1958 Japanese general election

General elections were held in Japan on 22 May 1958. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 298 of the 467 seats.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 Voter turnout was 77.0%.

The Japan Socialist Party only ran 246 candidates. The Japanese Communist Party, which strategically withdrew some of its candidates in favor of the JSP in the 1956 elections, ran 114 candidates.

This election had the highest turnout for a post-war election so far.

Results

By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPJCPOthersInd.Aichi191081Akita8521Aomori7421Chiba13103Ehime981Fukui431Fukuoka19127Fukushima12741Gifu954Gunma1073Hiroshima12921Hokkaido221111Hyōgo181071Ibaraki1284Ishikawa651Iwate8521Kagawa642Kagoshima11821Kanagawa1367Kōchi541Kumamoto1073Kyoto1064Mie954Miyagi954Miyazaki642Nagano13751Nagasaki9531Nara5212Niigata15861Ōita752Okayama1064Osaka191171Saga532Saitama1394Shiga523Shimane532Shizuoka14104Tochigi1064Tokushima532Tokyo271215Tottori431Toyama642Wakayama642Yamagata862Yamaguchi963Yamanashi541Total4672871661112

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