Japan · Completed

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23

Name: Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23
Start: 1949-01-23
Location: Japan

Jan 23, 1949

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: Japan
Next national election: Jan 23, 1949
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedJan 23, 1949

Published contest rules

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  "early": true,
  "electorate": 42105300,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 695,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 466,
  "validVotes": 30592519,
  "votesCast": 31174957
}

Candidates

Nihon Kyōsan-tō

Party

Affiliated party: Nihon Kyōsan-tō

Japan Socialist Party

Party

Affiliated party: Japan Socialist Party

Rōdōnōmintō

Party

Affiliated party: Rōdōnōmintō

Nihon Jiyūtō

Party

Affiliated party: Nihon Jiyūtō

Kokumin Kyôdô Tô

Party

Affiliated party: Kokumin Kyôdô Tô

Minshutō

Party

Affiliated party: Minshutō

Yakaikakushintou zu

Party

Affiliated party: Yakaikakushintou zu

others

Party

Affiliated party: others

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · others

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Seats: 24

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · Social Reform Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 387,214
Seats: 5
Original value: 1.30
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · Labour Farmer Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 606,840
Seats: 7
Original value: 2.00
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · Minshu Jiyūtō

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 13,420,269
Seats: 264
Original value: 43.90
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · JCP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,984,780
Seats: 35
Original value: 9.80
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · NCP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,041,879
Seats: 14
Original value: 3.40
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · Progressive Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 4,798,352
Seats: 69
Original value: 15.70
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Japan — Parliamentary election — 1949-01-23 · JSP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 4,129,794
Seats: 48
Original value: 13.50
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

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Media profile

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

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Campaign signals

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Sources

1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
2Wikimedia CommonsPER-FILE · Aug 9, 2026
3Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026