Kaishintō

Kaishintō

改進党
Kaishintō 改進党
Founded	8 February 1952
Dissolved	24 November 1954
Merger of	National Democratic Party, Shinsei Club and Farmers Cooperative Party
Merged into	Japan Democratic Party
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Ideology	Liberalism; Agrarianism
Political position	Centre-right
	Politics of Japan; Political parties; Elections;

The Kaishintō (Japanese: 改進党, lit. Reformist Party) was a political party in Japan.

History

The party was established on 8 February 1952 as a merger of the National Democratic Party and the Shinsei Club, together with most of the Farmers Cooperative Party's Diet members.^[1] In May Mamoru Shigemitsu was elected party president.^[1]

Having started with 69 seats, the party won 85 in the 1952 general elections. However, the 1953 elections saw it lose nine seats; it also won eight seats in the House of Councillors.

In November 1954 it merged with the Liberal Party and a group of Diet members from the Liberal Party to form the Japan Democratic Party.

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Status
1952	Mamoru Shigemitsu	6,429,450	18.19	85 / 466	new	2nd	Opposition
1953	Mamoru Shigemitsu	6,186,232	17.88	76 / 466	9	2nd	Opposition

Election	Leader	Constituency			Party list			Seats		Position	Status
Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Won	Total	Position	Status
1953	Mamoru Shigemitsu	2,840,345	10.14	5 / 75	1,630,507	6.03	3 / 53	8 / 128	15 / 250	5th	Opposition

^ ^a ^b Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp595–596