New Liberal Club

New Liberal Club 新自由クラブ Shin-jiyū-kurabu
Leader	Yōhei Kōno
Secretary-General	Takeo Nishioka
Founded	June 25, 1976 (1976-06-25)
Dissolved	August 15, 1986 (1986-08-15)
Split from	Liberal Democratic Party
Merged into	Liberal Democratic Party
Ideology	Progressivism[1]
Colours	Red (official)   Sky blue (customary)
Politics of Japan Political parties Elections

New Liberal Club (新自由クラブ, Shin-jiyū-kurabu) was a political party in Japan that was founded on 25 June 1976 as a breakaway from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the LDP in December 1983, with the New Liberal's president, Seiichi Tagawa, serving as the Minister of Home Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.^[2]

It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.

Leaders of the New Liberal Club

No.	Name	Portrait	Term of office
			Took office	Left office
1	Yōhei Kōno		June 1976	February 1979
2	Seiichi Tagawa		February 1979	June 1984
3	Yōhei Kōno		June 1984	August 1986

Election results

House of Representatives

House of Representatives

Election year	Leader	Candidates	# of seats won	Change	Status
1976	Yōhei Kōno	25	17 / 511	New	Opposition
1979	Seiichi Tagawa	31	4 / 511	13	Opposition
1980		25	12 / 511	8	Opposition
1983		17	8 / 511	4	Government
1986	Yōhei Kōno	12	6 / 512	2	Government

House of Councillors

House of Councillors

Election year	Leader	Seats		Status
		Total	Contested
1977	Yōhei Kōno	3 / 252	3 / 126	Opposition
1980	Seiichi Tagawa	2 / 252	0 / 126	Opposition
1983		3 / 252	2 / 126	Opposition
1986	Yōhei Kōno	1 / 252	1 / 126	Opposition

References

1. Beeman, Michael L. (2002). Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-0415249690. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
2. "Former minister Tagawa dies at 91". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. August 9, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2015.

• 新自由クラブ関係文書 (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2009.