Japan 1958 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 298 of 467 seats with 59.0% of the vote; 77.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.2 points on 1955.
- Japan
- Held
Result
- Liberal Democratic Party298
- Japan Socialist Party167
- Independents1
- Japanese Communist Party1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 298 | 59.0 | 23,480,170 | ||
| Japan Socialist Party | 167 | 33.1 | 13,155,715 | ||
| Independents | 1 | 4.9 | 1,944,038 | ||
| Japanese Communist Party | 1 | −1 | 2.5 | +0.5 | 1,012,035 |
± is the change against the Japan 1955 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 23,480,170
- Japan Socialist Party 13,155,715
- Independents 1,944,038
- Japanese Communist Party 1,012,035
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
77.0% of the 52,013,529 registered voters cast a ballot (40,042,489 ballots), up 1.2 points on 1955. 39,751,665 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 Democratic Party59.0% of votes63.8% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party33.1% of votes35.8% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party2.5% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.2 by votes and 1.9 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 25.9 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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