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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 July 1965,[1] electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.
| Party | Constituency | National | Total seats |
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 16,651,284 | 44.2 | 46 | 17,583,490 | 47.2 | 25 | 71 | |
| Japan Socialist Party | 12,346,650 | 32.8 | 24 | 8,729,655 | 23.4 | 12 | 36 | |
| Democratic Socialist Party | 2,303,860 | 6.1 | 1 | 2,214,375 | 5.9 | 2 | 3 | |
| Komeitō | 1,910,975 | 5.1 | 2 | 5,097,682 | 13.7 | 9 | 11 | |
| Japanese Communist Party | 2,608,771 | 6.9 | 1 | 1,652,364 | 4.4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Other parties | 185,991 | 0.5 | 0 | 298,401 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 1,664,639 | 4.4 | 1 | 1,700,849 | 4.6 | 2 | 3 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Total | 37,672,171 | 100 | 75 | 37,276,816 | 100 | 52 | 127 | |
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications | ||||||||
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