1950 Japanese House of Councillors election

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 JCP 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

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

Results

Party		National			Constituency			Seats
		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, 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