1953 Japanese general election

General elections were held in Japan on 19 April 1953. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 202 of the 466 seats.[1] Voter turnout was 74.2%.

19 April 1953

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Shigeru Yoshida	Mamoru Shigemitsu	Mosaburō Suzuki
Party	Liberal	Kaishintō	Leftist Socialist
Seats won	202	77	72
Seat change	40	12	16
Popular vote	13,653,466	6,231,111	4,516,715
Percentage	39.5%	18.0%	13.1%
Swing	8.5%	0.8%	3.3%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Jōtarō Kawakami	Bukichi Miki	Kyuichi Tokuda
Party	Rightist Socialist	Liberal Party–Hatoyama	Communist
Seats won	66	35	1
Seat change	6	New	1
Popular vote	4,677,833	3,054,688	655,990
Percentage	13.5%	8.8%	1.9%
Swing	0.7%	New	0.6%

Prime Minister before election

Shigeru Yoshida
Liberal

Prime Minister-designate

Shigeru Yoshida
Liberal

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Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Liberal Party	13,653,466	39.5	202	–40
Kaishintō	6,231,111	18.0	77	–12
Rightist Socialist Party of Japan	4,677,833	13.5	66	+6
Leftist Socialist Party of Japan	4,516,715	13.1	72	+16
Liberal Party–Hatoyama	3,054,688	8.8	35	New
Japanese Communist Party	655,990	1.9	1	+1
Other parties	510,823	1.5	6	+2
Independents	1,301,829	3.8	7	–8
Invalid/blank votes	342,675	–	–	–
Total	34,946,130	100	466	0
Source: Nohlen et al.

Vote share

LP			39.46%
RP			18.01%
RJSP			13.52%
LJSP			13.05%
LP (Separatists)			8.83%
JCP			1.90%
Independents			3.76%
Others			1.48%

Parliament seats

LP			43.35%
RP			16.52%
LJSP			15.45%
RJSP			14.16%
LP (Separatists)			7.51%
JCP			0.21%
Independents			1.50%
Others			1.29%

References

Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p. 381 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

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