| Gifu at-large district | |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Parl Name: | House of Councillors |
| District Label: | Prefecture |
| District: | Gifu |
| Electorate: | 1,633,395 (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 Gifu 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 1992 election, Gifu elected two Councillors to six-year terms at alternating elections held every three years. Electoral reform in 1994 increased Gifu's representation to four Councillors, which began to take effect at the 1992 election, at which two Councillors were elected.
In September 2012 Gifu had 1,684,766 registered voters,[2] the second-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 Gifu's representation (along with Fukushima's) representation to two Councillors.[3] This change began to take effect at the 2013 election, when only one Councillor was elected in Gifu, and will be completed at the 2016 election. The district has 1,666,610 registered voters as of September 2015.[4]
The Councillors currently representing Fukushima are:
Note: Party listed is at the time of election
| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||
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| - | Osamu Ito (Social Democratic) | 1947 | Jinkichi Watanabe (Ind.) | - |
| 1950 | Shinzo Koike (Liberal) | |||
| Keiichi Tanaka (Liberal) | 1953 | |||
| 1956 | Shinzo Koike (LDP) | |||
| Keiichi Tanaka (LDP) | 1959 | |||
| 1962 | ||||
| Namio Nakamura (Social Democratic) | 1965 | |||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1974 | Heigo Fujii (LDP) | |||
| Hiromu Asano (LDP) | 1977 | |||
| 1980 | ||||
| Feb. 1981 by-election | Takao Fujii (LDP) | |||
| Reijo Sugiyama (LDP) | June 1981 by-election | |||
| 1983 | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| Kazunobu Takai (Rengō no Kai) | 1989 | |||
| 1992 | ||||
| Shoya Iwasaki (Social Democratic) | 1993 by-election | Junichi Kasahara (LDP) | ||
| Kenji Hirata (New Frontier) | Akira Ohno (LDP) | 1995 | ||
| Tsuyako Ōno (Ind.) | 1996 by-election | |||
| 1998 | Iwada Matsuo (Ind.) | Yasuo Yamashita (DPJ) | ||
| Kenji Hirata (DPJ) | Tsuyako Ōno (LDP) | 2001 | ||
| 2004[8] | Iwao Matsuda (LDP) | |||
| Takao Fujii (Ind.) | 2007[9] | |||
| 2010[10] | Takeyuki Watanabe (LDP) | Yoshiharu Komiyama (DPJ) | ||
| Seat abolished | Yasutada Ohno (LDP) | 2013[11] | ||