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.
Toshiharu Furukawa- Masakazu Sekiguchi
- Kiyoshi Ueda
- Makoto Nishida
- Mari Takagi
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 Year | Class of 1950/1956/... | ||||||
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#1 (1947: #1. 6 Year Term) | #2 (1947: #2, 6 Year Term) | #3 | #4 | #1 (1947: #3, 3-year term) | #2 (1947: #4, 3-year term) | #3 | #4 | |
Eizo Kobayashi (LP) | Yataro Hiranuma (LP) | 1947 | Katsumasa Amada (JSP) | Kazue Ishikawa (DP) | ||||
1950 | Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955 (JSP) | Shokichi Uehara (LP) | ||||||
Eizo Kobayashi (Yoshida LP) | Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP) | 1953 | ||||||
1955 by el. | Ryusaku Endo (Indep.) | |||||||
1956 | Yuichi Osawa # 1960 (LDP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | ||||||
Eizo Kobayashi (LDP) | Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP) | 1959 | ||||||
1960 by el. | Kanzo Oizumi (LDP) | |||||||
1962 | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||||
Katsuji Mori (JSP) | Yoshio Tsuchiya (LDP) | 1965 | ||||||
1968 | ||||||||
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Katsuji Mori (JSP) | 1971 | ||||||
1974 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | ||||||
Juro Morita (NLC) | 1977 | |||||||
1980 | Ryoko Nao (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||||
1983 | ||||||||
1986 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Ryoko Nao (LDP) | ||||||
Hajime Fukuda (JSP) | Yoshio Tsuchiya # 1992 (Indep.) | 1989 | ||||||
Taizo Sato (LDP) | 1991 by-el. | Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) | ||||||
1992 (including by-el.) | Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||||
Hiroshi Takano (NFP) | Sachiyo Abe (JCP) | 1995 | ||||||
1998 | Takujiro Hamada # 2003 (Indep.) | Renzo Togashi (JCP) | Toshio Fuji (DPJ) | |||||
Taizo Sato (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Hiroshi Takano (Komeito) | Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) | 2001 | |||||
2003 by-el. | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | |||||||
2004 | Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |||||
Kuniko Koda (DPJ) | Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | 2007 | ||||||
2010 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | Motohiro Ōno (DPJ) | |||||
Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Kuniko Koda (Your Party) | 2013 | |||||
2016 | Motohiro Ōno # 2019 (DPJ) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | ||||||
Hiroto Kumagai (CDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Gaku Ito (JCP) | 2019 | |||||
2019 by-el. | Kiyoshi Ueda (Indepen.) | |||||||
2022 | Mari Takagi (CDP) |
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.
References
House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors
- ^ "総務省|令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ 参議院>第22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21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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