Democratic Liberal Party (Japan)

Not to be confused with Liberal Democratic Party (Japan).

Political party in Japan

Democratic Liberal Party

民主自由党
Minshu-jiyūtō

Leader| Shigeru Yoshida
Founded| 15 March 1948[1]
Dissolved| 1 March 1950[2]
Merger of| Liberal Party[3]
Minshu Club[3]
Merged into| Liberal Party[3]
Headquarters| Tokyo
Ideology| Conservatism[3]

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The Democratic Liberal Party (民主自由党, Minshu-jiyūtō) was a political party in Japan.

## History

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The party was established in March 1948 as a merger of the Liberal Party, Dōshi Club and a faction of the Democratic Party led by Saitō Takao.[4] United by their opposition to the coal nationalisation law, the new party had 152 MPs and 46 members of the House of Councillors.[4]

As a result of the DLP's attempts to block Yamazaki Takeshi from forming a new government after Hitoshi Ashida resigned as Prime Minister, the party's Shigeru Yoshida became Prime Minister in October 1948 and early elections were called in January 1949.[4] The DLP won a landslide victory, taking 269 of the 466 seats, the first time a party had held a majority of seats since World War II.[4] Shigeru Yoshida continued as Prime Minister.

In March 1950 the party merged with the Alliance faction of the Democratic Party to form the new Liberal Party.[5]

## Leader

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#  | Name  | Portrait  | From  | To

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1  | Shigeru Yoshida |  | 15 March 1948  | 1 March 1950

## Election results

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### House of Representatives

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Election  | Leader  | Votes  | %  | Seats  | Position  | Status

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1949 | Shigeru Yoshida | 13,420,269  | 43.87  |

264 / 466

| 1st  | Government

## References

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1. ^ Uno, Shun'ichi [in Japanese] (1991). Nihon zenshi = Japan chronik (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd. p. 1094\. ISBN 4-06-203994-X.
2. ^ Uno 1991, p. 1098.
3. ^ a b c d Yoshida, Kenji. "Minshu-jiyūtō towa" 民主自由党(ミンシュジユウトウ)とは [What is the Democratic Liberal Party?]. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun Company. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
4. ^ a b c d Fukui 1985, pp. 481–482.
5. ^ Fukui 1985, p. 568.

### Works cited

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* Fukui, Haruhiro (1985). The Greenwood Historical Encyclopedia of the World's Political Parties. Vol. II: Political parties of Asia and the Pacific. Greenwood Press.

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