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Saitama at-large district 
Summary
Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.
Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.
| Saitama at-large district | |
|---|---|
| 埼玉県選挙区 | |
| Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors | |
 | |
| Prefecture | Saitama |
| Electorate | 6,170,471 (as of September 2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1947 |
| Seats | 8 |
| Councillors | Class of 2019:
Class of 2022:
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Recent election results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Masakazu Sekiguchi | 655,028 | 20.6 | ||
| Kōmeitō | Makoto Nishida | 594,678 | 18.7 | ||
| DPJ | Motohiro Ōno | 557,398 | 17.5 | ||
| DPJ | Chiyako Shimada | 544,381 | 17.1 | ||
| YP | Tsukasa Kobayashi | 416,663 | 13.1 | ||
| JCP | Gaku Itō | 207,957 | 6.5 | ||
| NRP | Kōji Nakagawa | 84,897 | 2.7 | ||
| SDP | Fumihiro Himori | 72,185 | 2.3 | ||
| Independent | Kōsei Hasegawa | 37,731 | 1.2 | ||
| HRP | Hirotoshi Inda | 9,536 | 0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 3,246,247 | 55.83 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ | Kuniko Kōda | 745,517 | 23.5 | ||
| LDP | Toshiharu Furukawa | 684,270 | 21.6 | ||
| DPJ | Ryūji Yamane | 665,063 | 21.0 | ||
| Kōmeitō | Hiroshi Takano | 623,723 | 19.7 | ||
| JCP | Sumiko Ayabe | 277,440 | 8.7 | ||
| SDP | Etsuko Matsuzawa | 104,403 | 3.3 | ||
| PNP | Tetsuo Sawada | 72,756 | 2.3 | ||
| Turnout | 3,227,638 | 56.35 | |||
Historical Councillors elected from Saitama edit
| Class of 1947/1953/... | Election Year | Class of 1950/1956/... | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1
(1947: #1. 6 Year Term) |
#2
(1947: #2, 6 Year Term) |
#3 | #4 | #1
(1947: #3, 3-year term) |
#2
(1947: #4, 3-year term) |
#3 | #4 | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (LP) |
Yataro Hiranuma (LP) |
1947 | Katsumasa Amada (JSP) |
Kazue Ishikawa (DP) |
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| 1950 | Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955 (JSP) |
Shokichi Uehara (LP) | ||||||
| Eizo Kobayashi (Yoshida LP) |
Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP) |
1953 | ||||||
| 1955 by el. | Ryusaku Endo (Indep.) | |||||||
| 1956 | Yuichi Osawa # 1960 (LDP) |
Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | ||||||
| Eizo Kobayashi (LDP) |
Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP) |
1959 | ||||||
| 1960 by el. | Kanzo Oizumi (LDP) | |||||||
| 1962 | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) |
Hideyuki Seya
(JSP) | ||||||
| Katsuji Mori (JSP) |
Yoshio Tsuchiya (LDP) |
1965 | ||||||
| 1968 | ||||||||
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) |
Katsuji Mori (JSP) |
1971 | ||||||
| 1974 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) |
Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | ||||||
| Juro Morita (NLC) |
1977 | |||||||
| 1980 | Ryoko Nao (LDP) |
Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||||
| 1983 | ||||||||
| 1986 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) |
Ryoko Nao (LDP) | ||||||
| Hajime Fukuda (JSP) |
Yoshio Tsuchiya # 1992 (Indep.) |
1989 | ||||||
| Taizo Sato (LDP) |
1991 by-el. | Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) | ||||||
| 1992 (including
by-el.) |
Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) |
Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | ||||||
| Hiroshi Takano (NFP) |
Sachiyo Abe (JCP) |
1995 | ||||||
| 1998 | Takujiro Hamada # 2003
(Indep.) |
Renzo Togashi (JCP) |
Toshio Fuji (DPJ) | |||||
| Taizo Sato (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) |
Hiroshi Takano (Komeito) |
Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) |
2001 | |||||
| 2003 by-el. | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | |||||||
| 2004 | Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) |
Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) |
Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |||||
| Kuniko Koda (DPJ) |
Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) |
2007 | ||||||
| 2010 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) |
Makoto Nishida (Komeito) |
Motohiro Ōno (DPJ) | |||||
| Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) |
Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) |
Kuniko Koda (Your Party) |
2013 | |||||
| 2016 | Motohiro Ōno # 2019 (DPJ) |
Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | ||||||
| Hiroto Kumagai (CDP) |
Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) |
Gaku Ito (JCP) |
2019 | |||||
| 2019 by-el. | Kiyoshi Ueda (Indepen.) | |||||||
| 2022 | Mari Takagi (CDP) | |||||||
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.
References edit
House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors
- ^ "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" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.