1952 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1949 Japanese general election 1949 1 October 1952 1953 Japanese general election 1953 All 466 seats in the House of Representatives 234 130x130px 76.43% ( 2.39pp) Shigeru Yoshida smiling2.jpg Shigeru Yoshida Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) Did not exist 240 New 16,938,221 47.93% New Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg Mamoru Shigemitsu Kaishintō Did not exist 85 New 6,429,450 18.19% New AsanumaInejiro.jpg Inejirō AsanumaDue to a split in the Socialist Party, the chairman position was left vacant, and Secretary-General Asanuma served as acting chairman. Right Socialist Party of Japan Did not exist 57 New 4,108,274 11.63% New Suzuki Mosaburo.JPG Mosaburō Suzuki Left Socialist Party of Japan Did not exist 54 New 3,398,597 9.62% New Hisao Kuroda Hisao Kuroda 01.jpg Labourers and Farmers Party 1.98%, 7 seats 0.74% 4 3 261,190 1.24pp 1952 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, combined vote share.svg Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) Shigeru Yoshida Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) General elections were held in Japan on 1 October 1952. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 242 of the 466 seats.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 0-19-924959-8Dull Paul S. 1953 The Japanese General Election of 1952 https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400076024/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 47 1 199–204 10.2307/1950965 1950965 145260954 0003-0554 subscription Voter turnout was 76.4%. Results Liberal Party 16938221 240 New Kaishintō 6429450 85 New Right Socialist Party of Japan 4108274 57 New Left Socialist Party of Japan 3398597 54 New Japanese Communist Party 896765 0 −35 Cooperative Party (Japan) ja 協同党 Cooperative Party 390015 2 New Labourers and Farmers Party 261190 4 –3 Japan Reconstruction Federation ja 日本再建連盟 185108 1 New Japan Democratic Education Political Federation Japan Teachers Political Federation ja 日本民主教育政治連盟 114869 2 New Fukuoka Rural Federation 59949 1 –1 Japan People's Party ja 日本人民党 57894 1 +1 National Liaison Group for the Reconstruction of the Socialist Party ja 社会党再建全国連絡会 33617 0 New New Liberal Party (Japan) ja 新自由党 New Liberal Party 27327 0 –2 Rikken Yōseikai ja 立憲養正会 18570 0 –1 Greater Japan Patriotic Party 17257 0 New Tosa Farmers Union 9592 0 New United Socialist Party 7826 0 New Yamato Party 7041 0 New Social Democratic Party (Oda Toshiyo) 6609 0 New Pro-American Fraternal Labor Party 5719 0 0 World Party 3972 0 New Greater Japan Independent Youth Party 1826 0 0 Constitutional Japan National Party 1559 0 New National Socialist Japanese Workers' Party 286 0 New Independents 2355172 19 +7 412349 46772584 0 Oscarsson, Masumi, Ministry of Home Affairs By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLPKaishintōRSPJLSPJLFPOthersInd.Aichi1994141Akita8422Aomori743Chiba138311Ehime96111Fukui44Fukuoka19634411Fukushima127221Gifu94221Gunma1024211Hiroshima12831Hokkaido229472Hyōgo1885311Ibaraki127311Ishikawa6321Iwate8611Kagawa6411Kagoshima107111Kanagawa136241Kōchi541Kumamoto1043111Kyoto1042121Mie9351Miyagi94311Miyazaki6411Nagano138221Nagasaki95211Nara5311Niigata158322Ōita72212Okayama107111Osaka199262Saga5212Saitama131021Shiga5212Shimane52111Shizuoka141013Tochigi105311Tokushima5131Tokyo2711295Tottori4211Toyama633Wakayama61221Yamagata862Yamaguchi9621Yamanashi52111Total4662408557544719 Notes References Japan General Category:General elections in Japan Japan