1972 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1969 Japanese general election 1969 10 December 1972 1976 Japanese general election 1976 All 491 seats in the House of Representatives 246 71.76% (3.25pp) Kakuei_Tanaka_19720707.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Kakuei Tanaka Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 47.63%, 288 seats 271 17 24,563,199 46.85% 0.78pp Tomomi-Narita-1.png 130 120 160 0 0 Tomomi Narita Japan Socialist Party 21.44%, 90 seats 118 28 11,478,742 21.90% 0.46pp Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 6.81%, 14 seats 38 24 5,496,827 10.49% 3.68pp Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png 130 120 160 0 0 Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 10.91%, 47 seats 29 18 4,436,755 8.46% 2.45pp Kasuga-Ikko-1.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Kasuga Ikkō Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 7.74%, 31 seats 19 12 3,660,953 6.98% 0.76pp 400px Elected MPs and the leading party by vote share in each multimember district 400px Districts where the LDP (green) or opposition (blue) won most seats; teal for ties Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Kakuei Tanaka Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) General elections were held in Japan on 10 December 1972. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 271 of the 491 seats.http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm 統計局ホームページ/第27章 公務員・選挙 2012-12-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20150215091026/http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm 2015-02-15 dead Voter turnout was 71.76%. Little changed in the aftermath of the election; the LDP saw a slight decrease in seat numbers (debatably due to it fielding more candidates than ever before as a result of regained confidence in 1969),中野士朗『田中政権　八八六日』（行政問題研究所1982年、255頁-） and its vote share remained below 50% (even with the addition of conservative-aligned independents). The Japan Socialist Party won over 100 seats following its disastrous results in the 1969 Japanese general election, although infighting continued within the party over choosing cooperation with Kōmeitō or the Japanese Communist Party, coined "Civil Service or Joint Struggle". Fears remained that it would be overtaken by the resurgence of the JCP. The Japanese Communist Party was arguably the biggest winner of the election. Its seat count nearly tripled in relation to the 1969 election, and in the span of two elections, it had gone from 5 to 38 seats. This meant it beat its post-war peak of 35 representatives in 1949. The other two opposition parties, the DSP and Kōmeitō, suffered losses despite cooperation with each other. Kōmeitō was going through a series of scandals around its censorship of press critical to it (aptly named the Press Publication Obstruction cases ja 言論出版妨害事件) which severely damaged its public image, and gave favor to the JCP, with image of the Soka Gakkai as a cult beginning to emerge. The DSP also lost 12 seats. Results File:Japan House of Representatives 1972.svg Liberal Democratic Party 24563199 271 −17 Japan Socialist Party 11478742 118 +28 Japanese Communist Party 5496827 38 +24 Kōmeitō 4436755 29 −18 Democratic Socialist Party 3660953 19 −12 Other parties 143019 2 +2 Independents 2645582 14 −2 510234 73769636 +5 Statistics Bureau of Japan Seats won per district 350px LDP 350px JSP 350px JCP 350px Kōmeitō 350px DSP 350px Independent/Okinawa parties By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPJCPKōmeitōDSPOthersInd.Aichi2096131Akita8521Aomori7511Chiba139211Ehime9621Fukui431Fukuoka19543232Fukushima12102Gifu972Gunma1073Hiroshima12831Hokkaido2211911Hyōgo1994231Ibaraki1293Ishikawa651Iwate853Kagawa642Kagoshima11623Kanagawa1453321Kōchi5311Kumamoto106211Kyoto103232Mie9621Miyagi9621Miyazaki6321Nagano137411Nagasaki95211Nara5311Niigata15105Ōita752Okayama10631Okinawa5212Osaka237466Saga541Saitama138311Shiga541Shimane541Shizuoka1483111Tochigi10631Tokushima5311Tokyo3913710612Tottori4211Toyama6222Wakayama63111Yamagata853Yamaguchi9621Yamanashi532Total491271118382919214 References Japan General election Category:General elections in Japan Japanese general election Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results