The Aichi at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan that represents Aichi Prefecture . From 1947 until 2013 it has elected six Councillors, three every three years by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. A 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law increased the district's representation to eight Councillors;[ 1] the change began to take effect at the 2016 election , at which four Councillors were elected.
Aichi at-large district Prefecture Aichi Electorate 6,128,080 (as of September 2022)[ 2] Created 1947 Seats 8 Councillors Class of 2019:
Class of 2022:
Elected Councillors
Class of (1947/1953/...)
Election Year
Class of (1950/1956/...)
#1
1947: #1, 6 Year Term
#2
1947: #2, 6 Year Term 1975: #1, 2 Year Term
#3
1947: #3, 6 Year Term
#4
#1
1947: #4, 3 Year Term 1990: #1, 2 Year Term
#2
1947: #5, 3 Year Term 1966: #1, 2 Year Term 1994: #1, 1 Year Term
#3
1947: #6, 3 Year Term
#4
Takurō Yamanouchi (Indep.)[ 3]
Saichi Yamada (JLP )
Shichirō Takenaka (Indep.)[ 4]
1947 [ 5]
Ushirō Saeki (Indep.)[ 3]
Ryōen Kusaba (JLP )
Yoshio Kuriyama (Indep.)[ 6]
1950 [ 7]
Banji Naruse (JSP )
Ryōen Kusaba (LP )
Yoneji Yamamoto (LP )
Hiroko Hasebe (Indep.)
Shinichi Kondō (Left, JSP )
Hideo Aoyagi (LP )
1953 [ 8]
1956 [ 9]
Ryōen Kusaba † 1966 (LDP )
Yoneji Yamamoto (LDP )
Takeo Sugiura (LDP )
Hideo Aoyagi (LDP )
1959 [ 10]
1962 [ 11]
Sakae Shibata (LDP )
Ichiro Yagi (LDP )
1963 by-el. [ 12]
1965 [ 13]
1966 by-el. [ 14]
Taro Yokoi (LDP )
1968 [ 15]
Kunihiko Shibuya (Kōmeitō )
Shoji Suhara † 1975 (JSP )
Shigezo Hashimoto (LDP )
1971 [ 16]
1974 [ 17]
Shoji Morishita (JSP )
Shigenobu Sanji # 1994 (DSP )
Isshu Fujikawa (LDP )
Isamu Fukui (LDP )
1975 by-el. [ 18]
Tomi Baba (Komeito )
Kei Inoue (DSP )
1977 [ 19]
1980 [ 20]
Kentaro Takagi † 1990 (Indep.)
Hiroshi Ogi (LDP )
Hiroshi Yoshikawa (LDP )
1983 [ 21]
1986 [ 22]
Kei Inoue (DSP )
Sachiko Maehata (JSP )
1989 [ 23]
1990 by-el. [ 24]
Yoshihisa Oshima (LDP )
1992 [ 25]
Kiyohiro Araki (Kōmeitō )
Shoji Shinma # 1994 (DSP )
1994 by-el. [ 26]
Yuzuru Tsutugi (Indep.)
Seiji Suzuki (LDP )
Mahiko Suehiro (Indep.)
Tamotsu Yamamoto (NFP )
1995 [ 27]
1998 [ 28]
Yoshitake Kimata (DPJ )
Taisuke Sato (DPJ )
Hiroko Hatta (JSP )
Kohei Otsuka (DPJ )
Tamotsu Yamamoto (Komeito )
2001 [ 29]
2004 [ 30]
Katsuhito Asano (LDP )
Kuniko Tanioka (DPJ )
2007 [ 31]
2010 [ 32]
Yoshitaka Saitō (DPJ )
Misako Yasui (DPJ )
Masahito Fujikawa (LDP )
Yasuyuki Sakai (LDP )
Michiyo Yakushiji (Your Party )
2013 [ 33]
2016 [ 34]
Masahito Fujikawa (LDP )
Yoshitaka Saitō (DP )
Ryuji Satomi (Komeito )
Takae Itō (LDP )
Maiko Tajima (CDP )
Nobuo Yasue (Komeito )
2019
2022
Ryuji Satomi (Komeito )
Yoshitaka Saitō (CDP )
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned; †: died in office.
Previous election results
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