Kyoto at-large district

The Kyoto at-large district (Japanese: 京都府選挙区 Hepburn: Kyōto-fu senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Kyoto Prefecture in the House of Councillors of the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Kyoto Prefecture. Since its inception in 1947, the district has elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,088,383 registered voters as of September 2015.[1] The Councillors currently representing Kyoto are:

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947 election year Class of 1950
(3-year term in 1947)
Rinichi Hatano (Ind.)[note 1] Kunihiko Kanie
(Social Democratic)		 1947 Hidejiro Onogi[note 2]
(LDP)[note 3]		 Shuichiro Oku (Liberal)
1950 Ikuo Oyama (Ind.)[note 4]
Seiichi Inoue
(LDP)[note 5]		 Katsuo Takenaka[note 6]
(Right Socialist)		 1953
1956 by-election[note 7] Hideo Konishi (LDP)
1956 Totaro Fujita
(Social Democratic)
Eiichi Nagasue[note 8]
(Social Democratic)		 1959
1962
Mitsunori Ueki
(LDP)		 1963 by-election[note 9]
Kazutaka Ohashi[note 10]
(Social Democratic)		 1965
1966 by-election[note 11] Yukio Hayashida[note 12]
(LDP)
1968 Kenji Kawada (JCP)
1971
Hanji Ogawa (LDP) 1974 by-election[note 13]
1974
Akio Sato (JCP) 1977
1978 by-election[note 14] Minoru Ueda
(LDP)
1980 Shinnosuke Kamitani
(JCP)
1983
1986 Yukio Hayashida
(LDP)
Teiko Sasano
(Democratic Reform)[note 15]		 Yoshihiro Nishida
(LDP)		 1989
1992 Tokiko Nishiyama (JCP)
1995
1998 Tetsuro Fukuyama
(DPJ)[note 16]
Koji Matsui
(DPJ)		 2001
2004[9] Satoshi Ninoyu
(LDP)
Shoji Nishida
(LDP)		 2007[10]
2010[11]
Akiko Kurabayashi (JCP) 2013[12]
  1. ↑ Later joined Ryokufūkai[6]
  2. ↑ Died in office 4 March 1966.[7]
  3. ↑ Elected in 1947 and 1950 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
  4. ↑ Died in office 30 November 1955[7]
  5. ↑ Elected in 1947 and 1953 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
  6. ↑ Died in office 26 January 1959[6]
  7. ↑ Held 15 January 1956[8]
  8. ↑ Resigned 30 October 1963 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives[6]
  9. ↑ Held 10 December 1963[8]
  10. ↑ Resigned 13 March 1974 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election[7][8]
  11. ↑ Held 27 April 1966[8]
  12. ↑ Resigned 15 March 1978 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election[6][8]
  13. ↑ Held 21 April 1974[8]
  14. ↑ Held 23 April 1978[8]
  15. ↑ Contested the 1989 election as a member of the Rengō no Kai.
  16. ↑ Contested the 1998 election as an independent but joined the DPJ soon after.

Election results

2013[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democratic Shoji Nishida (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 390,577 37.0
Communist Akiko Kurabayashi 219,273 20.7
Democratic Keiro Kitagami 201,297 19.0
Restoration Seisuke Yamauchi 56,409 16.8
Your Yoko Kinoshita 71,983 6.8
Happiness Realization Shusaku Soga 6,119 0.6
Uchide Party Nobuo Shindo 2,906 0.3
Turnout
2010[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 374,550 34.3
Liberal Democratic Satoshi Ninoyu (Incumbent) 308,296 28.2
Communist Mariko Narumiya 181,691 16.6
Your Takuya Nakagawa 120,262 11.0
Democratic Mitsue Kawakami 94,761 8.7
Happiness Realization Satoko Kitagawa 11,962 1.1
Turnout
2007[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Koji Matsui (Incumbent) 501,979 43.6
Liberal Democratic Shoji Nishida
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 362,274 31.4
Communist Mariko Narumiya 275,285 23.9
Ishin Seito Shimpu Toyokazu Okido 12,799 1.1
Turnout
2004[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent) 484,297 43.8
Liberal Democratic Satoshi Ninoyu
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 358,512 32.4
Communist Tokiko Nishiyama (Incumbent) 263,548 23.8
Turnout

See also

References

  1. ↑ "平成２７年９月２日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015] (in Japanese). 28 December 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "福山　哲郎（ふくやま　てつろう）：参議院" [Fukuyama, Tetsuro: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "二之湯　智（にのゆ　さとし）：参議院" [Ninoyu, Satoshi: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "西田　昌司（にしだ　しょうじ）：参議院" [Nishida, Shoji: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "倉林　明子（くらばやし　あきこ）：参議院" [Kurabayashi, Akiko: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). National Diet Library. pp. 86–95. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  9. 1 2 "選挙区開票結果　<京都府>" [District results (Kyoto)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  10. 1 2 "選挙区　京都府 開票結果 参院選2007" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  11. 1 2 "選挙区　京都府 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  12. 1 2 "選挙区　京都府 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.

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