Miyagi at-large district
The Miyagi at-large district (Japanese: 宮城県選挙区 Hepburn: Miyagi-ken senkyoku?) is a constituency that represents Miyagi Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has four Councillors in the 242-member house, but this representation will decrease to two by July 2019.
Outline
The constituency represents the entire population of Miyagi Prefecture, including the urban centre of Sendai. From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 election, Miyagi elected two Councillors to six-year terms, one at alternating elections held every three years. Under 1994 electoral reform Miyagi's representation was increased to four (two sets of two) from the 1995 election.
The district has 1,907,518 registered voters as of September 2015, the second-lowest of the 10 prefectures that are represented by four Councillors.[1] By comparison, the Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each have more than 4 million voters but are limited to the same number of Councillors as Miyagi.[1] To address this malapportionment in representation, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will decrease the representation of Miyagi, Niigata and Nagano districts to two Councillors while increasing Hyogo, Hokkaido and Fukuoka districts to six Councillors;[2] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which time Miyagi will elect only one Councillor.
The Councillors currently representing Miyagi are:
- Yutaka Kumagai (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016)[3]
- Mitsuru Sakurai (Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), third term; term ends in 2016)[4]
- Jiro Aichi (LDP, third term; term ends in 2019)[5]
- Masamune Wada (elected as a Your Party candidate,[6] currently belongs to Party for Japanese Kokoro; term ends in 2019)[7]
Elected Councillors
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 (1947: 6-year term) |
#2 (established 1995) |
#1 (1947: 3-year term) |
#2 (established 1998) |
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| - | Takeo Sai (Social Democratic) |
1947 | Kei Takahashi (Democratic) |
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| 1950 | Shintaro Takahashi (Liberal) |
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| Shinji Yoshino (Liberal) |
1953 | |||
| 1956 | Shintaro Takahashi (LDP)[note 1] |
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| Hisayoshi Muramatsu (LDP) |
1959 | |||
| 1962 | ||||
| [note 2]1965 by-election | Bungoro Takahashi (LDP) |
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| Kikuo Toda (Social Democratic) |
1965 | |||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1974 | Kaname Endo (LDP) |
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| Buichi Oishi (LDP) |
1977 | |||
| 1980 | ||||
| Choji Hoshi (LDP) |
1983 | |||
| 1986 | ||||
| Kazuo Kurimura (Social Democratic)[note 3] |
1989 | |||
| Koki Hagino (Rengō no Kai) |
1992 by-election[note 4] | |||
| 1992 | ||||
| Ichiro Ichikawa (Ind.)[note 5] |
Hiroaki Kameya (LDP) |
1995 | ||
| Tomiko Okazaki (DPJ) |
1997 by-election[note 6] | |||
| 1998 | Mitsuru Sakurai (DPJ) |
Ichiro Ichikawa (Ind.) |
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| Jiro Aichi (Ind.) |
2001 | |||
| 2004[11] | Ichiro Ichikawa (LDP) |
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| Jiro Aichi (LDP) |
2007[12] | |||
| 2010[13] | Yutaka Kumagai (LDP) |
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| Masamune Wada (Your Party) |
2013[6] | |||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Jiro Aichi (endorsed by Komeito) |
421,634 | 44.7 | ||
| Your | Masamune Wada | 220,207 | 23.3 | ||
| Democratic | Tomiko Okazaki | 215,105 | 22.8 | ||
| Communist | Ayako Iwabuchi | 76,515 | 8.1 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Noriko Saikachi | 9,662 | 1.0 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Yutaka Kumagai | 265,343 | 26.8 | ||
| Democratic | Mitsuru Sakurai (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
241,460 | 24.4 | ||
| Democratic | Hiromi Ito (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
162,771 | 16.5 | ||
| Independent | Ichiro Ichikawa (Endorsed by LDP) |
109,137 | 11.0 | ||
| Your | Fumihiro Kikuchi | 106,563 | 10.8 | ||
| Social Democratic | Tetsuo Kanno | 51,463 | 5.2 | ||
| Communist | Mikio Kato | 44,973 | 4.5 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Yoshiaki Murakami | 7,319 | 0.7 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Tomiko Okazaki | 549,183 | 52.7 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Jiro Aichi (endorsed by Komeito) |
359,099 | 34.5 | ||
| Communist | Mikio Kato | 71,689 | 6.9 | ||
| Social Democratic | Kiyomi Kishida | 61,349 | 5.9 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Ichiro Ichikawa (endorsed by Komeito) |
379,342 | 38.4 | ||
| Democratic | Mitsuru Sakurai | 372,817 | 37.8 | ||
| Communist | Ikuko Endo | 96,862 | 9.8 | ||
| Independent | Toshiaki Sugawara (endorsed by DPJ) |
84,578 | 8.6 | ||
| Social Democratic | Katsuo Okita | 53,191 | 5.4 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
See also
References
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