Ibaraki at-large district explained

Ibaraki at-large district
Type:	Parliamentary
Parl Name:	House of Councillors
District Label:	Prefecture
District:	Ibaraki
Electorate:	2,399,889^[1]
Year:	1947
Seats:	4
Member Label:	Councillors
Member:	Class of 2019:Class of 2022:

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

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Ibaraki Prefecture. The district elects four Councillors to six-year terms, two each at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,411,307 registered voters as of September 2015.^[2] The Councillors currently representing Ibaraki are:

• Akira Gunji (Democratic Party, third term; term ends in 2016)^[3]
• Hiroshi Okada (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), third term; term ends in 2016)^[4]
• Yukihisa Fujita (Democratic Party, second term; term ends in 2019)^[5]
• Ryosuke Kouzuki (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)^[6]

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947		election year	Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947)
Yasuji Yūki (Ind.)	Masaji Shibata (Liberal)	1947	Nobuo Ōhata (Social Democratic)	Tsuneo Ikeda (Ind.)
		1950	Yūichi Kōri (Liberal)	Shichihei Kikuta (National Democratic)
	Shigefumi Miyata (Liberal)	1950 by-election
Tsunesuke Mutō (Kaishintō)		1953
		1956	Yūichi Kōri (LDP)	Motojiro Mori (Social Democratic)
Tsunesuke Mutō (LDP)	Sōzō Ōmori (Social Democratic)	1959
		1962
Ichiji Suzuki (LDP)		1963 by-election
Kishirō Nakamura (LDP)		1965
		1968
	Fujio Takeuchi (LDP)	1971
Tomi Nakamura (Minor party)		1972 by-election
		1974	Taeko Iwakami (Minor party)	Osamu Yatabe (Social Democratic)
	Yūichi Kōri (LDP)	1975 by-election
Michitada Takasugi (Social Democratic)		1977
		1978 by-election	Nirō Iwakami (LDP)
		1980
	Ikuo Soneda (LDP)	1983
		1986
Makoto Taneda (Social Democratic)	Akio Kanō (LDP)	1989
		1989 by-election	Itsuo Nomura (LDP)
	Yasu Kanō (LDP)	1992 by-election
		1992
Moto Kobayashi (New Frontier)		1995
		1998	Kōichi Kuno (LDP)	Akira Gunji (DPJ)
Moto Kobayashi (DPJ)		2001
		2003 by-election	Hiroshi Okada (LDP)
		2004^[7]
Yukihisa Fujita (DPJ)	Tamon Hasegawa (LDP)	2007^[8]
		2010^[9]
	Ryosuke Kouzuki (LDP)	2013^[10]
		2016
Takumi Onuma (CDP)		2019^[11]
		2022^[12]	Akiyoshi Kato (LDP)	Masako Dogomi (Ind.)

See also

• List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan
• Ibaraki 4th district, one of seven districts that represents Ibaraki Prefecture in the House of Representatives

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 . 6 April 2016.
3. Web site: 郡司　彰（ぐんじ　あきら）：参議院 . Gunji, Akira: House of Councillors . Japanese . 6 April 2016.
4. Web site: 岡田　広（おかだ　ひろし）：参議院 . Okada, Hiroshi: House of Councillors . Japanese . 6 April 2016.
5. Web site: 藤田　幸久（ふじた　ゆきひさ）：参議院 . Fujita, Yukihisa: House of Councillors . Japanese . 6 April 2016.
6. Web site: 上月　良祐（こうづき　りょうすけ）：参議院 . Kouzuki, Ryosuke: House of Councillors . Japanese . 6 April 2016.
7. Web site: 選挙区開票結果　<茨城県> . District results (Ibaraki) . Asahi Shimbun . 6 April 2016.
8. Web site: 選挙区　茨城県 開票結果 参院選2007 . Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 6 April 2016.
9. Web site: 選挙区　茨城県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙 . Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 6 April 2016.
10. Web site: 選挙区　茨城県 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙 . Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 6 April 2016.
11. Web site: House of Councilors election 2019 electoral district Ibaraki. 9 Nov 2023.
12. Web site: Ibaraki House of Councilors election 2022 election news/vote counting results. 9 Nov 2023.