1953 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1950 Japanese House of Councillors election 1950 1956 Japanese House of Councillors election 1956 128 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors 126 130x130px 24 April 1953 Shigeru Yoshida smiling2.jpg Shigeru Yoshida Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) 93 17 6,149,927 22.7% 6.6% Suzuki Mosaburo.JPG Mosaburō Suzuki Left Socialist Party of Japan 40 New 3,917,837 14.3% N/A Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) 34 16 3,301,011 12.2% 0.9% Kawakami Jotaro 1952.JPG Jōtarō Kawakami Right Socialist Party of Japan 26 New 1,740,423 6.4% New Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg Mamoru Shigemitsu Kaishintō 15 New 1,630,507 6.0% N/A 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 Naotake Satō Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) Yahachi Kawai Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 24 April 1953,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 Yoshida faction of the Liberal Party won the most seats. Results File:Japan_House_of_Councillors_1953.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Party 6149927 16 8803131 30 47 46 93 +17 Left Socialist Party of Japan 3858552 8 3917837 10 22 18 40 New Ryokufūkai 3301011 8 2096103 8 18 16 34 –16 Right Socialist Party of Japan 1740423 3 2952803 7 16 10 26 New Kaishintō 1630507 3 2840345 5 7 8 15 New Japanese Communist Party 293877 0 264729 0 1 0 1 –3 Labourers and Farmers Party 112535 0 277442 0 2 0 2 –3 Liberal Party–Hatoyama 110889 0 522540 0 2 0 2 New Other parties 332898 0 322674 1 0 1 1 –2 Independents 9504220 15 6013363 14 7 29 36 +14 2682584 1707952 0 47036554 47036554 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 wonLPLSPJRyokufūkaiRSPJKaishintōOthersInd. Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido41111Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto211Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo4211Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5316883315Total128471915108128 Aftermath In the national constituency, a polling station in Sano, Tochigi accidentally had Japan Socialist Party candidate Takeshi Hirabayashi labelled as belonging to the Japanese Communist Party. As a result, the results in Sano were invalidated through an appeal decision of the Supreme Court on 24 September 1954. A re-vote was held on 17 October 1954 with proper labels, and Hirabayashi narrowly won a spot in the lower ranks of the national constituency results.参議院事務局編『参議院議員選挙一覧 第3回』参議院事務局、1955年。 References Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections Category:1953 elections in Japan Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results