Saga at-large district (Japanese: 佐賀県選挙区, Hepburn: Saga-ken Senkyoku) 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]
Saga At-Large District | |
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Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Councillors | |
Prefecture | Saga |
Proportional Block | National PR |
Electorate | 672,859 (As of 1 September 2022)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1947 |
Seats | Two (One Elected every 3 years) |
Party | LDP (2019 & 2022) |
Councillors | Yuhei Yamashita (2019) Takamaro Fukuoka (2022) |
The Councillors currently representing Saga are:
class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 |
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(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)[note 1] |
1959 | |
1962 | Arata Sugihara (LDP) | |
1965 | ||
1968 | ||
1971 | ||
1974 | Hidemaro Fukuoka (LDP) | |
1977 | ||
1980 | ||
Kenichiro Otsubo (LDP)[note 2] |
1982 by-election[note 3] | |
1983 | ||
1986 | Seijiro Otsuka (LDP)[note 4] | |
Makoto Miike (LDP)[note 5] |
1986 by-election[note 6] | |
Takao Jinnouchi (LDP) |
1988 by-election[note 7] | |
1989 | ||
1992 | ||
1995 | ||
1995 by-election[note 8] | Hiromi Iwanaga (LDP) | |
1998 | ||
2001 | ||
2004[8] | ||
Minoru Kawasaki (DPJ) | 2007[9] | |
2010[10] | Takamaro Fukuoka (LDP) | |
Yuhei Yamashita (LDP) |
2013[11] | |
2016 | ||
2019 | ||
2022 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Yuhei Yamashita (endorsed by Komeito) |
223,810 | 64.6 | ||
Democratic | Kazunori Aoki | 83,447 | 24.1 | ||
Communist | Yasutoshi Kamimura | 30,920 | 8.9 | ||
Happiness Realization | Toru Nakshima | 8,067 | 2.3 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Takamaro Fukuoka | 256,673 | 60.5 | ||
Democratic | Michiko Kakki (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
143,540 | 33.8 | ||
Communist | Katsuhiro Yamaguchi | 23,974 | 5.7 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Minoru Kawasaki (Endorsed by People's New Party) |
210,452 | 49.6 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Yoshiyuki Kawakami (Endorsed by Komeito) |
189,212 | 44.6 | ||
Communist | Junko Nakao | 25,028 | 5.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Hiromi Iwanaga (Endorsed by Komeito) |
197,100 | 47.7 | ||
Democratic | Minoru Kawasaki | 177,139 | 42.9 | ||
Communist | Akemi Muto | 39,101 | 9.5 | ||
Turnout |
Saga Prefecture districts for the House of Representatives: