Japan 1953 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party won 199 of 466 seats with 38.9% of the vote; 74.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.2 points on 1952.
- Japan
- Held
Result
- Liberal Party199
- Democratic Party76
- Left Socialist Party of Japan72
- Right Socialist Party of Japan66
- Liberal Party (Hatoyama)35
- Other parties (seats only)12
- Labourers and Farmers Party5
- Japanese Communist Party1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | 199 | −41 | 38.9 | −9.0 | 13,476,428 |
| Democratic Party | 76 | −9 | 17.9 | −0.3 | 6,186,232 |
| Right Socialist Party of Japan | 66 | +9 | 13.5 | +2.1 | 4,677,833 |
| Left Socialist Party of Japan | 72 | +18 | 13.1 | +3.2 | 4,516,715 |
| Liberal Party (Hatoyama) | 35 | 8.8 | 3,054,688 | ||
| Japanese Communist Party | 1 | +1 | 1.9 | −0.6 | 655,990 |
| Labourers and Farmers Party | 5 | +1 | 1.0 | +0.3 | 358,773 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 12 | −12 |
± is the change against the Japan 1952 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party 13,476,428
- Democratic Party 6,186,232
- Right Socialist Party of Japan 4,677,833
- Left Socialist Party of Japan 4,516,715
- Liberal Party (Hatoyama) 3,054,688
- Japanese Communist Party 655,990
- Labourers and Farmers Party 358,773
- 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
74.2% of the 47,090,167 registered voters cast a ballot (34,946,130 ballots), down 2.2 points on 1952. 34,602,445 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party38.9% of votes42.7% of seats
- Democratic Party17.9% of votes16.3% of seats
- Left Socialist Party of Japan13.1% of votes15.5% of seats
- Right Socialist Party of Japan13.5% of votes14.2% of seats
- Liberal Party (Hatoyama)8.8% of votes7.5% of seats
- Labourers and Farmers Party1.0% of votes1.1% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party1.9% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.4 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Liberal Party led Democratic Party by 21.0 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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