Saitama at-large district
Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.
Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.
Current Councillors from Saitama are:
- in the class of 2016 (term ends 2022):
- Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP, Nukaga faction), 4th term,
- Makoto Nishida (Kōmeitō), 3rd term,
- Kiyoshi Ueda (Ind.), 1st term.
- in the class of 2007 (term ends 2013):
- Kuniko Kōda (DPJ), 1st term,
- Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP, Machimura faction), 1st term, and
- Ryūji Yamane (DPJ, Kawabata (=ex-DSP) group), 2nd term.
Recent election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Masakazu Sekiguchi | 655,028 | 20.6 | ||
| Kōmeitō | Makoto Nishida | 594,678 | 18.7 | ||
| DPJ | Motohiro Ōno | 557,398 | 17.5 | ||
| DPJ | Chiyako Shimada | 544,381 | 17.1 | ||
| YP | Tsukasa Kobayashi | 416,663 | 13.1 | ||
| JCP | Gaku Itō | 207,957 | 6.5 | ||
| NRP | Kōji Nakagawa | 84,897 | 2.7 | ||
| SDP | Fumihiro Himori | 72,185 | 2.3 | ||
| Independent | Kōsei Hasegawa | 37,731 | 1.2 | ||
| HRP | Hirotoshi Inda | 9,536 | 0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 3,246,247 | 55.83 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ | Kuniko Kōda | 745,517 | 23.5 | ||
| LDP | Toshiharu Furukawa | 684,270 | 21.6 | ||
| DPJ | Ryūji Yamane | 665,063 | 21.0 | ||
| Kōmeitō | Hiroshi Takano | 623,723 | 19.7 | ||
| JCP | Sumiko Ayabe | 277,440 | 8.7 | ||
| SDP | Etsuko Matsuzawa | 104,403 | 3.3 | ||
| PNP | Tetsuo Sawada | 72,756 | 2.3 | ||
| Turnout | 3,227,638 | 56.35 | |||
Historical Councillors elected from Saitama
| Class of 1947/1953/... | Election | Class of 1950/1956/... | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 (1947: #1, 6-year term) |
#2 (1947: #2, 6-year term) (1992: #3, 3-year term) |
#3 | #1 (1947: #3, 3-year term) |
#2 (1947: #4, 3-year term) |
#3 | |
| Eizō Kobayashi (JLP) |
Yatarō Hiranuma (JLP) |
– | 1947[3] | Katsumasa Amada (JSP) |
Kazue Ishikawa (DP) |
– |
| 1950[4] | Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955 (JSP) |
Shōkichi Uehara (LP) | ||||
| Eizō Kobayashi (Yoshida LP) |
Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP) |
1953[5] | ||||
| 1955 by-el.[6] |
Ryūsaku Endō (Indep.)[party 1] | |||||
| 1956[7] | Yūichi Ōsawa # 1960 (LDP) |
Shōkichi Uehara (LDP) | ||||
| Eizō Kobayashi (LDP) |
Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP) |
1959[8] | ||||
| 1960 by-el.[9] |
Kanzō Ōizumi (LDP) | |||||
| 1962[10] | Shōkichi Uehara (LDP) |
Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||
| Katsuji Mori (JSP) |
Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (LDP) |
1965[11] | ||||
| 1968[12] | ||||||
| Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (LDP) |
Katsuji Mori (JSP) |
1971[13] | ||||
| 1974[14] | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) |
Shōkichi Uehara (LDP) | ||||
| Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (LDP) |
Jūrō Morita (NLC) |
1977[15] | ||||
| 1980[16] | Ryōkō Nao (LDP) |
Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||
| 1983[17] | ||||||
| 1986[18] | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) |
Ryōkō Nao † 1991 (LDP) | ||||
| Hajime Fukada (JSP) |
Yoshihiko Tsuchiya # 1992 (Indep.) |
1989[19] | ||||
| Taizō Satō (LDP) |
1992 (integrated by-el.)[20] |
Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) |
Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | |||
| Hiroshi Takano (NFP) |
Taizō Satō (LDP) |
Sachiyo Abe (JCP) |
1995[21] | |||
| 1998[22] | Takujirō Hamada # 2003 (Indep.)[party 2] |
Renzō Togashi (JCP) |
Toshio Fujii (DPJ) | |||
| Taizō Satō (LDP) |
Hiroshi Takano (Kōmeitō) |
Ryūji Yamane (DPJ) |
2001[23] | |||
| 2003 by-el.[24] |
Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | |||||
| 2004[25] | Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) |
Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) |
Makoto Nishida (Kōmeitō) | |||
| Kuniko Kōda (DPJ) |
Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) |
2007[2] | ||||
| 2010[1] | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) |
Makoto Nishida (Kōmeitō) |
Motohiro Ōno (DPJ) | |||
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.
- later joined LDP
- joined Kaikaku Club ("Reform Club") in 1999; became a member of the Kōmeitō parliamentary group at least temporarily according to the list of former Councillors Archived 2009-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
References
House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors
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- 参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- 参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
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- 参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- 参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
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