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Japan 1967 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Democratic Party won 280 of 486 seats with 49.2% of the vote; 74.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.8 points on 1963.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Democratic Party280−1449.2−6.822,613,191
Japan Socialist Party141−328.0−1.012,899,132
Democratic Socialist Party30+77.40.03,404,463
Komeito255.42,472,371
Independents5+45.0+1.62,326,392
Japanese Communist Party504.8+0.82,190,563

± is the change against the Japan 1963 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Democratic Party 22,613,191
  • Japan Socialist Party 12,899,132
  • Democratic Socialist Party 3,404,463
  • Komeito 2,472,371
  • Independents 2,326,392
  • Japanese Communist Party 2,190,563

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

74.0% of the 62,992,796 registered voters cast a ballot (46,599,456 ballots), up 2.8 points on 1963. 45,996,574 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1958 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Democratic Party49.2% of votes57.6% of seats
  • Japan Socialist Party28.0% of votes29.0% of seats
  • Democratic Socialist Party7.4% of votes6.2% of seats
  • Komeito5.4% of votes5.1% of seats
  • Japanese Communist Party4.8% of votes1.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Liberal Democratic Party led Japan Socialist Party by 21.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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