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Your Party みんなの党 Minna no Tō | |
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| Founder | Yoshimi Watanabe |
| Founded | August 8, 2009 (2009-8-8) 2019 (2019) (N–Koku-led caucus) |
| Dissolved | November 28, 2014 (2014-11-28) (party) |
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| Ideology | Neoliberalism[1] |
| Political position | Centre-right[2] |
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Your Party (みんなの党,Minna no Tō, literally "Everyone's Party") is a Japanese parliamentary caucus consisting ofYoshimi Watanabe andTakashi Tachibana, laterSatoshi Hamada after Tachibana forfeited his seat, in theHouse of Councillors. It was also apolitical party led by Watanabe from 2009 until its dissolution in 2014.
Led byYoshimi Watanabe, who split from theLiberal Democratic Party (LDP), the party was founded on August 8, 2009 after then-Prime MinisterTaro Aso dissolvedthe lower house. One concept behind the party was to make the government more democratic, and to eliminate control of the government by non-elected members established in the bureaucracy. In this respect, Watanabe has repeatedly stated that his position is compatible with theDemocratic Party of Japan.
Your Party advocatedlower taxation,free enterprise,smaller government, and less regulation.
The party fielded 13 candidates in theAugust 2009 general elections.[3] Five of those candidates were elected to the lower house. In the2010 house of Councillors election, it gained 10 seats.[4] It also made gains at the2011 regional elections, and in the2012 general election, where it increased its seats from eight in the lower house to eighteen.
Following an announcement by Prime MinisterShinzō Abe for anelection to be held in December 2014, the party's 20 members voted on November 19, 2014 to disband on November 28, 2014. Falling support and disagreement over whether to side with the ruling coalition in the upcoming election were identified as reasons for the split.[5]
| No. | Name | Image | Term of office | |
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| Took office | Left office | |||
| 1 | Yoshimi Watanabe |  | 8 August 2009 | 28 November 2014 |
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Total | Position | Status | |||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Seats | +/- | ||||
| 2009 | Yoshimi Watanabe | 615,244 | 0.87 | 2 / 300 | New | 3,005,199 | 4.27 | 3 / 180 | new | 5 / 480 | new | 6th | Opposition |
| 2012 | 2,807,244 | 4.71 | 4 / 300 |  2 | 5,245,586 | 8.77 | 14 / 180 | 9 | 18 / 480 | 13 | 5th | Opposition | |
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | |||||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Election | +/- | Total | +/- | ||||
| 2010 | Yoshimi Watanabe | 5,977,391 | 10.24 | 3 / 73 | new | 7,943,649 | 13.59 | 7 / 48 | new | 10 / 121 | new | 11 / 242 | 10 | 3rd | Opposition |
| 2013 | 4,159,961 | 7.84 | 4 / 73 | 1 | 4,755,160 | 8.93 | 4 / 48 |  3 | 8 / 121 | 2 | 18 / 242 | 8 | 6th | Opposition | |
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