1950 Japanese House of Councillors election

4 June 1950

132 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors
126 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Shigeru Yoshida	Tetsu Katayama
Party	Liberal	Socialist	Ryokufūkai
Seats after	76	61	50
Popular vote	8,313,756	4,854,629	3,660,391
Percentage	29.70%	17.34%	13.08%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Tomabechi Gizō	Hisao Kuroda	Kyuichi Tokuda
Party	National Democratic	Labourers and Farmers	Communist
Seats after	29	5	4
Popular vote	1,368,783	200,066	1,333,872
Percentage	4.89%	0.71%	4.76%

President of the House of Councillors before election

Naotake Satō
Ryokufūkai

President of the House of Councillors-designate

Naotake Satō
Ryokufūkai

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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 June 1950,^[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Party won the most seats.

Results



Party		National			Constituency			Seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Not up	Won	Total after	+/–
	Liberal Party	8,313,756	29.70	18	10,414,995	35.91	34	24	52	76	New
	Japan Socialist Party	4,854,629	17.34	15	7,316,808	25.23	21	25	36	61	+14
	National Democratic Party	1,368,783	4.89	1	2,966,011	10.23	8	20	9	29	New
	Ryokufūkai	3,660,391	13.08	6	1,773,576	6.11	3	41	9	50	New
	Japanese Communist Party	1,333,872	4.76	2	1,637,451	5.65	0	2	2	4	0
	Labourers and Farmers Party	200,066	0.71	1	471,649	1.63	1	3	2	5	New
	Other parties	629,370	2.25	1	958,493	3.30	2	0	3	3	–
	Independents	7,632,526	27.27	12	3,465,956	11.95	7	3	19	22	–89
Total		27,993,393	100.00	56	29,004,939	100.00	76	118	132	250	0

Valid votes		27,993,393	89.22		29,004,939	92.44
Invalid/blank votes		3,382,542	10.78		2,371,573	7.56
Total votes		31,375,935	100.00		31,376,512	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		43,461,371	72.19		43,461,371	72.19
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,^[1]^[2] National Diet

By constituency

Prefecture	Total seats	Seats won
		LP	JSP	Ryokufūkai	NDP	LFP	JCP	Others	Ind.

Aichi	3	2	1
Akita	1	1
Aomori	1	1
Chiba	2	2
Ehime	1		1
Fukui	1		1
Fukuoka	3	1	1		1
Fukushima	2	2
Gifu	1	1
Gunma	2				1				1
Hiroshima	3	1	1		1
Hokkaido	4		2					2
Hyōgo	3	1	1	1
Ibaraki	2	1			1
Ishikawa	1	1
Iwate	1								1
Kagawa	1		1
Kagoshima	2	1	1
Kanagawa	2	1	1
Kōchi	1	1
Kumamoto	2	1			1
Kyoto	2	1							1
Mie	1								1
Miyagi	1	1
Miyazaki	1		1
Nagano	2	1	1
Nagasaki	1	1
Nara	1			1
Niigata	2	1	1
Ōita	1	1
Okayama	2	1	1
Osaka	3	2	1
Saga	1	1
Saitama	2	1	1
Shiga	1	1
Shimane	1				1
Shizuoka	2	1		1
Tochigi	2	1	1
Tokushima	1				1
Tokyo	4	1	1		1	1
Tottori	1		1
Toyama	1								1
Wakayama	1								1
Yamagata	1		1
Yamaguchi	1	1
Yamanashi	1								1
National	56	18	15	6	1	1	2	1	12
Total	132	52	36	9	9	2	2	3	19

References

1 2 Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
↑ "27-11 Allotted Number, Candidates, Eligible Voters as of Election Day, Voters and Voting Percentages of Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947-2004)". Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Archived from the original on 2006-01-04.

Elections in Japan
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Councillors elections	1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 2022
Unified local elections	1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Supreme Court retention elections	1949 1952 1955 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 1996 2000 2003 2005 2009 2012 2014 2017 2021
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