Fukuoka at-large district explained

Fukuoka at-large district
Type:	Parliamentary
Parl Name:	House of Councillors
District Label:	Prefecture
District:	Fukuoka
Electorate:	4,223,753 (as of September 2022)^[1]
Year:	1947
Seats:	6
Member Label:	Councillors
Member:	Class of 2019:Class of 2022:

Fukuoka at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of the entire prefecture of Fukuoka and is represented by four Councillors electing two per election by single non-transferable vote.

Between 1947 and 1995 Gunma was represented by six Councillors. The 1994 electoral reform reapportioned the number of seats, increasing the number of Councillors in Miyagi, Saitama, Kanagawa and Gifu by two each (one per election) and reducing the number in Hokkaido, Hyogo and Fukuoka. Since the election of 2001 Fukuoka, like most two-member districts, has split seats between the two major parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

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)
Shunsaku Noda (Indep.)	Kane Hatano (JSP)	Tamotsu Hashigami (DP)	1947^[2]	Torazō Hamada (JSP)	Senju Shimada (JSP)	Inoo Dan (JLP)
		Hōsei Yoshida (JSP)	1950 by-el.^[3]
			1950^[4]	Masao Komatsu (JSP)	Inoo Dan (LP)	Takao Nishida (DP)
Hōsei Yoshida (JSP, left)	Toshihiro Kennoki (Yoshida LP)	Shunsaku Noda (Ryokufūkai)	1953^[5]
			1955 by-el.^[6]		Tsunekatsu Yamamoto (JSP, left)
			1956^[7]	Tsunekatsu Yamamoto (JSP)	Kiyomi Abe (JSP)	Takao Nishida (LDP)
			1958 by-el.^[8]	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)
Hōsei Yoshida (JSP)	Shunsaku Noda (LDP)	Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	1959^[9]
			1962^[10]	Hikaru Kamei (LDP)	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)	Ryūsuke Moribe (LDP)
Ichitarō Komiya (JSP)			1963 by-el.^[11]
Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	Momotarō Yanagida (LDP)	Akira Ono (JSP)	1965^[12]
			1967 by-el.^[13]	Katsuyuki Onimaru (LDP)
			1968^[14]	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)	Katsuyuki Onimaru (LDP)	Masafumi Yoneda (LDP)
Akira Ono (JSP)	Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	Momotarō Yanagida (LDP)	1971^[15]
			1974^[16]		Kazuhisa Arita (LDP)	Yoshiharu Kuwana (Kōmeitō)
Masao Endō (LDP)	Tatsuru Harada (Kōmeitō)	Akira Ono (JSP)	1977^[17]
			1980^[18]	Shūji Kurauchi (LDP)	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)
			1983^[19]
			1986^[20]	Yukihiro Fukuda (LDP)	Shirō Watanabe (JSP)	Kazuki Motomura (LDP)
			1989 by-el.^[21]	Sadao Fuchigami (JSP)
Akira Ono (JSP)	Kentarō Koba (Kōmeitō)	Kei Ōma (LDP)	1989^[22]
			1991 by-el.^[23]			Kichinosuke Shigetomi (LDP)
			1992^[24]	Kazunobu Yokoo (Kōmeitō)		Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP)
Kentarō Koba (NFP)	Shigeko Mieno (JSP)	–	1995^[25]
			1998^[26]	Kazuo Hirotomo (Indep.)	Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP)	–
Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)	Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ)		2001^[27]
			2004^[28]	Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ)
Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ)	Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)		2007^[29]
			2010^[30]	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ)
Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)	Kuniyoshi Noda (DPJ)		2013
			2016	Yukihito Koga (DPJ)	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Hiromi Takase (Kōmeitō)
	Rokuta Shimono (Kōmeitō)		2019
		Kuniyoshi Noda (CDP)	2022	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Yukihito Koga (CDP)	Kōzō Akino (Kōmeitō)

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: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1947/99/001803/00001803_8448.html. ja:参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20080202212449/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1947/99/001803/00001803_8448.html. 2008-02-02. dead.
3. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1950/99/00001812.html. ja:参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315131817/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1950/99/00001812.html. 2010-03-15. dead.
4. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1950/99/001841/00001841_8550.html. ja:参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
5. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1953/99/001862/00001862_8617.html. ja:参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙]. 2009-12-30. . Japanese.
6. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1955/99/00001891.html. ja:参議院>第3回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙]. 2010-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315131854/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1955/99/00001891.html. 2010-03-15. dead.
7. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1956/99/001873/00001873_8674.html. ja:参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙]. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
8. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1958/99/00001898.html. ja:参議院>第4回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙]. 2010-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20100316111500/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1958/99/00001898.html. 2010-03-16. dead.
9. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1959/99/001900/00001900_8747.html. ja:参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙]. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
10. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1962/99/001907/00001907_8801.html. ja:参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
11. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1963/99/00001915.html. ja:参議院>第6回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙]. 2010-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315134347/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1963/99/00001915.html. 2010-03-15. dead.
12. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1965/99/001918/00001918_8858.html. ja:参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
13. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1967/99/00001928.html. ja:衆議院>第7回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2009-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080626013640/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1967/99/00001928.html. 2008-06-26.
14. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1968/99/001930/00001930_8917.html. ja:参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
15. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1971/99/001935/00001935_8968.html. ja:参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
16. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1974/99/001945/00001945_9026.html. ja:参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
17. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1977/99/001953/00001953_9084.html. ja:参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
18. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1980/99/001960/00001960_9138.html. ja:参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
19. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1983/99/001970/00001970_9195.html. ja:参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
20. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1986/99/001975/00001975_9247.html. ja:参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
21. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1989/99/00001983.html. ja:衆議院>第14回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. JANJAN. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315132050/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1989/99/00001983.html. 2010-03-15. dead.
22. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1989/99/001986/00001986_9305.html. ja:参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
23. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1991/99/00008128.html. ja:衆議院>第15回参議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
24. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1992/99/001996/00001996_9362.html. ja:参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
25. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1995/99/001998/00001998_9414.html. ja:参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
26. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1998/99/002001/00002001_9464.html. ja:参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
27. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2001/99/002009/00002009_9614.html. ja:参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
28. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2004/99/002006/00002006_9564.html. ja:参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
29. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2007/99/006850/00006850_17796.html. ja:参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2010-01-02. . Japanese.
30. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2010/99/011253/00011253_27121.html. ja:参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>福岡選挙区. senkyo.janjan.jp ザ･選挙. 2011-02-12. . Japanese.