The Gifu at-large district (Japanese: 岐阜県選挙区, Hepburn: Gifu-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Gifu Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has three Councillors in the 242-member house.
| Gifu at-large district | |
|---|---|
| 岐阜県選挙区 | |
| Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors | |
 | |
| Prefecture | Gifu |
| Electorate | 1,633,395 (as of September 2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1947 |
| Seats | 2 |
| Councillors | Class of 2019:
Class of 2022: |
Outline
editFrom the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 election, Gifu elected two Councillors to six-year terms at alternating elections held every three years. Electoral reform in 1994 increased Gifu's representation to four Councillors, which began to take effect at the 1992 election, at which two Councillors were elected.
In September 2012 Gifu had 1,684,766 registered voters,[2] the second-lowest of the 12 prefectures that were represented by 4 Councillors at that time. By comparison, the three most populous districts of Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each had more than 4 million voters[2] but were also represented by four Councillors each. To address this malapportionment, a November 2012 amendment to the Public Offices Election Law reduced Gifu's representation (along with Fukushima's) representation to two Councillors.[3] This change began to take effect at the 2013 election, when only one Councillor was elected in Gifu, and will be completed at the 2016 election. The district has 1,666,610 registered voters as of September 2015.[4]
The Councillors currently representing Fukushima are:
- Takeyuki Watanabe (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016)[5]
- Yoshiharu Komiyama (Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), first term; term ends in 2016)[6]
- Yasutada Ohno (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)[7]
Elected Councillors
edit- Note: Party listed is at the time of election
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | #1 (1947: 6-year term) |
#1 (1947: 3-year term) |
#2 | |
| - | Osamu Ito (Social Democratic) |
1947 | Jinkichi Watanabe (Ind.) | - |
| 1950 | Shinzo Koike (Liberal) | |||
| Keiichi Tanaka (Liberal) |
1953 | |||
| 1956 | Shinzo Koike (LDP) | |||
| Keiichi Tanaka (LDP) |
1959 | |||
| 1962 | ||||
| Namio Nakamura (Social Democratic)[note 1] |
1965 | |||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1974 | Heigo Fujii (LDP)[note 2] | |||
| Hiromu Asano (LDP)[note 3] |
1977 | |||
| 1980 | ||||
| Feb. 1981 by-election[note 4] | Takao Fujii (LDP)[note 5] | |||
| Reijo Sugiyama (LDP) |
June 1981 by-election[note 6] | |||
| 1983 | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| Kazunobu Takai (Rengō no Kai)[note 7] |
1989 | |||
| 1992 | ||||
| Shoya Iwasaki (Social Democratic) |
1993 by-election[note 8] | Junichi Kasahara (LDP) | ||
| Kenji Hirata (New Frontier) |
Akira Ohno (LDP)[note 9] | 1995 | ||
| Tsuyako Ōno (Ind.) | 1996 by-election[note 10] | |||
| 1998 | Iwada Matsuo (Ind.) | Yasuo Yamashita (DPJ) | ||
| Kenji Hirata (DPJ) | Tsuyako Ōno (LDP) |
2001 | ||
| 2004[11] | Iwao Matsuda (LDP) | |||
| Takao Fujii (Ind.) | 2007[12] | |||
| 2010[13] | Takeyuki Watanabe (LDP) | Yoshiharu Komiyama (DPJ) | ||
| Seat abolished | Yasutada Ohno (LDP) | 2013[14] | ||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Yasutada Ohno (Endorsed by Komeito) |
500,580 | 58.8 | ||
| Democratic | Rie Yoshida | 218,074 | 25.6 | ||
| JCP | Masanori Suzuki | 115,503 | 13.6 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Yukihiko Kano | 17,893 | 2.1 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Takeyuki Watanabe (Endorsed by Sunrise Party) |
425,594 | 44.0 | ||
| Democratic | Yoshiharu Komiyama (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
229,225 | 23.7 | ||
| Democratic | Yasuo Yamashita (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
221,343 | 22.9 | ||
| JCP | Masanori Suzuki | 73,031 | 7.5 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Yukihiko Kano | 18,138 | 1.9 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Takao Fujii (Endorsed by LDP, Komeito) |
466,008 | 46.1 | |||
| Democratic | Kenji Hirata | 445,489 | 44.1 | ||
| JCP | Takao Kato | 99,301 | 9.8 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Iwao Matsuda (endorsed by Komeito) |
428,988 | 44.5 | ||
| Democratic | Yasuo Yamashita | 422,235 | 43.8 | ||
| JCP | Takao Kato | 112,882 | 11.7 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
See also
edit- List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan
- Gifu 1st district, one of Gifu Prefecture's five districts in the House of Representatives
References
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- ^ a b "平成２4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 2012] (in Japanese). 28 December 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ "Weighing Vote Disparity in Japan's Upper House". 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ "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). 28 December 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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- ^ "大野 泰正（おおの やすただ）：参議院" [Ohno, Yasutada: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ "歴代参議院議員一覧" [List of Former Councillors] (PDF) (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b "選挙区開票結果 <岐阜県>" [District results (Gifu)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b "選挙区 岐阜県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Gifu at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b "選挙区 岐阜県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Gifu at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ^ a b "選挙区 岐阜 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Gifu at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.