Niigata at-large district

The Niigata at-large district (Japanese: 新潟県選挙区 Hepburn: Niigata-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Niigata 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 Niigata Prefecture and has 1,925,565 registered voters as of September 2015.[1] Since the first House of Councillors election in 1947 Niigata has elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two at alternating elections held every three years. The district's number of voters is the third-lowest of the 10 prefectures that are represented by four Councillors; by comparison, the Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each have more than 4 million voters but are represented by the same number of Councillors as Niigata.[1] To address this malapportionment in representation, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will decrease the representation of Niigata, Miyagi 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 Niigata will elect only one Councillor.

The Councillors currently representing Niigata are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 Election year class of 1950
(1947: 3-year term)
Bunkichi Tamura
(Ind.)[note 1]		 Kyōhei Shimojō
(Social Democratic)		 1947 Kazuo Kitamua (Liberal) Yoshio Fujita (Ind.)
1950 Kazuo Kitamua[note 2]
(Liberal)		 Toshiei Kiyosawa
(Social Democratic)
Bunkichi Tamura
(Ryokufūkai)		 Yaheiji Saikawa[note 3]
(Liberal)		 1953
[note 4]1955 by-election Makie Koyanagi
(LDP)[note 5]
1956
Goro Takeuchi
(Social Democratic)		 Yoshio Sato[note 6]
(LDP)		 1959
1962 Zentaro Sugiyama
(Social Democratic)
1965
Takashi Sato[note 7]
(LDP)		 1967 by-election[note 8]
1968 Jūichiro Tsukada
(Ind.)[note 9]		 Makoto Matsui[note 10]
(Social Democratic)
Zentaro Sugiyama
(Social Democratic)		 1971
[note 11]1972 by-election Takeo Kimi[note 12] (LDP)
1974 Shiro Watari[note 13]
(LDP)		 Yutaka Shitoma[note 14]
(Social Democratic)
Jūichiro Tsukada
(LDP)		 [note 15]1976 by-election
[note 16]1977 by-election Shin Hasegawa[note 17]
(LDP)
Masao Yoshida
(Social Democratic)		 1977
1980
Toshio Inamura
(Social Democratic)		 Yoshio Yoshikawa
(LDP)		 1983
1986
[note 18]1989 by-election Kinuko Ōfuchi
(Social Democratic)
1989
[note 19]1990 by-election Kazuo Majima
(LDP)
1992
Michio Hasegawa
(New Frontier)		 1995
1998 Naoki Tanaka
(LDP)[note 20]
Yuko Mori
(Liberal)[note 21]		 Kazuo Majima[note 22]
(LDP)		 2001
Takahiro Kuroiwa
(Ind.)[note 23]		 2002 by-election[note 24]
2004[11] Masamichi Kondo
(Ind.)[note 25]
Yuko Mori (DPJ) Ichiro Tsukada
(LDP)		 2007[12]
2010[13] Naoki Tanaka (DPJ) Yaichi Nakahara
(LDP)
Naoki Kazama (DPJ) 2013[14]
  1. ↑ Joined Ryokufūkai (1947–60) after the election[7]
  2. ↑ Resigned 29 March 1950[8]
  3. ↑ Died in office 16 December 1958[8]
  4. ↑ Held 15 May 1955[8]
  5. ↑ First elected in May 1955 as a Japan Democratic Party candidate,[9] before the merger which created the LDP in November 1955.
  6. ↑ Died in office 29 August 1967[8]
  7. ↑ Resigned 4 November 1976[8]
  8. ↑ Held 5 November 1967[8]
  9. ↑ Later joined the LDP
  10. ↑ Died in office 10 November 1972[10]
  11. ↑ Held 17 December 1972[8]
  12. ↑ Resigned 27 March 1974[8]
  13. ↑ Died in office 4 April 1977[10]
  14. ↑ Resigned 15 May 1989[8]
  15. ↑ Held 12 December 1976[7]
  16. ↑ Held 22 May 1977[7]
  17. ↑ Died in office 28 October 1990[7]
  18. ↑ Held 25 June 1989[8]
  19. ↑ Held 9 December 1990[7]
  20. ↑ Was first elected as an independent in 1998 but joined the LDP soon after. Resigned from the LDP in 2008 and joined the DPJ in 2009.
  21. ↑ The Liberal Party merged with the DPJ in 2003.
  22. ↑ Died in office 22 November 2001[7]
  23. ↑ Joined the DPJ in December 2005)
  24. ↑ Held 28 April 2002[9]
  25. ↑ Joined the Social Democratic Party after his election)

Election results

2013[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Ichiro Tsukada (Incumbent)
(endorsed by Komeito)		 456,542 43.0
Democratic Naoki Kazama 204,834 19.3
People's Life Yuko Mori (Incumbent) 165,308 15.6
Restoration Ryichi Yonemura 107,591 10.1
Communist Hiroshi Nishizawa 60,317 5.7
Social Democratic Hideaki Watanabe 46,101 4.3
Independent Miyoko Ankyu 15,612 1.5
Happiness Realization Hiroaki Ogose 5,188 0.5
Turnout
2010[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Naoki Tanaka (Incumbent) 439,289 37.9
Liberal Democratic Yaichi Nakahara 412,217 35.5
Independent Masamichi Kondo (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by People's New Party and Social Democratic Party)		 200,182 17.2
Communist Katsutoshi Takeda 73,579 6.3
Independent Satoshi Annaka 24,300 2.1
Happiness Realization Kenya Kasamaki 10,987 0.9
Turnout
2007[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Ichiro Tsukada
(endorsed by Komeito)		 403,497 32.1
Democratic Yuko Mori (Incumbent)
(endorsed by People's New Party)		 355,901 28.3
Democratic Takahiro Kuroiwa (Incumbent) 344,424 27.4
Social Democratic Akiko Yamamoto 91,016 7.2
Communist Katsutoshi Takeda 54,537 4.3
Independent Mitsumasa Kusuhara 7,806 0.6
Turnout
2004[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Masamichi Kondo
(endorsed by Democratic Party and Social Democratic Party)		 428,117 34.9
Liberal Democratic Naoki Tanaka (Incumbent)
(endorsed by Komeito)		 367,059 29.9
Liberal Democratic Ichiro Tsukada
(endorsed by Komeito)		 319,968 26.1
Communist Kayoko Kuwahara 111,201 9.1
Turnout
April 2002 By-election[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Takahiro Kuroiwa 541,881 53.3
Liberal Democratic Ichiro Tsukada 342,207 33.7
Communist Kayoko Kuwahara 132,672 13.0
Turnout 52.44%

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "中原　八一（なかはら　やいち）：参議院" [Kumagai, Yutaka: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "田中　直紀（たなか　なおき）：参議院" [Tanaka, Naoki: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "風間　直樹（かざま　なおき）：参議院" [Tanaka, Naoki: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "塚田　一郎（つかだ　いちろう）：参議院" [Aichi, Jiro: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). national Diet Library. p. 92. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  10. 1 2 "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  11. 1 2 "選挙区開票結果　<新潟県>" [District results (Niigata)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  12. 1 2 "選挙区　新潟県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Niigata at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  13. 1 2 "選挙区　新潟県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Niigata at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  14. 1 2 "選挙区 新潟 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Niigata At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 April 2016.

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