Kyōto at-large district | |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Parl Name: | House of Councillors |
District Label: | Prefecture |
District: | Kyoto |
Electorate: | 2,097,987 (as of September 2022)[1] |
Year: | 1947 |
Seats: | 4 |
Member Label: | Councillors |
Member: | Class of 2019:Class of 2022: |
The is a constituency that represents Kyoto Prefecture in the House of Councillors of the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.
The constituency represents the entire population of Kyoto Prefecture. Since its inception in 1947, the district has elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,088,383 registered voters as of September 2015.[2] The Councillors currently representing Kyoto are:
Class of 1947 | election year | Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947) | ||
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(Ind.) | (Social Democratic) | 1947 | Ōnogi Hidejirō (LDP) | (Liberal) |
1950 | Ikuo Oyama (Ind.) | |||
(LDP) | (Right Socialist) | 1953 | ||
1956 by-election | (LDP) | |||
1956 | (Social Democratic) | |||
(Social Democratic) | 1959 | |||
1962 | ||||
(LDP) | 1963 by-election | |||
(Social Democratic) | 1965 | |||
1966 by-election | Yukio Hayashida (LDP) | |||
1968 | (JCP) | |||
1971 | ||||
(LDP) | 1974 by-election | |||
1974 | ||||
Akio Sato (JCP) | 1977 | |||
1978 by-election | (LDP) | |||
1980 | (JCP) | |||
1983 | ||||
1986 | Yukio Hayashida (LDP) | |||
(LDP) | 1989 | |||
1992 | (JCP) | |||
1995 | ||||
1998 | Tetsuro Fukuyama (DPJ) | |||
Koji Matsui (DPJ) | 2001 | |||
2004[7] | Satoshi Ninoyu (LDP) | |||
Shoji Nishida (LDP) | 2007[8] | |||
2010[9] | ||||
Akiko Kurabayashi (JCP) | 2013[10] | |||
2016[11] | ||||
2019[12] | Akira Yoshii (LDP) | |||
2022[13] |