Results of the 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election by FPTP

In July 2022, an election was held in Japan to re-elect thirty-two of the sixty-four single-seat constituencies in the House of Councillors.

In the 2016 election, the result of the single-seat constituency seats was the victory of the Liberal Democratic Party with 36 seats, while the opposition parties won 32 seats. Then, in 2019, the LDP, while losing 7 seats in total, arrived at 36 seats by constituency. The opposition, though gaining seats at the national level, lost 11 seats in the constituency.

In this election, the coordination of candidates between opposition parties was not successful, and some districts were crowded with opposition candidates. As a result, the largest opposition party nationally, the Japan Innovation Party, won just 4 seats by constituency, while the LDP gained a landslide victory with 45 seats by constituency, 7 more than in the previous election.

The LDP was victorious in the Iwate at-large district for the first time in 30 years.

Closest races State Party of winner MarginOkinawaIndep.0.49%FukuiLDP3.92%IwateLDP (flip)3.97%YamagataDPP4.91%YamanashiLDP (flip)5.17%NaganoCDP5.88%NiigataLDP (flip)6.78%AkitaLDP7.01%ŌitaLDP (flip)9.21%

Akita at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsHiroo Ishii58 LDPToshihide Muraoka61 IndependentNoneYuriko Sasa46 IndependentYūri Fujimoto43 JCPMamiko Ito51 SanseitōYukihisa Honda40 Anti-NHK Source:

Result

Aomori at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsMasayo Tanabu53 CDPNaohito Saito47 LDPNoneEitaro Chujo53 SanseitōAkira Sasaki50 Anti-NHK Source:

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Ehime at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsJunzo Yamamoto67 LDPChika Takami60 IndependentNoneKuniyasu Yagi56 SanseitōNoneHironori Yoshihara36 Anti-NHKNoneTakashi Matsugi42 Japan First Source:

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Fukui at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsMasaaki Yamazaki80 LDPTakeshi Saiki48 IndependentNoneKazuhiko Sasaoka66 IndependentNoneKazuo Yamada54 JCPMamie Sunahata40 SanseitōNoneYoshimito Daniel42 Anti-NHKNone Source:

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Fukushima at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsHokuto Hoshi58 LDPAkiko Onodera43 IndependentSanae Sato62 IndependentNoneSawako Kuboyama47 SanseitōCompany President Makiko Minagawa52 Anti-NHKNone Source:

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Gifu at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsTakeyuki Watanabe54 LDPMidori Tanno49 DPPKeiji Mio45 JCPMegumi Hiroe43 SanseitōMasahiko Sakamoto50 Anti-NHK Source:

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Gunma at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsHirofumi Nakasone76 LDPKeiko Shirai60 IndependentTamotsu Takahashi64 JCPTetsuro Niikura43 SanseitōTadafumi Kojima46 Anti-NHK Source:

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Ishikawa at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsNaoki Okada60 LDPTsuneko Oyamada44 CDPHiroshi Nishimura67 JCPHitoshi Sakioki46 SanseitōShinichi Yamada51 Anti-NHKTakayuki Harihara50 Ishin Seito Shimpu Source:

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Iwate at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsEiji Kidoguchi58 CDPMegumi Hirose56 LDPKenshi Shiratori51 SanseitōTakashi Matsuda48 Anti-NHKHiroko Ōgoshi58 Independent Source:

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Kagawa at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsYoshihiko Isozaki64 LDPKunio Moteki35 CDPShōko Mitani55 DPPJunko Machikawa63 IshinNoneMayu Ishida40 JCPNaomi Kobayashi48 SanseitōNoneJunichi Ikeda41 Anti-NHKHideki Kashima78 Ishin Seito Shimpu Source:

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Kagoshima at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsTetsuro Nomura78 LDPSeiko Yanagi61 CDPAyumi Saigō37 IndependentNoneTakuma Nobori32 SanseitōAtsushi Kusao53 Anti-NHK

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Kumamoto at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsYoshifumi Matsumura58 LDPShintaro Deguchi40 CDPChitose Takai36 SanseitōAkiko Honma40 Anti-NHK

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Mie at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsSachiko Yamamoto54 LDPNoneMasahide Yoshino47 IndependentNoneTamae Horie47 Sanseitō Setsuyo Kadota54 Anti-NHK

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Miyagi at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsMitsuru Sakurai66 LDP Chair of the DPJ Policy Research CommitteeKimiko Obata44 CDPMidori Hirai67 IshinAyako Lawrence52 SanseitōTomoya Nakae30 Anti-NHK

Result

Miyazaki at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsShinpei Matsushita55 LDP Nana Kuroda48 CDPAkimitsu Kurogi45 DPPNoneYoshitomo Shirae33 JCPYukifumi Imamura49 SanseitōDaichi Mori30 Anti-NHKNone

Result

Nagano at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsHideya Sugio64 CDPSanshiro Matsuyama52 LDPDaisuke Tezuka39 IshinYoshiharu Akiyama45 SanseitōChiho Hidaka43 Anti-NHKSalsa Iwabuchi44 Independent

Result

Nagasaki at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsKeisuke Yamamoto47 LDPNoneAyumi Shirakawa42 CDPMami Yamada50 IshinAyako Yasue 45 JCPAyako Ogata47 SanseitōKazuto Ōkuma52 Anti-NHK

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Nara at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsKei Satō43 LDPMisato Ioku42 CDPNoneTakashi Nakagawa36 IshinNoneItsuko Kitano46 JCPNoneMami Nakamura43 SanseitōTetsuyuki Tomida70 Anti-NHK

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Niigata at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsYuko Mori66 CDPKazuhiro Kobayashi49 LDPHiroki Endo42 SanseitōHiroyuki Ochi48 Anti-NHK

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Ōita at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsShinya Adachi65 DPPHarutomo Kosho64 LDPKai Yamashita45 JCPYūko Shigematsu63 SanseitōDaizo Ninomiya51 Anti-NHKYūichi Kotegawa55 Independent

Result

Okayama at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsKimi Onoda39 LDPSusumu Kuroda58 IndependentNoneSatomi Sumiyori39 JCPYuriko Takano46 SanseitōNoneTakahira Yamamoto47 Anti-NHK

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Okinawa at-large district

Candidates Name AgeParty Current PositionsYōichi Iha70 IndependentGenta Koja38 LDPNoneSadafumi Kawano48 SanseitōKei Yamamoto42 Anti-NHKTatsuro Kinjo58 HRP

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Saga at-large district