1950 Japanese House of Councillors election

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 June 1950, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Party won the most seats.

1950 Japanese House of Councillors election

← 1947 4 June 1950 1953 →
132 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors 126 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Shigeru Yoshida Tetsu Katayama Party Liberal Socialist Ryokufūkai Seats after 76 61 50 Popular vote 8,313,756 4,854,629 3,660,391 Percentage 29.70% 17.34% 13.08%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Tomabechi Gizō Hisao Kuroda Kyuichi Tokuda Party National Democratic Labourers and Farmers JCP Seats after 29 5 4 Popular vote 1,368,783 200,066 1,333,872 Percentage 4.89% 0.71% 4.76%
Results of the election, showing the winning candidates in each prefecture and the national block.
President of the House of Councillors before election Naotake Satō Ryokufūkai President of the House of Councillors-designate Naotake Satō Ryokufūkai

Results

Party		National			Constituency			Seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Not up	Won	Total after	+/–
	Liberal Party	8,313,756	29.70	18	10,414,995	35.91	34	24	52	76	New
	Japan Socialist Party	4,854,629	17.34	15	7,316,808	25.23	21	25	36	61	+14
	National Democratic Party	1,368,783	4.89	1	2,966,011	10.23	8	20	9	29	New
	Ryokufūkai	3,660,391	13.08	6	1,773,576	6.11	3	41	9	50	New
	Japanese Communist Party	1,333,872	4.76	2	1,637,451	5.65	0	2	2	4	0
	Labourers and Farmers Party	200,066	0.71	1	471,649	1.63	1	3	2	5	New
	Other parties	629,370	2.25	1	958,493	3.30	2	0	3	3	–
	Independents	7,632,526	27.27	12	3,465,956	11.95	7	3	19	22	–89
Total		27,993,393	100.00	56	29,004,939	100.00	76	118	132	250	0
Valid votes		27,993,393	89.22		29,004,939	92.44
Invalid/blank votes		3,382,542	10.78		2,371,573	7.56
Total votes		31,375,935	100.00		31,376,512	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		43,461,371	72.19		43,461,371	72.19
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, National Diet

By constituency

Prefecture	Total seats	Seats won
		LP	JSP	Ryokufūkai	NDP	LFP	JCP	Others	Ind.
Aichi	3	2	1
Akita	1	1
Aomori	1	1
Chiba	2	2
Ehime	1		1
Fukui	1		1
Fukuoka	3	1	1		1
Fukushima	2	2
Gifu	1	1
Gunma	2				1				1
Hiroshima	3	1	1		1
Hokkaido	4		2					2
Hyōgo	3	1	1	1
Ibaraki	2	1			1
Ishikawa	1	1
Iwate	1								1
Kagawa	1		1
Kagoshima	2	1	1
Kanagawa	2	1	1
Kōchi	1	1
Kumamoto	2	1			1
Kyoto	2	1							1
Mie	1								1
Miyagi	1	1
Miyazaki	1		1
Nagano	2	1	1
Nagasaki	1	1
Nara	1			1
Niigata	2	1	1
Ōita	1	1
Okayama	2	1	1
Osaka	3	2	1
Saga	1	1
Saitama	2	1	1
Shiga	1	1
Shimane	1				1
Shizuoka	2	1		1
Tochigi	2	1	1
Tokushima	1				1
Tokyo	4	1	1		1	1
Tottori	1		1
Toyama	1								1
Wakayama	1								1
Yamagata	1		1
Yamaguchi	1	1
Yamanashi	1								1
National	56	18	15	6	1	1	2	1	12
Total	132	52	36	9	9	2	2	3	19