Japanese House of Councillors election, 1974
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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 7 July 1974,[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.
Results
| Party | Constituency | National | Total seats |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 21,132,372 | 39.5 | 43 | 23,332,773 | 44.3 | 19 | 62 | |
| Japan Socialist Party | 13,907,865 | 26.0 | 18 | 7,990,457 | 15.2 | 10 | 28 | |
| Komeitō | 6,732,937 | 12.6 | 5 | 6,360,419 | 12.1 | 9 | 14 | |
| Japanese Communist Party | 6,428,919 | 12.0 | 5 | 4,931,650 | 9.4 | 8 | 13 | |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 2,353,397 | 4.4 | 1 | 3,114,895 | 5.9 | 4 | 5 | |
| Other parties | 332,716 | 0.6 | 1 | 74,346 | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Independents | 2,609,195 | 4.9 | 3 | 6,820,199 | 13.0 | 4 | 7 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Total | 53,497,401 | 100 | 76 | 52,624,739 | 100 | 54 | 130 | |
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications | ||||||||
