1953 Japanese general election
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General elections were held in Japan on 19 April 1953.[1] The result saw the ruling Liberal Party win 199 of the 466 seats. Voter turnout was 74.2%.
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | 13,476,428 | 38.95 | 199 | –41 | |
| Kaishintō | 6,186,232 | 17.88 | 76 | –13 | |
| Rightist Socialist Party of Japan | 4,677,833 | 13.52 | 66 | +9 | |
| Leftist Socialist Party of Japan | 4,516,715 | 13.05 | 72 | +18 | |
| Liberal Party–Hatoyama | 3,054,688 | 8.83 | 35 | New | |
| Japanese Communist Party | 655,990 | 1.90 | 1 | +1 | |
| Labourers and Farmers Party | 358,773 | 1.04 | 5 | +1 | |
| Other parties | 152,050 | 0.44 | 1 | +2 | |
| Independents | 1,523,736 | 4.40 | 11 | –8 | |
| Total | 34,602,445 | 100.00 | 466 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 34,602,445 | 99.02 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 342,675 | 0.98 | |||
| Total votes | 34,945,120 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 47,090,167 | 74.21 | |||
| Source: Oscarsson, Masumi | |||||
By prefecture
| Prefecture | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | Kaishintō | LSPJ | RSPJ | LP–H | LFP | JCP | Others | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 19 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Akita | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Aomori | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Chiba | 13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Ehime | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Fukui | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Fukuoka | 19 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Fukushima | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Gifu | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Gunma | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Hiroshima | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Hokkaido | 22 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Hyōgo | 18 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Ibaraki | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Iwate | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Kagawa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Kagoshima | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Kanagawa | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Kyoto | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Mie | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Miyagi | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Miyazaki | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Nagano | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Niigata | 15 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Ōita | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Okayama | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Osaka | 19 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Saga | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Saitama | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Shimane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Shizuoka | 14 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Tochigi | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Tokushima | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Tokyo | 27 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | ||||
| Tottori | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Toyama | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Yamagata | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 466 | 199 | 76 | 72 | 66 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p363 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
