Tokushima at-large district
Tokushima at-large district (徳島県選挙区 Tokushima-ken senkyoku?) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Tokushima Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Tokushima like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election.
Single-member districts (ichinin-ku) for the House of Councillors often play a decisive role for the outcome of elections as little swing in votes is required to achieve a change of the Councillors elected there. Tokushima in predominantly rural Shikoku has for decades voted for candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) or ex-LDP conservative independents by large margins. In the landslide election of 1989 that left the LDP-led government without a majority in the House of Councillors for the first time, a so-called "twisted parliament" (nejire kokkai), Harumi Inui from RENGO trade union federation's Rengō no Kai won Tokushima against incumbent Tomoyoshi Kamanaga by a margin of 60,000 votes.
With its 641,534 registered voters (as of September 2015)[1] it is the fourth-smallest electoral district for the house. To address the imbalance in representation between districts, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Kochi At-large district to create the Tokushima-Kochi At-large district;[2] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor will be elected.
The current Councillors for Tokushima are:
- Yusuke Nakanishi (LDP, term expires 2016)
- Toru Miki (LDP, term expires 2019)
Elected Councillors
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 |
|---|---|---|
| #1 (1947: #1, 6-year term) |
#1 (1947: #2, 3-year term) |
|
| Yojin Akazawa (Kakushin Kyōdō, "Progressive Cooperation")[3] |
1947[4] | Makio Kishino (Indep.)[3] |
| 1947 by-el.[5] | Mitsu Kōro (DP) | |
| 1950[6] | ||
| Yokichirō Miki (Indep.) | 1953[7] | |
| 1956[8] | Mitsu Kōro (LDP) | |
| Yokichirō Miki (LDP) | 1959[9] | |
| 1962[10] | ||
| 1965[11] | ||
| 1968[12] | Kentarō Kujime (LDP) | |
| Kōshō Ogasa (Indep.) | 1971[13] | |
| 1974[14] | Kentarō Kujime (Indep.) | |
| Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP) | 1977[15] | |
| 1980[16] | Ken Naitō (LDP) | |
| 1983[17] | ||
| 1986[18] | Kōji Matsuura (LDP) | |
| Harumi Inui (Rengō no Kai) | 1989[19] | |
| 1992[20] | ||
| Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) | 1995[21] | |
| 1998[22] | Kiseko Takahashi (Indep.)[23] | |
| 2001[24] | ||
| 2004[25] | Masakatsu Koike (LDP) | |
| Tomoji Nakatani (DPJ) | 2007[26] | |
| 2010[27] | Yūsuke Nakanishi (LDP) | |
| Toru Miki (LDP) | 2013[28] | |
| 2016 | seat to be abolished | |
| seat to be abolished | 2019 |
References
- House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors
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