Yamagata at-large district

The Yamagata at-large district (Japanese: 山形県選挙区 Hepburn: Yamagata-ken Senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Yamagata Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. Councillors are elected to the house by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. Since the establishment of the current House of Councillors electoral system in 1947, the district has elected two Councillors, one each at elections held every three years. It has 937,920 registered voters as of September 2015.[1]

The Councillors currently representing Yamagata are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term)
Shigeyasu Kosugi
(Ind.)
1947 Rokurōbē Ogata (Ind.)
1950 Mataji Kobayashi
(Social Democratic)
Saburo Unno
(Right Socialist)
1953
1956 Yasusuke Matsuzawa
(Social Democratic)[note 1]
Michio Murayama
(LDP)
1959
1959 by-el.[note 2] Isami Shirai
(LDP)
1962
Gorō Itō
(LDP)
1965
1968
1971
1974 Tōkichi Abiko
(LDP)
Keigi Furuya
(LDP)
1977
1980
1983
1986 Teibin Suzuki
(LDP)
Yasumatsu Hoshikawa
(Rengō no Kai)
1989
1992
Masatoshi Abe
(Ind.)
1995
1998 Koichi Kishi
(LDP)
Masatoshi Abe
(LDP)
2001
2004
Yasue Funayama (DPJ) 2007[4]
2010[5]
Mizuho Onuma
(LDP)
2013[6]
  1. Died in office 18 June 1959.[2]
  2. Held 24 July 1959.[3]

Election results

2013[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Mizuho Onuma
(endorsed by Komeito)
272,779 48.2
Green Wind Yasue Funayama
(Endorsed by SDP)
252,040 44.6
Communist Toshio Ota 33,718 6.0
Happiness Realization Ryota Shirotori 7,193 1.3
Turnout
2010[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Koichi Kishi 263,987 43.6
Democratic Yosei Umetsu
(Endorsed by People's New Party)
222,942 36.8
Your Hiroaki Kawano 88,238 14.6
Communist Toshio Ota 30,348 5.0
Turnout
2007[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yasue Funayama
(Endorsed by People's New Party)
371,071 57.3
Liberal Democratic Mieko Shinohara
(Endorsed by Komeito)
238,515 36.8
Communist Masayuki Sato 38,008 5.9
Turnout

References

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