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1959 Japanese House of Councillors election

Election event

Field	Value
election_name	1959 Japanese House of Councillors election
country	Japan
flag_year	1870
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1956 Japanese House of Councillors election
previous_year	1956
next_election	1962 Japanese House of Councillors election
next_year	1962
seats_for_election	127 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors
majority_seats	126
election_date	2 June 1959
image_size	150x150px
image1	Nobusuke Kishi.jpg
leader1	Nobusuke Kishi
party1	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
seats_after1	132
seat_change1	10
popular_vote1	12,120,598
percentage1	41.2%
swing1	4.5%
image2	Suzuki Mosaburo.JPG
leader2	Mosaburō Suzuki
party2	Japan Socialist Party
seats_after2	85
seat_change2	5
popular_vote2	7,794,754
percentage2	26.5%
swing2	3.4%
party4	Ryokufūkai (1947–1960)
seats_after4	11
seat_change4	20
popular_vote4	2,382,703
percentage4	8.1%
swing4	2.0%
image5	Sanzō Nosaka photographed by Shigeru Tamura.jpg
leader5	Sanzō Nosaka
party5	Japanese Communist Party
seats_after5	3
seat_change5	1
popular_vote5	551,196
percentage5	1.9%
swing5	0.2%
map_image	[[File:1959 Japanese House of Councillors election - Map.svg	350px]]
map_caption	Results of the election, showing the winning candidates in each prefecture and the national block.
title	President of the House of Councillors
posttitle	President of the House of Councillors-designate
before_election	Yūzō Shigemune
before_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
after_election	Yutaka Terao
after_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 2 June 1959, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. Kōji Harashima, who later become a founding member and the first chairman of Kōmeitō, was elected to the Diet for the first time as one of several Soka Gakkai-affiliated independents.

During the campaign, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and MITI began to discuss the now-famous "income doubling" plan, although it was temporarily shelved due to disputes between party factions and the looming importance of the US–Japan Security Treaty revision issue. The plan would not be revived until the tenure of Hayato Ikeda, beginning in 1960.

Results

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By constituency

Prefecture	Total
seats	Seats won	LDP	JSP	Ryokufūkai	JCP	PLSME	Ind.	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}};"	Japan Socialist Party}};"	Ryokufūkai (1947–1960)}};"	Japanese Communist Party}};"	Independent}};"	Aichi	3	Akita	1	Aomori	1	Chiba	2	Ehime	1	Fukui	1	Fukuoka	3	Fukushima	2	Gifu	1	Gunma	2	Hiroshima	2	Hokkaido	4	Hyōgo	3	Ibaraki	2	Ishikawa	1	Iwate	1	Kagawa	1	Kagoshima	2	Kanagawa	2	Kōchi	1	Kumamoto	2	Kyoto	2	Mie	1	Miyagi	1	Miyazaki	1	Nagano	2	Nagasaki	1	Nara	1	Niigata	2	Ōita	1	Okayama	2	Osaka	3	Saga	1	Saitama	2	Shiga	1	Shimane	1	Shizuoka	2	Tochigi	2	Tokushima	1	Tokyo	4	Tottori	1	Toyama	1	Wakayama	1	Yamagata	1	Yamaguchi	1	Yamanashi	1	National	52	Total	127	71	38	6	7	7	10
2	1
1
		1
1	1
1
1
2	1
1	1
1
1	1
1	1
2	2
2	1
1	1
					1
1
1
2
1	1
1
2
1	1
1
1
1
1	1
1
1
1	1
1
1	1
1	2
1
1	1
		1
1
2
1	1
1
2					2
	1
1
1
1
1
	1
22	17	4	1	1	7

References

[http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/zuhyou/27-13.xls Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004)] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-03-23 [[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications]])
Fukui, Haruhiro. (1972). "Economic Planning in Postwar Japan: A Case Study in Policy Making". Asian Survey.
"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)".

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