Nagano at-large district
The Nagano at-large district (長野県選挙区, Nagano-ken senkyo-ku) is a multi-member constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Nagano Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two every three years by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms.
The Councillors currently representing Nagano are:
- Yūichirō Hata (DPJ, Hata group; term ends in 2013), son of representative and former prime minister Tsutomu Hata and grandson of representative Bushirō Hata,
 - Hiromi Yoshida (LDP, Nukaga faction; term ends in 2013),
 - Kenta Wakabayashi (LDP; term ends in 2016), son and successor of councillor and former agriculture minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi, and
 - Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ, Hata group; term ends in 2016), son of former Nagano assemblyman Sadakazu (?, 貞一) Kitazawa.
 
Like most two-member districts Nagano often splits seats between the major parties; in the first decades of the 1955 System, a Socialist candidate usually received the highest vote.
Elected Councillors
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|  #1 (1947: #1, 6-year term)  | 
 #2 (1947: #2, 6-year term)  | 
 #1 (1947: #3, 3-year term)  | 
 #2 (1947: #4, 3-year term)  | |
|  Sanshichi Hanyū (JSP)  | 
 Shirō Kiuchi (DP)  | 
1947[1] |  Tatsuya Yonekura (Coop.)  | 
 Morio Kinoshita † 1947 (JLP)  | 
| 1948 by-el.[2] |  Uemon Ikeda (JLP)  | |||
| 1950[3] |  Kotora Tanahashi (JSP)  | 
 Uemon Ikeda (LP)  | ||
|  Sanshichi Hanyū (leftist faction JSP)  | 
 Shirō Kiuchi (Yoshida faction LP)  | 
1953[4] | ||
| 1956[5] |  Kunitarō Koyama (LDP)  | |||
|  Sanshichi Hanyū (JSP)  | 
 Shirō Kiuchi (LDP)  | 
1959[6] | ||
| 1962[7] |  Torao Hayashi (JSP)  | |||
| 1965[8] | ||||
| 1968[9] | ||||
| 1971[10] | ||||
| 1974[11] |  Ippei Koyama (JSP)  | 
 Tadao Natsume (LDP)  | ||
|  Maki Murasawa (JSP)  | 
 Shin'ichirō Shimojō (LDP)  | 
1977[12] | ||
| 1980[13] |  Tadao Natsume (LDP)  | 
 Ippei Koyama (JSP)  | ||
|  Shin'ichirō Shimojō (LDP)  | 
 Maki Murasawa (JSP)  | 
1983[14] | ||
| 1986[15] |  Ippei Koyama (JSP)  | 
 Kazuto Mukaiyama (LDP)  | ||
|  Maki Murasawa (JSP)  | 
 Shin'ichirō Shimojō (LDP)  | 
1989[16] | ||
| 1992[17] |  Toshimi Kitazawa (LDP)  | 
 Kiyoshi Imai (JSP)  | ||
|  Mineo Koyama (NFP)  | 
 Maki Murasawa † 1999 (JSP)  | 
1995[18] | ||
| 1998[19] |  Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ)  | 
 Masatoshi Wakabayashi # 2010 (LDP)  | ||
|  Yūichirō Hata (DPJ)  | 
1999 by-el.[20] | |||
|  Hiromi Yoshida (LDP)  | 
2001[21] | |||
| 2004[22] | ||||
|  Yūichirō Hata (DPJ)  | 
 Hiromi Yoshida (LDP)  | 
2007[23] | ||
| 2010[24] |  Kenta Wakabayashi (LDP)  | 
 Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ)  | ||
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned; †: died in office.
Recent election results
| 2010[24] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| LDP | Kenta Wakabayashi | 293,539 | 26.4 | ||
| DPJ | Toshimi Kitazawa | 290,027 | 26.1 | ||
| DPJ | Yōko Takashima | 217,655 | 19.6 | ||
| YP | Yōsei Ide | 183,949 | 16.6 | ||
| JCP | Sanae Nakano | 116,496 | 10.5 | ||
| HRP | Hiroaki Usuda | 8,959 | 0.8 | ||
| Turnout | 1,138,024 | 64.72 | |||
| 2007[23] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| DPJ | Yūichirō Hata | 538,690 | 47.9 | ||
| LDP (Kōmeitō support) | Hiromi Yoshida | 301,635 | 26.8 | ||
| JCP | Sanae Nakano | 194,407 | 17.3 | ||
| SDP | Hiroji Nakagawa | 89,579 | 8.0 | ||
| Turnout | 1,149,558 | 65.04 | |||
References
House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors
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|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第18回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - ↑  参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - 1 2  参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
|work=(help) - 1 2  参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13. External link in 
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