1959 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1956 Japanese House of Councillors election 1956 1962 Japanese House of Councillors election 1962 127 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors 126 2 June 1959 150x150px Nobusuke Kishi.jpg Nobusuke Kishi Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 132 10 12,120,598 41.2% 4.5% Suzuki Mosaburo.JPG Mosaburō Suzuki Japan Socialist Party 85 5 7,794,754 26.5% 3.4% Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) 11 20 2,382,703 8.1% 2.0% Sanzō Nosaka photographed by Shigeru Tamura.jpg Sanzō Nosaka Japanese Communist Party 3 1 551,196 1.9% 0.2% 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 Yūzō Shigemune Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Yutaka Terao Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 2 June 1959,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. Kōji Harashima, who later become a founding member and the first chairman of Kōmeitō, was elected to the Diet for the first time as one of several Soka Gakkai-affiliated independents. During the campaign, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and MITI began to discuss the now-famous "income doubling" plan, although it was temporarily shelved due to disputes between party factions and the looming importance of the US–Japan Security Treaty revision issue. The plan would not be revived until the tenure of Hayato Ikeda, beginning in 1960.Fukui Haruhiro 1972 Economic Planning in Postwar Japan: A Case Study in Policy Making https://www.jstor.org/stable/2642940 Asian Survey 12 4 341–342 10.2307/2642940 0004-4687 subscription Results File:Japan_House_of_Councillors_1959.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Democratic Party 12120598 22 15667022 49 61 71 132 +10 Japan Socialist Party 7794754 17 10265394 21 47 38 85 +5 Ryokufūkai 2382703 4 731383 2 5 6 11 –20 Political League for Small and Medium Enterprises 598519 1 0 1 1 New Japanese Communist Party 551916 1 999255 0 2 1 3 +1 Other parties 154743 0 155189 0 0 0 0 0 Independents 5817187 7 2311112 3 8 10 18 +4 2016244 1310398 123 127 250 0 53516473 53516473 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 wonLDPJSPRyokufūkaiJCPPLSMEInd. Aichi321Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka321Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido422Hyōgo321Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okayama211Osaka312Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka22Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo422Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5222174117Total127713867710 References Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House Hapan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results