1958 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1955 Japanese general election 1955 22 May 1958 1960 Japanese general election 1960 All 467 seats in the House of Representatives 234 76.98% (1.15pp) Nobusuke Kishi portrait.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Nobusuke Kishi Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 63.18%, 297 seatsDemocratic Party and Liberal Party 287 10 22,976,846 57.80% 5.38pp Suzuki Mosaburo.JPG 130 120 160 0 0 Mosaburō Suzuki Japan Socialist Party 30.18%, 157 seatsLeft Socialist Party of Japan and Right Socialist Party of Japan 166 9 13,093,993 32.94% 2.76pp 1958 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, combined vote share.svg Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Nobusuke Kishi Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) 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.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 0-19-924959-8 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.Cole Totten Uyehara 1966 65 This election had the highest turnout for a post-war election so far.Cole Totten Uyehara 1966 64 Results File:Japan House of Representatives 1958.svg Liberal Democratic Party 22976846 287 −10 Japan Socialist Party 13093993 166 +6 Japanese Communist Party 1012036 1 −1 Other parties 287991 1 – Independents 2380795 12 +6 290828 0 52013529 Mackie,Mackie MasumiMasumi By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPJCPOthersInd.Aichi191081Akita8521Aomori7421Chiba13103Ehime981Fukui431Fukuoka19127Fukushima12741Gifu954Gunma1073Hiroshima12921Hokkaido221111Hyōgo181071Ibaraki1284Ishikawa651Iwate8521Kagawa642Kagoshima11821Kanagawa1367Kōchi541Kumamoto1073Kyoto1064Mie954Miyagi954Miyazaki642Nagano13751Nagasaki9531Nara5212Niigata15861Ōita752Okayama1064Osaka191171Saga532Saitama1394Shiga523Shimane532Shizuoka14104Tochigi1064Tokushima532Tokyo271215Tottori431Toyama642Wakayama642Yamagata862Yamaguchi963Yamanashi541Total4672871661112 Notes References Works cited Cole Allan Totten George Uyehara Cecil Socialist Parties In Postwar Japan Yale University Press 1966 Japan General election Category:General elections in Japan Japanese general election Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results