Saitama at-large district

Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.

Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.

Current Councillors from Saitama are:

Recent election results

2010[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masakazu Sekiguchi 655,028 20.6
Kōmeitō Makoto Nishida 594,678 18.7
DPJ Motohiro Ōno 557,398 17.5
DPJ Chiyako Shimada 544,381 17.1
YP Tsukasa Kobayashi 416,663 13.1
JCP Gaku Itō 207,957 6.5
NRP Kōji Nakagawa 84,897 2.7
SDP Fumihiro Himori 72,185 2.3
Independent Kōsei Hasegawa 37,731 1.2
HRP Hirotoshi Inda 9,536 0.3
Turnout 3,246,247 55.83
2007[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Kuniko Kōda 745,517 23.5
LDP Toshiharu Furukawa 684,270 21.6
DPJ Ryūji Yamane 665,063 21.0
Kōmeitō Hiroshi Takano 623,723 19.7
JCP Sumiko Ayabe 277,440 8.7
SDP Etsuko Matsuzawa 104,403 3.3
PNP Tetsuo Sawada 72,756 2.3
Turnout 3,227,638 56.35

Historical Councillors elected from Saitama

Class of 1947/1953/... Election Class of 1950/1956/...
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term)		 #2
(1947: #2, 6-year term)
(1992: #3, 3-year term)		 #3 #1
(1947: #3, 3-year term) 		#2
(1947: #4, 3-year term)		 #3
Eizō Kobayashi
(JLP)		 Yatarō Hiranuma
(JLP)		 – 1947[3] Katsumasa Amada
(JSP)		 Kazue Ishikawa
(DPJ)		 –
1950[4] Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955
(JSP)		 Shōkichi Uehara
(LP)
Eizō Kobayashi
(Yoshida LP)		 Katsumasa Amada
(Right JSP)		 1953[5]
1955
by-el.[6]		 Ryūsaku Endō
(Indep.)[party 1]
1956[7] Yūichi Ōsawa # 1960
(LDP)		 Shōkichi Uehara
(LDP)
Eizō Kobayashi
(LDP)		 Katsumasa Amada † 1965
(JSP)		 1959[8]
1960
by-el.[9]		 Kanzō Ōizumi
(LDP)
1962[10] Shōkichi Uehara
(LDP)		 Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
Katsuji Mori
(JSP)		 Yoshihiko Tsuchiya
(LDP)		 1965[11]
1968[12]
Yoshihiko Tsuchiya
(LDP)		 Katsuji Mori
(JSP)		 1971[13]
1974[14] Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)		 Shōkichi Uehara
(LDP)
Yoshihiko Tsuchiya
(LDP)		 Jūrō Morita
(NLC)		 1977[15]
1980[16] Ryōkō Nao
(LDP)		 Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
1983[17]
1986[18] Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)		 Ryōkō Nao † 1991
(LDP)
Hajime Fukada
(JSP)		 Yoshihiko Tsuchiya # 1992
(Indep.)		 1989[19]
Taizō Satō
(LDP)		 1992
(integrated
by-el.)[20]		 Noriyuki Sekine
(LDP)		 Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
Hiroshi Takano
(NFP)		 Taizō Satō
(LDP)		 Sachiyo Abe
(JCP)		 1995[21]
1998[22] Takujirō Hamada # 2003
(Indep.)[party 2]		 Renzō Togashi
(JCP)		 Toshio Fujii
(DPJ)
Taizō Satō
(LDP)		 Hiroshi Takano
(Kōmeitō)		 Ryūji Yamane
(DPJ)		 2001[23]
2003
by-el.[24]		 Masakazu Sekiguchi
(LDP)
2004[25] Chiyako Shimada
(DPJ)		 Masakazu Sekiguchi
(LDP)		 Makoto Nishida
(Kōmeitō)
Kuniko Kōda
(DPJ)		 Toshiharu Furukawa
(LDP)		 2007[2]
2010[1] Masakazu Sekiguchi
(LDP)		 Makoto Nishida
(Kōmeitō)		 Motohiro Ōno
(DPJ)

Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.

  1. ↑ later joined LDP
  2. ↑ joined Kaikaku Club ("Reform Club") in 1999; became a member of the Kōmeitō parliamentary group at least temporarily according to the list of former Councillors

References

House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

  1. 1 2 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  2. 1 2 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  3. ↑ 参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  4. ↑ 参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  5. ↑ 参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  6. ↑ 参議院>第3回参議院議員補欠選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  7. ↑ 参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  8. ↑ 参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  9. ↑ 参議院>第5回参議院議員補欠選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  10. ↑ 参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  11. ↑ 参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  12. ↑ 参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  13. ↑ 参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  14. ↑ 参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  15. ↑ 参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  16. ↑ 参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  17. ↑ 参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  18. ↑ 参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  19. ↑ 参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  20. ↑ 参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  21. ↑ 参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  22. ↑ 参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  23. ↑ 参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  24. ↑ 参議院>第18回参議院議員補欠選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)
  25. ↑ 参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02. External link in |work= (help)

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