1983 Japanese House of Councillors election
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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 26 June 1983. The result was a victory for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which won 68 of the 126 seats up for election, retaining its majority in the House.
Results
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Party | National | Constituency | Seats | |||||||||
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– | |||
Liberal Democratic Party | 16,441,437 | 35.33 | 19 | 19,975,034 | 43.24 | 49 | 69 | 68 | 137 | +2 | ||
Japan Socialist Party | 7,590,331 | 16.31 | 9 | 11,217,515 | 24.28 | 13 | 22 | 22 | 44 | –3 | ||
Kōmeitō | 7,314,465 | 15.72 | 8 | 3,615,995 | 7.83 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 0 | ||
Japanese Communist Party | 4,163,877 | 8.95 | 5 | 4,859,334 | 10.52 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 14 | +2 | ||
Democratic Socialist Party | 3,888,429 | 8.36 | 4 | 2,638,780 | 5.71 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | ||
New Party for Salaried Men | 1,999,244 | 4.30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | New | |||||
Japan Wellbeing Party | 1,577,630 | 3.39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | New | |||||
New Liberal Club | 1,239,169 | 2.66 | 1 | 563,811 | 1.22 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
Dainiin Club | 1,142,349 | 2.45 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | New | |||||
Other parties | 1,179,997 | 2.54 | 0 | 1,561,835 | 3.38 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | ||
Independents | 1,768,021 | 3.83 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | –7 | |||||
Vacant | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – | |||||||
Total | 46,536,928 | 100.00 | 50 | 46,200,325 | 100.00 | 79 | 123 | 129 | 252 | 0 | ||
Valid votes | 46,536,928 | 97.57 | 46,200,325 | 96.86 | ||||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,159,404 | 2.43 | 1,500,034 | 3.14 | ||||||||
Total votes | 47,696,332 | 100.00 | 47,700,359 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 83,682,416 | 57.00 | 83,682,416 | 57.00 | ||||||||
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,[1][2] National Diet |
By constituency
[edit]Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||||||
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LDP | JSP | Kōmeitō | JCP | DSP | NPSM | NLC | JWP | DC | Others | Ind. | ||
Aichi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Akita | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Aomori | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Chiba | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Ehime | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Fukui | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Fukuoka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Fukushima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Gifu | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Gunma | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Hokkaido | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Hyōgo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Ibaraki | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Ishikawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Iwate | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Kagawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Kagoshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Kanagawa | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Kōchi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Kumamoto | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Kyoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Mie | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Miyagi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Miyazaki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Nagano | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Nagasaki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Nara | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Niigata | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Ōita | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Okinawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Okayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Osaka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Saga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Saitama | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Shiga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Shimane | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Shizuoka | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Tochigi | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Tokushima | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Tokyo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Tottori | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Toyama | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Wakayama | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Yamagata | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Yamaguchi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Yamanashi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
National | 50 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 126 | 68 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ "27-11 Allotted Number, Candidates, Eligible Voters as of Election Day, Voters and Voting Percentages of Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947-2004)". Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Archived from the original on 2006-01-04.