Chiba at-large district explained

Chiba at-large district
Type:	Parliamentary
Parl Name:	House of Councillors
District Label:	Prefecture
District:	Chiba
Electorate:	5,279,312 (as of September 2022)^[1]
Year:	1947
Seats:	6
Member Label:	Councillors
Member:	Class of 2019:Class of 2022:

The is a constituency that represents Chiba Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It has six Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Chiba Prefecture. The district elects six Councillors to six-year terms, two sets of three each at alternating elections held every three years. Prior to the 2007 election the district elected four Councilors in two sets of two. The district has 5,092,741 registered voters as of September 2015.^[2] The Councillors currently representing Chiba are:

• Kuniko Inoguchi (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016)^[3]
• Hiroyuki Konishi (Democratic Party, first term; term ends in 2016)^[4]
• Kenichi Mizuno (Democratic Party, first term; term ends in 2016)^[5]
• Junichi Ishii (LDP, second term; term ends in 2019)^[6]
• Hiroyuki Nagahama (Democratic Party, second term; term ends in 2019)^[7]
• Toshiro Toyoda (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)^[8]

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947			election year	Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947)
-	Akira Ono (Ind.)	Hisashi Yamazaki (Ind.)	1947	Yoshiaki Tamaya (Liberal)	Ichiro Asai (Democratic)	-
			1950	Kinsuke Kanō (Liberal)	Toshizō Tsuchiya (Liberal)
			1950 by-election		Fumie Kataoka (Social Democratic)
	Kan Kase (Ind.)	Tamenosuke Kawaguchi (Liberal)	1953
			1954 by-election	Shigejiro Inō (Liberal)
			1956	Shigejirō Inō (LDP)
	Kan Kase (Social Democratic)	Kyūtarō Ozawa (LDP)	1959
			1960 by-election	Yoshio Kijima (LDP)
			1962		Akio Yanaoka (Social Democratic)
			1965
		Gisaku Sugeno (LDP)	1967 by-election
			1968		Ichitaro Watanabe (LDP)
			1971
			1974	Takayoshi Takahashi (LDP)	Misao Akagiri (Social Democratic)
			1977
			1980	Yutaka Inoue (LDP)
		Sōichi Usui (LDP)	1981 by-election
	Yaeko Itohisa (Social Democratic)	Hiroyuki Kurata (LDP)	1983
			1986
			1989
			1992
	Ryōzō Iwase (New Frontier)		1995
			1998		Wakako Hironaka (Ind.)
	Akira Imaizumi (DPJ)		2001
			2002 by-election	Kazuyasu Shiina (LDP)
			2004^[9]		Wakako Hironaka (DPJ)
Ken Kagaya (DPJ)	Hiroyuki Nagahama (DPJ)	Junichi Ishii (LDP)	2007^[10]
			2010^[11]	Hiroyuki Konishi (DPJ)	Kuniko Inoguchi (LDP)	Kenichi Mizuno (Your Party)
Junichi Ishii (LDP)	Toshirō Toyoda (LDP)	Hiroyuki Nagahama (DPJ)	2013^[12]
			2016^[13]	Kuniko Inoguchi (LDP)	Taichirō Motoe (LDP)	Hiroyuki Konishi (DPJ)
	Hiroyuki Nagahama (CDP)	Toshirō Toyoda (LDP)	2019^[14]
			2022^[15]	Shoichi Usui (LDP)	Kuniko Inoguchi (LDP)		Hiroyuki Konishi (CDP)

See also

• List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. 2023-01-04. ja. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022.
2. Web site: 平成２７年９月２日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 . Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015 . Japanese . 2 September 2015 . 8 April 2016.
3. Web site: 猪口　邦子（いのぐち　くにこ）：参議院 . Inoguchi, Kuniko: House of Councillors . Japanese . 8 April 2016.
4. Web site: 小西　洋之（こにし　ひろゆき）：参議院 . Konishi, Hiroyuki: House of Councillors . Japanese . 8 April 2016.
5. Web site: 水野　賢一（みずの　けんいち）：参議院 . Mizuno, Kenichi: House of Councillors . Japanese . 8 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160330083227/http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/giin/profile/7010049.htm . 30 March 2016 . dead .
6. Web site: 石井　準一（いしい　じゅんいち）：参議院 . Ishii, Junichi: House of Councillors . Japanese . 8 April 2016.
7. Web site: 長浜　博行（ながはま　ひろゆき）：参議院 . Nagahama, Hiroyuki: House of Councillors . Japanese . 8 April 2016.
8. Web site: 豊田　俊郎（とよだ　としろう）：参議院 . Toyoda, Toshiro: House of Councillors . Japanese . 8 April 2016.
9. Web site: 選挙区開票結果　<千葉県> . District results (Chiba) . Asahi Shimbun . 8 April 2016.
10. Web site: 選挙区　千葉県 開票結果 参院選2007 . Chiba At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 8 April 2016.
11. Web site: 選挙区　千葉県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙 . Chiba At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 8 April 2016.
12. Web site: 選挙区　千葉県 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙 . Chiba At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 8 April 2016.
13. Web site: [Election District] Chiba Prefecture 2016 ]. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170930152648/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin/2016/kaihyou/ye12.html . 30 Sep 2017 . 31 Oct 2023 . Yomiuri Shimbun.
14. Web site: 2019-07-03 . House of Councilors election 2019 Cho. 2023-10-31 . 読売新聞オンライン . ja.
15. Web site: 2022-06-22 . Chiba House of Councilors Election 2022 - Election News/Vote Counting Results. 2023-10-31 . 読売新聞オンライン . ja.