Kyoto at-large district

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Kyōto at-large district
京都府選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
PrefectureKyoto
Electorate2,097,987 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats4
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Akiko Kurabayashi (JCP)
  •   Shoji Nishida (LDP)

Class of 2022:

The Kyoto at-large district (Japanese: 京都府選挙区, Hepburn: Kyōto-fu senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Kyoto Prefecture in the House of Councillors of the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline[edit]

The constituency represents the entire population of Kyoto 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 2,088,383 registered voters as of September 2015.[2] The Councillors currently representing Kyoto are:

Elected Councillors[edit]

Class of 1947 election year Class of 1950
(3-year term in 1947)
Rinichi Hatano [ja] (Ind.)[note 1] Kunihiko Kanie [ja]
(Social Democratic) 		1947 Ōnogi Hidejirō[note 2]
(LDP)[note 3] 		Shuichiro Oku [ja] (Liberal)
1950 Ikuo Oyama (Ind.)[note 4]
Seiichi Inoue [ja]
(LDP)[note 5] 		Katsuo Takenaka [ja][note 6]
(Right Socialist) 		1953
1956 by-election[note 7] Hideo Konishi [ja] (LDP)
1956 Totaro Fujita [ja]
(Social Democratic)
Eiichi Nagasue [ja][note 8]
(Social Democratic) 		1959
1962
Mitsunori Ueki [ja]
(LDP) 		1963 by-election[note 9]
Kazutaka Ohashi [ja][note 10]
(Social Democratic) 		1965
1966 by-election[note 11] Yukio Hayashida[note 12]
(LDP)
1968 Kenji Kawada [ja] (JCP)
1971
Hanji Ogawa [ja] (LDP) 1974 by-election[note 13]
1974
Akio Sato (JCP) 1977
1978 by-election[note 14] Minoru Ueda [ja]
(LDP)
1980 Shinnosuke Kamitani [ja]
(JCP)
1983
1986 Yukio Hayashida
(LDP)
Teiko Sasano [ja]
(Democratic Reform [ja])[note 15] 		Yoshihiro Nishida [ja]
(LDP) 		1989
1992 Tokiko Nishiyama [ja] (JCP)
1995
1998 Tetsuro Fukuyama
(DPJ)[note 16]
Koji Matsui
(DPJ) 		2001
2004[10] Satoshi Ninoyu
(LDP)
Shoji Nishida
(LDP) 		2007[11]
2010[12]
Akiko Kurabayashi (JCP) 2013[13]
2016[14]
2019[15] Akira Yoshii (LDP)
2022[16]
  1. ^ Later joined Ryokufūkai[7]
  2. ^ Died in office 4 March 1966.[8]
  3. ^ Elected in 1947 and 1950 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
  4. ^ Died in office 30 November 1955[8]
  5. ^ Elected in 1947 and 1953 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
  6. ^ Died in office 26 January 1959[7]
  7. ^ Held 15 January 1956[9]
  8. ^ Resigned 30 October 1963 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives[7]
  9. ^ Held 10 December 1963[9]
  10. ^ Resigned 13 March 1974 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election[8][9]
  11. ^ Held 27 April 1966[9]
  12. ^ Resigned 15 March 1978 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election[7][9]
  13. ^ Held 21 April 1974[9]
  14. ^ Held 23 April 1978[9]
  15. ^ Contested the 1989 election as a member of the Rengō no Kai.
  16. ^ Contested the 1998 election as an independent but joined the DPJ soon after.

Election results[edit]

2022[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Akira Yoshii
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		293,071 28.2
CDP Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent) 275,140 26.5
Innovation Yuko Kusui 257,852 24.8
Communist Ayako Takeyama 130,260 12.5
Sanseitō Yuki Adachi 40,500 3.9
Ishin Seito Shimpu Kumi Hashimoto 21,614 2.1
Anti-NHK Tastuya Hoshino 8,946 0.9
Anti-NHK Masahiko Omi 7,181 0.7
Ganbare Nippon Motoyuki Hirai 5,414 0.5
Turnout 1,039,978
2019[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Shoji Nishida (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		421,731 44.2
Communist Akiko Kurabayashi 246,436 25.8
CDP Hiroko Masuhara 232,354 24.4
Anti-NHK Akihisa Yamada 37,353 3.9
Olive Party Takashi Mikami 16,057 1.9
Turnout
2013[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Shoji Nishida (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		390,577 37.0
Communist Akiko Kurabayashi 219,273 20.7
Democratic Keiro Kitagami 201,297 19.0
Restoration Seisuke Yamauchi 56,409 16.8
Your Yoko Kinoshita 71,983 6.8
Happiness Realization Shusaku Soga 6,119 0.6
Uchide Party Nobuo Shindo 2,906 0.3
Turnout
2010[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent)
(Endorsed by People's New Party) 		374,550 34.3
Liberal Democratic Satoshi Ninoyu (Incumbent) 308,296 28.2
Communist Mariko Narumiya 181,691 16.6
Your Takuya Nakagawa 120,262 11.0
Democratic Mitsue Kawakami [ja] 94,761 8.7
Happiness Realization Satoko Kitagawa 11,962 1.1
Turnout
2007[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Koji Matsui (Incumbent) 501,979 43.6
Liberal Democratic Shoji Nishida
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		362,274 31.4
Communist Mariko Narumiya 275,285 23.9
Ishin Seito Shimpu Toyokazu Okido 12,799 1.1
Turnout
2004[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent) 484,297 43.8
Liberal Democratic Satoshi Ninoyu
(Endorsed by Komeito) 		358,512 32.4
Communist Tokiko Nishiyama [ja] (Incumbent) 263,548 23.8
Turnout

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  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 31 May 2016.
  3. ^ "西田　昌司（にしだ　しょうじ）：参議院" [Nishida, Shoji: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  4. ^ "倉林　明子（くらばやし　あきこ）：参議院" [Kurabayashi, Akiko: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 May 2016.
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  8. ^ a b c "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). National Diet Library. pp. 86–95. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
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  11. ^ a b "選挙区　京都府 開票結果 参院選2007" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  12. ^ a b "選挙区　京都府 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  13. ^ a b "選挙区　京都府 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  14. ^ "開票結果・速報(選挙区・京都府) 参議院選挙2016" [Kyoto at-large district election results, 2016 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  15. ^ a b "京都選挙区 参院選2019 候補者・選挙最新ニュース". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  16. ^ a b "吉井章 参議院選挙・開票結果2022 京都選挙区" [Kyoto House of Councilors Election 2022 Election Bulletin and Voting Results]. 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.

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