TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's House of Representatives will hold a runoff on Monday to select the prime minister, as none of the political party leaders secured a majority in the first round of voting following the general election on Oct. 27.

The runoff will be the first in the lower house for 30 years.

Before the parliamentary session -- that had to be convened within 30 days of the election -- the Cabinet of Shigeru Ishiba, president of the Liberal Democratic Party, resigned en masse earlier in the day.

Ishiba's ruling coalition lost its majority in the 465-seat lower house and now holds 215 seats, down from 288. Ishiba will face Yoshihiko Noda in the runoff. Noda is leader of the main opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, which holds 148 seats, up from 98.

Of the votes cast by lower house lawmakers on Monday, Ishiba secured 221 votes, followed by 151 for Noda, 38 for Nobuyuki Baba, chief of the second-largest opposition party, the Japan Innovation Party, and 28 for Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the Democratic Party for the People.

The last time a runoff took place was in 1994, when then leader of the Social Democratic Party Tomiichi Murayama was elected prime minister with the backing of the LDP. The two parties had been rivals until then in the postwar era.