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elections were held in

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on 24 April 1953,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004)

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electing half the seats in the House. The Yoshida faction of the

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won the most seats.

Results

By constituency

Aftermath

In the national constituency, a polling station in Sano, Tochigi accidentally had

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candidate Takeshi Hirabayashi labelled as belonging to the

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. As a result, the results in Sano were invalidated through an appeal decision of the

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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.参議院事務局編『参議院議員選挙一覧第3回』参議院事務局、1955年。

References

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