Yamaguchi at-large district

The Yamaguchi at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of the entire prefecture of Yamaguchi and is represented by two Councillors electing one every three years.

Single-member districts usually get higher attention in House of Councillors elections because they are easier to swing completely than multi-member districts. But Yamaguchi has consistently voted for LDP candidates between the 1960s and 1980s. In the 1989 election when the ruling LDP lost the upper house majority for the first time, Socialist Kenichi Yamada beat incumbent Masuo Matsuoka by a margin of more than 100,000 votes. Matsuoka later ran as an independent and won Yamaguchi again in 1998. He later joined the Democratic Party of Japan.

Currently Yamaguchi is represented by two Councillors:

  • Yoshimasa Hayashi (LDP, Koga faction), minister in the realigned Fukuda and Aso cabinets, son of finance minister Yoshirō Hayashi, grandson of representative Keisuke Hayashi and great-grandson House of Peers member Heishirō Hayashi
  • Nobuo Kishi (LDP, Machimura faction), parliamentary secretary for defence in the Fukuda and Aso cabinets, from the Kishi-Abe-Satō dynasty of prime ministers Nobusuke Kishi (grandfather), Eisaku Satō (granduncle), Shinzo Abe (brother) .

Elected Councillors
election
year		 class of 1947 class of 1950
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term)		 #1
(1947: #2, 3-year term)
1947[1] Takeo Kurusu (JLP) Isuke Himei (JSP)
1950[2] Mochinaga Nakagawa (LP)
1953[3] Kimiko Abe (Indep.)
1956[4] Yūkei Kinoshita (JSP)
1959[5] Eichi Yoshitake (LDP)
1962[6] Kengo Futatsugi (LDP)
1965[7]
1968[8]
1971[9]
1974[10]
1977[11] Tarō Ozawa (LDP)
1980[12] Atsushi Ejima (LDP)
1983[13] Masuo Matsuoka (LDP)
1986[14]
1987 by-el.[15] Hideo Futatsugi (LDP)
1989[16] Kenichi Yamada (JSP)
1992[17]
1995[18] Yoshimasa Hayashi (LDP)
1998[19] Masuo Matsuoka (Indep.)
2001[20]
2004[21] Nobuo Kishi (LDP)
2007[22]
2010[23]

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