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:
- Shinsuke Suematsu (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP); term ends in 2016)[3]
- Shunichi Mizuoka (Democratic Party; term ends in 2016)[4]
- Yoshitada Konoike (LDP; term ends in 2019)[5]
- Takayuki Shimizu (elected as a Japan Restoration Party candidate,[6] currently belongs to Initiatives from Osaka; term ends in 2019)[7]
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 | |||||
- ↑ Resigned 29 November 1949
- ↑ Was disqualified from holding office by the post-war Allied occupying forces on 27 May 1947[8]
- ↑ Held 3 June 1949.[8]
- ↑ Held 12 January 1950[9]
- ↑ Died in office on 4 July 1959
- ↑ Held 20 August 1959[9]
- ↑ Died in office on 27 September 1972
- ↑ Held 5 November 1972[10]
- ↑ Resigned on 8 October 1996 to contest the October 1996 House of Representatives election
- 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.
- ↑ Held 17 November 1996[9]
- ↑ 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 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.
- ↑ "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- 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.
- ↑ "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ↑ "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.
- 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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