The Tottori at-large district (Japanese: 鳥取県選挙区, Hepburn: Tottori-ken Senkyoku) was a constituency that represents Tottori 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. With its 474,963 registered voters (as of September 2015)[1] it is the smallest electoral district for the house. Accordingly, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Shimane At-large district to create the Tottori-Shimane At-large district;[2] this change took effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor was elected.

The Councillors currently representing Tottori are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term)
Teizo Kadota
(Tottori Farmers' Federation)		 1947 Nobuyoshi Tanaka
(Democratic)
1950 Yoshio Nakata
(Social Democratic)[notes 1]
Hideyuki Miyoshi
(Ind.)[notes 2]		 1953
Yoshio Nakata
(Social Democratic)		 1956 by-election
1956 Zenichi Nakahara
(LDP)
1959
1962
Masao Miyazaki
(LDP)		 1965
1968 Kaku Ashika
(Social Democratic)
1971
1974 Jiro Ishiba
(LDP)[notes 3]
Koichi Hirota
(Social Democratic)		 1977
1980
1981 by-election Kuniji Kobayashi
(LDP)
Shoji Nishimua
(LDP)		 1983
1986 Shigenobu Sakano
(LDP)[notes 4]
Tatsuo Yoshida
(Ind.)		 1989
1992
Takayoshi Tsuneda
(Ind.)		 1995
1998
2001
2002 by-election Kotaro Tamura
(Ind.)
2004 Kotaro Tamura
(LDP)
Yoshihiro Kawakami
(DPJ)		 2007
2010[3] Kazuyuki Hamada
(LDP)[notes 5]
Shoji Maitachi
(LDP)		 2013[4]
2016 Seat abolished
Seat abolished 2019
  1. ↑ Resigned 4 March 1956 in order to contest by-election
  2. ↑ Died in office 14 February 1956
  3. ↑ Died in office 16 September 1981
  4. ↑ Died in office 17 April 2002
  5. ↑ Elected as LDP candidate but has switched parties several times since

Election results

2013[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Shoji Maitachi
(endorsed by Komeito)		 160,783 58.2
Democratic Noriyuki Kawakami 82,717 30.0
Communist Naoyuki Iwanaga 19,600 7.1
Happiness Realization Yuriko Yoshioka 6,782 2.5
Independent Hiroshi Inoue 6,158 2.2
Turnout 58.88
2010[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kazuyuki Hamada 158,445 50.8
Democratic Mari Sakano
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 132,720 42.6
Communist Naoyuki Iwanaga 20,613 6.6
Turnout 65.77


References

  1. ↑ "平成２７年９月２日（定時登録日）現在における選挙人名簿 登録者数の概要" [2 September 2015 (Periodic Registration Day) Current enrolled voters - Overview of number of registered voters] (in Japanese). 2 September 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "選挙区 鳥取県 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2010" [Tottori At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 "選挙区 鳥取県 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Tottori At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

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