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General elections were held in Japan on 22 May 1958. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 298 of the 467 seats. [1] Voter turnout was 77.0%.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Liberal Democratic Party | 22,976,846 | 57.80 | 287 | –10 | |
Japan Socialist Party | 13,093,993 | 32.94 | 166 | +6 | |
Japanese Communist Party | 1,012,036 | 2.55 | 1 | –1 | |
Other parties | 287,991 | 0.72 | 1 | – | |
Independents | 2,380,795 | 5.99 | 12 | +6 | |
Total | 39,751,661 | 100.00 | 467 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 39,751,661 | 99.27 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 290,828 | 0.73 | |||
Total votes | 40,042,489 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 52,013,529 | 76.98 | |||
Source: Mackie, Masumi |
Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||
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LDP | JSP | JCP | Others | Ind. | ||
Aichi | 19 | 10 | 8 | 1 | ||
Akita | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||
Aomori | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
Chiba | 13 | 10 | 3 | |||
Ehime | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||
Fukui | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
Fukuoka | 19 | 12 | 7 | |||
Fukushima | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||
Gifu | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
Gunma | 10 | 7 | 3 | |||
Hiroshima | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | ||
Hokkaido | 22 | 11 | 11 | |||
Hyōgo | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | ||
Ibaraki | 12 | 8 | 4 | |||
Ishikawa | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||
Iwate | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||
Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
Kagoshima | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||
Kanagawa | 13 | 6 | 7 | |||
Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||
Kumamoto | 10 | 7 | 3 | |||
Kyoto | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
Mie | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
Miyagi | 9 | 5 | 4 | |||
Miyazaki | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
Nagano | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | ||
Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||
Nara | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
Niigata | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | ||
Ōita | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||
Okayama | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
Osaka | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | ||
Saga | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
Saitama | 13 | 9 | 4 | |||
Shiga | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||
Shimane | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
Shizuoka | 14 | 10 | 4 | |||
Tochigi | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
Tokushima | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||
Tokyo | 27 | 12 | 15 | |||
Tottori | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
Toyama | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
Wakayama | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||
Yamagata | 8 | 6 | 2 | |||
Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 3 | |||
Yamanashi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||
Total | 467 | 287 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
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