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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 27 June 1971, [1] electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.
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| Party | National | Constituency | Seats | |||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– | |||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 17,759,395 | 44.47 | 21 | 17,727,263 | 43.95 | 41 | 72 | 62 | 134 | –3 | ||
| Japan Socialist Party | 8,494,264 | 21.27 | 11 | 12,597,644 | 31.24 | 28 | 27 | 39 | 66 | +1 | ||
| Komeitō | 5,626,293 | 14.09 | 8 | 1,391,855 | 3.45 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 23 | –1 | ||
| Japanese Communist Party | 3,219,307 | 8.06 | 5 | 4,878,570 | 12.10 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +3 | ||
| Democratic Socialist Party | 2,441,509 | 6.11 | 4 | 1,919,643 | 4.76 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 13 | +3 | ||
| Other parties | 48,300 | 0.12 | 0 | 74,739 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Independents | 2,342,517 | 5.87 | 1 | 1,741,201 | 4.32 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | –2 | ||
| Total | 39,931,585 | 100.00 | 50 | 40,330,915 | 100.00 | 75 | 126 | 125 | 251 | +1 | ||
| Valid votes | 39,931,585 | 94.71 | 40,330,915 | 95.65 | ||||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 2,229,158 | 5.29 | 1,833,100 | 4.35 | ||||||||
| Total votes | 42,160,743 | 100.00 | 42,164,015 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 71,177,667 | 59.23 | 71,177,667 | 59.24 | ||||||||
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, [1] [2] National Diet | ||||||||||||
| Constituency | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
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| LDP | JSP | Kōmeitō | DSP | JCP | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Akita | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Aomori | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Chiba | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ehime | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Fukui | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Fukuoka | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Fukushima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Gifu | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Gunma | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hokkaido | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Hyōgo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ibaraki | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Okinawa | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Okayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Osaka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 50 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Total | 126 | 63 | 39 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
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