Japanese general election, 1972

10 December 1972

All 491 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan 246 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party
		JSP
Leader	Kakuei Tanaka	Tomomi Narita
Party	Liberal Democratic	Socialist
Last election	288 seats	90 seats
Seats won	271	118
Seat change	-17	+28
Popular vote	24,563,199	11,478,742
Percentage	46.9	21.9

Prime Minister before election

Kakuei Tanaka
Liberal Democratic

Prime Minister

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%.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Liberal Democratic Party	24,563,199	46.9	271	-17
Japan Socialist Party	11,478,742	21.9	118	+28
Japanese Communist Party	5,496,827	10.5	38	+24
Komeitō	4,436,755	8.5	29	-18
Democratic Socialist Party	3,660,953	7.0	19	-12
Other parties	143,019	0.3	2	+2
Independents	2,645,582	5.0	14	-2
Total	52,425,079	100	491	+5
Source: http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chouki/27.htm

Vote share

LDP			46.85%
JSP			21.90%
JCP			10.49%
KP			8.46%
DSP			6.98%
Independents			5.05%
Others			0.27%

Parliament seats

LDP			55.19%
JSP			24.03%
JCP			7.74%
KP			5.91%
DSP			3.87%
Independents			2.85%
Others			0.41%

References

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

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