The was a constituency that represents Kōchi 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 618,834 registered voters (as of September 2015) it is the third-smallest electoral district for the house. To address the imbalance in representation between districts, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Tokushima At-large district to create the Tokushima-Kochi At-large district; this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor will be elected.
The Councillors currently representing Kochi are: Hajime Hirota (Democratic Party of Japan; term ends in 2016) Kojiro Takano (Liberal Democratic Party; term ends in 2019)
Elected Councillors Class of 1947 Election year Class of 1950 (1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term) Kameshichi Nishiyama(Liberal) 1947 Tazō Irimajiri(Democratic) 1950 Tazō Irimajiri(Liberal) Yutaka Terao(Liberal) 1953 1956 Akira Sakamoto(Social Democratic) Yutaka Terao(LDP) 1959 1962 Shunji Shiomi(LDP) 1965 1968 Takao Hamada(LDP)Died in office on 23 March 1974 1971 Yu Hayashi(LDP) 1974 by-election 1974 1977 1980 Kanzo Tanigawa(LDP) 1983 1986 Ruriko Nishioka(Social Democratic) 1989 1992 Sadao Hirano(Ind.) Kohei Tamura(Ind.) 1995 1998 Hiroyuki Morishita(LDP) 2001 2004 Hajime Hirota(Ind.)Joined the Democratic Party in 2009. Norio Takeuchi(DPJ) 2007 2010 Hajime Hirota(DPJ) Kojiro Takano(LDP) 2013 2016 Seat abolished Seat abolished 2019
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