1949 Japanese general election

General elections were held in Japan on 23 January 1949. The result was a victory for the Democratic Liberal Party, which won 269 of the 466 seats.[1] Voter turnout was 74.0%. It was the first election held following the enactment of the current Constitution of Japan.

23 January 1949

All 466 seats in the House of Representatives
234 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Shigeru Yoshida	Takeru Inukai	Tetsu Katayama
Party	Democratic Liberal	Democratic	Socialist
Last election	Did not exist	124 seats, 25.4%	143 seats, 26.2%
Seats won	264	70	48
Seat change	New	54	95
Popular vote	13,420,269	4,798,352	4,129,794
Percentage	43.9%	15.9%	13.5%
Swing	New	9.5pp	12.7pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Kyuichi Tokuda	Takeo Miki	Hisao Kuroda
Party	Communist	National Cooperative	Labourers–Farmers
Last election	3 seats, 3.7%	31 seats, 7.0%	Did not exist
Seats won	35	14	7
Seat change	31	17	New
Popular vote	2,984,780	1,041,879	606,840
Percentage	9.8%	3.4%	2.0%
Swing	6.1pp	3.6pp	New

Prime Minister before election

Shigeru Yoshida
Democratic Liberal

Prime Minister after election

Shigeru Yoshida
Democratic Liberal

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Future prime ministers Hayato Ikeda and Eisaku Satō and future Foreign Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsuo Okazaki were first elected in this election.

The second cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was formed following the election.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Democratic Liberal Party	13,420,269	43.87	264	New
	Democratic Party	4,798,352	15.68	69	–55
	Japan Socialist Party	4,129,794	13.50	48	–95
	Japanese Communist Party	2,984,780	9.76	35	+31
	National Cooperative Party	1,041,879	3.41	14	–17
	Labourers and Farmers Party	606,840	1.98	7	New
	Other parties	1,602,496	5.24	17	–
	Independents	2,008,109	6.56	12	0
Total		30,592,519	100.00	466	–2

Valid votes		30,592,519	98.13
Invalid/blank votes		582,438	1.87
Total votes		31,174,957	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		42,105,300	74.04
Source: Oscarsson, Nohlen et al.

References

Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

Elections in Japan
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See also: Gubernatorial elections Prefectural Assembly elections

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