Template:Current composition of the House of Councillors (Japan): Difference between revisions

|+ {{nowrap|Composition of the [[House of Councillors]] of the [[National Diet]] of [[Japan]] (as of 306 AugustNovember 2023, before 212th National Diet)<ref>{{Cite web|title=会派名及び会派別所属議員数|url=https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/giin/211212/giinsu.htm|publisher=参議院 House of Councillors, The National Diet of Japan|accessdate=2023-0911-2707|date=2023}}</ref>}}

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| align="right" | '''2120'''

| Independents<br />''Members not affiliated with any parliamentary caucus'' || LDP 1 ([[President of the House of Councillors|President]]:)<br>[[HidehisaCDP Otsuji]]1 (LDP)<br>[[President of the House of Councillors#List of vice presidents of the House of Councillors|Vice President]]:<br>[[Hiroyuki Nagahama]] (CDP)<br />[[Sanseitō]] 1<br />Independents 57

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| align="right" | '''810'''

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| Vacant: [[Tokushima-Kōchi at-large district|Tokushima-Kōchi]] in the 2019 class <small>(special election due [[2023 Japan by-elections|22 October 2023]])</small>,<br />one [[Kanagawa at-large district|Kanagawa]] seat in the 2019 class <small>(no separate by-election unless <u>more than</u> 25% of the district in that class are vacant)</small><ref>Kanagawa Shimbun, August 30, 2023: [https://www.kanaloco.jp/news/government/article-1016171.html 自民・島村大参院議員が死去、神奈川選挙区で２期目], retrieved September 17, 2023.</ref><!--and one seat of four is <u>exactly</u> 25%; for the same reason there had been the integrated regular & by-election (instead of a separate, earlier by-election) in Kanagawa in 2022!--> || N/A

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| align="right" | '''21'''