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1953 Japanese general election

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← 1952

19 April 1953

1955 →

All 466 seats in the House of Representatives
234 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

74.21% (

2.22pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Shigeru Yoshida	Mamoru Shigemitsu	Mosaburō Suzuki
Party	Liberal	Kaishintō	Left Socialist
Seats won	199	76	72
Seat change	41	9	18
Popular vote	13,476,428	6,186,232	4,516,715
Percentage	38.95%	17.88%	13.05%
Swing	8.98pp	0.31pp	3.43pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Jōtarō Kawakami	Bukichi Miki	Kyuichi Tokuda
Party	Right Socialist	Liberal Party–Hatoyama	Communist
Seats won	66	35	1
Seat change	9	New	1
Popular vote	4,677,833	3,054,688	655,990
Percentage	13.52%	8.83%	1.90%
Swing	1.89pp	New	0.64pp

Prime Minister before election

Shigeru Yoshida
Liberal

Prime Minister after election

Shigeru Yoshida
Liberal

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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[edit]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Party	13,476,428	38.95	199	–41
	Kaishintō	6,186,232	17.88	76	–9
	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[edit]

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[edit]

^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p363 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

v t e Elections in Japan
General elections	1890 1892 1894 (Mar) 1894 (Sep) 1898 (Mar) 1898 (Aug) 1902 1903 1904 1908 1912 1915 1917 1920 1924 1928 1930 1932 1936 1937 1942 1946 1947 1949 1952 1953 1955 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 1996 2000 2003 2005 2009 2012 2014 2017 2021 Next
Councillors elections	1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 2022 2025
Unified local elections	1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Supreme Court retention elections	1949 1952 1955 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 1996 2000 2003 2005 2009 2012 2014 2017 2021 2025
See also: Gubernatorial elections Prefectural Assembly elections

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