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. Since July 2019, it has two Councillors in the 242-member house, a decrease from its previous contingent of 3.
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 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 took effect at the 2016 election, after which time, Niigata will elect only one Councillor during every election.
The Councillors currently representing Niigata are:
- Kazhiro Kobayashi (LDP, first term; term ends in 2028)[3]
- Sakura Uchikoshi (CDP, first term; term ends in 2025)[4]
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 Kitamura[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[9] | Masamichi Kondo (Ind.)[note 25] | |||
| Yuko Mori (DPJ) | Ichiro Tsukada (LDP) |
2007[10] | ||
| 2010[11] | Naoki Tanaka (DPJ) | Yaichi Nakahara (LDP) | ||
| Naoki Kazama (DPJ→DP→CDP) |
2013[12] | |||
| 2016[13] | Yuko Mori (Liberal)[note 26] | |||
| Sakura Uchikoshi (CDP) |
2019[14] | |||
| 2022 | Kazuhiro Kobayashi (LDP) | |||
- ↑ Joined Ryokufūkai (1947–60) after the election[5]
- ↑ Resigned 29 March 1950[6]
- ↑ Died in office 16 December 1958[6]
- ↑ Held 15 May 1955[6]
- ↑ First elected in May 1955 as a Japan Democratic Party candidate,[7] before the merger which created the LDP in November 1955.
- ↑ Died in office 29 August 1967[6]
- ↑ Resigned 4 November 1976[6]
- ↑ Held 5 November 1967[6]
- ↑ Later joined the LDP
- ↑ Died in office 10 November 1972[8]
- ↑ Held 17 December 1972[6]
- ↑ Resigned 27 March 1974[6]
- ↑ Died in office 4 April 1977[8]
- ↑ Resigned 15 May 1989[6]
- ↑ Held 12 December 1976[5]
- ↑ Held 22 May 1977[5]
- ↑ Died in office 28 October 1990[5]
- ↑ Held 25 June 1989[6]
- ↑ Held 9 December 1990[5]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Liberal Party merged with the DPJ in 2003.
- ↑ Died in office 22 November 2001[5]
- ↑ Joined the DPJ in December 2005)
- ↑ Held 28 April 2002[7]
- ↑ Joined the Social Democratic Party after his election.
- ↑ Rejoined the Liberal Party after her election.
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Sakura Uchikoshi | 521,717 | 50.49 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Ichiro Tsukada (Incumbent) | 479,050 | 46.36 | ||
| Kojima | 32,628 | 2.16 | 3.16 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Yuko Mori | 560,429 | 49.02 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Yaichi Nakahara (Incumbent) | 558,150 | 48.82 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Motoyuki Yokoi | 24,639 | 2.16 | ||
| Turnout | 59.77 |  3.99 | |||
| 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 | Ryūichi Yoneyama | 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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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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- ↑ "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
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