| Election Name: | 1953 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Country: | Japan |
| Flag Year: | 1870 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1950 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Previous Year: | 1950 |
| Next Election: | 1956 Japanese House of Councillors election |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
| Seats For Election: | 128 of the 250 seats in the House of Councillors |
| Majority Seats: | 126 |
| Election Date: | 24 April 1953 |
| Image1: | Shigeru Yoshida smiling2.jpg |
| Leader1: | Shigeru Yoshida |
| Party1: | Liberal Party (Japan, 1950) |
| Seats After1: | 93 |
| Seat Change1: | 17 |
| Popular Vote1: | 6,149,927 |
| Percentage1: | 22.7% |
| Swing1: | 6.6% |
| Leader2: | Mosaburō Suzuki |
| Party2: | Left Socialist Party of Japan |
| Seats After2: | 40 |
| Seat Change2: | New |
| Popular Vote2: | 3,917,837 |
| Percentage2: | 14.3% |
| Swing2: | N/A |
| Party3: | Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) |
| Seats After3: | 34 |
| Seat Change3: | 16 |
| Popular Vote3: | 3,301,011 |
| Percentage3: | 12.2% |
| Swing3: | 0.9% |
| Image4: | Kawakami Jotaro 1952.JPG |
| Leader4: | Jōtarō Kawakami |
| Party4: | Right Socialist Party of Japan |
| Seats After4: | 26 |
| Seat Change4: | New |
| Popular Vote4: | 1,740,423 |
| Percentage4: | 6.4% |
| Swing4: | New |
| Image5: | Shigemitsu Mamoru.jpg |
| Leader5: | Mamoru Shigemitsu |
| Party5: | Kaishintō |
| Seats After5: | 15 |
| Seat Change5: | New |
| Popular Vote5: | 1,630,507 |
| Percentage5: | 6.0% |
| Swing5: | N/A |
| President of the House of Councillors | |
| Posttitle: | President of the House of Councillors-designate |
| Before Election: | Naotake Satō |
| Before Party: | Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) |
| After Election: | Yahachi Kawai |
| After Party: | Ryokufūkai (1947–1960) |
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 24 April 1953,[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Yoshida faction of the Liberal Party won the most seats.
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP | LSPJ | Ryokufūkai | RSPJ | Kaishintō | Others | Ind. | |||
| Aichi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Akita | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Aomori | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Chiba | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ehime | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Fukui | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Fukuoka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Fukushima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Gifu | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Gunma | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Hokkaido | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hyōgo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Ibaraki | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ishikawa | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Iwate | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kagawa | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kagoshima | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Kanagawa | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Kōchi | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Kumamoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Kyoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Mie | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Miyagi | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Miyazaki | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Nagano | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Nagasaki | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Nara | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Niigata | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ōita | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Okayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Osaka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Saga | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Saitama | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Shiga | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Shimane | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Shizuoka | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tochigi | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tokushima | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tokyo | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Tottori | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Toyama | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Wakayama | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Yamagata | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Yamaguchi | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Yamanashi | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| National | 53 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 15 | ||
| Total | 128 | 47 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 28 | |
In the national constituency, a polling station in Sano, Tochigi accidentally had Japan Socialist Party candidate Takeshi Hirabayashi labelled as belonging to the Japanese Communist Party. As a result, the results in Sano were invalidated through an appeal decision of the Supreme Court 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.[2]