The , officially () was a

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political party in Japan.

History

The party was founded in the spring of 1947 by merging the Progressive Party (Shinpo-tō) of Inukai Takeru with a faction of the Liberal Party led by

Hitoshi Ashida was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1948. He was a prominent figure in the immediate postwar political landscape, but was forced to resign his leadership responsibilities after a corruption scandal (Shōwa Denkō J ...

and obtained 124 seats in the 1947 elections. The party had held seven seats in Tetsu Katayama's government in 1947-1948. For some months in 1948, party's leader Ashida was Prime minister. In March 1948, part of DP members led by Kijūrō Shidehara joined the

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to form the Democratic Liberal Party. In 1949 elections, the DP got 69 seats. The party was finally merged with the National Cooperative Party to form the National Democratic Party in April 1950.

History

Election results

House of Representatives

House of Councillors

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