1962 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1959 Japanese House of Councillors election 1959 1965 Japanese House of Councillors election 1965 127 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors 126 130x130px 1 July 1962 JFKWHP-KN-C18157 in Hayato Ikeda (cropped) restored Crop.jpg Hayato Ikeda Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 142 10 16,581,637 46.4% 5.2% Jotaro Kawakami Salvaged.jpg Jōtarō Kawakami Japan Socialist Party 66 19 8,666,910 24.2% 2.3% Koji-Harashima-1.png Kōji Harashima Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 15 15 4,124,269 11.5% N/A NISHIO Suehiro.jpg Suehiro Nishio Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 11 11 1,899,756 5.3% N/A – 9ACBAB Dōshikai 7 4 1,660,466 4.6% 3.4% Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 4 1 1,123,947 3.1% 1.2% 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 Tarō Hirai Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Yōtoku Shigemasa Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 1 July 1962,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. This was the first Japanese national election to feature the Kōmeitō as a candidate, as it had formed earlier in the same year. As is typical for House of Councillors elections, candidate personality and public appeal played a stronger role than they would in a House of Representatives election; the first place winner for the national district voting was Aki Fujiwara, a panelist on the Japanese version of I've Got a Secret, who broke all of the previous House of Councillors records by obtaining 1,160,000 votes.Ukai Nobushige 1962 The Japanese House of Councillors Election of July 1962 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023612 Asian Survey 2 6 1–8 10.2307/3023612 0004-4687 subscription The Japan Socialist Party (JSP) had attempted to make questions of constitutional revision the main issue for the election, whereas the LDP attempted to sideline the issue by claiming that it would not pursue any constitutional amendments unless it were to receive recommendations from the Constitutional Investigation Commission, which was still in the process of deliberating at the time of the election. Overall, the JSP lost the most in this election, losing 19 seats, whereas the LDP gained 10 seats. Results File:Japan_House_of_Councillors_1962.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Democratic Party 16581637 21 17112986 48 73 69 142 +10 Japan Socialist Party 8666910 15 11917675 22 29 37 66 –19 Kōmeitō 4124269 7 958179 2 6 9 15 New Democratic Socialist Party 1899756 3 2649422 1 7 4 11 New Dōshikai 1660466 2 128834 0 5 2 7 New #9ACBAB Japanese Communist Party 1123947 2 1760258 1 1 3 4 +1 Other parties 295603 0 58622 0 0 0 0 0 Independents 1404048 1 1725947 2 2 3 5 –13 2534276 1983299 123 127 250 0 56137295 56137295 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 PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōDSPJCPDōshikaiInd.Aichi321Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka321Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido4121Hyōgo321Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima211Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka22Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo52111Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National51211573221Total127693794323 References Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results