Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Yukihiko Imasaki Kazuo Ueda

Little changed in the aftermath of the election; the LDP saw a slight decrease in seat numbers (debatably due to it fielding more candidates than ever before as a result of regained confidence in 1969),[2] and its vote share remained below 50% (even with the addition of conservative-aligned independents).

The Japanese Communist Party was arguably the biggest winner of the election.

The other two opposition parties, the DSP and Kōmeitō, suffered losses despite cooperation with each other.

Kōmeitō was going through a series of scandals around its censorship of press critical to it (aptly named the Press Publication Obstruction cases [ja]) which severely damaged its public image, and gave favor to the JCP, with image of the Soka Gakkai as a cult beginning to emerge.