# 1953 Japanese House of Councillors election

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 24 April 1953, electing half the seats in the House. The Yoshida faction of the Liberal Party won the most seats.

## Results

Seats :
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– |
| | Liberal Party | 6,149,927 | 22.75 | 16 | 8,803,131 | 31.43 | 30 | 47 | 46 | 93 | +17 |
| | Left Socialist Party of Japan | 3,858,552 | 14.27 | 8 | 3,917,837 | 13.99 | 10 | 22 | 18 | 40 | New |
| | Ryokufūkai | 3,301,011 | 12.21 | 8 | 2,096,103 | 7.48 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 34 | –16 |
| | Right Socialist Party of Japan | 1,740,423 | 6.44 | 3 | 2,952,803 | 10.54 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 26 | New |
| | Kaishintō | 1,630,507 | 6.03 | 3 | 2,840,345 | 10.14 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 15 | New |
| | Japanese Communist Party | 293,877 | 1.09 | 0 | 264,729 | 0.95 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | –3 |
| | Labourers and Farmers Party | 112,535 | 0.42 | 0 | 277,442 | 0.99 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | –3 |
| | Liberal Party–Hatoyama | 110,889 | 0.41 | 0 | 522,540 | 1.87 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | New |
| | Other parties | 332,898 | 1.23 | 0 | 322,674 | 1.15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | –2 |
| | Independents | 9,504,220 | 35.16 | 15 | 6,013,363 | 21.47 | 14 | 7 | 29 | 36 | +14 |
| Total | Total | 27,034,839 | 100.00 | 53 | 28,010,967 | 100.00 | 75 | 122 | 128 | 250 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 27,034,839 | 90.97 | | 28,010,967 | 94.25 | | | | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 2,682,584 | 9.03 | | 1,707,952 | 5.75 | | | | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 29,717,423 | 100.00 | | 29,718,919 | 100.00 | | | | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 47,036,554 | 63.18 | | 47,036,554 | 63.18 | | | | | |
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, National Diet ||||||||||||

### By constituency

| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won | Seats won |
| Prefecture | Total seats | LP | LSPJ | Ryokufūkai | RSPJ | Kaishintō | Others | Ind. |
| Aichi | 3 | 1 | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| Akita | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Aomori | 1 | | | 1 | | | | |
| Chiba | 2 | 1 | | | | | | 1 |
| Ehime | 1 | | | | | | 1 | |
| Fukui | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Fukuoka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | |
| Fukushima | 2 | 1 | | | 1 | | | |
| Gifu | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Gunma | 2 | 1 | | | | 1 | | |
| Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | | | 1 | | | |
| Hokkaido | 4 | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | 1 |
| Hyōgo | 3 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | |
| Ibaraki | 2 | 1 | | | | 1 | | |
| Ishikawa | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| Iwate | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Kagawa | 1 | | | | | | | 1 |
| Kagoshima | 2 | 2 | | | | | | |
| 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 |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| Tottori | 1 | | | | | | | 1 |
| Toyama | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Wakayama | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Yamagata | 1 | | 1 | | | | | |
| Yamaguchi | 1 | | | | | | | 1 |
| Yamanashi | 1 | | | | | | | 1 |
| National | 53 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | | 15 |
| Total | 128 | 47 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 28 |

## Aftermath

In the national constituency, a polling station in Sano, Tochigi accidentally had Japan Socialist Party candidate Takeshi Hirabayashi labelled as belonging to the Japanese Communist Party. As a result, the results in Sano were invalidated through an appeal decision of the Supreme Court on 24 September 1954. A re-vote was held on 17 October 1954 with proper labels, and Hirabayashi narrowly won a spot in the lower ranks of the national constituency results.