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1962 Japanese House of Councillors election

Election for the Japanese House of Councillors held in 1962

Field	Value
election_name	1962 Japanese House of Councillors election
country	Japan
flag_year	1870
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1959 Japanese House of Councillors election
previous_year	1959
next_election	1965 Japanese House of Councillors election
next_year	1965
seats_for_election	127 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors
majority_seats	126
image_size	130x130px
election_date	1 July 1962
image1	JFKWHP-KN-C18157 in Hayato Ikeda (cropped) restored Crop.jpg
leader1	Hayato Ikeda
party1	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
seats_after1	142
seat_change1	10
popular_vote1	16,581,637
percentage1	46.4%
swing1	5.2%
image2	Jotaro Kawakami Salvaged.jpg
leader2	Jōtarō Kawakami
party2	Japan Socialist Party
seats_after2	66
seat_change2	19
popular_vote2	8,666,910
percentage2	24.2%
swing2	2.3%
image3	Koji-Harashima-1.png
leader3	Kōji Harashima
party3	Kōmeitō (1962–1998)
seats_after3	15
seat_change3	15
popular_vote3	4,124,269
percentage3	11.5%
swing3	N/A
image4	NISHIO Suehiro.jpg
leader4	Suehiro Nishio
party4	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
seats_after4	11
seat_change4	11
popular_vote4	1,899,756
percentage4	5.3%
swing4	N/A
leader5	–
color5	9ACBAB
party5	Dōshikai
seats_after5	7
seat_change5	4
popular_vote5	1,660,466
percentage5	4.6%
swing5	3.4%
leader6	Kenji Miyamoto
party6	Japanese Communist Party
seats_after6	4
seat_change6	1
popular_vote6	1,123,947
percentage6	3.1%
swing6	1.2%
map_image	[[File:1962 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	Tarō Hirai
before_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
after_election	Yōtoku Shigemasa
after_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 1 July 1962, 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.

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.

Results

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By constituency

Prefecture	Total
seats	Seats won	LDP	JSP	Kōmeitō	DSP	JCP	Dōshikai	Ind.	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}};"	Japan Socialist Party}};"	Kōmeitō (1962–1998)}};"	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)}};"	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	5	Tottori	1	Toyama	1	Wakayama	1	Yamagata	1	Yamaguchi	1	Yamanashi	1	National	51	Total	127	69	37	9	4	3	2	3
2	1
	1
1
1	1
1
1
2	1
1	1
1
1	1
1	1
1	2					1
2	1
1	1
1
	1
1
1	1
	1		1
1
2
1	1
1
1
1
1	1
1
1
1	1
1
1	1
1	1	1
1
1	1
1
						1
2
1	1
1
2	1	1		1
1
1
1
1
1
1
21	15	7	3	2	2	1

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]])
Ukai, Nobushige. (1962). "The Japanese House of Councillors Election of July 1962". 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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