Japanese general election, 1963

21 November 1963

All 467 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan 234 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Hayato Ikeda	Jotaro Kawakami
Party	Liberal Democratic	Socialist
Last election	296 seats	145 seats
Seats won	283	144
Seat change	-13	-1
Popular vote	22,972,892	11,906,766
Percentage	56.0	29.0

Prime Minister before election

Hayato Ikeda
Liberal Democratic

Prime Minister

Hayato Ikeda
Liberal Democratic

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General elections were held in Japan on 21 November 1963. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 283 of the 467 seats.^[1] Voter turnout was 71.1%.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Liberal Democratic Party	22,972,892	56.0	283	-13
Japan Socialist Party	11,906,766	29.0	144	-1
Democratic Socialist Party	3,023,302	7.4	23	+6
Japanese Communist Party	1,646,477	4.0	5	+2
Other parties	59,765	0.1	0	-1
Independents	1,407,339	3.4	12	+7
Invalid/blank votes	442,405	-	-	-
Total	41,458,946	100	467	0
Source: http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm

Vote share

LDP			56.01%
JSP			29.03%
DSP			7.37%
JCP			4.01%
Independents			3.43%
Others			0.15%

Parliament seats

LDP			60.60%
JSP			30.84%
DSP			4.93%
JCP			1.07%
Independents			2.57%

References

↑ http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm

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