Nagano at-large district explained

Nagano at-large district
Type:	Parliamentary
Parl Name:	House of Councillors
District Label:	Prefecture
District:	Nagano
Electorate:	1,710,930 (as of September 2022)^[1]
Year:	1947
Seats:	2
Member Label:	Councillors
Member:	Class of 2019:Class of 2022:

The Nagano at-large district (長野県選挙区, Nagano-ken senkyo-ku) is a multi-member constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Nagano Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two every three years by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. It is unique among similar rural, two-seat districts for its loyalty to opposition parties; an LDP candidate has not won the district since it became a two-seat contest in 2016. The last time it won the prefecture-wide vote was in 2013, when the DP did not win a single prefecture nationwide, and it had remained an opposition bulwark since well before the House of Councilors reform election in 1995.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947		election year	class of 1950
1 (1947: #1, 6-year term)	2 (1947: #2, 6-year term)		1 (1947: #3, 3-year term)	2 (1947: #4, 3-year term)
Sanshichi Hanyū (JSP)	Shirō Kiuchi (DP)	1947^[2]	Tatsuya Yonekura (Coop.)	Morio Kinoshita † 1947 (JLP)
		1948 by-el.^[3]		Uemon Ikeda (JLP)
		1950^[4]	Kotora Tanahashi (JSP)	Uemon Ikeda (LP)
Sanshichi Hanyū (leftist faction JSP)	Shirō Kiuchi (Yoshida faction LP)	1953^[5]
		1956^[6]		Kunitarō Koyama (LDP)
Sanshichi Hanyū (JSP)	Shirō Kiuchi (LDP)	1959^[7]
		1962^[8]	Torao Hayashi (JSP)
		1965^[9]
		1968^[10]
		1971^[11]
		1974^[12]	Ippei Koyama (JSP)	Tadao Natsume (LDP)
Maki Murasawa (JSP)	Shin'ichirō Shimojō (LDP)	1977^[13]
		1980^[14]	Tadao Natsume (LDP)	Ippei Koyama (JSP)
Shin'ichirō Shimojō (LDP)	Maki Murasawa (JSP)	1983^[15]
		1986^[16]	Ippei Koyama (JSP)	Kazuto Mukaiyama (LDP)
Maki Murasawa (JSP)	Shin'ichirō Shimojō (LDP)	1989^[17]
		1992^[18]	Toshimi Kitazawa (LDP)	Kiyoshi Imai (JSP)
Mineo Koyama (NFP)	Maki Murasawa † 1999 (JSP)	1995^[19]
		1998^[20]	Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ)	Masatoshi Wakabayashi # 2010 (LDP)
	Yūichirō Hata (DPJ)	1999 by-el.^[21]
Hiromi Yoshida (LDP)		2001^[22]
		2004^[23]
Yūichirō Hata (DPJ)	Hiromi Yoshida (LDP)	2007^[24]
		2010^[25]	Kenta Wakabayashi (LDP)	Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ)

Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned; †: died in office.

References

House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

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://go2senkyo.com/election/1947/99/001803/00001803_8428.html. ja:参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
3. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1948/99/00001807.html. ja:参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
4. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1950/99/001841/00001841_8530.html. ja:参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
5. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1953/99/001862/00001862_8597.html. ja:参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
6. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1956/99/001873/00001873_8654.html. ja:参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
7. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1959/99/001900/00001900_8727.html. ja:参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
8. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1962/99/001907/00001907_8781.html. ja:参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
9. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1965/99/001918/00001918_8838.html. ja:参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
10. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1968/99/001930/00001930_8897.html. ja:参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
11. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1971/99/001935/00001935_8948.html. ja:参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
12. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1974/99/001945/00001945_9006.html. ja:参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
13. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1977/99/001953/00001953_9064.html. ja:参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
14. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1980/99/001960/00001960_9118.html. ja:参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
15. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1983/99/001970/00001970_9175.html. ja:参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
16. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1986/99/001975/00001975_9227.html. ja:参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
17. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1989/99/001986/00001986_9285.html. ja:参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
18. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1992/99/001996/00001996_9342.html. ja:参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
19. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1995/99/001998/00001998_9394.html. ja:参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
20. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1998/99/002001/00002001_9444.html. ja:参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
21. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1999/99/00008133.html. ja:参議院>第18回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
22. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/2001/99/002009/00002009_9594.html. ja:参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
23. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/2004/99/002006/00002006_9544.html. ja:参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
24. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/2007/99/006850/00006850_17776.html. ja:参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.
25. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/2010/99/011253/00011253_27101.html. ja:参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2011-04-13. Voice Japan. Japanese.