Kagawa At-large district (House of Councillors)

The Kagawa At-large district (香川県選挙区 Kagawa-ken Senkyo-ku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Kagawa Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Kagawa like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election.

Th Councillors currently representing Kagawa are:

Single-member districts (ichinin-ku) for the House of Councillors often play a decisive role for the outcome of elections as little swing in votes is required to achieve a change of the Councillors elected there. Kagawa in predominantly rural Shikoku has in most elections voted for candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP); but in 1950, 1965, 1971 and in the landslide election of 1989 – the first that led to a nejire kokkai ("twisted parliament": opposition control of the House of Councillors) – the main opposition Japan Socialist Party (JSP) managed to pick up a seat in Kagawa. Following the decline of the 1955 System of LDP and JSP and the party realignments of the 1990s, the JSP was replaced by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) as main opposition party. DPJ candidate Emiko Uematsu could win Kagawa by a large margin against LDP incumbent Kenji Manabe in the 2007 election that also led to a nejire kokkai.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term)		 #1
(1947: #2, 3-year term)
Hajime Miyoshi (Co-op) 1947[1] Tsunetarō Katō (JLP)
1950[2] Takashi Morisaki (JSP)
Kazuo Shirakawa (Indep.) 1953[3]
1956[4] Tarō Hirai (LDP)
Keikichi Masuhara (LDP) 1957 by-el.[5]
Juichi Tsushima (LDP) 1959[6]
1962[7]
Tan Maekawa (JSP) 1965[8]
1968[9]
1971[10]
1974 by-el.[11] Takushi Hirai (LDP)
1974[12]
Kenji Manabe (LDP) 1977[13]
1980[14]
1983[15]
1986[16]
Jun Kioka (JSP) 1989[17]
1992[18]
Kenji Manabe (LDP) 1995[19]
1998[20] Toshio Yamauchi (LDP)
2001[21]
2004[22]
Emiko Uematsu (DPJ) 2007[23]
2010[24] Yoshihiko Isozaki (LDP)

References

  1. ↑ 参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  2. ↑ 参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  3. ↑ 参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  4. ↑ 参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  5. ↑ 衆議院>第3回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  6. ↑ 参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  7. ↑ 参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  8. ↑ 参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  9. ↑ 参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  10. ↑ 参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  11. ↑ 参議院>第8回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  12. ↑ 参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  13. ↑ 参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  14. ↑ 参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  15. ↑ 参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  16. ↑ 参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  17. ↑ 参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  18. ↑ 参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  19. ↑ 参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  20. ↑ 参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  21. ↑ 参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  22. ↑ 参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  23. ↑ 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  24. ↑ 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>香川選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.

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