Tokyo at-large district explained

Tokyo at-large district
Type:Parliamentary
Parl Name:House of Councillors
District Label:Prefecture
District:Tokyo
Region Label:Proportional Block
Region:National PR
Electorate:11,539,720 (as of September 2022)[1]
Year:1947
Seats:12
Member Label:Councillors
Member:Class of 2019:Class of 2022:

is an electoral district of the House of Councillors in the National Diet, the national legislature of Japan. The district was created in 1947 by the new Constitution of Japan and sent 8 members to the House from 1947 until 2007. From 2007 until 2016, this district sent 10 members to the House, and from 2016 onwards, the district has sent 12 councillors to the House, making it by far the largest constituency in the House of Councillors.

Elected Councillors

class of (1947/1953/...)Election Yearclass of (1950/1956/...)
  1. 1
    (1947: #1, 6-year term)
  1. 2
    (1947: #2, 6-year term)
  1. 3
    (1947: #3, 6-year term;
    1962: #5, 3-year term)
  1. 4
    (1947: #4, 6-year term)
  1. 5
  1. 6
  1. 1
    (1947: #5, 3-year term)
  1. 2
    (1947: #6, 3-year term)
  1. 3
    (1947: #7, 3-year term)
  1. 4
    (1947: #8, 3-year term)
  1. 5
  1. 6
Tatsurō Sakurauchi
(DP)		Suejirō Yoshikawa
(JSP)		Kiyoshi Shima
(JSP)		Takeo Kurokawa
(JLP)		––1947[2] Kei Hoashi
(Indep.)[3] 		Tamae Fukagawa
(Indep.)		Masao Nishikawa
(JLP)		Heiichi Tōyama
(JLP)		––
1950[4] Ken Yasui (LP)Toshiharu Shigemori
(JSP)		Makoto Hori
(Workers and Farmers Party)		Tamae Fukagawa
(DP)
Takeo Kurokawa
(Yoshida LP)		Fusae Ichikawa
(Indep.)		Sōji Okada
(JSP, left)		Kei Ishii
(Yoshida LP)		1953[5]
1956[6] Ken Yasui
(LDP)		Sanzō Nosaka
(JCP)		Kiyoshi Shima
(JSP)		Toshiharu Shigemori
(JSP)
Yasu Kashiwabara
(Indep.)[7] 		Kinjirō Aikawa
(LDP)		Takeo Kurokawa
(LDP)		1959[8]
Sanzō Nosaka
(JCP) 		1962
& by-election[9] 		Satoru Izumi
(Indep.)		Kei Ishii
(LDP)		Sōji Okada
(JSP)
Sanzō Nosaka
(JCP)		Hiroshi Hōjō
(Kōmeitō)		Kihachirō Kimura
(JSP)		Fusae Ichikawa
(Indep.)		1965[10]
1968[11] Ken’ichi Abe
(Kōmeitō)		Ken Yasui
(LDP)		Masatoshi Matsushita
(DSP)		Hideo Urabe
(JSP)
Bunbē Hara
(LDP)		Akira Kuroyanagi
(Kōmeitō)		Norio Kijima
(DSP)		Sanzō Nosaka
(JCP)		1971[12]
1974[13] Ken Yasui
(LDP)		Tetsu Ueda
(JSP)		Ken’ichi Abe
(Kōmeitō)		Kōichirō Ueda
(JCP)
Kōji Kakizawa
(NLC)		1977[14]
1980[15] Ken Yasui
(Indep.)		Tadao Miki
(Kōmeitō)		Kōichirō Ueda
(JCP)		Tokuma Utsunomiya(Indep.)[16]
Chinpei Nozue
(Tax Party)		Bunbē Hara
(LDP)		Akira Kuroyanagi
(Kōmeitō)		Isao Naitō
(JCP)		1983[17]
1986[18] Tadao Miki
(Kōmeitō)		Kiyoko Ono
(LDP)		Tetsuo Tanabe
(LDP)		Kōichirō Ueda
(JCP)
Hideo Den
(Indep.)[19] 		Chinpei Nozue
(Tax Party)		Akira Kuroyanagi
(Kōmeitō)		1989[20]
1992[21] Toshiko Hamayotsu
(Kōmeitō)		Kōichirō Ueda
(JCP)		Kensaku Morita
(Indep.)[22] 		Kiyoko Ono
(LDP)
Yūichirō Uozumi
(NFP)		Sanzō Hosaka
(LDP)		Yasuo Ogata
(JCP)		Hideo Den
(Peace and Citizens Union)		1995[23]
1998[24] Toshio Ogawa
(DPJ)		Toshiko Hamayotsu
(Kōmeitō)		Miyo Inoue
(JCP)		Atsuo Nakamura
(Indep.)[25]
Sanzō Hosaka
(LDP)		Natsuo Yamaguchi
(Kōmeitō)		Kan Suzuki
(DPJ)		Yasuo Ogata
(JCP)		2001[26]
2004[27] Masaharu Nakagawa
(LDP)		Toshio Ogawa
(DPJ)		Renhō
(DPJ)		Yūji Sawa
(Kōmeitō)
Masako Ōkawara (DPJ)Tamayo Marukawa
(LDP)		Ryūhei Kawada
(Indep.)[28] 		2007[29]
2010[30] Renhō (DPJ)Toshiko Takeya
(Kōmeitō)		Masaharu Nakagawa
(LDP)		Toshio Ogawa (DPJ)Kōta Matsuda (YP)
Tamayo Marukawa
(LDP)		Yoshiko Kira
(JCP)		Tarō Yamamoto
(Indep.)		Keizō Takemi
(LDP)		2013[31]
2016[32] Renhō
(DP)		Masaharu Nakagawa
(LDP)		Toshiko Takeya
(Kōmeitō)		Taku Yamazoe
(JCP)		Kentarō Asahi
(LDP)		Toshio Ogawa
(DP)
Ayaka Shiomura
(CDP)		Shun Otokita
(Ishin)		Keizō Takemi (LDP)2019[33]
2022[34] Kentarō Asahi
(LDP)		Toshiko Takeya
(Kōmeitō)		Taku Yamazoe
(JCP)		Renhō
(CDP)		Akiko Ikuina
(LDP)		Tarō Yamamoto
(Reiwa)

Election Results

Notes:

Elections in the 1940s

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: 1947 . 東京選挙区 - 第1回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 1st House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  3. joined Ryokufūkai
  4. Web site: 1950 . 東京選挙区 - 第2回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 2nd House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  5. Web site: 1953 . 東京選挙区 - 第3回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 3rd House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  6. Web site: 1956 . 東京選挙区 - 第4回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 4th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  7. joined Kōmeito
  8. Web site: 1959 . 東京選挙区 - 第5回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 5th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . 選挙ドットコム . ja.
  9. Web site: 東京選挙区 - 第6回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 6th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senyo.com . ja.
  10. Web site: 1965 . 東京選挙区 - 第7回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 7th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  11. Web site: 1968 . 東京選挙区 - 第8回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 8th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  12. Web site: 1971 . 東京選挙区 - 第9回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 9th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . 選挙ドットコム . ja.
  13. Web site: 1974 . 東京選挙区 - 第10回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 10th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  14. Web site: 1977 . 東京選挙区 - 第11回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 11th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  15. Web site: 1980 . 東京選挙区 - 第12回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 12th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  16. endorsed by New Liberal Club and Socialist Democratic Federation
  17. Web site: 1983 . 東京選挙区 - 第13回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 13th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  18. Web site: 1986 . 東京選挙区 - 第14回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 14th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . 選挙ドットコム . ja.
  19. president of the Socialist Democratic Federation, founded Shintō Goken Liberal ("New Party Liberals for protecting the constitution") in 1994
  20. Web site: 1989 . 東京選挙区 - 第15回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 15th House of Councilors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  21. Web site: 1995 . 東京選挙区 - 第16回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large District - 16th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  22. joined the Democratic Socialist Party parliamentary group as an independent, joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 1994
  23. Web site: 1995 . 東京選挙区 - 第17回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large District - 17th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  24. Web site: 1998 . 東京選挙区 - 第18回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large District - 18th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  25. [New Party Sakigake]
  26. Web site: 2001 . 東京選挙区 - 第19回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large District - 19th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  27. >Web site: 2004 . 東京選挙区 - 第20回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large district - 20th House of Coucnnillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  28. joined Your Party in 2009
  29. >Web site: ja:東京選挙区 - 第21回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-Large District - 21st House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo . Voice Japan . ja.
  30. Web site: 2010 . ja:東京選挙区 - 第22回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at large district - 22nd House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.
  31. Web site: 2013 . 東京選挙区 - 第23回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo At-large District - 24th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . 選挙ドットコム . ja.
  32. Web site: 東京選挙区 - 第24回参議院議員選挙 . 2023-01-19 . 選挙ドットコム . ja.
  33. Web site: 2019 . 東京選挙区 - 第25回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large district - 25th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . 選挙ドットコム . ja.
  34. Web site: 東京選挙区 - 第26回参議院議員選挙 . Tokyo at-large District - 26th House of Councillors Election . 2023-01-19 . go2senkyo.com . ja.

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