Japanese House of Councillors election, 1962
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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 1 July 1962,[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.
Results
| Party | Constituency | National | Total seats |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 17,112,986 | 47.1 | 48 | 16,581,637 | 46.4 | 21 | 69 | |
| Japan Socialist Party | 11,917,675 | 32.8 | 22 | 8,666,910 | 24.2 | 15 | 37 | |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 2,649,422 | 7.3 | 1 | 1,899,756 | 5.3 | 3 | 4 | |
| Komeitō | 958,179 | 2.6 | 2 | 4,124,269 | 11.5 | 7 | 9 | |
| Japanese Communist Party | 1,760,258 | 4.8 | 1 | 1,123,947 | 3.1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Doshi-kai | 128,834 | 0.4 | 0 | 1,660,466 | 4.6 | 2 | 2 | |
| Other parties | 58,622 | 0.2 | 0 | 295,603 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 1,725,947 | 4.8 | 2 | 1,404,048 | 3.9 | 1 | 3 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Total | 36,311,923 | 100 | 76 | 35,756,635 | 100 | 51 | 127 | |
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications | ||||||||
