Hyogo at-large district

The Hyogo at-large district (Japanese: 兵庫県選挙区 Hepburn: Hyōgo-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Hyogo Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has four Councillors in the 242-member house, but this representation will increase to six by July 2019.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire Hyogo Prefecture, which includes the urban centres of Kobe and the Hanshin region, as well as the rural areas to the north and west of the prefecture and Awaji Island. From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 election, Hyogo elected six Councillors in two sets of three at elections held every three years. Under 1994 electoral reform Hyogo's representation was reduced to four (two sets of two) from the 1995 election.

The district has 4,536,912 registered voters as of September 2015, the eighth-highest in the country.[1] However, its representation by 4 Councillors put it at the same level as not only the Hokkaido and Fukuoka districts, which also have more than 4 million voters each, but also the Niigata, Miyagi and Nagano districts, which each have less than 2 million voters.[1] To address this malapportionment in representation, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will increase the representation of the Hyogo, Hokkaido and Fukuoka districts to six Councillors;[2] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which three Councillors will be elected. At the same time, the Niigata, Miyagi and Nagano disitrcts will be reduced to two Councillors.

The Councillors currently representing Hyogo are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term)
#2
(1947: #2, 6-year term)
#3
(1947: #3, 6-year term)
#1
(1947: #4, 3-year term)
#2
(1947: #5, 3-year term)
#3
(1947: #6, 3-year term)
Chūjirō Haraguchi
(Social Democratic)[note 1]
Kōkichi Yagi
(Ind.)[note 2]
Shinji Fujimori
(Democrats' Club)
1947 Masao Akagi
(Democrats' Club)
Masagorō Taguchi
(Democratic)
Tetsuo Kobata
(Democratic)
Vacant
(27 May 1947 - 2 June 1949)
-
Shigemi Yokoo
(Dem. Liberal)
1949 by-election[note 3]
Shinichi Okazaki
(Dem. Lib.)
1950 by-election[note 4]
1950 Masao Akagi
(Ryokufūkai)
Seiichi Matsuura
(Social Democratic)
Katsumi Yamagata
(Liberal)
Shinichi Okazaki
(Liberal)
Kenjin Matsuzawa
(Right Socialist)
Giichi Kawai
(Left Socialist)
1953
1956 Ichiro Narita
(LDP)[note 5]
Bunmon Nakano
(LDP)
Shinichi Okazaki
(LDP)
Kenjin Matsuzawa
(Social Democratic)
Gentarō Aota
(LDP)
1959
[note 6]1959 by-election Sachio Kishida
(LDP)
1962 Yoshio Sano
(Social Democratic)[note 7]
Itoko Nakazawa
(Dem. Socialist)
1965
1968 Tōru Asai
(Kōmeitō)
Yukako Hagiwara
(Dem. Socialist)
Mamoru Kotani
(Social Democratic)
Motohiko Kanai
(LDP)
1971
[note 8]1972 by-election Ichiro Nakanishi
(LDP)
1974 Hideo Yahara
(Kōmeitō)
Hiroko Yasutake
(Communist)
Michiko Watanabe
(Kōmeitō)
1977
1980 Shōji Motooka
(Social Democratic)
Hideo Yahara
(Kōmeitō)
Eiko Nukiyama
(Dem. Socialist)
Ichiji Ishii
(LDP)
1983
1986 Kōjin Katakami
(Kōmeitō)
Yasuo Nishino
(Social Democratic)
1989
1992 Saburo Komoto
(LDP)[note 9]
Seat abolished[note 10] Yoshitada Konoike
(LDP)
Ichiji Ishii
(New Frontier)
1995
[note 11]1996 by-election Chōji Ashio
(minor party)[note 12]
1998 Tatsumi Osawa
(Communist)
Seat abolished[note 10]
Yasuhiro Tsuji
(DPJ)
2001
2004 Shinsuke Suematsu
(LDP)
Shunichi Mizuoka
(DPJ)
2007
2010[11]
Takayuki Shimizu
(Restoration)
2013[6]
2016 seat restored[note 10]
Seat restored[note 10] 2019
  1. Resigned 29 November 1949
  2. Was disqualified from holding office by the post-war Allied occupying forces on 27 May 1947[8]
  3. Held 3 June 1949.[8]
  4. Held 12 January 1950[9]
  5. Died in office on 4 July 1959
  6. Held 20 August 1959[9]
  7. Died in office on 27 September 1972
  8. Held 5 November 1972[10]
  9. Resigned on 8 October 1996 to contest the October 1996 House of Representatives election
  10. 1 2 3 4 The number of seats was reduced from six to four by electing one less Councillor in the 1996 and 1999 elections. The number of seats will return to six via the election of an extra Councillor at the 2016 and 2019 elections.
  11. Held 17 November 1996[9]
  12. Contested the election under the party name Hyogo's Party to Broaden Tomorrow's Japan (明日の日本をひらく兵庫の会 Ashita no Nihon o Hiraku Hyogo no Kai). He joined the LDP the year after his election.

Election results

2013[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yoshitada Konoike
(endorsed by Komeito)
868,069 37.8
Restoration Takayuki Shimizu 598,630 26.1
Democratic Yasuhiro Tsuji 343,551 15.0
Communist Mineo Kaneda 220,577 9.6
Your Eriko Shimomura 174,132 7.6
Greens Namiho Matsumoto 58,032 2.5
Happiness Realization Yūko Minato 34,827 1.5
Turnout 4,545,807 53.02 -1.39
2010[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Shinsuke Suematsu 694,459 29.4
Democratic Shunichi Mizuoka
(Endorsed by People's New Party)
515,541 21.8
Your Nobuhiko Isaka 414,910 17.6
Democratic Maki Mihashi
(Endorsed by People's New Party)
409,190 17.3
Communist Terufumi Horiuchi 199,052 8.4
New Renaissance Aimi Yoshida 107,028 4.5
Happiness Realization Yoshiaki Takagi 20,651 0.9
Turnout

See also

Hyogo Prefecture districts for the House of Representatives:

References

  1. 1 2 "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. "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  3. "末松 信介(すえまつ しんすけ):参議院" [Suematsu, Shinsuke: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. "水岡 俊一(みずおか しゅんいち):参議院" [Mizuoka, Shunichi: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. "鴻池 祥肇(こうのいけ よしただ):参議院" [Konoike, Yoshitada: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "選挙区 兵庫 選挙結果 参議院選挙(参院選)2013" [Hyogo at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  7. "清水 貴之(しみず たかゆき):参議院" [Shimizu, Takayuki: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  8. 1 2 "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 "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.
  10. "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.
  11. 1 2 "選挙区 兵庫県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Hyogo at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 February 2016.

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