The was a constituency that represents Shimane 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. With its 576,297 registered voters (as of September 2015) it is the second-smallest electoral district for the house. Accordingly, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Tottori At-large district to create the Tottori-Shimane At-large district; this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor will be elected.
The Councillor currently representing Shimane is: Saburo Shimada (LDP; term ends in 2019)
Elected Councillors Class of 1947 Election year Class of 1950 (1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term) Genichiro Date(Ind.) 1947 Noboru Utsunomiya(Ind.) 1950 Yoshio Sakurauchi(People's Democratic) Shigeo Odachi(Liberal)Died in office 25 September 1955 1953 Hiroshi Sano(Ind.) 1955 by-election 1956 Akira Kodaki(LDP)Died in office 28 May 1958 1958 by-election Toshinaga Yamamoto(LDP) Hiroshi Sano(LDP) 1959 1962 Toshinaga Yamamoto(Ind.) Hideo Nakamura(Social Democratic) 1965 1968 Toshinaga Yamamoto(LDP) 1971 1974 Hisaoki Kamei(LDP) Zenju Nariai(LDP) 1977 1980 1983 1986 Mikio Aoki(LDP) Hisato Iwamoto(Ind.) 1989 1992 Shuntaro Kageyama(LDP) 1995 1998 2001 2004 Akiko Kamei(People's New) 2007 2010 Kazuhiko Aoki(LDP) Saburo Shimada(LDP) 2013 2016 Seat abolished Seat abolished 2019
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