| Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Leader 1 | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Party 1 | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan, pre-2017) |
| Last election 1 | 63.18%, 297 seats[a] |
| Seats 1 | 287 |
| Seat change 1 | 10 |
| Popular vote 1 | 22,976,846 |
| Percentage 1 | 57.80% |
| Swing 1 | 5.38pp |
| Leader 2 | Mosaburō Suzuki |
| Party 2 | Japan Socialist Party |
| Last election 2 | 30.18%, 157 seats[b] |
| Seats 2 | 166 |
| Seat change 2 | 9 |
| Popular vote 2 | 13,093,993 |
| Percentage 2 | 32.94% |
| Swing 2 | 2.76pp |
| 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.[1] 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.[2]
This election had the highest turnout for a post-war election so far.[3]
Results
By prefecture
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Notes
- ^ Democratic Party and Liberal Party
- ^ Left Socialist Party of Japan and Right Socialist Party of Japan
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
- ^ Cole, Totten & Uyehara 1966, pp. 65.
- ^ Cole, Totten & Uyehara 1966, pp. 64.
Works cited
- Cole, Allan; Totten, George; Uyehara, Cecil (1966). Socialist Parties In Postwar Japan. Yale University Press