Tokushima At-large district (House of Councillors)

Tokushima At-large district (徳島選挙区 Tokushima senkyoku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Tokushima 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, Tokushima like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election.

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. Tokushima in predominantly rural Shikoku has for decades voted for candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) or ex-LDP conservative independents by large margins. In the landslide election of 1989 that left the LDP-led government without a majority in the House of Councillors for the first time, a so-called "twisted parliament" (nejire kokkai), Harumi Inui from RENGO trade union federation's Rengō no Kai could win Tokushima against incumbent Tomoyoshi Kamanaga by a margin of 60.000 votes.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term) 		#1
(1947: #2, 3-year term)
Yojin Akazawa
(Kakushin Kyōdō,
"Progressive Cooperation")[1]		 1947[2] Makio Kishino (Indep.)[3]
1947 by-el.[4] Mitsu Kōro (DP)
1950[5]
Yokichirō Miki (Indep.) 1953[6]
1956[7] Mitsu Kōro (LDP)
Yokichirō Miki (LDP) 1959[8]
1962[9]
1965[10]
1968[11] Kentarō Kujime (LDP)
Kōshō Ogasa (Indep.) 1971[12]
1974[13] Kentarō Kujime (Indep.)
Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP) 1977[14]
1980[15] Ken Naitō (LDP)
1983[16]
1986[17] Kōji Matsuura (LDP)
Harumi Inui (Rengō no Kai) 1989[18]
1992[19]
Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) 1995[20]
1998[21] Kiseko Takahashi (Indep.)[22]
2001[23]
2004[24] Masakatsu Koike (LDP)
Tomoji Nakatani (DPJ) 2007[25]
2010[26] Yūsuke Nakanishi (LDP)

References

  1. ↑ joined Ryokufūkai
  2. ↑ 参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  3. ↑ joined Ryokufūkai
  4. ↑ 参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  5. ↑ 参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  6. ↑ 参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  7. ↑ 参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  8. ↑ 参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  9. ↑ 参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  10. ↑ 参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  11. ↑ 参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  12. ↑ 参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  13. ↑ 参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  14. ↑ 参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  15. ↑ 参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  16. ↑ 参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  17. ↑ 参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  18. ↑ 参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  19. ↑ 参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  20. ↑ 参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  21. ↑ 参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  22. ↑ ran with opposition support, later joined Midori no Kaigi (lit. "Green Conference")
  23. ↑ 参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  24. ↑ 参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  25. ↑ 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  26. ↑ 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-07-12.

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