House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 July 1965,[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.
1965 Japanese House of Councillors election|
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First party
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Second party
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Third party
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| Leader
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Eisaku Satō
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Kōzō Sasaki
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Takehisa Tsuji
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| Party
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LDP
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Socialist
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Kōmeitō
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| Seats after
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140
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73
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20
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| Seat change
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 2
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 6
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5
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| Popular vote
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17,583,490
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8,729,655
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5,097,682
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| Percentage
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47.2%
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23.4%
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13.7%
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| Swing
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0.8%
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0.8%
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2.2%
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Fourth party
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Fifth party
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| Leader
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Suehiro Nishio
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Kenji Miyamoto
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| Party
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Democratic Socialist
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JCP
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| Seats after
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7
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4
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| Seat change
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4
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| Popular vote
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2,214,375
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1,652,364
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| Percentage
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5.9%
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4.4%
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| Swing
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0.6%
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1.3%
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| Party | National | Constituency | Seats |
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total
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| Liberal Democratic Party | 17,583,490 | 47.17 | 25 | 16,651,284 | 44.20 | 46 | 69 | 71 | 140 | –2 |
| Japan Socialist Party | 8,729,655 | 23.42 | 12 | 12,346,650 | 32.77 | 24 | 37 | 36 | 73 | 7 |
| Kōmeitō | 5,097,682 | 13.68 | 9 | 1,910,975 | 5.07 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 5 |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 2,214,375 | 5.94 | 2 | 2,303,860 | 6.12 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | –4 |
| Japanese Communist Party | 1,652,364 | 4.43 | 2 | 2,608,771 | 6.92 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Other parties | 298,401 | 0.80 | 0 | 185,991 | 0.49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independents | 1,700,849 | 4.56 | 2 | 1,664,639 | 4.42 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| Total | 37,276,816 | 100.00 | 52 | 37,672,170 | 100.00 | 75 | 124 | 127 | 251 | 1 |
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| Valid votes | 37,276,816 | 93.42 | | 37,672,170 | 94.41 | | |
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| Invalid/blank votes | 2,624,119 | 6.58 | | 2,232,535 | 5.59 | | |
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| Total votes | 39,900,935 | 100.00 | | 39,904,705 | 100.00 | | |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 59,544,407 | 67.01 | | 59,544,407 | 67.02 | | |
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| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,[1][2] National Diet |
