 The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its overall majority for the first time since 1983 and also failed to form the government for the first time since 1955.The 223 seats in the lower house the LDP was able to gain was 52 fewer than what the party held a month before and 33 votes short of a majority in the 511-member body.More than fifty LDP members forming the Shinseitō and the Sakigake parties had denied the LDP the majority needed to form a government.