Saga At-Large District | |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Parl Name: | Japanese House of Councillors |
District Label: | Prefecture |
District: | Saga |
Region Label: | Proportional Block |
Region: | National PR |
Electorate: | 672,859 (As of 1 September 2022)[1] |
Year: | 1947 |
Seats: | Two (One Elected every 3 years) |
Party Label: | Party |
Member Label: | Councillors |
is a constituency that represents Saga Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. Councillors are elected to the house by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. Since the establishment of the current House of Councillors electoral system in 1947, the district has elected two Councillors, one each at elections held every three years. It has 679,289 registered voters as of September 2015.[2]
The Councillors currently representing Saga are:
class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 |
---|---|---|
(1947: 6-year term) | (1947: 3-year term) | |
Eizaemon Fukagawa (Democratic) | 1947 | Masaki Imaizumi (JLP) |
1950 | Arata Sugihara (Liberal) | |
Heiichi Matsuoka (Liberal) | 1953 | |
1956 | Arata Sugihara (Ind.) | |
Naotsugu Mabeshima (LDP) | 1959 | |
1962 | Arata Sugihara (LDP) | |
1965 | ||
1968 | ||
1971 | ||
1974 | Hidemaro Fukuoka (LDP) | |
1977 | ||
1980 | ||
Kenichiro Otsubo (LDP) | 1982 by-election | |
1983 | ||
1986 | Seijiro Otsuka (LDP) | |
Makoto Miike (LDP) | 1986 by-election | |
Takao Jinnouchi (LDP) | 1988 by-election | |
1989 | ||
1992 | ||
1995 | ||
1995 by-election | Hiromi Iwanaga (LDP) | |
1998 | ||
2001 | ||
2004[3] | ||
Minoru Kawasaki (DPJ) | 2007[4] | |
2010[5] | Takamaro Fukuoka (LDP) | |
Yuhei Yamashita (LDP) | 2013[6] | |
2016 | ||
2019 | ||
2022 |
Saga Prefecture districts for the House of Representatives: