1946 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1942 Japanese general election 1942 10 April 1946 1947 Japanese general election 1947 36,878,417 ( 152.7%)The electorate more than doubled as a result of Japanese women being allowed to vote for the first time All 468 seats in the House of Representatives 235 130x130px 72.08% ( 11.08 pp) Hatoyama Ichirō.jpg Ichirō Hatoyama Liberal Party (Japan, 1945) 141 13,505,746 24.36% Chuji machida.jpg Chūji Machida Japan Progressive Party 94 10,350,530 18.67% 片山哲 (cropped).jpg Tetsu Katayama Japan Socialist Party 93 9,924,930 17.90% Yamamoto Sanehiko.jpg Yamamoto Sanehiko ja 山本実彦 Cooperative 14 3.35% 1,799,764 Japanese Communist Party 2,135,757 3.85% 5 TOKUDA Kyuichi.jpg Kyuichi Tokuda 400px Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara Independent Shigeru Yoshida Liberal Party (Japan, 1945) General elections were held in Japan on 10 April 1946, the first after World War II, during the Allied occupation. All 468 seats in the House of Representatives were elected by limited voting. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 141 of the 468 seats.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 0-19-924959-8 Voter turnout was 72.1 percent. Background Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara, who had been appointed by the Emperor Hirohito in October 1945, dissolved the House of Representatives in December 1945. Shidehara had been working with Allied occupation commander Douglas MacArthur to implement a new constitution and other political reforms. In the months following the war, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association caucus broke up and three major political parties emerged in the Diet, loosely based around the major parties that stood in the 1937 election prior to the war. The Liberal Party was mainly composed of former Rikken Seiyūkai members,Your explanation here July 2023 while the Progressive Party was mainly composed of former Rikken Minseitō membersYour explanation here July 2023 and the Socialist Party was mainly composed of former Shakai Taishūtō members.Your explanation here July 2023 This was the first time Japanese women were allowed to vote. 39 women were elected to office; this was the largest number of women deputies elected until 2005. On the other hand, Taiwanese and Koreans in Japan had their rights to vote and to run for office suspended inasmuch as their home territories had ceased to be part of Japan. The electoral system use was a special type of Limited voting with district magnitude mostly ranging from 6 to 23, many parties (usually 4 to 7 or more) elected representatives in almost every district.Tyson Robert "Various voting methods" https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030334216&seq=69&q1=tyson Arena Jan. 1908 60 Following the election, there was a brief attempt to have Shidehara join the Progressive Party and remain in power, which the other major parties opposed. The Liberals and Progressives agreed to form a government under Liberal leader Ichiro Hatoyama on 2 May, but Hatoyama was promptly purged on 4 May and a new government formed under Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida, who officially became Prime Minister on 22 May. Results Liberal Party 13505746 141 Japan Progressive Party 10350530 94 Japan Socialist Party 9924930 93 Japanese Communist Party 2135757 5 Japan Cooperative Party 1799764 14 Other parties 6488032 38 Independents 11244120 81 Vacant 2 26100175 482000 36878417 Oscarsson,Oscarsson Nohlen et al. File:Japan House of Representatives 1946 2.svg By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLiberalProgressiveSocialistCommunistCooperativeOthersInd.Vacant Aichi1845324Akita811321Aomori72311Chiba1362113Ehime92421Fukui51121Fukuoka182583Fukushima13472Gifu105212Gunma101531Hiroshima1231323Hokkaido23641732Hyōgo1857411Ibaraki134513Ishikawa6312Iwate8422Kagawa6321Kagoshima11121232Kanagawa126411Kōchi5212Kumamoto104213Kyoto103133Mie914112Miyagi931131Miyazaki642Nagano142131115Nagasaki85111Nara51112Niigata155541Ōita72221Okayama103223Okinawa22Osaka18345132Saga5221Saitama138221Shiga6321Shimane61221Shizuoka1473112Tochigi1024211Tokushima55Tokyo22719221Tottori4112Toyama61221Wakayama6312Yamagata931113Yamaguchi94113Yamanashi51121Total468140949251438814 Notes References Category:General elections in Japan Japan Category:1946 elections in Japan Category:April 1946 in Asia Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results