Governing Party In Japan Returned
(A/.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
NEW YORK, November 21.
The Japanese pro-American, Conservative Liberal Democratic Party won a solid election victory today but fell short of the smashing margin it had hoped to gain over the left wing opposition in Parliament. Nearly complete returns from voting by 39,951,119 Japanese showed that the two Sbcialist parties and the Communists together won more than one-third of the 467 seats in the House of Representatives.
. The American Associated Press reported that this meant the Leftist parties could continue to block long-range conservative plans to rewrite the Japanese Constitution to strengthen the Japanese military forces, police and Emperor. The Left-wing parties led what A.A.P. called the tumultuous but unsuccessful campaign against the
new United States-Japan Security Pact earlier this year.
With unofficial returns in from all but 16 of 116 electoral districts, the ruling Liberal Democrats had 281 seats in the House and could not reach the 312-seat two-thirds margin they set as a goal.
The Socialists had won 140 seats, the Democratic Socialists 14 and the Communists 3, exceeding the one-third margin of 154.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29368, 22 November 1960, Page 17
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