Tokushima at-large district explained

was a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Tokushima Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Tokushima like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election.

Single-member districts (ichinin-ku) for the House of Councillors often play a decisive role for the outcome of elections as little swing in votes is required to achieve a change of the Councillors elected there. Tokushima in predominantly rural Shikoku has for decades voted for candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) or ex-LDP conservative independents by large margins. In the landslide election of 1989 that left the LDP-led government without a majority in the House of Councillors for the first time, a so-called "twisted parliament" (nejire kokkai), Harumi Inui from RENGO trade union federation's Rengō no Kai won Tokushima against incumbent Tomoyoshi Kamanaga by a margin of 60,000 votes.

With its 641,534 registered voters (as of September 2015),[1] it is the fourth-smallest electoral district for the house. To address the imbalance in representation between districts, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Kochi At-large district to create the Tokushima-Kochi At-large district;[2] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor will be elected.

The current Councillors for Tokushima are:

Elected Councillors

class of 1947election yearclass of 1950
  1. 1
    (1947: #1, 6-year term)
  1. 1
    (1947: #2, 3-year term)
Yojin Akazawa
(Kakushin Kyōdō,
"Progressive Cooperation")[3] 		1947[4] Makio Kishino (Indep.)
1947 by-el.[5] Mitsu Kōro (DP)
1950[6] Mitsu Kōro (NDP)
Yokichirō Miki (Indep.)1953[7]
1956[8] Mitsu Kōro (LDP)
Yokichirō Miki (LDP)1959[9]
1962[10]
1965[11]
1968[12] Kentarō Kujime (LDP)
Kōshō Ogasa (Indep.)1971[13]
1974[14] Kentarō Kujime (Indep.)
Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP)1977[15]
1980[16] Ken Naitō (LDP)
1983[17]
1986[18] Kōji Matsuura (LDP)
Harumi Inui (Rengō no Kai)1989[19]
1992[20]
Shūji Kitaoka (LDP)1995[21]
1998[22] Kiseko Takahashi (Indep.)[23]
2001[24]
2004[25] Masakatsu Koike (LDP)
Tomoji Nakatani (DPJ)2007[26]
2010[27] Yūsuke Nakanishi (LDP)
Toru Miki (LDP)2013[28]
2016seat to be abolished
seat to be abolished2019

References

Notes and References

  1. 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 . 3 March 2016.
  2. News: Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet . Japan Times . 28 July 2015 . 22 February 2016.
  3. joined Ryokufūkai
  4. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1947/99/001803/00001803_8444.html. ja:参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  5. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1947/99/00001806.html. ja:参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-09. JANJAN. Japanese. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100315131803/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1947/99/00001806.html. 2010-03-15.
  6. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1950/99/001841/00001841_8546.html. ja:参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  7. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1953/99/001862/00001862_8613.html. ja:参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  8. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1956/99/001873/00001873_8670.html. ja:参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  9. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1959/99/001900/00001900_8743.html. ja:参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  10. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1962/99/001907/00001907_8797.html. ja:参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  11. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1965/99/001918/00001918_8854.html. ja:参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  12. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1968/99/001930/00001930_8913.html. ja:参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  13. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1971/99/001935/00001935_8964.html. ja:参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  14. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1974/99/001945/00001945_9022.html. ja:参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  15. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1977/99/001953/00001953_9080.html. ja:参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  16. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1980/99/001960/00001960_9134.html. ja:参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  17. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1983/99/001970/00001970_9191.html. ja:参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  18. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1986/99/001975/00001975_9243.html. ja:参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  19. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1989/99/001986/00001986_9301.html. ja:参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  20. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1992/99/001996/00001996_9358.html. ja:参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  21. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1995/99/001998/00001998_9410.html. ja:参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  22. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1998/99/002001/00002001_9460.html. ja:参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  23. ran with opposition support, later joined Midori no Kaigi (lit. "Green Conference")
  24. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2001/99/002009/00002009_9610.html. ja:参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  25. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2004/99/002006/00002006_9560.html. ja:参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  26. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2007/99/006850/00006850_17792.html. ja:参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-05-11. . Japanese.
  27. Web site: http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2010/99/011253/00011253_27117.html. ja:参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>徳島選挙区. ザ･選挙. 2010-07-12. . Japanese.
  28. News: 選挙区 高知 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013 . Kochi At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election . Yomiuri Shimbun . 22 February 2016.

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