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General elections were held in Japan on 1 October 1952. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 242 of the 466 seats. [1] [2] Voter turnout was 76.4%.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | 16,938,221 | 47.93 | 240 | New | |
| Kaishintō | 6,429,450 | 18.19 | 85 | New | |
| Right Socialist Party of Japan | 4,108,274 | 11.63 | 57 | New | |
| Left Socialist Party of Japan | 3,398,597 | 9.62 | 54 | New | |
| Japanese Communist Party | 896,765 | 2.54 | 0 | –35 | |
| Labourers and Farmers Party | 261,190 | 0.74 | 4 | –3 | |
| Other parties | 949,036 | 2.69 | 7 | – | |
| Independents | 2,355,172 | 6.66 | 19 | +7 | |
| Total | 35,336,705 | 100.00 | 466 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 35,336,705 | 98.85 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 412,349 | 1.15 | |||
| Total votes | 35,749,054 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 46,772,584 | 76.43 | |||
| Source: Oscarsson, Masumi | |||||
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | Kaishintō | RSPJ | LSPJ | LFP | Others | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 19 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Akita | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Aomori | 7 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| Chiba | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ehime | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Fukui | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Fukuoka | 19 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fukushima | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Gifu | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Gunma | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hiroshima | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Hokkaido | 22 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | |||
| Hyōgo | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ibaraki | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Iwate | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Kagoshima | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kanagawa | 13 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Kyoto | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Mie | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Miyagi | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Miyazaki | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nagano | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Niigata | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Ōita | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Okayama | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Osaka | 19 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||
| Saga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Saitama | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Shimane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Shizuoka | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Tochigi | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Tokushima | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Tokyo | 27 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 5 | |||
| Tottori | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Toyama | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Yamagata | 8 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 466 | 240 | 85 | 57 | 54 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
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