House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 2 June 1959,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. Kōji Harashima, who later become a founding member and the first chairman of Kōmeitō, was elected to the Diet for the first time as one of several Soka Gakkai-affiliated independents.
During the campaign, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and MITI began to discuss the now-famous "income doubling" plan, although it was temporarily shelved due to disputes between party factions and the looming importance of the US–Japan Security Treaty revision issue. The plan would not be revived until the tenure of Hayato Ikeda, beginning in 1960.
Results
By constituency PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonLDPJSPRyokufūkaiJCPPLSMEInd. Aichi321Akita11Aomori11Chiba211Ehime11Fukui11Fukuoka321Fukushima211Gifu11Gunma211Hiroshima211Hokkaido422Hyōgo321Ibaraki211Ishikawa11Iwate11Kagawa11Kagoshima22Kanagawa211Kōchi11Kumamoto22Kyoto211Mie11Miyagi11Miyazaki11Nagano211Nagasaki11Nara11Niigata211Ōita11Okayama211Osaka312Saga11Saitama211Shiga11Shimane11Shizuoka22Tochigi211Tokushima11Tokyo422Tottori11Toyama11Wakayama11Yamagata11Yamaguchi11Yamanashi11National5222174117Total127713867710
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