1962 Japanese House of Councillors election information
Election for the Japanese House of Councillors held in 1962
1962 Japanese House of Councillors election
← 1959
1 July 1962
1965 →
127 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors 126 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Hayato Ikeda
Jōtarō Kawakami
Kōji Harashima
Party
Liberal Democratic
Socialist
Kōmeitō
Seats after
142
66
15
Seat change
10
19
15
Popular vote
16,581,637
8,666,910
4,124,269
Percentage
46.4%
24.2%
11.5%
Swing
5.2%
2.3%
N/A
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Suehiro Nishio
–
Kenji Miyamoto
Party
Democratic Socialist
Dōshikai
Communist
Seats after
11
7
4
Seat change
11
4
1
Popular vote
1,899,756
1,660,466
1,123,947
Percentage
5.3%
4.6%
3.1%
Swing
N/A
3.4%
1.2%
President of the House of Councillors before election
Tarō Hirai
Liberal Democratic
President of the House of Councillors-designate
Yōtoku Shigemasa
Liberal Democratic
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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. This was the first Japanese national election to feature the Kōmeitō as a candidate, as it had formed earlier in the same year.
As is typical for House of Councillors elections, candidate personality and public appeal played a stronger role than they would in a House of Representatives election; the first place winner for the national district voting was Aki Fujiwara, a panelist on the Japanese version of I've Got a Secret, who broke all of the previous House of Councillors records by obtaining 1,160,000 votes.[2]
The Japan Socialist Party (JSP) had attempted to make questions of constitutional revision the main issue for the election, whereas the LDP attempted to sideline the issue by claiming that it would not pursue any constitutional amendments unless it were to receive recommendations from the Constitutional Investigation Commission, which was still in the process of deliberating at the time of the election. Overall, the JSP lost the most in this election, losing 19 seats, whereas the LDP gained 10 seats.[2]
^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
^ abUkai, Nobushige (1962). "The Japanese House of Councillors Election of July 1962". Asian Survey. 2 (6): 1–8. doi:10.2307/3023612. ISSN 0004-4687.
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