1952 Japanese general election
Appearance
(Redirected from Japanese general election, 1952)
![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 466 seats in the House of Representatives 234 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Turnout | 76.43% (![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article is part of a series on |
![]() |
---|
![]() |
General elections were held in Japan on 1 October 1952. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 242 of the 466 seats.[1][2] Voter turnout was 76.4%.
Results
[edit]Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | 16,938,221 | 47.93 | 240 | New | |
Kaishintō | 6,429,450 | 18.19 | 85 | New | |
Right Socialist Party of Japan | 4,108,274 | 11.63 | 57 | New | |
Left Socialist Party of Japan | 3,398,597 | 9.62 | 54 | New | |
Japanese Communist Party | 896,765 | 2.54 | 0 | –35 | |
Labourers and Farmers Party | 261,190 | 0.74 | 4 | –3 | |
Other parties | 949,036 | 2.69 | 7 | – | |
Independents | 2,355,172 | 6.66 | 19 | +7 | |
Total | 35,336,705 | 100.00 | 466 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 35,336,705 | 98.85 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 412,349 | 1.15 | |||
Total votes | 35,749,054 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 46,772,584 | 76.43 | |||
Source: Oscarsson, Masumi |
By prefecture
[edit]Prefecture | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LP | Kaishintō | RSPJ | LSPJ | LFP | Others | Ind. | ||
Aichi | 19 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
Akita | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Aomori | 7 | 4 | 3 | |||||
Chiba | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Ehime | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Fukui | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Fukuoka | 19 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
Fukushima | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Gifu | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Gunma | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hiroshima | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Hokkaido | 22 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | |||
Hyōgo | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
Ibaraki | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Iwate | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Kagoshima | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Kanagawa | 13 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||
Kumamoto | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Kyoto | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
Mie | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||||
Miyagi | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Miyazaki | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Nagano | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Niigata | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
Ōita | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
Okayama | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Osaka | 19 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||
Saga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Saitama | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Shiga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Shimane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Shizuoka | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Tochigi | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Tokushima | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Tokyo | 27 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 5 | |||
Tottori | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Toyama | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Wakayama | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
Yamagata | 8 | 6 | 2 | |||||
Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Yamanashi | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Total | 466 | 240 | 85 | 57 | 54 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
References
[edit]- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- ^ Dull, Paul S. (1953). "The Japanese General Election of 1952". American Political Science Review. 47 (1): 199–204. doi:10.2307/1950965. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1950965. S2CID 145260954.