1958 Japanese general election
General election in Japan held in 1958
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All 467 seats in the House of Representatives of Japan 234 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 76.98% ( 1.15pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Japan on 22 May 1958. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 298 of the 467 seats.[1] Voter turnout was 77.0%.
The Japan Socialist Party only ran 246 candidates. The Japanese Communist Party, which strategically withdrew some of its candidates in favor of the JSP in the 1956 elections, ran 114 candidates.[2]
This election had the highest turnout for a post-war election so far.[3]
Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Liberal Democratic Party | 22,976,846 | 57.80 | 287 | –10 | |
| Japan Socialist Party | 13,093,993 | 32.94 | 166 | +6 | |
| Japanese Communist Party | 1,012,036 | 2.55 | 1 | –1 | |
| Other parties | 287,991 | 0.72 | 1 | – | |
| Independents | 2,380,795 | 5.99 | 12 | +6 | |
| Total | 39,751,661 | 100.00 | 467 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 39,751,661 | 99.27 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 290,828 | 0.73 | |||
| Total votes | 40,042,489 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 52,013,529 | 76.98 | |||
| Source: Mackie, Masumi | |||||
By prefecture
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||
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| LDP | JSP | JCP | Others | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 19 | 10 | 8 | 1 | ||
| Akita | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Aomori | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Chiba | 13 | 10 | 3 | |||
| Ehime | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Fukui | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Fukuoka | 19 | 12 | 7 | |||
| Fukushima | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Gifu | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Gunma | 10 | 7 | 3 | |||
| Hiroshima | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Hokkaido | 22 | 11 | 11 | |||
| Hyōgo | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Ibaraki | 12 | 8 | 4 | |||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Iwate | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Kagoshima | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Kanagawa | 13 | 6 | 7 | |||
| Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 7 | 3 | |||
| Kyoto | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Mie | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Miyagi | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Miyazaki | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Nagano | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Nara | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Niigata | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Ōita | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Okayama | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Osaka | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Saga | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Saitama | 13 | 9 | 4 | |||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Shimane | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Shizuoka | 14 | 10 | 4 | |||
| Tochigi | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Tokushima | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Tokyo | 27 | 12 | 15 | |||
| Tottori | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Toyama | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Wakayama | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Yamagata | 8 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 3 | |||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Total | 467 | 287 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
Notes
- ^ as Democratic Party and Liberal Party
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- ^ Cole, Totten & Uyehara 1966, pp. 65.
- ^ Cole, Totten & Uyehara 1966, pp. 64.
Works cited
- Cole, Allan; Totten, George; Uyehara, Cecil (1966). Socialist Parties In Postwar Japan. Yale University Press.
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