New Liberal Club

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).

New Liberal Club
新自由クラブ

Shin-jiyū-kurabu
LeaderYōhei Kōno[1]
Secretary-GeneralTakeo Nishioka[1]
Founded25 June 1976[1]
Dissolved15 August 1986[1]
Split fromLiberal Democratic Party[1]
Merged intoLiberal Democratic Party[1][2]
IdeologyConservatism[2]
Neoconservatism[2]
Neoliberalism[2]
Decentralization[1]
Progressivism[3]

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.[4]

It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.

List of 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

General election results
Election year Candidates # of seats won Change Status
1976 25
17 / 511
 Opposition
1979 31
4 / 511
 13 Opposition
1980 25
12 / 511
 8 Opposition
1983 17
8 / 511
 4 Government
1986 12
6 / 512
 2 Opposition

Councillors election results
Election year Seats Status
Total Contested
1977
3 / 252
3 / 126
 Opposition
1980
2 / 252
0 / 126
 Opposition
1983
3 / 252
2 / 126
 Opposition
1986
1 / 252
1 / 126
 Opposition

References
  1. ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典の解説 [The Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia's explanation]. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  2. Kato, Tetsuro. 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)の解説 [The Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica's explanation]. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. "Former minister Tagawa dies at 91". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. August 9, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
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