Japan 1952 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party won 240 of 466 seats with 47.9% of the vote; 76.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.4 points on 1949.
- Japan
- Held
Result
- Liberal Party240
- Democratic Party85
- Right Socialist Party of Japan57
- Left Socialist Party of Japan54
- Other parties (seats only)24
- Labourers and Farmers Party4
- Cooperative Party2
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | 240 | −24 | 47.9 | +4.0 | 16,937,225 |
| Democratic Party | 85 | +16 | 18.2 | +2.5 | 6,421,094 |
| Right Socialist Party of Japan | 57 | 11.4 | 4,103,872 | ||
| Left Socialist Party of Japan | 54 | 9.9 | 3,493,970 | ||
| Japanese Communist Party | 0 | −35 | 2.5 | −7.3 | 896,765 |
| Cooperative Party | 2 | 1.1 | 390,015 | ||
| Labourers and Farmers Party | 4 | −3 | 0.7 | −1.3 | 261,190 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 24 | 0 |
± is the change against the Japan 1949 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party 16,937,225
- Democratic Party 6,421,094
- Right Socialist Party of Japan 4,103,872
- Left Socialist Party of Japan 3,493,970
- Japanese Communist Party 896,765
- Cooperative Party 390,015
- Labourers and Farmers Party 261,190
- Other parties (seats only)
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
76.4% of the 46,772,584 registered voters cast a ballot (35,749,709 ballots), up 2.4 points on 1949. 35,336,705 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party47.9% of votes51.5% of seats
- Democratic Party18.2% of votes18.2% of seats
- Right Socialist Party of Japan11.4% of votes12.2% of seats
- Left Socialist Party of Japan9.9% of votes11.6% of seats
- Labourers and Farmers Party0.7% of votes0.9% of seats
- Cooperative Party1.1% of votes0.4% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Liberal Party led Democratic Party by 29.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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