1953 Japanese House of Councillors election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 24 April 1953,[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Yoshida faction of the Liberal Party won the most seats.
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Results
Party | Constituency | National | Total seats | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
Liberal Party | 8,803,131 | 31.4 | 30 | 6,149,927 | 22.7 | 16 | 46 | |
Leftist Socialist Party of Japan | 3,917,837 | 14.0 | 10 | 3,858,552 | 14.3 | 8 | 18 | |
Rightist Socialist Party of Japan | 2,952,803 | 10.5 | 7 | 1,740,423 | 6.4 | 3 | 10 | |
Kaishintō | 2,840,345 | 10.1 | 5 | 1,630,507 | 6.0 | 3 | 8 | |
Ryokufūkai | 2,096,103 | 7.5 | 8 | 3,301,011 | 12.2 | 8 | 16 | |
Liberal Party–Hatoyama | 522,540 | 1.9 | 0 | 110,889 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | |
Labourers and Farmers Party | 277,422 | 1.0 | 0 | 112,535 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | |
Japanese Communist Party | 264,729 | 0.9 | 0 | 293,877 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | |
Other parties | 322,674 | 1.2 | 1 | 332,898 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Independents | 6,013,363 | 21.5 | 14 | 9,504,220 | 35.2 | 15 | 29 | |
Invalid/blank votes | - | - | - | - | - | |||
Total | 28,010,967 | 100 | 75 | 27,034,839 | 100 | 53 | 128 | |
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications |
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