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1958 Japanese general election

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Field	Value
country	Japan
flag_year	1870
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1955 Japanese general election
previous_year	1955
election_date	22 May 1958
next_election	1960 Japanese general election
next_year	1960
seats_for_election	All 467 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	234
turnout	76.98% (1.15pp)
image1
leader1	Nobusuke Kishi
party1	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
last_election1	63.18%, 297 seats
seats1	287
seat_change1	10
popular_vote1	22,976,846
percentage1	57.80%
swing1	5.38pp
image2
leader2	Mosaburō Suzuki
party2	Japan Socialist Party
last_election2	30.18%, 157 seats
seats2	166
seat_change2	9
popular_vote2	13,093,993
percentage2	32.94%
swing2	2.76pp
map_image	1958 JAPAN GENERAL ELECTION, combined vote share.svg
map_caption	Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Nobusuke Kishi
before_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
after_election	Nobusuke Kishi
after_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

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. Voter turnout was 77.0%.

The Japan Socialist Party only ran 246 candidates. The Japanese Communist Party, which strategically withdrew some of its candidates in favor of the JSP in the 1956 elections, ran 114 candidates.

This election had the highest turnout for a post-war election so far.

Results

By prefecture

Prefecture	Total
seats	Seats won	LDP	JSP	JCP	Others	Ind.	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}};"	Japan Socialist Party}};"	Japanese Communist Party}};"	Independent}};"	Aichi	19	Akita	8	Aomori	7	Chiba	13	Ehime	9	Fukui	4	Fukuoka	19	Fukushima	12	Gifu	9	Gunma	10	Hiroshima	12	Hokkaido	22	Hyōgo	18	Ibaraki	12	Ishikawa	6	Iwate	8	Kagawa	6	Kagoshima	11	Kanagawa	13	Kōchi	5	Kumamoto	10	Kyoto	10	Mie	9	Miyagi	9	Miyazaki	6	Nagano	13	Nagasaki	9	Nara	5	Niigata	15	Ōita	7	Okayama	10	Osaka	19	Saga	5	Saitama	13	Shiga	5	Shimane	5	Shizuoka	14	Tochigi	10	Tokushima	5	Tokyo	27	Tottori	4	Toyama	6	Wakayama	6	Yamagata	8	Yamaguchi	9	Yamanashi	5	Total	467	287	166	1	1	12
10	8			1
5	2			1
4	2			1
10	3
8	1
3	1
12	7
7	4		1
5	4
7	3
9	2			1
11	11
10	7			1
8	4
5	1
5	2			1
4	2
8	2			1
6	7
4	1
7	3
6	4
5	4
5	4
4	2
7	5			1
5	3			1
2	1			2
8	6			1
5	2
6	4
11	7	1
3	2
9	4
2	3
3	2
10	4
6	4
3	2
12	15
3	1
4	2
4	2
6	2
6	3
4	1

Notes

References

Works cited

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p381 {{ISBN. 0-19-924959-8
[https://archive.org/details/internationalalm0000mack/page/290/mode/2up Mackie]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=DCboDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 Masumi]

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