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:

• Koichi Kishi (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)); a Councillor since 1998, was elected to his third term in 2010, which will end in 2016.
• Mizuho Onuma (LDP); elected to her first term in 2013, which will end in 2019.

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

1. "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 8 March 2016.
2. "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
3. "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
4. "選挙区　山形県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Yamagata At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
5. "選挙区 山形 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2010" [Yamagata At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
6. "選挙区 山形 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Yamagata At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 8 March 2016.