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People's Progressive Party (The Gambia)

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89.12.97.11: The Third Way was a historical ideology.

{{short description|Political party in the Gambia}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = People's Progressive Party
| native_name =
| colorcode = {{party color|People's Progressive Party (Gambia)}}
| logo = People's Progressive Party (Gambia) logo.png
| leader = Ousman Madikay Faal
| foundation = 14 February 1959
| founder = [[Dawda Jawara]]
| ideology = [[Liberalism]] [[Agrarianism]] '''Historical under [[Dawda Jawara]]:''' [[Third Way]]<ref>https://foroyaa.net/the-virtuous-leadership-of-alhaji-sir-dawda-kairaba-jawara-an-exploratory-note/</ref> [[Economic liberalism]]<ref>https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/GMB</ref><ref>https://gambiana.com/sir-dawda-kairaba-jawara-his-politics-leadership-and-legacy/</ref>
| position = [[Centrism|Centre]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Derbyshire |first1=J. Denis |last2=Derbyshire |first2=Ian |title=Political Systems Of The World |date=1990 |publisher=Allied Publishers |isbn=9788170233077 |page=115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DIkWJ3psB2gC&q=People%27s+Progressive+Party+Gambia+%22moderate%22&pg=PA115 |access-date=14 December 2019}}</ref> to [[centre-left]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tradebridgeconsultants.com/news/elections/opposition-win-majority-of-seats-in-general-election/ |title=Opposition win majority of seats in General Election |publisher=Trade Bridge Consultants |date=10 April 2017 |access-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617215949/http://tradebridgeconsultants.com/news/elections/opposition-win-majority-of-seats-in-general-election/ |archive-date=17 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| seats1_title = [[National Assembly of the Gambia|National Assembly]]
| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|58|hex=#FF69B4}}
| international =
| colors =
| website = {{url|https://pppgambia.com}}
| footnotes =
| country = the Gambia
}}
The '''People's Progressive Party''' is a [[political party]] in [[the Gambia]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Arnold|date=1975|title=From Green Uprising to National Reconciliation: The People's Progressive Party in the Gambia 1959-1973|journal=Canadian Journal of African Studies|volume=9|issue=1|pages=61–74|doi=10.2307/484012|jstor=484012|issn=0008-3968}}</ref> It was the dominant ruling party of the Gambia from 1962 to 1994, during the presidency of party founder [[Dawda Jawara]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Edie|first=Carlene J.|date=2000-03-01|title=Democracy in The Gambia: Past, Present and Prospects for the Future|url=http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/22106|journal=Africa Development|volume=25|issue=3|pages=161–198|doi=10.4314/ad.v25i3.22106|issn=0850-3907|doi-access=free}}</ref>

The People's Progressive Party lost power after the [[1994 Gambian coup d'état]], which saw the beginning of the authoritarian regime of [[Yahya Jammeh]].<ref>{{Citation |title=The 1994 Coup and the Jawara Legacy |date=2006 |work=A Political History of the Gambia, 1816–1994 |pages=280–294 |editor-last=Hughes |editor-first=Arnold |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/political-history-of-the-gambia-18161994/1994-coup-and-the-jawara-legacy/5407AD0E94F3A763D4E70735F2623EE3 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-58046-682-0 |editor2-last=Perfect |editor2-first=David}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Saine|first=Abdoulaye S.M.|date=October 1996|title=The Coup d'Etat in The Gambia, 1994: The End of the First Republic|journal=Armed Forces & Society|volume=23|issue=1|pages=97–111|doi=10.1177/0095327x9602300105|s2cid=144632866|issn=0095-327X}}</ref> The [[Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction]] (APRC) then became the dominant party of the Gambia.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2019-01-16|title=The Gambia - APRC Congress|journal=Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series|volume=55|issue=12|pages=22116B|doi=10.1111/j.1467-825x.2019.08624.x|issn=0001-9844}}</ref> Today, the People's Progressive Party remains active, but lacks the same level of influence it exercised in the late 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/The-Gambia|title=The Gambia - Government and society|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref>

==History==
The party was founded in 1959 as the Protectorate People's Party (PPP) and was later changed to the People's Progressive Party.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Arnold|date=1975|title=From Green Uprising to National Reconciliation: The People's Progressive Party in the Gambia 1959-1973|journal=Canadian Journal of African Studies|volume=9|issue=1|pages=61–74|doi=10.2307/484012|jstor=484012|issn=0008-3968}}</ref> The party won the [[1962 Gambian parliamentary election|1962 general election]], and in October 1963, upon the attainment of self-government, their leader, [[Dawda Jawara]], became [[Prime Minister of the Gambia]].<ref name=":32">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dawda-Kairaba-Jawara|title=Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara {{!}} Biography & Facts|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref> With the republican referendum in 1970, Jawara became the first [[President of the Gambia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bellagamba|first=Alice|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wNrYsgEACAAJ&pg=PA282|title=The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2016|isbn=9781785330698|page=282|chapter=Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century Gambia}}</ref>

In 1981, there was an [[1981 Gambian coup attempt|attempted coup]] intended to overthrow the then-incumbent PPP government. It was a civilian-led coup attempt with some support from the Gambia Field Force. The death toll is debated, being anywhere from 500 to 1,000 lives lost.<ref name=":22">{{Cite journal|last=Perfect|first=David|date=March 2008|title=Politics and Society in The Gambia since Independence|journal=History Compass|volume=6|issue=2|pages=426–438|doi=10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00513.x|issn=1478-0542}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad0164.html|title=Refworld {{!}} Information regarding the political situation in The Gambia from the attempted coup in July 1981 to the present day|last=Refugees|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|website=Refworld|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref> The coup was put down by Senegalese intervention and as a result, [[Senegal]] and the Gambia formed the [[Senegambia Confederation]].<ref name=":22"/>

The People's Progressive Party lost political power following the [[1994 Gambian coup d'état]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|last=Saine|first=Abdoulaye S.M.|date=October 1996|title=The Coup d'Etat in The Gambia, 1994: The End of the First Republic|journal=Armed Forces & Society|volume=23|issue=1|pages=97–111|doi=10.1177/0095327x9602300105|s2cid=144632866|issn=0095-327X}}</ref> The coup was carried out by military officers in the [[Gambia Armed Forces|Gambian National Army]] (GNA).<ref name=":22"/> It was a bloodless coup that managed to overthrow Dawda Jawara and his government.<ref name=":12" /> The Gambia was ruled militarily until [[1996 Gambian presidential election|1996]] when [[Yahya Jammeh]] was elected as president as a candidate of the newly formed [[Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction]] (APRC) party.<ref name=":22"/> The subsequent [[National Assembly of the Gambia|National Assembly]] elections brought even more power to the APRC, winning 33 out of the 45 seats.<ref name=":22"/>

The People's Progressive Party was banned by the APRC in all subsequent elections; however, it has joined with other opposition parties to form political coalitions.<ref name=":22"/> In 2005, the PPP joined the [[National Alliance for Democracy and Development]] (NADD).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4183715.stm|title=Gambia opposition unite to fight|date=2005-01-18|access-date=2020-03-26|language=en-GB}}</ref> Then for the [[2016 Gambian presidential election|2016 presidential election]], PPP joined the [[Coalition 2016]], where [[Adama Barrow]] was declared the coalition's candidate and subsequently won.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gainako.com/gambian-opposition-parties-set-select-single-candidate-december-polls-convention/|title=Gambian Opposition Parties Set to Select a Single Candidate for December polls at a Convention|date=30 October 2016|website=GAINAKO}}</ref>

== Ideology ==
The People's Progressive Party was created by rural populations as a reaction against urban areas exerting control over the political arena post-colonialism.<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Arnold|date=1975|title=From Green Uprising to National Reconciliation: The People's Progressive Party in the Gambia 1959-1973|journal=Canadian Journal of African Studies|volume=9|issue=1|pages=61–74|doi=10.2307/484012|jstor=484012|issn=0008-3968}}</ref>

The People's Progressive Party's website currently states, "The PPP believes that a less pervasive and intrusive government as opposed to the current over-centralized and authoritarian regime is necessary in order to release the creative energies of the Gambian people and to encourage wider social, economic, and political inclusion. Our party intends to reduce the power of government and return to grassroots democracy."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pppgambia.com/our-mission-vision/|title=Our Mission & Vision|date=2017-04-02|website=People's Progressive Party|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref>

== Opposition ==
During the People's Progressive Party's rule, there were times of growing discontent with the government.<ref name=":04">{{Cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Arnold|date=1975|title=From Green Uprising to National Reconciliation: The People's Progressive Party in the Gambia 1959-1973|journal=Canadian Journal of African Studies|volume=9|issue=1|pages=61–74|doi=10.2307/484012|jstor=484012|issn=0008-3968}}</ref> Not only did opposition candidates stem from that discontent, but many opposition parties were created to run against the PPP.<ref name=":04" />

=== National Convention Party (NCP) ===
The [[National Convention Party (The Gambia)|National Convention Party (NCP)]] was an opposition party to the PPP launched on September 7, 1975.<ref name=":22"/> The leader of the party at the time was [[Sheriff Mustapha Dibba|Sheriff M. Dibba]], the former first Vice-President of the Gambia. After a political scandal, he resigned as Vice-President in 1972 and later founded the NCP.<ref name=":22" />

The [[1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt|1981 Gambian coup d'état]] was led by a former NCP candidate. Members of the People's Progressive Party suspected that the NCP was in support of the coup attempt and subsequently, many members of the NCP were arrested.<ref name=":22" />

In the 1987 elections, the NCP won five seats in the legislature. Though Dawda Jawara won the presidential election, Dibba, the presidential candidate from the NCP, won 28% of the vote. Then in 1992, the NCP won six seats in the legislature.<ref name=":22" />

=== Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) ===
The Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) is a political party formed after the 1994 coup d'état. The ideology that led to the coup was discontent with the PPP; alleged corruption and a lack of economic development over time.<ref name=":22" /><ref name=":13">{{Cite journal|last=Saine|first=Abdoulaye S.M.|date=October 1996|title=The Coup d'Etat in The Gambia, 1994: The End of the First Republic|journal=Armed Forces & Society|volume=23|issue=1|pages=97–111|doi=10.1177/0095327x9602300105|s2cid=144632866|issn=0095-327X}}</ref> The main figure that dominated the APRC was Yahya Jammeh, who became president in 1996 and served until the 2016 Gambian presidential election.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/The-Gambia|title=The Gambia - Political change|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref> Under Jammeh and the APRC's rule, there were numerous reports of human rights abuses and suppression of the media.<ref name=":4" />

== Notable members ==

=== Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara ===
[[File:Dawda_Jawara_(1979).jpg|thumb|Dawda Jawara, president of the Gambia from 1970 to 1994 and a member of the PPP.]]
Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara served as the leader of the People's Progressive Party from 1959 until 1994 when he was overthrown.<ref name=":32"/> He is responsible for changing the name of the party from the Protectorate People's Party to the People's Progressive Party.<ref name=":32" /> Before serving as president for the Gambia he was elected into the legislature in 1960. During this time, he also served as the minister of education. He later became the prime minister of the Gambia in 1962 and was knighted in 1966, following independence.<ref name=":32" /> Upon the creation of a new constitution in 1970, Jawara became the president and served until the 1994 Gambian coup d'état.<ref name=":14">{{Cite journal|last=Saine|first=Abdoulaye S.M.|date=October 1996|title=The Coup d'Etat in The Gambia, 1994: The End of the First Republic|journal=Armed Forces & Society|volume=23|issue=1|pages=97–111|doi=10.1177/0095327x9602300105|s2cid=144632866|issn=0095-327X}}</ref>

Following the coup, Jawara was exiled and lived in [[Senegal]] and later [[London]]. He was later given amnesty but was not given the right to participate in the Gambian political arena.<ref name=":32" /> He formally resigned as PPP leader in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 September 2002|title=Sir Dawda No Longer PPP Leader|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200209231011.html|website=The Independent (Banjul)|via=allafrica.com}}</ref>
[[File:Omar A. Jallow 2017.png|thumb|[[Omar A. Jallow|Omar Jallow]], former leader of the PPP (2001-2018).]]

Jawara died on August 27, 2019, at 95 years old.<ref name=":32" />
=== Omar A. Jallow ===
[[Omar A. Jallow]] succeeded Jawara as leader of the People's Progressive Party. He was a member of Dawda Jawara's cabinet up until the 1994 coup d'état, when he was arrested. Under the Jammeh administration, he was reportedly jailed over 22 times.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gambia-politics-idUSKBN15Y0GR|title=Gambia leader heralds new dawn for minister jailed 22 times|date=2017-02-19|work=Reuters|access-date=2020-04-16|language=en}}</ref>

After [[Yahya Jammeh|Jammeh]] was not re-elected following the 2016 Gambian presidential election, Jallow was appointed the minister of agriculture as he was in the Jawara administration.<ref name=":5" />

At the 2018 national convention, the party's first since its ban was lifted, Jallow stepped down as leader. Papa Njie was elected in his place.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-31|title=Papa Njie is new PPP leader|url=https://standard.gm/papa-njie-is-new-ppp-leader/|access-date=2021-12-08|website=The Standard Newspaper Gambia}}</ref> In 2020, Njie was appointed as the Gambian High Commissioner to Nigeria. Kebba E. Jallow then became interim leader,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-06|title=PPP selects Kebba Jallow as interim leader|url=https://standard.gm/ppp-selects-kebba-jallow-as-interim-leader/|access-date=2021-12-08|website=The Standard Newspaper Gambia}}</ref> and was elected as leader at the party's 2021 national convention.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PPP maintains Kebba E. Jallow as party leader - The Point|url=https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/headlines/ppp-maintains-kebba-e-jallow-as-party-leader|access-date=2021-12-08|website=thepoint.gm|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==

===Presidential elections===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!Election
!Party candidate
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!Result
|-
! [[1982 Gambian general election|1982]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Dawda Jawara]]
| 137,020
| 72.44%
| '''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
! [[1987 Gambian general election|1987]]
| 123,385
| 59.18%
| '''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
! [[1992 Gambian general election|1992]]
| 117,549
| 58.48%
| '''Elected''' {{Y}}
|}

=== National Assembly elections ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
! Election
! Leader
! Votes
! %
! '''Seats'''
! '''+/–'''
! '''Position'''
! '''Position'''
|-
! [[1960 Gambian legislative election|1960]]
| rowspan=8 | [[Dawda Jawara]]
| 25,490
| 36.9%
| {{Composition bar|9|19|hex=#FF69B4}}
| New
| {{increase}} 1st
| {{no2|Opposition}}
|-
! [[1962 Gambian legislative election|1962]]
| 56,343
| 57.7%
| {{Composition bar|18|32|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{increase}} 9
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{yes2|Majority}}
|-
! [[1966 Gambian general election|1966]]
| 81,313
| 65.3%
| {{Composition bar|24|32|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{increase}} 6
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{yes2|Majority}}
|-
! [[1972 Gambian general election|1972]]
| 65,388
| 63.0%
| {{Composition bar|28|32|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{increase}} 4
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{Yes2|Majority}}
|-
! [[1977 Gambian general election|1977]]
| 123,297
| 69.6%
| {{Composition bar|29|35|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{increase}} 1
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{yes2|Majority}}
|-
! [[1982 Gambian general election|1982]]
| 102,545
| 61.7%
| {{Composition bar|27|35|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{decrease}} 2
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{yes2|Majority}}
|-
! [[1987 Gambian general election|1987]]
| 119,248
| 56.4%
| {{Composition bar|31|36|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{increase}} 4
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{yes2|Majority}}
|-
! [[1992 Gambian general election|1992]]
| 109,059
| 54.3%
| {{Composition bar|25|36|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{decrease}} 6
| {{steady}} 1st
| {{yes2|Majority}}
|-
| colspan="7" |''The PPP was banned from 1994 to 2016''
| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}
|-
! [[2017 Gambian parliamentary election|2017]]
| [[Omar Jallow]]
| 9,503
| 2.5%
| {{Composition bar|2|58|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{increase}} 2
| {{increase}} 6th
| {{yes2|Coalition}} {{small|([[United Democratic Party (Gambia)|UDP]]-[[National Reconciliation Party|NRP]]-PPP)}}
|-
! [[2022 Gambian parliamentary election|2022]]
| Kebba E. Jallow
| 1,168
| 0.2%
| {{Composition bar|0|58|hex=#FF69B4}}
| {{decrease}} 2
| {{decrease}} 10th
| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Gambian political parties}}

[[Category:Political parties in the Gambia]]
[[Category:People's Progressive Party (Gambia) politicians|*Main]]

Japan Renewal Party

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{{Infobox political party
| name = Japan Renewal Party
| native_name = {{nobold|{{Nihongo2|新生党}}}} {{lang|ja-Latn|Shinseitō}}
| logo = Japan Renewal Party Logo.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| founders = Tsutomu Hata Ichirō Ozawa
| foundation = {{start date|1993|6|23|df=y}}
| dissolved = {{end date|1994|12|9|df=y}}
| split = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] ([[Tsutomu Hata|Hata]] faction)
| merged = [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|New Frontier Party]]
| ideology = [[Reformism]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Mendl |first=Wolf |year=1997 |title=Japan's Asia Policy: Regional Security and Global Interests |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_SFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT272 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |page=272 |isbn=0-415-16466-4 |access-date=20 September 2021 |quote=It is more significant that the three new reformist parties which contested the election—Shinseito (Japan Renewal Party), Nihon Shinto (Japan New Party) and Sakigake (Harbinger Party)—were all led by former politicians of the LDP. }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%96%B0%E7%94%9F%E5%85%9A-169958#E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E5.85.A8.E6.9B.B8.28.E3.83.8B.E3.83.83.E3.83.9D.E3.83.8B.E3.82.AB.29|title=新生党(シンセイトウ)とは？意味や使い方|first=デジタル大辞泉,日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ),百科事典マイペディア,ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典,山川日本史小辞典|last=改訂新版,世界大百科事典内言及|website=コトバンク}}</ref> [[Conservatism]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%96%B0%E7%94%9F%E5%85%9A-169958#E3.83.87.E3.82.B8.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.B3.89|title=新生党(シンセイトウ)とは？意味や使い方|first=デジタル大辞泉,日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ),百科事典マイペディア,ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典,山川日本史小辞典|last=改訂新版,世界大百科事典内言及|website=コトバンク}}</ref> [[Neo-conservatism|Japanese neo-conservatism]]<ref name="auto"/> [[Deregulation]]<ref name="auto"/>
| country = Japan
| colorcode = {{party color|Japan Renewal Party}}
}}
The {{Nihongo|'''Japan Renewal Party'''|新生党|Shinseitō|[[abbr.]]: '''JRP'''}} was a Japanese political party that existed in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan|publisher=[[The Scarecrow Press]]|date=2011|last=Hoover|first=William D.|page=129|isbn=9780810854604}}</ref> It was founded in 1993 by 44 members of the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] led by [[Tsutomu Hata]] and [[Ichirō Ozawa]]. It was instrumental in ending the LDP's 38-year dominance of Japanese politics.

Both reformers, Hata and Ozawa had been involved in a difficult leadership struggle within the former [[Noboru Takeshita|Takeshita]] faction of the LDP. Their opponents, led by [[Keizo Obuchi]] and [[Ryutaro Hashimoto]], were using the fallout of the [[Sagawa Kyubin]] scandal as a tool to undermine the reformist position. Hata and Ozawa split from the party partly to shift media attention away from the scandal. In doing so, they transformed an internal party dispute to a wide-ranging conflict that led to a decade of shifting allegiances and short-lived parties.

In the [[1993 Japanese general election|elections]] immediately following the split, the JRP won 55 seats, making it one of the most powerful opposition parties. Most importantly, the party drew off support crucial to the LDP. While several other small parties had split from the LDP, Hata and Ozawa's group was the largest, and was widely considered to have finally broken the back of LDP dominance.

Known for his political organisational skills, Ozawa organised a five-party coalition of the JRP, the [[Japan Socialist Party]], the [[Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)|Democratic Socialist Party]], [[Komeito]] and the [[Socialist Democratic Federation (Japan)|Socialist Democratic Federation]]. This coalition held 237 seats in the [[Diet of Japan|Diet]], and after convincing the [[Japan New Party]] and the [[New Party Sakigake]] to join, was able to form [[Hosokawa Cabinet|a government]] under [[Morihiro Hosokawa]].

As the impetus for the collapse of LDP power, the JRP was able to exert great power in the coalition. While some concessions to other parties were made, the JRP was perhaps overly dominant, eventually forcing some other members out of the coalition through its heavy-handed style. In 1994, the JRP merged into the [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|New Frontier Party]].

==Presidents of JRP==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan=2|No.
!rowspan="2"|Name {{nowrap|(Birth–death)}}
!rowspan=2|Constituency / title
!colspan=2|Term of office
!rowspan="2"|Image
! colspan="2" style="width:20%;" rowspan="2"|[[Prime Minister of Japan|{{nowrap|Prime Minister}}]] {{small|(term)}}
|-
!Took office
!Left office
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue" colspan="8"|'''Split from: [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]]'''
|-
|rowspan=4|1
|rowspan=4|[[Tsutomu Hata]] {{nowrap|(1935–2017)}} [[File:Emblem of the Prime Minister of Japan.svg|25px]]
|rowspan=4|Rep for Nagano 2nd
|rowspan=4|23 June 1993
|rowspan=4|9 December 1994
|rowspan=4|[[File:Tsutomu Hata cropped 2 Tsutomu Hata 19940428.jpg|100px]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}" |
! style="font-weight:normal"|[[Kiichi Miyazawa|Miyazawa]] {{nowrap|1991–93}}
|-
| style="background-color: {{party color|Japan New Party}}" |
! style="font-weight:normal"|[[Morihiro Hosokawa|Hosokawa]] {{nowrap|1993–94}}
|-
| style="background-color: {{party color|Japan Renewal Party}}" |
| ''himself'' {{small|1994}}
|-
| style="background-color: {{party color|Japan Socialist Party}}" |
! style="font-weight:normal"|[[Tomiichi Murayama|Murayama]] {{nowrap|1994–96}}
|-
|bgcolor="lightblue" colspan="8"|'''Successor party: [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|New Frontier Party]]'''
|}

==Election results==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Election
! Leader
! Votes
! %
! Seats
! Position
! Status
|-
| [[1993 Japanese general election|1993]]
| [[Tsutomu Hata]]
| 6,341,364
| 10.10
| {{Composition bar|55|511|hex={{party color|Japan Renewal Party}}}}
| 3rd
| {{Yes2|Governing coalition}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Liberal Democratic Party of Japan}}
{{New Frontier Party (Japan)}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Defunct political parties in Japan]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1993]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1994]]
[[Category:1993 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:1994 disestablishments in Japan]]