Niigata at-large district
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. 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 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 will 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 will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which time Niigata will elect only one Councillor.
The Councillors currently representing Niigata are:
- Yaichi Nakahara (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016)[3]
- Naoki Tanaka (Democratic Party, third term; term ends in 2016)[4] Served as the Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in 2012.
- Naoki Kazama (Democratic Party, second term; term ends in 2019)[5]
- Ichiro Tsukada (LDP, second term; term ends in 2019)[6]
Elected Councillors
- ↑ Joined Ryokufūkai (1947–60) after the election[7]
- ↑ Resigned 29 March 1950[8]
- ↑ Died in office 16 December 1958[8]
- ↑ Held 15 May 1955[8]
- ↑ First elected in May 1955 as a Japan Democratic Party candidate,[9] before the merger which created the LDP in November 1955.
- ↑ Died in office 29 August 1967[8]
- ↑ Resigned 4 November 1976[8]
- ↑ Held 5 November 1967[8]
- ↑ Later joined the LDP
- ↑ Died in office 10 November 1972[10]
- ↑ Held 17 December 1972[8]
- ↑ Resigned 27 March 1974[8]
- ↑ Died in office 4 April 1977[10]
- ↑ Resigned 15 May 1989[8]
- ↑ Held 12 December 1976[7]
- ↑ Held 22 May 1977[7]
- ↑ Died in office 28 October 1990[7]
- ↑ Held 25 June 1989[8]
- ↑ Held 9 December 1990[7]
- ↑ 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[7]
- ↑ Joined the DPJ in December 2005)
- ↑ Held 28 April 2002[9]
- ↑ Joined the Social Democratic Party after his election)
Election results
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 | Ryichi Yonemura | 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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