Gifu at-large district

The Gifu at-large district (Japanese: 岐阜県選挙区, Hepburn: Gifu-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Gifu Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has three Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline

From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 election, Gifu elected two Councillors to six-year terms at alternating elections held every three years. Electoral reform in 1994 increased Gifu's representation to four Councillors, which began to take effect at the 1992 election, at which two Councillors were elected.

In September 2012 Gifu had 1,684,766 registered voters,[1] the second-lowest of the 12 prefectures that were represented by 4 Councillors at that time. By comparison, the three most populous districts of Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each had more than 4 million voters[1] but were also represented by four Councillors each. To address this malapportionment, a November 2012 amendment to the Public Offices Election Law reduced Gifu's representation (along with Fukushima's) representation to two Councillors.[2] This change began to take effect at the 2013 election, when only one Councillor was elected in Gifu, and will be completed at the 2016 election. The district has 1,666,610 registered voters as of September 2015.[3]

The Councillors currently representing Fukushima are:

Elected Councillors
Note: Party listed is at the time of election
class of 1947 election year class of 1950
#2 #1
(1947: 6-year term)		 #1
(1947: 3-year term)		 #2
- Osamu Ito
(Social Democratic)		 1947 Jinkichi Watanabe (Ind.) -
1950 Shinzo Koike
(Liberal)
Keiichi Tanaka
(Liberal)		 1953
1956 Shinzo Koike
(LDP)
Keiichi Tanaka
(LDP)		 1959
1962
Namio Nakamura
(Social Democratic)[note 1]		 1965
1968
1971
1974 Heigo Fujii
(LDP)[note 2]
Hiromu Asano
(LDP)[note 3]		 1977
1980
Feb. 1981 by-election[note 4] Takao Fujii
(LDP)[note 5]
Reijo Sugiyama
(LDP)		 June 1981 by-election[note 6]
1983
1986
Kazunobu Takai
(Rengō no Kai)[note 7]		 1989
1992
Shoya Iwasaki
(Social Democratic)		 1993 by-election[note 8] Junichi Kasahara
(LDP)
Kenji Hirata
(New Frontier)		 Akira Ohno (LDP)[note 9] 1995
Tsuyako Ohno (Ind.) 1996 by-election[note 10]
1998 Iwada Matsuo (Ind.) Yasuo Yamashita
(DPJ)
Kenji Hirata (DPJ) Tsuyako Ohno
(LDP)		 2001
2004[10] Iwao Matsuda (LDP)
Takao Fujii (Ind.) 2007[11]
2010[12] Takeyuki Watanabe (LDP) Toshiharu Komiyama (DPJ)
Seat abolished Yasutada Ohno (LDP) 2013[13]
  1. Resigned 12 January 1977[7]
  2. Died in office 14 December 1980[7]
  3. Died in office 15 May 1981[8]
  4. Held 1 February 1981[7]
  5. Resigned 18 June 1993[7]
  6. Held 28 June 1981[8]
  7. Resigned 21 June 1993[7]
  8. Held 18 July 1993[8]
  9. Died in office 5 February 1996[8]
  10. Held 24 March 1996[9]

Election results
2013[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yasutada Ohno
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 500,580 58.8
Democratic Rie Yoshida 218,074 25.6
Communist Masanori Suzuki 115,503 13.6
Happiness Realization Yukihiko Kano 17,893 2.1
Turnout
2010[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Takeyuki Watanabe
(Endorsed by Sunrise Party)		 425,594 44.0
Democratic Yoshiharu Komiyama
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 229,225 23.7
Democratic Yasuo Yamashita
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 221,343 22.9
Communist Masanori Suzuki 73,031 7.5
Happiness Realization Yukihiko Kano 18,138 1.9
Turnout
2007[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Takao Fujii
(Endorsed by LDP, Komeito)		 466,008 46.1
Democratic Kenji Hirata 445,489 44.1
Communist Takao Kato 99,301 9.8
Turnout
2004[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Iwao Matsuda
(endorsed by Komeito)		 428,988 44.5
Democratic Yasuo Yamashita 422,235 43.8
Communist Takao Kato 112,882 11.7
Turnout

See also

References
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  2. "Weighing Vote Disparity in Japan's Upper House". 30 July 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. "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 15 March 2016.
  4. "渡辺　猛之（わたなべ　たけゆき）：参議院" [Watanabe, Takeyuki: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  5. "小見山　幸治（こみやま　よしはる）：参議院" [Komiyama, Yoshiharu: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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  7. "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  8. "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  9. "歴代参議院議員一覧" [List of Former Councillors] (PDF) (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  10. "選挙区開票結果　<岐阜県>" [District results (Gifu)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  11. "選挙区　岐阜県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Gifu at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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  13. "選挙区 岐阜 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Gifu at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 15 March 2016.

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