Ehime At-Large District | |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Parl Name: | House of Councillors |
District Label: | Prefecture |
District: | Ehime |
Region Label: | Proportional Block |
Electorate: | 1,134,208 (as of 1 September 2022)[1] |
Year: | 1947 |
Seats: | 2 |
Member Label: | Councillors |
Member: | Class of 2019:Class of 2022: |
is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It represents Ehime 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, Ehime like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election. It has 1,169,427 registered voters as of September 2015.[2] As a predominantly rural district, it has favoured the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate in most elections.
The current Councillors for Ehime are:
As of 31 January 2023, the current Councillors for Ehime are:
class of 1947 (1947: #1, 6-year term) | election year | class of 1950 (1947: #2, 3-year term) |
---|---|---|
Sadatake Hisamatsu (Ehime Democratic Party) | 1947 | Tsunetaro Nakahira (Social Democratic) |
1950 | Hachijiro Mitsuhashi (Social Democratic)[4] | |
Minoru Tamayanagi (Ind.) | 1951 by-el. | |
Isamu Yuyama | 1953 | |
1956 | Senjitsu Horimoto (LDP) | |
Keikichi Masuhara (LDP) | 1959 | |
1962 | ||
1965 | ||
1968 | ||
1971 | ||
1974 | Masami Aoi (LDP) | |
Tokutaro Higaki (LDP) | 1977 | |
1980 | Yukio Nakagawa (LDP) | |
1983 | ||
1986 | ||
Oasmu Ikeda (Rengō no Kai) | 1989 | |
1992 | A | |
Yasuhisa Shiozaki (LDP) | 1995 | |
1998 | ||
Katsutsugu Sekiya (LDP) | 2000 by-el. | |
2001 | ||
2004 | Junzo Yamamoto (LDP) | |
Toshirō Tomochika (Ind.) | 2007 | |
2010[5] | ||
Takumi Ihara (LDP) | 2013[6] | |
2016[7] | ||
Takako Nagae (Ind.) | 2019 | |
2022 |