1965 Japanese House of Councillors election

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

← 1962 4 July 1965 1968 →
127 of the 251 seats in the House of Councillors 126 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Eisaku Satō Kōzō Sasaki Takehisa Tsuji Party LDP Socialist Kōmeitō Seats after 140 73 20 Seat change 2 6 5 Popular vote 17,583,490 8,729,655 5,097,682 Percentage 47.2% 23.4% 13.7% Swing 0.8% 0.8% 2.2%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Suehiro Nishio Kenji Miyamoto Party Democratic Socialist JCP Seats after 7 4 Seat change 4 Popular vote 2,214,375 1,652,364 Percentage 5.9% 4.4% Swing 0.6% 1.3%
President of the House of Councillors before election Yōtoku Shigemasa LDP President of the House of Councillors-designate Kenzō Kōno LDP

Results

Party		National			Constituency			Seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Not up	Won	Total after	+/–
	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
Valid votes		37,276,816	93.42		37,672,170	94.41
Invalid/blank votes		2,624,119	6.58		2,232,535	5.59
Total votes		39,900,935	100.00		39,904,705	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		59,544,407	67.01		59,544,407	67.02
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,[1][2] National Diet

By constituency

Constituency	Total seats	Seats won
		LDP	JSP	Kōmeitō	DSP	JCP	Ind.
Aichi	3	2	1
Akita	1	1
Aomori	1	1
Chiba	2	1	1
Ehime	1	1
Fukui	1	1
Fukuoka	3	2	1
Fukushima	2	1	1
Gifu	1		1
Gunma	2	1	1
Hiroshima	2	1	1
Hokkaido	4	2	2
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	2
Tokushima	1	1
Tokyo	4		1	1		1	1
Tottori	1	1
Toyama	1	1
Wakayama	1	1
Yamagata	1	1
Yamaguchi	1	1
Yamanashi	1	1
National	52	25	12	9	2	2	2
Total	127	71	36	11	3	3	3