Political parties and their fund management bodies raised 43.4 percent more in donations from companies, labor unions and industry groups in 2013 than the year before, a government report said Friday.

The total came to ¥2.48 billion.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, which returned to power in December 2012, saw donations climb sharply, boosting its overall revenue to ¥23.3 billion and allowing it to top the revenue rankings for the first time since 2008, according to the annual report released by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.