Fukushima at-large district

Fukushima at-large district
福島県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
PrefectureFukushima
Electorate1,545,913 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats2
CouncillorsClass of 2028:
  •   Hokuto Hoshi (LDP)
Class of 2031:

The Fukushima at-large district (Japanese: 福島県選挙区, Hepburn: Fukushima-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Fukushima Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has two Councillors in the 248-member house.

Outline

From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 2010 election, Fukushima elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two each at alternating elections held every three years. In September 2012 Fukushima had 1,627,518 registered voters,[2] the 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[2] but were also represented by four Councillors each. To address this malapportionment, a November 2012 amendment to the Public Offices Election Law reduced Fukushima's (and Gifu's) representation to two Councillors.[3] This change began to take effect at the 2013 election, when only one Councillor was elected in Fukushima, and was completed at the 2016 election. The district has 1,607,908 registered voters as of September 2015.[4]

The Councillors currently representing Fukushima are:

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947 Election year Class of 1950
#2
(1947: 6-year term) 		#1
(1947: 6-year term) 		#1
(1947: 3-year term) 		#2
(1947: 3-year term)
Kentaro Yui
(Fukushima Democratic Club)[note 1] 		Tsuneo Matsudaira (Ind.)[note 2] 1947 Manuemon Hashimoto
(Democratic) 		Toshikatsu Tanaka
(Social Democratic)
Kanichiro Ishihara
(Democratic Liberal) 		1949 by-election[note 3]
1950 Manuemon Hashimoto
(Liberal)[note 4] 		Morie Kimura
(Liberal)
1951 by-election[note 5] Isao Matsudaira
(Liberal)
Kanemitsu Tabata
(Right Socialist) 		Kanichiro Ishihara
(Liberal) 		1953
1956 Ichiji Okawara
(Social Democratic)
Kanemitsu Tabata
(Social Democratic) 		Kanichiro Ishihara
(LDP) 		1959
1962
Hidezo Murata
(Social Democratic)[note 6] 		1965
1968 Seigo Suzuki
(LDP)
Shiro Tanabe
(LDP) 		1971
1974 Tadao Noguchi
(Social Democratic)
Shoichi Suzuki
(LDP) 		1977
1980 Tadashi Yaoita
(Social Democratic)
Eisaku Sato
(LDP)[note 7] 		1983
Masutaro Soeta
(LDP) 		1985 by-election[note 8]
1986
Kentaro Ishihara
(LDP)[note 9] 		1988 by-election[note 10]
Choei Aita
(Social Democratic) 		1989
1992 Shizuo Satō
(LDP)
Toyoaki Ota
(LDP) 		1993 by-election[note 11]
Hiroko Wada
(New Frontier) 		1995
1998 Mitsuhide Iwaki
(LDP) 		Yuhei Sato
(Ind.)
Hiroko Wada (DPJ) 2001
2004[11] Yuhei Sato (DPJ)[note 12]
2007 by-election[note 13] Teruhiko Mashiko (DPJ)
Emi Kaneko (DPJ) Masako Mori
(LDP) 		2007[12]
2010[13]
Seat abolished 2013[14]
2016[15] Seat abolished
2019[16]
2022[17] Hokuto Hoshi
(LDP)
2025[18]
  1. ^ Fukushima-ken Minshu Kurabu
  2. ^ Selected as first President of the House. Later joined Ryokufūkai. Died in office 14 November 1949.[7]
  3. ^ Held 24 December 1949[8]
  4. ^ Died in office 27 December 1950[9]
  5. ^ Held 12 February 1951[7]
  6. ^ Died in office 5 January 1985.[7]
  7. ^ Resigned 3 August 1988[8]
  8. ^ Held 17 February 1985[8]
  9. ^ Resigned 21 June 1993[8]
  10. ^ Held 4 September 1988[8]
  11. ^ Held 18 July 1993[10]
  12. ^ Resigned 23 October 2006[8]
  13. ^ Held 22 April 2007[8]

Election results

2025[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masako Mori (Incumbent) 327,951 38.2% 15.88
CDP Yōzaburō Ishihara 309,184 36.0% New
Sanseito Risako Ōyama 184,286 21.5% New
Independent Yūdai Endō 26,632 3.1% New
Anti-NHK Hiroyuki Ochi 10,070 1.2% New
Turnout 1,507,594 58.39% 4.99
2022
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hokuto Hoshi
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		419,701 51.58% New
Independent Akiko Onodera
(Endorsed by the CDP, DPP, and SDP) 		320,151 39.35% New
Independent Sanae Sato 30,913 3.80% New
Sanseito Sawako Kuboyama 23,027 2.83% New
Anti-NHK Makiko Minagawa 19,829 2.44% New
Turnout 813,621 53.40% 0.99
2019
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masako Mori (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		445,547 54.08% 2.51
Independent Sachiko Mizuno
(Endorsed by the CDP, DPP, and SDP) 		345,001 41.88% New
Anti-NHK Masahito Tayama 33,326 4.05% New
Turnout 823,874 52.41% 4.71
2016[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Teruhiko Mashiko (Incumbent) 462,852 50.50% 16.1
LDP Mitsuhide Iwaki 432,982 47.24% 13.14
Happiness Realization Hisshō Yanai 20,653 2.25% New
Turnout 57.12% 2.6
2013[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masako Mori
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		484,089 56.6
Democratic Emi Kaneko 240,842 28.2
JCP Tomo Iwabuchi 77,401 9.0
Social Democratic Yoko Endo
(Endorsed by People's Life Party) 		35,801 4.2
Happiness Realization Hidemitsu Sakai 9,860 1.2
Zaisei Saiken Kazushige Sugiuchi 7,425 0.9
Turnout
2010[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Teruhiko Mashiko
(Endorsed by People's New Party) 		340,947 34.4
LDP Mitsuhide Iwaki 338,265 34.1
Democratic Hiromi Ito 155,262 15.6
Your Kazumasa Sugamoto 93,758 9.4
JCP Tomo Iwabuchi 64,209 6.5
Turnout
2007[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Emi Kaneko 503,423 49.9
LDP Masako Mori
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		372,857 37.0
JCP Shizue Miyamoto 78,237 7.8
Social Democratic Usen Ogawa 54,466 5.4
Turnout
2007 by-election[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Teruhiko Mashiko 541,236 58.1
LDP Isamu Yamaguchi 303,782 32.6
JCP Shizue Miyamoto 85,994 9.2
Turnout 948,890 56.72 −3.62
2004[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yuhei Sato 445,560 45.4
LDP Mitsuhide Iwaki
(endorsed by Komeito) 		406,793 41.5
JCP Yumiko Abe 128,300 9.8 13.1
Turnout

See also

References

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