1947 Japanese House of Councillors election

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20 April 1947 1950 →

250 seats in the House of Councillors
126 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Tetsu Katayama Ichirō Hatoyama Ishiguro Takeshige
Party Socialist Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, 1947)
Seats won 47 38 28
Popular vote 3,479,814 1,360,456 1,508,087
Percentage 16.36% 6.40% 7.09%

  Fourth party Fifth party
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Leader Takeo Miki Kyuichi Tokuda
Party National Cooperative Party Communist
Seats won 9 4
Popular vote 549,916 610,948
Percentage 2.59% 2.87%

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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 20 April 1947.[1] The Japan Socialist Party won more seats than any other party, although independents emerged as the largest group in the House. Most independents joined the Ryokufūkai parliamentary group in the first Diet session making it the largest group, and Ryokufūkai member Tsuneo Matsudaira was elected the first president of the House of Councillors.

Results

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By constituency

Prefecture Total
seats
Seats won
JSP LP DP NCP JCP Others Ind.
Aichi 6 2 4
Akita 2 1 1
Aomori 2 1 1
Chiba 4 1 1 2
Ehime 2 1 1
Fukui 2 1 1
Fukuoka 6 3 1 1 1
Fukushima 4 1 1 1 1
Gifu 2 1 1
Gunma 4 1 3
Hiroshima 4 1 3
Hokkaido 8 2 1 5
Hyōgo 6 1 2 2 1
Ibaraki 4 1 1 2
Ishikawa 2 1 1
Iwate 2 2
Kagawa 2 1 1
Kagoshima 4 4
Kanagawa 4 1 2 1
Kōchi 2 1 1
Kumamoto 4 1 1 2
Kyoto 4 1 2 1
Mie 2 1 1
Miyagi 2 1 1
Miyazaki 2 1 1
Nagano 4 1 1 1 1
Nagasaki 2 1 1
Nara 2 1 1
Niigata 4 1 1 2
Ōita 2 1 1
Okayama 4 1 1 1 1
Osaka 6 2 2 2
Saga 2 1 1
Saitama 4 1 2 1
Shiga 2 2
Shimane 2 2
Shizuoka 4 2 2
Tochigi 4 1 2 1
Tokushima 2 1 1
Tokyo 8 2 3 1 2
Tottori 2 2
Toyama 2 1 1
Wakayama 2 2
Yamagata 2 2
Yamaguchi 2 1 1
Yamanashi 2 1 1
National 100 16 8 6 3 3 6 58
Total 250 45 39 28 9 4 14 111

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