Well, the election is over, and as shown in the post below, the results were a massive win to the opposition DPJ. Just how big that win was gives rise to the title of this post…

With the result of the election in no doubt minutes after the polls closed (actually they haven’t been in [...]

Alliances and parties
Local seats
+/-
Block seats
+/-
Block votes
 %
+/-
Total seats
+/-

  
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Minshutō – 民主党
221
+169
87
+26
29,784,743
42.4%
+11.4
308
+195

Social Democratic Party (SDP) Shamintō – 社民党
3
+2
4
-2
2,999,040
4.3%
-1.2
7
±0

People’s New Party (PNP) Kokuminshintō – 国民新党
3
+1
0
-2
1,218,020
1.7%
±0.0
3
-1

Anticipated DPJ-SDP-PNP Coalition
227
+172
91
+22
34,001,803
48.4%
+10.2
318
+194

  
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Jimintō – 自民党
64
-155
55
-22
18,782,218
26.7%
-11.5
119
-177

New Komeito Party (NKP) [...]

Heading in to the election tonight, here is a brief summary of the positions of the various parties in the lower house prior to the election:

House of Representatives:

LDP          296 seats

DPJ          113 seats

NKP          31 seats

JCP            9 seats

SDP            7 seats

PNP            4 seats

NPN            1 seat

NPD            1 seat

After the 2007 Upper House election, the DPJ hold 109 of the [...]