1974 Japanese House of Councillors election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1971 Japanese House of Councillors election 1971 1977 Japanese House of Councillors election 1977 130 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors 127 7 July 1974 130x130px Kakuei Tanaka 19720707.jpg Kakuei Tanaka Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) 126 11 23,332,773 44.3% 0.2pp Tomomi-Narita-1.png Tomomi Narita Japan Socialist Party 62 4 7,990,457 15.2% 6.1pp Yoshikatsu-Takeiri-3.png Yoshikatsu Takeiri Kōmeitō (1962–1998) 24 2 6,360,419 12.1% 2.0pp Kenji Miyamoto (cropped).jpg Kenji Miyamoto Japanese Communist Party 20 10 4,931,650 9.4% 1.3pp Kasuga-Ikko-1.jpg Kasuga Ikkō Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) 10 3 3,114,895 5.9% 0.2pp 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 Yasoichi Mori Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Kazuo Maeda Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 7 July 1974, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. This election has been marked by polar opposite predictions by political commentators, some claiming that the LDP would see disastrous results following severe price inflation and the 1973 oil crisis, although as the election approached, others confidently believed the LDP would see marked success following shifts in forecasts. The results ended up somewhere in between, with the LDP falling down to 126 seats, exactly half barely holding onto a thin majority by enlisting the help of two LDP-aligned independents. The biggest winner among the opposition was the Japanese Communist Party, the only major party to see an increase in the popular vote. Its number of seats was doubled, thanks to skillful allocation of votes for specific candidates, with many JCP candidates spread equitably among the lower ranks of the national district results, instead of wasting many votes on a few candidates and thereby causing a few others to fell below the threshold. LDP factional infighting and the subsequent vote splitting ended up hurting the LDP severely, such as in the four-member Hokkaido district. Here, only two LDP candidates were fielded, but a conservative independent running against them caused the conservative vote to be split and all three failed to be elected, giving all of the seats to the opposition.Baerwald Hans H. 1974 The Tanabata House of Councillors Election in Japan https://www.jstor.org/stable/2643364 Asian Survey 14 10 900–906 10.2307/2643364 0004-4687 subscription The election also weakened Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's standing within his own party. This was most evident when Kentarō Kujime, who belonged to the same faction as anti-Tanaka LDP politician and future Prime Minister Takeo Miki, ran as an independent candidate against the LDP-approved candidate Masaharu Gotōda in the Tokushima district and won (an event dubbed the "Awa War," after the birthplace of Miki). Along with Tokushima, the LDP also lost to the opposition in the single-seat district for Okinawa, but won in all of the other ones, instead seeing their losses in the urban districts with more seats, a typical situation for older Japanese elections. Despite all of this, Tanaka saw his faction increase in number of Diet seats, whereas both Miki and former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, another Tanaka critic, saw their factions decrease in power. Results File:Japan House of Councillors 1974.svg National Constituency Not up Won Totalafter +/– Liberal Democratic Party 23332773 19 21132372 43 64 62 126 –8 Japan Socialist Party 7990457 10 13907865 18 34 28 62 –4 Komeitō 6360419 9 6732937 5 10 14 24 +1 Japanese Communist Party 4931650 8 6428919 5 7 13 20 +10 Democratic Socialist Party 3114895 4 2353397 1 5 5 10 –3 Other parties 74346 0 332716 1 0 1 1 – Independents 6820199 4 2609195 3 2 7 9 +4 2532796 1666499 75356068 75356068 122 130 252 +1 Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,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 Communications27-11 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 ConstituencyTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPKōmeitōJCPDSPInd.Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido4211Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima211Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okinawa11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo41111Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5419109844Total1306328141357 References Japan Category:House of Councillors (Japan) elections House Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results