1969 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1967 Japanese general election 1967 27 December 1969 1972 Japanese general election 1972 All 486 seats in the House of Representatives 244 68.51% (5.47pp) Eisaku Sato cropped 1 Eisaku Sato 19641109.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Eisaku Satō Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 48.80%, 277 seats 288 11 22,381,570 47.63% 1.17pp Tomomi-Narita-1.png 130 120 160 0 0 Tomomi Narita Japan Socialist Party 27.88%, 140 seats 90 50 10,074,101 21.44% 6.44pp Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png 130 120 160 0 0 Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 5.38%, 25 seats 47 22 5,124,666 10.91% 5.53pp Eiichi-Nishimura-1 (Cropped).png 130 120 160 0 0 Eiichi Nishimura Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 7.40%, 30 seats 31 1 3,636,591 7.74% 0.34pp Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 4.76%, 5 seats 14 9 3,199,032 6.81% 2.05pp 1969 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, combined vote share.svg Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength Prime Minister Eisaku Satō Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Eisaku Satō Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) General elections were held in Japan on 27 December 1969. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 288 of the 486 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 68.51%, the lowest since 1947. This was the first general election in Japanese history in which candidates were allowed limited use of television as a means for campaigning, something that had been formerly proscribed under Japan's strict election campaign laws.Curtis Gerald L. 1970 The 1969 General Election in Japan https://www.jstor.org/stable/2643097 Asian Survey 10 10 859–871 10.2307/2643097 2643097 0004-4687 subscription The main national policy issue at the time was the possibility of reverting Okinawa, which had been under American military occupation since the end of World War II, back over to Japanese control. Nonetheless, as is characteristic of Japanese elections, voters were more interested in pocket book issues, or "livelihood problems" (kurashi mondai), over pressing national and foreign policy questions. The election was marked by relative apathy, especially among young people in urban areas, with voter turnout in Tokyo being the lowest in the country, dropping from 63.12% in the last election to 56.35% in the 1969 election. Moreover, old districting laws from the pre-war period were still in effect, and as urban areas increased in population, individual rural voters (who were heavily skewed towards the LDP) were disproportionately more powerful than the average individual urban voter. In any event, the actual popular vote of the LDP had been continuously sliding down since its formation, and the LDP's increase in seats was more attributable to its competent endorsement of only a limited number of local seat candidates when compared to the Japan Socialist Party, which ran too many candidates and thus split votes at a disastrous rate. Ironically, what little increase in support the JSP saw was found primarily in rural areas rather than urban areas, the latter of which were traditionally seen as the base of the JSP's support; the young Kōmeitō and reformed Japanese Communist Party had been gradually making inroads into urban areas, further eating away at the JSP's strength. Results Ichirō Ozawa won a seat in the House of Representatives for the first time, becoming the youngest elected legislator at the time. He went on to become a powerful political figure in the LDP and other parties.Hayashi Yuka 2010-09-09 Japan's Kingmaker Bids to Seize the Crown en-US Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703960004575481383480741218 2020-09-08 0099-9660Desmond Edward W. 2010-06-16 Ichiro Ozawa: Reformer at Bay en-US https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1995-09-01/ichiro-ozawa-reformer-bay 2020-09-08 0015-7120 Future prime minister Tsutomu Hata was drafted to run in the election following his father's death, and won a seat for the first time.1994-04-23 Hata: Japan's Hope to End Paralysis https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-23-mn-49418-story.html 2020-09-08 Los Angeles Times en-US Future prime minister Junichiro Koizumi also attempted to win his late father's seat in the election, but lost.2001-04-27 Koizumi Urges Constitutional Revision For Direct Election of Japanese Premier en-US Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB988359274439442772 2020-09-08 0099-9660 File:Japan House of Representatives 1969.svg Liberal Democratic Party 22381570 288 +11 Japan Socialist Party 10074101 90 −50 Komeitō 5124666 47 +22 Democratic Socialist Party 3636591 31 +1 Japanese Communist Party 3199032 14 +9 Other parties 81373 0 0 Independents 2492560 16 +7 459816 69260424 0 Statistics Bureau of Japan By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōDSPJCPInd.Aichi201343Akita8431Aomori74111Chiba131012Ehime9621Fukui431Fukuoka1993421Fukushima129111Gifu972Gunma1082Hiroshima1281111Hokkaido2212721Hyōgo1994321Ibaraki12921Ishikawa651Iwate844Kagawa6411Kagoshima11812Kanagawa145333Kōchi5311Kumamoto10811Kyoto1041212Mie972Miyagi963Miyazaki6411Nagano137411Nagasaki95211Nara5311Niigata1596Ōita7511Okayama10622Osaka2382661Saga541Saitama138212Shiga5311Shimane541Shizuoka149311Tochigi106211Tokushima5311Tokyo391721046Tottori431Toyama642Wakayama6321Yamagata8332Yamaguchi9612Yamanashi532Total4862889047311416 References Japan General Category:General elections in Japan Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results