| Fukushima at-large district | |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Parl Name: | House of Councillors |
| District Label: | Prefecture |
| District: | Fukushima |
| Electorate: | 1,545,913 (as of September 2022)[1] |
| Year: | 1947 |
| Seats: | 2 |
| Member Label: | Councillors |
| Member: | Class of 2019:Class of 2022: |
The is a constituency that represents Fukushima Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has three Councillors in the 242-member house.
From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 2010 election, Fukushima elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two each at alternating elections held every three years. In September 2012 Fukushima had 1,627,518registered voters,[2] the lowest of the 12 prefectures that were represented by 4 Councillors at that time. By comparison, the three most populous districts of Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each had more than 4 million voters[2] but were also represented by four Councillors each. To address this malapportionment, a November 2012 amendment to the Public Offices Election Law reduced Fukushima's (and Gifu's) representation to two Councillors.[3] This change began to take effect at the 2013 election, when only one Councillor was elected in Fukushima, and will be completed at the 2016 election. The district has 1,607,908 registered voters as of September 2015.[4]
The Councillors currently representing Fukushima are:
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||
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| Kentaro Yui (Fukushima Democratic Club) | Tsuneo Matsudaira (Ind.) | 1947 | Manuemon Hashimoto (Democratic) | Toshikatsu Tanaka (Social Democratic) |
| Kanichiro Ishihara (Democratic Liberal) | 1949 by-election | |||
| 1950 | Manuemon Hashimoto (Liberal) | Morie Kimura (Liberal) | ||
| 1951 by-election | Isao Matsudaira (Liberal) | |||
| Kanemitsu Tabata (Right Socialist) | Kanichiro Ishihara (Liberal) | 1953 | ||
| 1956 | Ichiji Okawara (Social Democratic) | |||
| Kanemitsu Tabata (Social Democratic) | Kanichiro Ishihara (LDP) | 1959 | ||
| 1962 | ||||
| Hidezo Murata (Social Democratic) | 1965 | |||
| 1968 | Seigo Suzuki (LDP) | |||
| Shiro Tanabe (LDP) | 1971 | |||
| 1974 | Tadao Noguchi (Social Democratic) | |||
| Shoichi Suzuki (LDP) | 1977 | |||
| 1980 | Tadashi Yaoita (Social Democratic) | |||
| Eisaku Sato (LDP) | 1983 | |||
| Masutaro Soeta (LDP) | 1985 by-election | |||
| 1986 | ||||
| Kentaro Ishihara (LDP) | 1988 by-election | |||
| Choei Aita (Social Democratic) | 1989 | |||
| 1992 | Shizuo Sato (LDP) | |||
| Toyoaki Ota (LDP) | 1993 by-election | |||
| Hiroko Wada (New Frontier) | 1995 | |||
| 1998 | Mitsuhide Iwaki (LDP) | Yuhei Sato (Ind.) | ||
| Hiroko Wada (DPJ) | 2001 | |||
| 2004[9] | Yuhei Sato (DPJ) | |||
| 2007 by-election | Teruhiko Mashiko (DPJ) | |||
| Emi Kaneko (DPJ) | Masako Mori (LDP) | 2007[10] | ||
| 2010[11] | ||||
| Seat abolished | 2013[12] | |||