Hyogo At-large district
The Hyogo At-large district is a constituency that represents Hyogo Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. Councillors are elected to the house by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. From 1947 Hyogo elected six Councillors in two sets of three at elections held every three years. From 1995 Hyogo's representation was reduced to four (two sets of two). A 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law has restored the district's representation to six Councillors;[1] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which three Councillors will be elected.
The Councillors currently representing Hyogo are:
- Shinsuke Suematsu (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP); term ends in 2016)
- Shunichi Mizuoka (Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ); term ends in 2016)
- Yoshitada Konoike (LDP; term ends in 2019)
- Takayuki Shimizu (elected as a Japan Restoration Party candidate, currently belongs to Initiatives from Osaka; term ends in 2019)
Elected Councillors
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 (1947: #1, 6-year term) |
#2 (1947: #2, 6-year term) |
#3 (1947: #3, 6-year term) |
#1 (1947: #4, 3-year term) |
#2 (1947: #5, 3-year term) |
#3 (1947: #6, 3-year term) | |
| Chūjirō Haraguchi (Social Democratic)[note 1] |
Kōkichi Yagi (Ind.)[note 2] |
Shinji Fujimori (Democrats' Club) |
1947 | Masao Akagi (Democrats' Club) |
Masagorō Taguchi (Democratic) |
Tetsuo Kobata (Democratic) |
| Shigemi Yokoo (Dem. Liberal) |
1949 by-election | |||||
| Shinichi Okazaki (Dem. Lib.) |
1950 by-election | |||||
| 1950 | Masao Akagi (Summer Breeze) |
Seiichi Matsuura (Social Democratic) |
Katsumi Yamagata (Liberal) | |||
| Shinichi Okazaki (Liberal) |
Kenjin Matsuzawa (Right Socialist) |
Giichi Kawai (Left Socialist) |
1953 | |||
| 1956 | Ichiro Narita (LDP)[note 3] |
Bunmon Nakano (LDP) | ||||
| Shinichi Okazaki (LDP) |
Kenjin Matsuzawa (Social Democratic) |
Gentarō Aota (LDP) |
1959 | |||
| 1959 by-election | Sachio Kishida (LDP) | |||||
| 1962 | Yoshio Sano (Social Democratic)[note 4] | |||||
| Itoko Nakazawa (Dem. Socialist) |
1965 | |||||
| 1968 | Tōru Asai (Kōmeitō) |
Yukako Hagiwara (Dem. Socialist) | ||||
| Mamoru Kotani (Social Democratic) |
Motohiko Kanai (LDP) |
1971 | ||||
| 1972 by-election | Ichiro Nakanishi (LDP) | |||||
| 1974 | Hideo Yahara (Kōmeitō) |
Hiroko Yasutake (Communist) | ||||
| Michiko Watanabe (Kōmeitō) |
1977 | |||||
| 1980 | Shōji Motooka (Social Democratic) | |||||
| Hideo Yahara (Kōmeitō) |
Eiko Nukiyama (Dem. Socialist) |
Ichiji Ishii (LDP) |
1983 | |||
| 1986 | Kōjin Katakami (Kōmeitō) | |||||
| Yasuo Nishino (Social Democratic) |
1989 | |||||
| 1992 | Saburo Komoto (LDP)[note 5] | |||||
| Seat abolished[note 6] | Yoshitada Konoike (LDP) |
Ichiji Ishiii (New Frontier) |
1995 | |||
| 1996 by-election | Chōji Ashio (minor party)[note 7] | |||||
| 1998 | Tatsumi Osawa (Communist) |
Seat abolished[note 6] | ||||
| Yasuhiro Tsuji (DPJ) |
2001 | |||||
| 2004 | Shinsuke Suematsu (LDP) |
Shunichi Mizuoka (DPJ) | ||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| Takayuki Shimizu (Japan Restoration Party) |
2013 | |||||
| 2016 | seat restored[note 6] | |||||
| Seat restored[note 6] | 2019 | |||||
Notes
- ↑ Resigned 29 November 1949
- ↑ Was disqualified 27 May 1947
- ↑ Died in office on 4 July 1959
- ↑ Died in office on 27 September 1972
- ↑ Resigned on 8 October 1996 to contest the October 1996 House of Representatives election
- 1 2 3 4 The number of seats was reduced from six to four by electing one less Councillor in the 1996 and 1999 elections. The number of seats will return to six via the election of an extra Councillor at the 2016 and 2019 elections.
- ↑ Contested the election under the party name Hyogo's Party to Broaden Tomorrow's Japan (明日の日本をひらく兵庫の会 Ashita no Nihon o Hiraku Hyogo no Kai). He joined the LDP the year after his election.
References
- "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
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