All 491 seats in the House of Representatives 246 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
71.76% (3.25pp)
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Kakuei Tanaka
Tomomi Narita
Kenji Miyamoto
Party
Liberal Democratic
Socialist
Communist
Leader since
5 July 1972
30 November 1968
1 August 1958
Leader's seat
Niigata–3rd
Kagawa–1st
Did not contest
Last election
47.63%, 288 seats
21.44%, 90 seats
6.81%, 14 seats
Seats won
271
118
38
Seat change
17
28
24
Popular vote
24,563,199
11,478,742
5,496,827
Percentage
46.85%
21.90%
10.49%
Swing
0.78pp
0.46pp
3.68pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Yoshikatsu Takeiri
Kasuga Ikkō
Party
Kōmeitō
Democratic Socialist
Leader since
13 February 1967
August 1971
Leader's seat
Tokyo–10th
Aichi–1st
Last election
10.91%, 47 seats
7.74%, 31 seats
Seats won
29
19
Seat change
18
12
Popular vote
4,436,755
3,660,953
Percentage
8.46%
6.98%
Swing
2.45pp
0.76pp
Prime Minister before election
Kakuei Tanaka
Liberal Democratic
Prime Minister after election
Kakuei Tanaka
Liberal Democratic
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General elections were held in Japan on 10 December 1972. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 271 of the 491 seats.[1] Voter turnout was 71.76%.
Little changed in the aftermath of the election; the LDP saw a slight decrease in seat numbers (debatably due to it fielding more candidates than ever before as a result of regained confidence in 1969),[2] and its vote share remained below 50% (even with the addition of conservative-aligned independents). The Japan Socialist Party won over 100 seats following its disastrous results in the 1969 Japanese general election, although infighting continued within the party over choosing cooperation with Kōmeitō or the Japanese Communist Party, coined "Civil Service or Joint Struggle". Fears remained that it would be overtaken by the resurgence of the JCP.
The Japanese Communist Party was arguably the biggest winner of the election. Its seat count nearly tripled in relation to the 1969 election, and in the span of two elections, it had went from 5 to 38 seats. This meant it beat its post-war peak of 35 representatives in 1949. The other two opposition parties, the DSP and Kōmeitō, suffered losses despite cooperation with each other. Kōmeitō was going through a series of scandals around its censorship of press critical to it (aptly named the Press Publication Obstruction cases [ja]) which severely damaged its public image, and gave favor to the JCP, with image of the Soka Gakkai as a cult beginning to emerge. The DSP also lost 12 seats.
^"統計局ホームページ/第27章 公務員・選挙". Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
^中野士朗『田中政権 八八六日』（行政問題研究所1982年、255頁-）
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