Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Yukihiko Imasaki Kazuo Ueda

This election has been marked by polar opposite predictions by political commentators, some claiming that the LDP would see disastrous results following severe price inflation and the 1973 oil crisis, although as the election approached, others confidently believed the LDP would see marked success following shifts in forecasts.

The results ended up somewhere in between, with the LDP falling down to 126 seats, exactly half barely holding onto a thin majority by enlisting the help of two LDP-aligned independents.

[2] The election also weakened Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's standing within his own party.

This was most evident when Kentarō Kujime, who belonged to the same faction as anti-Tanaka LDP politician and future Prime Minister Takeo Miki, ran as an independent candidate against the LDP-approved candidate Masaharu Gotōda in the Tokushima district and won (an event dubbed the "Awa War," after the birthplace of Miki).