Osaka at-large district
The Osaka at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors that elects Councillors to represent Osaka Prefecture in the National Diet of Japan. From 1947 the district has elected three Councillors every three years by single non-transferable vote for six-year terms, such that there are six Councillors representing the district in the 242-member house. A revision to the Public Officers Electoral Law in 2012 increased the district's representation so that four Councillors were elected at the July 2013 election which will give the district a total eight Councillors by 2019.[1]
The district has 7,140,578 registered voters (as of September 2015), making it the third-largest district behind the Tokyo and Kanagawa districts.[2] The current Councillors for the district are:
- Class of 2010 - Term expires in July 2016
- Hirotaka Ishikawa - Komeito party, first-term Councillor
- Issei Kitagawa - Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), second term
- Motoyuki Odachi - Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), second term
- Class of 2013 - Term expires in July 2019
- Toru Azuma - Initiatives from Osaka party,[3] first term
- Hisatake Sugi - Komeito, first term
- Kotaro Tatsumi - Japan Communist Party, first term
- Takuji Yanagimoto - LDP, first term
Elected Councillors
- Notes:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Resigned 31 March 1951.[4]
- ↑ Held 16 May 1951.[4]
- ↑ Died in office 5 March 1957.[4]
- ↑ Resigned 29 March 1959.[5]
- ↑ Resigned on 5 April 1959 to contest the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gisen Sato[5]
- ↑ Held 23 April 1957.[5]
- ↑ Vacancy caused by Ohkawa's resignation on 5 April 1959 to contest the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gisen Sato[5]
- ↑ Held 30 April 1959.[5]
- ↑ Died in office 2 May 1973.[5]
- ↑ Resigned 25 January 1988.[6]
- ↑ Held 17 June 1973.[5]
- ↑ Died in office 14 November 1987.[4]
- ↑ Held 27 December 1987.[6]
- ↑ Held 28 February 1988.[4]
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