1947 Japanese House of Councillors election

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 20 April 1947.[1] The Japan Socialist Party won more seats than any other party, although independents emerged as the largest group in the House. Most independents joined the Ryokufūkai parliamentary group in the first Diet session making it the largest group, and Ryokufūkai member Tsuneo Matsudaira was elected the first president of the House of Councillors.

April 20, 1947

250 seats in the House of Councillors
126 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tetsu Katayama	Ichirō Hatoyama	Ishiguro Takeshige
Party	Socialist	Liberal	Democratic
Seats won	47	38	28
Popular vote	3,479,814	1,360,456	2,989,132
Percentage	16.4%	6.4%	14.1%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Takeo Miki	Kyuichi Tokuda
Party	National Cooperative	Communist
Seats won	9	4
Popular vote	549,916	610,948
Percentage	2.6%	2.9%

President of the House of Councillors-designate

Tsuneo Matsudaira
Socialist

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Results

Party	Constituency			National			Total seats
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Japan Socialist Party	4,901,341	23.0	30	3,479,814	16.4	17	47
Liberal Party	3,769,704	17.7	30	1,508,087	7.1	8	38
Democratic Party	2,989,132	14.1	22	1508,087	7.1	6	28
National Cooperative Party	978,522	4.6	6	549,916	2.6	3	9
Japanese Communist Party	825,304	3.9	1	610,948	2.9	3	4
Other parties	1,058,032	5.0	7	1,063,253	5.0	6	13
Independents	7,257,191	35.4	54	12,698,698	59.7	57	111
Invalid/blank votes		-	-		-	-	-
Total	22,049,226	100	150	21,271,172	100	100	250
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

References

Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

Elections in Japan
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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
See also: Gubernatorial elections Prefectural Assembly elections

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