Ibaraki at-large district
The Ibaraki at-large district (Japanese: 茨城県選挙区, Hepburn: Ibaraki-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Ibaraki Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.
Outline[]
The constituency represents the entire population of Ibaraki Prefecture. The district elects four Councillors to six-year terms, two each at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,411,307 registered voters as of September 2015.[1] The Councillors currently representing Ibaraki are:
- Akira Gunji (Democratic Party, third term; term ends in 2016)[2]
- Hiroshi Okada (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), third term; term ends in 2016)[3]
- Yukihisa Fujita (Democratic Party, second term; term ends in 2019)[4]
- (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)[5]
Elected Councillors[]
Class of 1947 | election year | Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
(Ind.)[note 1] |
(Liberal)[note 2] |
1947 | (Social Democratic) |
(Ind.)[note 3] |
1950 | (Liberal) |
(National Democratic) | ||
(Liberal) |
1950 by-election[note 4] | |||
(Kaishintō) |
1953 | |||
1956 | Yūichi Kōri (LDP) |
(Social Democratic) | ||
Tsunesuke Mutō[note 5] (LDP) |
(Social Democratic) |
1959 | ||
1962 | ||||
(LDP) |
1963 by-election[note 6] | |||
[note 7] (LDP) |
1965 | |||
1968 | ||||
[note 8] (LDP) |
1971 | |||
(Minor party)[note 9] |
1972 by-election[note 10] | |||
1974 | [note 11] (Minor party)[note 12] |
(Social Democratic) | ||
Yūichi Kōri (LDP) |
1975 by-election[note 13] | |||
(Social Democratic) |
1977 | |||
[note 14]1978 by-election | [note 15] (LDP) | |||
1980 | ||||
(LDP) |
1983 | |||
1986 | ||||
(Social Democratic) |
[note 16] (LDP) |
1989 | ||
[note 17]1989 by-election | (LDP) | |||
[note 18] (LDP) |
1992 by-election[note 19] | |||
1992 | ||||
(New Frontier) |
1995 | |||
1998 | [note 20] (LDP) |
Akira Gunji (DPJ) | ||
Moto Kobayashi (DPJ) |
2001 | |||
2003 by-election[note 21] | Hiroshi Okada (LDP) | |||
2004[10] | ||||
Yukihisa Fujita (DPJ) |
Tamon Hasegawa (LDP) |
2007[11] | ||
2010[12] | ||||
(LDP) |
2013[13] |
- ^ Later joined Ryokufūkai[6]
- ^ Died in office 15 September 1950[7]
- ^ Later joined the Labourers and Farmers Party[7]
- ^ Held 3 November 1950[6]
- ^ Died in office 6 August 1963[6]
- ^ Held 18 September 1963[7]
- ^ Died in office 21 December 1971[8]
- ^ Resigned 14 March 1975[8]
- ^ Wife of the deceased Kishirō Nakamura. Ran as a candidate of a minor party,[9] but later joined the LDP[8]
- ^ Held 6 February 1972[8]
- ^ Resigned 21 December 1977[7]
- ^ Elected as a candidate for the Ibaraki Agricultural Federation. Later joined the LDP[7]
- ^ Held 27 April 1975[7]
- ^ Held 5 February 1978[7]
- ^ Husband of Taeko Iwakami. Died in office 16 August 1989[7]
- ^ Died in office 26 February 1992[7]
- ^ Held 1 October 1989[7]
- ^ Wife of Akio Kanō
- ^ Held 12 April 1992[9]
- ^ Died in office 17 October 2002
- ^ Held 27 April 2003[9]
Election results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | (endorsed by Komeito) |
560,642 | 48.4 | ||
Democratic | Yukihisa Fujita | 204,021 | 17.6 | ||
Your | Junko Ishihara | 153,403 | 13.3 | ||
Restoration | Akira Ishii | 127,823 | 11.0 | ||
Communist | Kyoko Kobayashi | 97,197 | 8.4 | ||
Happiness Realization | Koki Nakamura | 14,586 | 1.3 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Hiroshi Okada | 499,566 | 38.7 | ||
Democratic | Akira Gunji (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
307,022 | 23.8 | ||
Democratic | Tomohiro Nagatsuka | 204,753 | 15.9 | ||
Your | Shigenori Okawa | 151,375 | 11.7 | ||
Sunrise | Rie Yoshida | 65,913 | 5.1 | ||
Communist | Nobutoshi Inaba | 50,136 | 3.9 | ||
Happiness Realization | Koki Nakamura | 11,664 | 0.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Yukihisa Fujita | 540,174 | 43.4 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Tamon Hasegawa | 427,297 | 34.3 | ||
Independent | 114,358 | 9.2 | |||
Communist | Takeo Taya | 86,288 | 6.9 | ||
People's New | Toshitaka Kudo | 52,621 | 4.2 | ||
Kyōsei Shintō | Hiromitsu Muto | 23,845 | 1.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Hiroshi Okada (endorsed by Komeito) |
583,471 | 50.5 | ||
Democratic | Akira Gunji | 477,948 | 41.3 | ||
Communist | Takeo Taya | 94,837 | 8.2 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Hiroshi Okada | 717,140 | 80.6 | ||
Communist | Osamu Kojima | 172,455 | 19.4 | ||
Turnout | 39.61 |
See also[]
- List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan
- Ibaraki 4th district, one of seven districts that represents Ibaraki Prefecture in the House of Representatives
References[]
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- ^ "郡司 彰(ぐんじ あきら):参議院" [Gunji, Akira: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ "岡田 広(おかだ ひろし):参議院" [Okada, Hiroshi: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ "藤田 幸久(ふじた ゆきひさ):参議院" [Fujita, Yukihisa: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 April 2016.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). national Diet Library. p. 92. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "選挙区開票結果 <茨城県>" [District results (Ibaraki)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "選挙区 茨城県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "選挙��� 茨城県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "選挙区 茨城県 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙" [Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
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