Iwate At-large district (House of Councillors)

Iwate At-large district (岩手県選挙区, Iwate-ken senkyo-ku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Iwate Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years, making it one of the decisive single-member districts. In the initial election of 1947 it used – like all districts – single non-transferable vote to select both its Councillors in one election.

The Councillors currently representing Iwate are:

Predominantly rural Iwate is home and stronghold of reformist-conservative former Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secretary-general Ichirō Ozawa, i.e. the LDP, the Renewal Party, the New Frontier Party, the Liberal Party and finally the Democratic Party.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947/1953/...
(1947: #1, 6-year term)		 election year class of 1950/1956/...
(1947: #2, 3-year term)
Katsuji Debuchi † 1947
(Indep.)[party 1]		 1947[1] Tadashi Chida (Indep.)
Matsusuke Kawamura
(JLP)		 1947 by-el.[2]
1950[3]
Matsusuke Kawamura
(Yoshida faction LP)		 1953[4]
1956[5]
Teiji Yamura † 1968
(LDP)		 1959[6]
1962[7] Kankichi Watanabe
(JSP)
1965[8]
Michiyuki Isurugi † 1987
(LDP)		 1968 by-el.[9]
1968[10] Sakari Masuda
(LDP)
1971[11]
1974[12]
1977[13]
1980[14]
1983[15]
1986[16] Kiyotaka Takahashi
(LDP)
Jin'ichi Ogawa
(JSP)		 1987 by-el.[17]
1989[18]
1992[19] Motoo Shiina
(LDP)[party 2]
Yoshinori Takahashi
(NFP)		 1995[20]
1998[21] Motoo Shiina
(Indep.)[party 3]
Tatsuo Hirano
(LP)		 2001[22]
2004[23] Ryō Shuhama
(DPJ)
Tatsuo Hirano
(DPJ)		 2007[24]
2010[25]

Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned; †: died in office.

  1. ^ joined Ryokufūkai
  2. ^ left LDP in 1993, later temporarily "Liberal Assembly"
  3. ^ joined "Independent Assembly"

Recent election results

2010[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Ryō Shuhama 351,545 54.2
LDP Yukifumi Takahashi 197,137 30.4
SDP Masahiro Iwasa 54,989 8.5
JCP Sadakiyo Segawa 44,771 6.9
Turnout 669,498 60.36
2007[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Tatsuo Hirano 437,814 62.6
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Shōichirō Chida 176,096 25.2
SDP Masahiro Iwasa 47,425 6.8
JCP Akio Wakayama 38,089 5.4
Turnout 714,559 63.49

References

House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

  1. ^ "参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1947/99/001803/00001803_8411.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  2. ^ "参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1947/99/00001804.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  3. ^ "参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1950/99/001841/00001841_8513.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  4. ^ "参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1953/99/001862/00001862_8580.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  5. ^ "参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1956/99/001873/00001873_8637.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  6. ^ "参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1959/99/001900/00001900_8710.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  7. ^ "参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1962/99/001907/00001907_8764.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  8. ^ "参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1965/99/001918/00001918_8821.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  9. ^ "参議院>第7回参議院議員補欠選挙" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1968/99/00001919.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  10. ^ "参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1968/99/001930/00001930_8880.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  11. ^ "参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1971/99/001935/00001935_8931.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  12. ^ "参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1974/99/001945/00001945_8989.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  13. ^ "参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1977/99/001953/00001953_9047.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  14. ^ "参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1980/99/001960/00001960_9101.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  15. ^ "参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1983/99/001970/00001970_9158.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  16. ^ "参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1986/99/001975/00001975_9210.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  17. ^ "参議院>第14回参議院議員補欠選挙" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1987/99/00001976.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  18. ^ "参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1989/99/001986/00001986_9268.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  19. ^ "参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1992/99/001996/00001996_9325.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  20. ^ "参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1995/99/001998/00001998_9377.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  21. ^ "参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1998/99/002001/00002001_9427.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  22. ^ "参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2001/99/002009/00002009_9577.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  23. ^ "参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2004/99/002006/00002006_9527.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  24. ^ a b "参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2007/99/006850/00006850_17759.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  25. ^ a b "参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>岩手選挙区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. Voice Japan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2010/99/011253/00011253_27084.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
Iwate's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present): 1 2 3 4 · PR: part of the Tōhoku PR block (16→14 seats) · House of Councillors: At-large (4 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993): 1 2 (8→7 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946): At-large (8 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942): 1 2 (7 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917): Morioka city · counties (gunbu) (6 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898): 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)