House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 24 April 1953,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications electing half the seats in the House. The Yoshida faction of the Liberal Party won the most seats.
Results
By constituency PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLPLSPJRyokufūkaiRSPJKaishintōOthersInd. Aichi3111Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka3111Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido41111Hyōgo3111Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto211Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okayama211Osaka3111Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka211Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo4211Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5316883315Total128471915108128
Aftermath In the national constituency, a polling station in Sano, Tochigi accidentally had Japan Socialist Party candidate Takeshi Hirabayashi labelled as belonging to the Japanese Communist Party. As a result, the results in Sano were invalidated through an appeal decision of the Supreme Court on 24 September 1954. A re-vote was held on 17 October 1954 with proper labels, and Hirabayashi narrowly won a spot in the lower ranks of the national constituency results.参議院事務局編『参議院議員選挙一覧 第3回』参議院事務局、1955年。
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