1971 Japanese House of Councillors election

(Redirected from Japanese House of Councillors election, 1971) Election for the Japanese House of Councillors held in 1971

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27 June 1971

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125 of the 251 seats in the House of Councillors
125 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Eisaku Satō	Tomomi Narita	Yoshikatsu Takeiri
Party	LDP	Socialist	Kōmeitō
Seats after	134	66	23
Seat change	3	1	1
Popular vote	17,759,395	8,494,264	5,626,293
Percentage	44.5%	21.3%	14.1%
Swing	2.2%	2.5%	1.4%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Kasuga Ikkō	Kenji Miyamoto
Party	Democratic Socialist	JCP
Seats after	13	10
Seat change	3	3
Popular vote	2,441,509	3,219,307
Percentage	6.1%	8.1%
Swing	0.1%	3.1%

President of the House of Councillors before election

Ken Yasui
LDP

President of the House of Councillors-designate

Yasoichi Mori
LDP

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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 27 June 1971, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.

Results



Party		National			Constituency			Seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Not up	Won	Total after	+/–
	Liberal Democratic Party	17,759,395	44.47	21	17,727,263	43.95	41	72	62	134	–3
	Japan Socialist Party	8,494,264	21.27	11	12,597,644	31.24	28	27	39	66	+1
	Komeitō	5,626,293	14.09	8	1,391,855	3.45	2	13	10	23	–1
	Japanese Communist Party	3,219,307	8.06	5	4,878,570	12.10	1	4	6	10	+3
	Democratic Socialist Party	2,441,509	6.11	4	1,919,643	4.76	2	7	6	13	+3
	Other parties	48,300	0.12	0	74,739	0.19	0	0	0	0	0
	Independents	2,342,517	5.87	1	1,741,201	4.32	1	3	2	5	–2
Total		39,931,585	100.00	50	40,330,915	100.00	75	126	125	251	+1

Valid votes		39,931,585	94.71		40,330,915	95.65
Invalid/blank votes		2,229,158	5.29		1,833,100	4.35
Total votes		42,160,743	100.00		42,164,015	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		71,177,667	59.23		71,177,667	59.24
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, National Diet

By constituency

Constituency	Total seats	Seats won
		LDP	JSP	Kōmeitō	DSP	JCP	Ind.

Aichi	3	2	1
Akita	1		1
Aomori	1	1
Chiba	2	1	1
Ehime	1	1
Fukui	1		1
Fukuoka	3	2	1
Fukushima	2	1	1
Gifu	1		1
Gunma	2	1	1
Hiroshima	2	1	1
Hokkaido	4	2	2
Hyōgo	3	1	1		1
Ibaraki	2	2
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
Okinawa	1	1
Okayama	2	1	1
Osaka	3	1	1	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	50	21	11	8	4	5	1
Total	126	63	39	10	6	6	2

References

^ Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
"27-11 Allotted Number, Candidates, Eligible Voters as of Election Day, Voters and Voting Percentages of Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947-2004)". Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Archived from the original on 2006-01-04.

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