The accompanying data file contains the district-level vote results of single-member districts of Japan's lower house election held on October 22, 2017.

Yuki Yanai (International University of Japan) gathered the data from Asahi Shimbun's website (http://www.asahi.com/) on October 23, 2017, and organized the information into a single file.
Ko Maeda (University of North Texas) then converted the variable names to English and added a few variables.


id = candidate ID
name = name (recorded in Japanese)
prefid = prefecture code (1-47)
pref = name of the prefecture
distnum = district id within the prefecture

party
   1--LDP
   3--Komeito
   4--JCP
   5--SDP
  39--Kibo no to (Party of Hope)
  40--Rikken minsyuto (Constitutional Democratic Party)
  41--Nippon ishin no kai (_no official English name_)
  98--others
  99--independents

dual = also ran in PR (1) or not (0)
win = 0 lost; 1 lost in the SMD but won in PR; 2 won in the SMD
inc = incumbent (1) or not (0)
votes = number of votes received
tvotes = total votes in the district
vshare = votes/tvotes*100
age = age
rank = rank of finish
terms = number of terms previously served
last_kana = last name in hiragana
first_kana = first name in hiragana
rec1 = recommended by the LDP
rec3 = recommended by Komeito
rec4 = recommended by the JCP
rec5 = recommended by the SDP
rec39 = recommended by the Party of Hope
rec40 = recommended by the Constitutional Democratic Party
rec41 = recommended by Nippon ishin no kai
rec42 = recommended by the Liberal Party