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.
Nagano at-large district | |
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長野県選挙区 | |
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors | |
Prefecture | Nagano |
Electorate | 1,710,930 (as of September 2022)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1947 |
Seats | 2 |
Councillors | Class of 2019:
Class of 2022: |
class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 | ||
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#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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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LDP | Kenta Wakabayashi | 293,539 | 26.4 | ||
DPJ | Toshimi Kitazawa | 290,027 | 26.1 | ||
DPJ | Yōko Takashima | 217,655 | 19.6 | ||
YP | Yōsei Ide | 183,949 | 16.6 | ||
JCP | Sanae Nakano | 116,496 | 10.5 | ||
HRP | Hiroaki Usuda | 8,959 | 0.8 | ||
Turnout | 1,138,024 | 64.72 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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DPJ | Yūichirō Hata | 538,690 | 47.9 | ||
LDP (Kōmeitō support) | Hiromi Yoshida | 301,635 | 26.8 | ||
JCP | Sanae Nakano | 194,407 | 17.3 | ||
SDP | Hiroji Nakagawa | 89,579 | 8.0 | ||
Turnout | 1,149,558 | 65.04 |
House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors