Japan 1963 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 294 of 467 seats with 56.0% of the vote; 71.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.4 points on 1960.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic Party | 294 | −6 | 56.0 | −2.1 | 22,972,892 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 144 | 0 | 29.0 | +1.6 | 11,906,766 |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 23 | +6 | 7.4 | −1.4 | 3,023,302 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 5 | +2 | 4.0 | +1.1 | 1,646,477 |
| Independents | 1 | −1 | 3.4 | +1.0 | 1,407,339 |
± is the change against the Japan 1960 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Democratic Party 22,972,892
- Japan Socialist Party 11,906,766
- Democratic Socialist Party 3,023,302
- Japanese Communist Party 1,646,477
- Independents 1,407,339
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
71.1% of the 58,281,678 registered voters cast a ballot (41,458,946 ballots), down 2.4 points on 1960. 41,016,541 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1947 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Democratic Party56.0% of votes63.0% of seats
- Japan Socialist Party29.0% of votes30.8% of seats
- Democratic Socialist Party7.4% of votes4.9% of seats
- Japanese Communist Party4.0% of votes1.1% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 27.0 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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