| Country: | Japan |
| Flag Year: | 1870 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1952 Japanese general election |
| Previous Year: | 1952 |
| Election Date: | 19 April 1953 |
| Next Election: | 1955 Japanese general election |
| Next Year: | 1955 |
| Seats For Election: | All 466 seats in the House of Representatives |
| Majority Seats: | 234 |
| Turnout: | 74.21% (2.22pp) |
| Leader1: | Shigeru Yoshida |
| Party1: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
| Last Election1: | 47.93%, 240 seats |
| Seats1: | 199 |
| Seat Change1: | 41 |
| Popular Vote1: | 13,476,428 |
| Percentage1: | 38.95% |
| Swing1: | 8.98pp |
| Leader2: | Mamoru Shigemitsu |
| Party2: | Kaishintō |
| Last Election2: | 18.19%, 85 seats |
| Seats2: | 76 |
| Seat Change2: | 9 |
| Popular Vote2: | 6,186,232 |
| Percentage2: | 17.88% |
| Swing2: | 0.31pp |
| Leader3: | Mosaburō Suzuki |
| Party3: | Leftist Socialist Party of Japan |
| Last Election3: | 9.62%, 54 seats |
| Seats3: | 72 |
| Seat Change3: | 18 |
| Popular Vote3: | 4,516,715 |
| Percentage3: | 13.05% |
| Swing3: | 3.43pp |
| Leader4: | Jōtarō Kawakami |
| Party4: | Rightist Socialist Party of Japan |
| Last Election4: | 11.63%, 57 seats |
| Seats4: | 66 |
| Seat Change4: | 9 |
| Popular Vote4: | 4,677,833 |
| Percentage4: | 13.52% |
| Swing4: | 1.89pp |
| Leader5: | Bukichi Miki |
| Party5: | Liberal Party–Hatoyama |
| Last Election5: | Did not exist |
| Seats5: | 35 |
| Seat Change5: | New |
| Popular Vote5: | 3,054,688 |
| Percentage5: | 8.83% |
| Swing5: | New |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Party: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
| After Party: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
General elections were held in Japan on 19 April 1953.[1] The result saw the ruling Liberal Party win 199 of the 466 seats. Voter turnout was 74.2%.
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | Kaishintō | LSPJ | RSPJ | LP–H | LFP | JCP | Others | Ind. | |||
| Aichi | 19 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| Akita | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Aomori | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Chiba | 13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Ehime | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Fukui | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Fukuoka | 19 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Fukushima | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Gifu | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Gunma | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Hiroshima | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Hokkaido | 22 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Hyōgo | 18 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Ibaraki | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Iwate | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Kagawa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Kagoshima | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Kanagawa | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Kyoto | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Mie | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Miyagi | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Miyazaki | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Nagano | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Nara | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Niigata | 15 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Ōita | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Okayama | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Osaka | 19 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Saga | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Saitama | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | |||||||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Shimane | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Shizuoka | 14 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Tochigi | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tokushima | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Tokyo | 27 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | |||||
| Tottori | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Toyama | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Yamagata | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 466 | 199 | 76 | 72 | 66 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |