Miyagi at-large district

The Miyagi at-large district (Japanese: 宮城県選挙区 Hepburn: Miyagi-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Miyagi 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 decrease to two by July 2019.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Miyagi Prefecture, including the urban centre of Sendai. From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 election, Miyagi elected two Councillors to six-year terms, one at alternating elections held every three years. Under 1994 electoral reform Miyagi's representation was increased to four (two sets of two) from the 1995 election.

The district has 1,907,518 registered voters as of September 2015, the second-lowest of the 10 prefectures that are represented by four Councillors.[1] By comparison, the Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each have more than 4 million voters but are limited to the same number of Councillors as Miyagi.[1] To address this malapportionment in representation, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will decrease the representation of Miyagi, Niigata and Nagano districts to two Councillors while increasing Hyogo, Hokkaido and Fukuoka districts to six Councillors;[2] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which time Miyagi will elect only one Councillor.

The Councillors currently representing Miyagi are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
#1
(1947: 6-year term)		 #2
(established 1995)		 #1
(1947: 3-year term)		 #2
(established 1998)
- Takeo Sai
(Social Democratic)		 1947 Kei Takahashi
(Democratic)		 -
1950 Shintaro Takahashi
(Liberal)
Shinji Yoshino
(Liberal)		 1953
1956 Shintaro Takahashi
(LDP)[note 1]
Hisayoshi Muramatsu
(LDP)		 1959
1962
[note 2]1965 by-election Bungoro Takahashi
(LDP)
Kikuo Toda
(Social Democratic)		 1965
1968
1971
1974 Kaname Endo
(LDP)
Buichi Oishi
(LDP)		 1977
1980
Choji Hoshi
(LDP)		 1983
1986
Kazuo Kurimura
(Social Democratic)[note 3]		 1989
Koki Hagino
(Rengō no Kai)		 1992 by-election[note 4]
1992
Ichiro Ichikawa
(Ind.)[note 5]		 Hiroaki Kameya
(LDP)		 1995
Tomiko Okazaki
(DPJ)		 1997 by-election[note 6]
1998 Mitsuru Sakurai
(DPJ)		 Ichiro Ichikawa
(Ind.)
Jiro Aichi
(Ind.)		 2001
2004[11] Ichiro Ichikawa
(LDP)
Jiro Aichi
(LDP)		 2007[12]
2010[13] Yutaka Kumagai
(LDP)
Masamune Wada
(Your Party)		 2013[6]
  1. ↑ Resigned 3 March 1965[8]
  2. ↑ Held 11 April 1965[8]
  3. ↑ Died in office 25 January 1992[9]
  4. ↑ Held 8 March 1992[8]
  5. ↑ Resigned 9 October 1997[10]
  6. ↑ Held 16 November 1997[10]

Election results

2013[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Jiro Aichi
(endorsed by Komeito)		 421,634 44.7
Your Masamune Wada 220,207 23.3
Democratic Tomiko Okazaki 215,105 22.8
Communist Ayako Iwabuchi 76,515 8.1
Happiness Realization Noriko Saikachi 9,662 1.0
Turnout
2010[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yutaka Kumagai 265,343 26.8
Democratic Mitsuru Sakurai
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 241,460 24.4
Democratic Hiromi Ito
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 162,771 16.5
Independent Ichiro Ichikawa
(Endorsed by LDP)		 109,137 11.0
Your Fumihiro Kikuchi 106,563 10.8
Social Democratic Tetsuo Kanno 51,463 5.2
Communist Mikio Kato 44,973 4.5
Happiness Realization Yoshiaki Murakami 7,319 0.7
Turnout
2007[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tomiko Okazaki 549,183 52.7
Liberal Democratic Jiro Aichi
(endorsed by Komeito)		 359,099 34.5
Communist Mikio Kato 71,689 6.9
Social Democratic Kiyomi Kishida 61,349 5.9
Turnout
2004[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Ichiro Ichikawa
(endorsed by Komeito)		 379,342 38.4
Democratic Mitsuru Sakurai 372,817 37.8
Communist Ikuko Endo 96,862 9.8
Independent Toshiaki Sugawara
(endorsed by DPJ)		 84,578 8.6
Social Democratic Katsuo Okita 53,191 5.4
Turnout

See also

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 11 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "熊谷　大（くまがい　ゆたか）：参議院" [Kumagai, Yutaka: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "櫻井　充（さくらい　みつる）：参議院" [Sakurai, Mitsuru: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "愛知　治郎（あいち　じろう）：参議院" [Aichi, Jiro: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "選挙区 宮城 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Miyagi at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "和田　政宗（わだ　まさむね）：参議院" [Wada, Masamune: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  10. 1 2 "歴代参議院議員一覧" [List of Former Councillors] (PDF) (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  11. 1 2 "選挙区開票結果　<宮城県>" [District results (Miyagi)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  12. 1 2 "選挙区　宮城県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Miyagi at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  13. 1 2 "選挙区　宮城県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Miyagi at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.

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