The is a constituency that represents Yamagata 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 898,671 registered voters as of September 2022.

Elected Councillors Class of 1947 Election year Class of 1950 (1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term) Shigeyasu Kosugi(Ind.) 1947 Rokurōbē Ogata (Ind.) 1950 Mataji Kobayashi(Socialist) Saburo Unno(Left Socialist) 1953 1956 Yasusuke Matsuzawa(Socialist) Michio Murayama(LDP) 1959 1959 by-el. Isami Shirai(LDP) 1962 Isami Shirai(LDP) Gorō Itō(LDP) 1965 1968 Isami Shirai(LDP) Gorō Itō(LDP) 1971 1974 Tōkichi Abiko(LDP) Keigi Furuya(LDP) 1977 1980 Tōkichi Abiko(LDP) Keigi Furuya(LDP) 1983 1986 Teibin Suzuki(LDP) Yasumatsu Hoshikawa(Rengō no Kai) 1989 1992 Teibin Suzuki(LDP) Masatoshi Abe(Ind.) 1995 1998 Koichi Kishi(LDP) Masatoshi Abe(LDP) 2001 2004 Koichi Kishi(LDP) Yasue Funayama (DPJ) 2007 2010 Koichi Kishi(LDP) Mizuho Onuma(LDP) 2013 2016 Yasue Funayama(Ind.) Michiya Haga(Ind.) 2019 2022 Yasue Funayama(DPP) Michiya Haga(Ind.) 2025

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

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|- 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|Independent |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |align=right| |- |bgcolor=| |colspan=2|Democratic Party For the People |align=right|1 |align=right|1 |align=right|

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

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