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(1947: #1, 6-year term) #2(1947: #2, 6-year term) #3(1947: #3, 6-year term;1962: #5, 3-year term) #4(1947: #4, 6-year term) #5 #6 #1(1947: #5, 3-year term) #2(1947: #6, 3-year term) #3(1947: #7, 3-year term) #4(1947: #8, 3-year term) #5 #6 Tatsurō Sakurauchi(DP) Suejirō Yoshikawa(JSP) Kiyoshi Shima(JSP) Takeo Kurokawa(JLP) – – 1947 Kei Hoashi(Indep.)joined Ryokufūkai Tamae Fukagawa(Indep.) Masao Nishikawa(JLP) Heiichi Tōyama(JLP) – – 1950 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 1956 Ken Yasui(LDP) Sanzō Nosaka(JCP) Kiyoshi Shima(JSP) Toshiharu Shigemori(JSP) Yasu Kashiwabara(Indep.)joined Kōmeito Kinjirō Aikawa(LDP) Takeo Kurokawa(LDP) 1959 Sanzō Nosaka(JCP) 1962& by-election Satoru Izumi(Indep.) Kei Ishii(LDP) Sōji Okada(JSP) Sanzō Nosaka(JCP) Hiroshi Hōjō(Kōmeitō) Kihachirō Kimura(JSP) Fusae Ichikawa(Indep.) 1965 1968 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 1974 Ken Yasui(LDP) Tetsu Ueda(JSP) Ken’ichi Abe(Kōmeitō) Kōichirō Ueda(JCP) Kōji Kakizawa(NLC) 1977 1980Ken Yasui(Indep.) Tadao Miki(Kōmeitō) Kōichirō Ueda(JCP) Tokuma Utsunomiya(Indep.)endorsed by New Liberal Club and Socialist Democratic Federation Chinpei Nozue(Tax Party) Bunbē Hara(LDP) Akira Kuroyanagi(Kōmeitō) Isao Naitō(JCP) 1983 1986 Tadao Miki(Kōmeitō) Kiyoko Ono(LDP) Tetsuo Tanabe(LDP) Kōichirō Ueda(JCP) Hideo Den(Indep.)president of the Socialist Democratic Federation, founded Shintō Goken Liberal ("New Party Liberals for protecting the constitution") in 1994 Chinpei Nozue(Tax Party) Akira Kuroyanagi(Kōmeitō) 1989 1992 Toshiko Hamayotsu(Kōmeitō) Kōichirō Ueda(JCP) Kensaku Morita(Indep.)joined the Democratic Socialist Party parliamentary group as an independent, joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 1994 Kiyoko Ono(LDP) Yūichirō Uozumi(NFP) Sanzō Hosaka(LDP) Yasuo Ogata(JCP) Hideo Den(Peace and Citizens Union) 1995 1998 Toshio Ogawa(DPJ) Toshiko Hamayotsu(Kōmeitō) Miyo Inoue(JCP) Atsuo Nakamura(Indep.)New Party Sakigake→Midori no Kaigi (Japan Greens, lit. "Green Conference"; not to be confused with Japan Greens (Midori no Table/"Green Table") or Greens Japan (Midori no Mirai/"Green Future")) Sanzō Hosaka(LDP) Natsuo Yamaguchi(Kōmeitō) Kan Suzuki(DPJ) Yasuo Ogata(JCP) 2001 2004 Masaharu Nakagawa(LDP) Toshio Ogawa(DPJ) Renhō(DPJ) Yūji Sawa(Kōmeitō) Masako Ōkawara (DPJ) Tamayo Marukawa(LDP) Ryūhei Kawada(Indep.)joined Your Party in 2009 2007 2010 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 2016 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)20192022 Kentarō Asahi(LDP) Toshiko Takeya(Kōmeitō) Taku Yamazoe(JCP) Renhō(CDP) Akiko Ikuina(LDP) Tarō Yamamoto(Reiwa) Daichi Suzuki(LDP) Saya(Sanseitō) Mayu Ushida(DPFP) Yūdai Kawamura(Kōmeitō) Yoshihiro Okumura(DPFP) Yoshiko Kira(JCP)2025& by-election Ayaka Shiomura(CDP)
Election results Notes: Decimals from anbunhyō ("fractional proportional votes" that stem from ambiguous votes, e.g. from ballots reading just "Suzuki") omitted in the 2016, 2013 and 2007 results (2016 only) (*): ineligible as runner-up replacement (kuriage-tōsen), lost deposit
Elections in the 2020s
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |Party total seats ! style="text-align:center;" | Won ! style="text-align:center;" | Total ! style="text-align:center;" | Change |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Liberal Democratic |align=right|1 |align=right|3 |align=right|1 |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Democratic Party For the People |align=right|2 |align=right|2 |align=right|2 |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Communist |align=right|1 |align=right|2 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Komeitō |align=right|1 |align=right|2 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Constitutional Democratic |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Sanseitō |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Reiwa |align=right|0 |align=right|1 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Ishin no Kai |align=right|0 |align=right|0 |align=right|1 |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" |Total | align=right|7 | align=right|12
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1940s
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