Ehime at-large district

Ehime at-large district (愛媛県選挙区 Ehime-ken senkyoku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It represents Ehime Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Ehime like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election. It has 1,169,427 registered voters as of September 2015.[1] As a predominantly rural district, it has favoured the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate in most elections.

The current Councillors for Ehime are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947
(1947: #1, 6-year term)
election year class of 1950
(1947: #2, 3-year term)
Sadatake Hisamatsu
(Ehime Democratic Party)[note 1]
1947 Tsunetaro Nakahira
(Social Democratic)
1950 Hachijiro Mitsuhashi
(Social Democratic)[5]
Minoru Tamayanagi (Ind.) 1951 by-el.[note 2]
Isamu Yuyama
(Japan Teachers' Political Federation)
1953
1956 Senjitsu Horimoto (LDP)
Keikichi Masuhara (LDP) 1959
1962
1965
1968
1971
1974 Masami Aoi (LDP)
Tokutaro Higaki (LDP) 1977
1980 Yukio Nakagawa (LDP)
1983
1986
Oasmu Ikeda (Rengō no Kai) 1989
1992 Takeshi Noma (LDP)
Yasuhisa Shiozaki (LDP)[note 3] 1995
1998
Katsutsugu Sekiya (LDP) 2000 by-el.[note 4]
2001
2004 Junzo Yamamoto (LDP)
Toshirō Tomochika (Ind.) 2007
2010[2]
Takumi Ihara (LDP) 2013[3]
  1. Resigned 31 March 1951.[4]
  2. Held 21 May 1951.[4]
  3. Resigned 12 May 2000.[6]
  4. Held 25 June 2000.[7]

References

  1. "平成27年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015] (in Japanese). 2 September 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 "選挙区 愛媛 選挙結果 参議院選挙(参院選)2013" [Ehime At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "選挙区 愛媛 選挙結果 参議院選挙(参院選)2013" [Ehime At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  6. "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  7. "国会関係日誌 (12.6.3~7.6)" [National Diet Diary (3 June - 6 July 2000] (PDF). Retrieved 3 March 2016.

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