| Country: | Japan |
| Flag Year: | 1870 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1949 Japanese general election |
| Previous Year: | 1949 |
| Election Date: | 1 October 1952 |
| Next Election: | 1953 Japanese general election |
| Next Year: | 1953 |
| Seats For Election: | All 466 seats in the House of Representatives |
| Majority Seats: | 234 |
| Turnout: | 76.43% (2.39pp) |
| Leader1: | Shigeru Yoshida |
| Party1: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
| Last Election1: | Did not exist |
| Seats1: | 240 |
| Seat Change1: | New |
| Popular Vote1: | 16,938,221 |
| Percentage1: | 47.93% |
| Swing1: | New |
| Party2: | Kaishintō |
| Last Election2: | Did not exist |
| Seats2: | 85 |
| Seat Change2: | New |
| Popular Vote2: | 6,429,450 |
| Percentage2: | 18.19% |
| Swing2: | New |
| Leader4: | Jōtarō Kawakami |
| Party4: | Right Socialist Party of Japan |
| Last Election4: | Did not exist |
| Seats4: | 57 |
| Seat Change4: | New |
| Popular Vote4: | 4,108,274 |
| Percentage4: | 11.63% |
| Swing4: | New |
| Leader5: | Mosaburō Suzuki |
| Party5: | Left Socialist Party of Japan |
| Last Election5: | Did not exist |
| Seats5: | 54 |
| Seat Change5: | New |
| Popular Vote5: | 3,398,597 |
| Percentage5: | 9.62% |
| Swing5: | New |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Party: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
| After Party: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
General elections were held in Japan on 1 October 1952. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 242 of the 466 seats.[1] [2] Voter turnout was 76.4%.
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | Kaishintō | RSPJ | LSPJ | LFP | Others | Ind. | |||
| Aichi | 19 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Akita | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Aomori | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
| Chiba | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ehime | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Fukui | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Fukuoka | 19 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fukushima | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Gifu | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Gunma | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hiroshima | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Hokkaido | 22 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| Hyōgo | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Ibaraki | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Iwate | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Kagoshima | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Kanagawa | 13 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kyoto | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Mie | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Miyagi | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Miyazaki | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Nagano | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Niigata | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Ōita | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Okayama | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Osaka | 19 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Saga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Saitama | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Shimane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Shizuoka | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Tochigi | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Tokushima | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Tokyo | 27 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 5 | ||||
| Tottori | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Toyama | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Yamagata | 8 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 466 | 240 | 85 | 57 | 54 | 4 | 7 | 19 | |