DimensionalFusion]] ([[User talk:DimensionalFusion|talk]] · she/her) 22:17, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Should we add Centrist Reform as a party into the infobox already? It would seem like the decision by both CDP and Komeito to merge is already taken ([1] [2] [3]). However, we still lack some basic info such as its acronym and colour… Impru20^talk 14:39, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Well, whilst we’re pretty sure the merger will go ahead, we don’t know when the merger will happen (before or after the election). For example, Komeitō have said they’re not going to run in the single-member constituencies in favour of the CDP and instead run in only the proportional blocks, which would seem to indicate that they will be seperate parties going into the election DimensionalFusion (talk · she/her) 15:43, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Prefer to wait until the formal announcement of name and branding, or even better, after they start lodging nominations and therefore are officially running under the Centrist Reform banner. Until then the page is just going to be a mess with people trying to get ahead of the news. Erinthecute (talk) 23:16, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like we now have a formal name and branding and the banner is now clear. Looks like someone added it already. Impru20^talk 08:13, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reiwa has three co-leaders according to its page. How come only two are shown and listed in the infobox here and why specifically these two and not the other? Helper201 (talk) 00:01, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Reiwa page was out-of-date. It used to be led by Yamamoto with two other co-leaders, but he resigned from the House of Representatives and from being leader of Reiwa a few days ago due to health issues DimensionalFusion (talk · she/her) 11:18, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yamamoto announced to continue as leader ([4]). Family27390 (talk) 04:48, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Source 37 (“<FLASH>”) appears to be an anonymous blog; I don’t know if this should qualify as a reliable source for this article; new to editing though. ~2026-59664-9 (talk) 07:15, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It’s confusing to see a party called “Ishin” in one place and “Japan Innovation Party” in another. Can the article stick to one name? Timrollpickering (talk) 12:33, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Soft agree, the 2024 page only seems to call is ‘Japan Innovation Party’ outside of tables once, whereas it predominantly uses Ishin or Ishin no Kai outside of that. It is quite common for English language reporting to use Ishin versus the official English name (see [5], [6], [7]).

However, this page only uses Japan Innovation Party in two instances outside of tables, and that seems to be related to the naming choices of other pages, so unsure if it can be rectified without making a decision to utilise a (in my opinion, considering it’s lack of use in English language reporting on Japanese politics) relatively obscure English name over the more common Japanese name, or going through a process to rename other Ishin/Innovation related pages. Notconnor (talk) 09:33, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The party officially refers to itself as the Japan Innovation Party in English now, as can be seen in their official English website, and English-language media that I’ve seen is universally referring to it as such now. I think we need to be consistent. Can someone change the shortname for the party? I forgot how to do so… Basil the Bat Lord (talk) 15:30, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

since in this Wikipedia page it is labelled half Japanese innovation party and half Ishin and it is contradicting itself ~2026-70109-7 (talk) 06:09, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The LDP in coverage of the election is near universally associated with the color red, with the NHK and major Japanese newspapers (Asahi (along with their TV Station), Mainichi, Yomiuri, Chunichi, Sankei, Nikkei, and YahooJP) either using the color for the party or the ruling coalition. While there are some issues with a full color switch, most notably the conundrum with the DPJ and the JCP, I do think there is a reasonable discussion to be had on the issue. There have been attempts to change it in the past that failed due to lack of consensus, most notably on the LDP page and in the 2025 House of Councillors election. Wolfgang2337 (talk) 12:35, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For the issues with the DPJ and the JCP, both of these parties are typically assigned different colors when the LDP uses red. For the DPJ, they are typically made blue to match the colors of the party’s successors, the CDP (which is represented by a light blue) and DPFP (which is colored dark blue by the NHK and TV-Asahi). For the JCP, they are often depicted using purple by both NHK and TV-Asahi. Wolfgang2337 (talk) 12:41, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly I think it’s time to change. The Japanese media has uniformly used red for the LDP for several elections in a row now. Basil the Bat Lord (talk) 15:30, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In the results section the parties seem to have been given different colours in the diagram with the dots and the table. I think that is confusing and needs to be corrected. Maxl (talk) 21:33, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve swapped the diagram out with one that should have the correct colours from Module:Political party, as well as keeping the government on one side and the opposition on the other side of the diagram DimensionalFusion (talk · she/her) 21:56, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Since OneTrillionairePro keeps reverting my edits, I’ve brought this matter to the talk page. Should the diagram of results by seat show the ideological placements of parties, or should it show the government and opposition? I think it should show government and opposition benches, because otherwise parties like Team Mirai would need to be assigned relative ideological placements, in the current File:House of Representatives Japan 2026.svg, it’s shown as being “more left wing” than the CRA, but “more right wing” than Reiwa. In comparison, I think showing it by government and opposition would be far more consistent, as I have done at File:Japanese House of Representatives 2026-02-09vg.svg. Thoughts? DimensionalFusion (talk · she/her) 22:17, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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