1968 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1965 Japanese House of Councillors election 1965 1971 Japanese House of Councillors election 1971 126 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors 126 130x130px 7 July 1968 Eisaku Satō grayscaled and cropped to aspect ratio 3x4.jpg Eisaku Satō Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 137 3 20,120,089 46.7% 0.5% Seiichi Katsumata 1953.png Seiichi Katsumata Japan Socialist Party 65 8 8,542,199 19.8% 3.6% Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 24 4 6,656,771 15.5% 1.8% Eiichi-Nishimura-1 (Cropped).png Eiichi Nishimura Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 10 3 2,578,581 6.0% 0.1% Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 7 3 2,146,879 5.0% 0.6% 350px Results of the election, showing the winning candidates in each prefecture and the national block. President of the House of Councillors President of the House of Councillors-designate Kenzō Kōno Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Ken Yasui Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 7 July 1968,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) https://web.archive.org/web/20110323055016/http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-13.xls 2011-03-23 Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats, although this marked the first House of Councillors election in the LDP's history in which its share of the popular vote decreased when compared to the election prior to it. Results File:Japan House of Councillors 1968.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Democratic Party 20120089 21 19405546 48 68 69 137 –3 Japan Socialist Party 8542199 12 12617680 16 37 28 65 –8 Komeitō 6656771 9 2632528 4 11 13 24 +4 Democratic Socialist Party 2578581 4 3010089 3 3 7 10 +3 Japanese Communist Party 2146879 3 3577179 1 3 4 7 +3 Other parties 157501 0 106587 0 0 0 0 0 Independents 2872279 2 1910371 3 2 5 7 0 2343354 2161083 124 126 250 –1 65886145 65886145 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) http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-11.xls live Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications https://web.archive.org/web/20060104111057/http://www.stat.go.jp:80/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-11.xls 2006-01-04 National Diet By constituency ConstituencyTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōDSPJCPInd.Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba22Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka321Fukushima22Gifu11Gunma22Hiroshima211Hokkaido422Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka22Tochigi22Tokushima11Tokyo41111Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5121129432Total127692813745 References Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results