Shizuoka at-large district

Shizuoka at-large district
Shizuoka at-large district
静岡県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency; for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Shizuoka
Electorate	3,016,115 (as of September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	4
Councillors	Class of 2019: Takao Makino (LDP) ; Kazuya Shimba (DPP); Class of 2022: Yohei Wakabayashi (LDP); Sachiko Hirayama (Ind.);

The Shizuoka at-large district (Japanese: 静岡県選挙区, Hepburn: Shizuoka-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Shizuoka Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Shizuoka Prefecture. Since its inception in 1947, the district has elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 3,052,579 registered voters as of September 2015.^[2] The Councillors currently representing Shizuoka are:

Yuji Fujimoto (Democratic Party (DP), second term; term ends in 2016)^[3]
Shigeki Iwai (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016)^[4]
Takao Makino (LDP, second term; term ends in 2019)^[5]
Kazuya Shimba (DP, third term; term ends in 2019)^[6]

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947		election year	Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947)
Toyohisa Morita [ja]^[7] (Liberal)	Kaichi Kawakami [ja] (Centrist)^{[note 1]}	1947	Yahachi Kawai [ja] (Ryokufūkai)^{[note 2]}	Ichizo Hiraoka [ja]^{[note 3]} (Liberal)
		1950		Ichizo Hiraoka [ja]^{[note 3]} (Liberal)
		1952 by-election^{[note 4]}		Tadaatsu Ishiguro (Ryokufūkai)
	Takeji Kobayashi [ja] (LDP)^{[note 5]}	1953		Tadaatsu Ishiguro (Ryokufūkai)
		1956	Manpei Suzuki [ja] (LDP)	Chuji Matsunaga [ja] (Social Democratic)
Masataka Ota [ja] (LDP)		1959		Chuji Matsunaga [ja] (Social Democratic)
Masataka Ota [ja] (LDP)		1962		Yuko Kurihara [ja]^{[note 6]} (LDP)
Chuji Matsunaga (Social Democratic)		1965
		1968	Keisaburo Yamamoto [ja] (LDP)
	Shizu Kawanobe [ja] (LDP)	1971
		1972 by-election^{[note 7]}		Toshio Saito [ja] (LDP)
		1974	Shinya Tozuka [ja]^{[note 8]} (LDP)	Shinji Aoki [ja] (Social Democratic)
Buichi Katsumata [ja] (Social Democratic)	Hiroshi Kumagai [ja] (LDP)	1977
Buichi Katsumata [ja] (Social Democratic)	Hiroshi Kumagai [ja] (LDP)	1980
Shizuma Kojima [ja] (LDP)	Yutaka Takeyama [ja] (LDP)	1983
		1983 by-election^{[note 9]}	Sakae Fujita [ja] (LDP)
		1986	Kazuhito Kimiya [ja] (LDP)
Kijun Sakurai [ja] (Social Democratic)^{[note 10]}		1989
Kijun Sakurai [ja] (Social Democratic)^{[note 10]}		1992
Masataka Suzuki [ja] (New Frontier)		1995
Masataka Suzuki [ja] (New Frontier)		1998	Yoshihiko Yamashita [ja] (LDP)	Toru Unno [ja] (Ind.)^{[note 11]}
Kazuya Shimba (DPJ)		2001	Yoshihiko Yamashita [ja] (LDP)	Toru Unno [ja] (Ind.)^{[note 11]}
		2004^[11]	Yukiko Sakamoto^{[note 12]} (LDP)	Yuji Fujimoto (DPJ)
	Takao Makino (LDP)	2007^[12]	Yukiko Sakamoto^{[note 12]} (LDP)
		2009 by-election^{[note 13]}	Hirokazu Tsuchida [ja] (DPJ)
		2010^[13]	Shigeki Iwai (LDP)
		2013^[14]	Shigeki Iwai (LDP)

^ Later joined Ryokufūkai^[8]
^ First elected as an independent.
^ Died in office 20 march 1952.^[9]
^ Held 6 May 1952^[10]
^ First elected as an independent.
^ Resigned 13 November 1972 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives^[8]^[10]
^ Held 10 December 1972^[10]
^ Resigned 18 November 1983 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives^[9]^[10]
^ Held 18 December 1983^[10]
^ Sakurai nominated to contest the election as a Social Democratic candidate. During the campaign he was involved in an incident that saw the party withdraw their support for him, plus he ceased his own campaign activities. Despite this, he was elected officially as an independent candidate. He rejoined the party after the election.
^ Was endorsed by the Democratic Party in the election and joined the party the following year.
^ Resigned 17 June 2009 to contest the Shizuoka gubernatorial election.
^ Held 25 October 2009

Election results

2016^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Shigeki Iwai (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	747,410	44.3
	Democratic	Sachiko Hirayama (Endorsed by Social Democratic Party)	691,687	41.0
	JCP	Chika Suzuki	172,382	10.2
	Independent	Sotaro Otake	54,412	3.2
	Happiness Realization	Toshimitsu Egashira	23,021	1.4
Turnout			1,688,912	55.76

2013^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Takao Makino (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	634,789	41.5
	Democratic	Kazuya Shimba (Incumbent)	458,095	30.0
	Your	Yukiko Suzuki	187,055	12.2
	Restoration	Hiryu Mochizuki	119,109	7.8
	JCP	Daisuke Mori	115,411	7.6
	Happiness Realization	Yuta Nakano	13,692	0.9
Turnout

2010^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Shigeki Iwai	554,459	32.3
	Democratic	Yuji Fujimoto (Incumbent) (Endorsed by People's New Party)	485,507	28.2
	Your	Junichi Kawai	359,983	20.9
	Democratic	Naoko Nakamoto (Endorsed by People's New Party)	206,870	12.0
	JCP	Hiromi Watanabe	94,416	5.5
	Happiness Realization	Yuta Nakano	17,633	1.0
Turnout

2009 by-election^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hirokazu Tsuchida [ja] (Endorsed by People's New Party)	567,374	52.4
	LDP	Shigeki Iwai	404,763	37.4
	JCP	Takashige Hiraga [ja]	97,631	9.0
	Happiness Realization	Hissho Yanai	12,106	1.1
Turnout			1,097,330	35.64	−22.77

2007^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kazuya Shimba (Incumbent)	823,184	47.1
	LDP	Takao Makino (Endorsed by Komeito)	549,375	31.4
	Independent	Ichi Kibe	150,306	8.6
	JCP	Takashige Hiraga [ja]	137,627	7.9
	Independent	Hirokazu Tsuchida [ja]	86,354	4.9
Turnout				58.41^[16]

2004^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yukiko Sakamoto (endorsed by Komeito)	501,618	29.3
	Democratic	Yuji Fujimoto	369,573	21.6
	Democratic	Toru Unno [ja] (Incumbent)	361,938	21.2
	LDP	Yoshihiko Yamashita [ja] (Incumbent) (endorsed by Komeito)	343,368	20.1
	JCP	Yukihiro Shimazu [ja]	132,972	7.8
Turnout

References

^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
^ "平成２７年９月２日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015] (in Japanese). 28 December 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "藤本　祐司（ふじもと　ゆうじ）：参議院" [Fujimoto, Yuji: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "岩井　茂樹（いわい　しげき）：参議院" [Iwai, Shigeki: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "牧野　たかお（まきの　たかお）：参議院" [Makino, Takao: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "榛葉　賀津也（しんば　かづや）：参議院" [Shimba, Kazuya: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). National Diet Library. p. 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "選挙区開票結果　<静岡県>" [District results (Shizuoka)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "選挙区　静岡県開票結果参院選2007" [Shizuoka at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "選挙区　静岡県開票結果参院選2010 参院選選挙" [Shizuoka at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b "選挙区　静岡県開票結果参院選2013 参院選選挙" [Shizuoka at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "静岡県／参議院議員通常選挙開票状況（平成28年7月10日執行）". Shizuoka Prefectural Election Management Committee. July 10, 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
^ ^a ^b "参議院静岡県選挙区選出議員補欠選挙結果調" [House of Councillors Shizuoka at-large district Councillor by-election results] (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

[9] Later joined Ryokufūkai^[8]

[10] First elected as an independent.

[12] Died in office 20 march 1952.^[9]

[14] Held 6 May 1952^[10]

[15] First elected as an independent.

[16] Resigned 13 November 1972 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives^[8]^[10]

[17] Held 10 December 1972^[10]

[18] Resigned 18 November 1983 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives^[9]^[10]

[19] Held 18 December 1983^[10]

[20] Sakurai nominated to contest the election as a Social Democratic candidate. During the campaign he was involved in an incident that saw the party withdraw their support for him, plus he ceased his own campaign activities. Despite this, he was elected officially as an independent candidate. He rejoined the party after the election.

[21] Was endorsed by the Democratic Party in the election and joined the party the following year.

[23] Resigned 17 June 2009 to contest the Shizuoka gubernatorial election.

[25] Held 25 October 2009

[1] "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.

[voters-2] "平成２７年９月２日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015] (in Japanese). 28 December 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[3] "藤本　祐司（ふじもと　ゆうじ）：参議院" [Fujimoto, Yuji: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[4] "岩井　茂樹（いわい　しげき）：参議院" [Iwai, Shigeki: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[5] "牧野　たかお（まきの　たかお）：参議院" [Makino, Takao: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[6] "榛葉　賀津也（しんば　かづや）：参議院" [Shimba, Kazuya: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[Ma-7] "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[A-8] "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[Ta-11] "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[by-13] Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). National Diet Library. p. 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[elect04-22] "選挙区開票結果　<静岡県>" [District results (Shizuoka)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[elect07-24] "選挙区　静岡県開票結果参院選2007" [Shizuoka at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[elect10-26] "選挙区　静岡県開票結果参院選2010 参院選選挙" [Shizuoka at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[elect13-27] "選挙区　静岡県開票結果参院選2013 参院選選挙" [Shizuoka at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[28] "静岡県／参議院議員通常選挙開票状況（平成28年7月10日執行）". Shizuoka Prefectural Election Management Committee. July 10, 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-25.

[2009by-29] "参議院静岡県選挙区選出議員補欠選挙結果調" [House of Councillors Shizuoka at-large district Councillor by-election results] (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

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Outline

Elected Councillors

Election results

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