Saitama at-large district

Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.

Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.

  Toshiharu Furukawa
  •   Hiroto Kumagai
  •   Katsuo Yakura
  •   Gaku Ito
    • Class of 2022:
    •   Masakazu Sekiguchi
    •   Kiyoshi Ueda
    •   Makoto Nishida
    •   Mari Takagi


    Recent election results

    2010[2]
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    LDP Masakazu Sekiguchi 655,028 20.6
    Kōmeitō Makoto Nishida 594,678 18.7
    DPJ Motohiro Ōno 557,398 17.5
    DPJ Chiyako Shimada 544,381 17.1
    YP Tsukasa Kobayashi 416,663 13.1
    JCP Gaku Itō 207,957 6.5
    NRP Kōji Nakagawa 84,897 2.7
    SDP Fumihiro Himori 72,185 2.3
    Independent Kōsei Hasegawa 37,731 1.2
    HRP Hirotoshi Inda 9,536 0.3
    Turnout 3,246,247 55.83
    2007[3]
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    DPJ Kuniko Kōda 745,517 23.5
    LDP Toshiharu Furukawa 684,270 21.6
    DPJ Ryūji Yamane 665,063 21.0
    Kōmeitō Hiroshi Takano 623,723 19.7
    JCP Sumiko Ayabe 277,440 8.7
    SDP Etsuko Matsuzawa 104,403 3.3
    PNP Tetsuo Sawada 72,756 2.3
    Turnout 3,227,638 56.35

    Historical Councillors elected from Saitama

    Class of 1947/1953/... Election Year Class of 1950/1956/...
    #1

    (1947: #1. 6 Year Term)

    		#2

    (1947: #2, 6 Year Term)
    (1992: #3, 3 Year Term)

    		#3 #4 #1

    (1947: #3, 3-year term)

    		#2

    (1947: #4, 3-year term)

    		#3 #4
    Eizo Kobayashi
    (LP)     		Yataro Hiranuma
    (LP)     		1947 Katsumasa Amada
    (JSP)     		Kazue Ishikawa
    (DP)
    1950 Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955
    (JSP)     		Shokichi Uehara
    (LP)
    Eizo Kobayashi
    (Yoshida LP)     		Katsumasa Amada
    (Right JSP)     		1953
    1955 by el. Ryusaku Endo
    (Indep.)
    1956 Yuichi Osawa # 1960
    (LDP)     		Shokichi Uehara
    (LDP)
    Eizo Kobayashi
    (LDP)     		Katsumasa Amada † 1965
    (JSP)     		1959
    1960 by el. Kanzo Oizumi
    (LDP)
    1962 Shokichi Uehara
    (LDP)     		Hideyuki Seya

    (JSP)

    Katsuji Mori
    (JSP)     		Yoshio Tsuchiya
    (LDP)     		1965
    1968
    Yoshio Tsuchiya
    (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan))     		Katsuji Mori
    (JSP)     		1971
    1974 Hideyuki Seya
    (JSP)     		Shokichi Uehara
    (LDP)
    Juro Morita
    (NLC)     		1977
    1980 Ryoko Nao
    (LDP)     		Hideyuki Seya
    (JSP)
    1983
    1986 Hideyuki Seya
    (JSP)     		Ryoko Nao
    (LDP)
    Hajime Fukuda
    (JSP)     		Yoshio Tsuchiya # 1992
    (Indep.)     		1989
    Taizo Sato
    (LDP)     		1991 by-el. Noriyuki Sekine
    (LDP)
    1992 (including

    by-el.)

    		Noriyuki Sekine
    (LDP)     		Hideyuki Seya
    (JSP)
    Hiroshi Takano
    (NFP)     		Sachiyo Abe
    (JCP)     		1995
    1998 Takujiro Hamada # 2003

    (Indep.)

    		Renzo Togashi
    (JCP)     		Toshio Fuji
    (DPJ)
    Taizo Sato
    (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan))     		Hiroshi Takano
    (Komeito)     		Ryuji Yamane
    (DPJ)     		2001
    2003 by-el. Masakazu Sekiguchi
    (LDP)
    2004 Chiyako Shimada
    (DPJ)     		Masakazu Sekiguchi
    (LDP)     		Makoto Nishida
    (Komeito)
    Kuniko Koda
    (DPJ)     		Toshiharu Furukawa
    (LDP)     		2007
    2010 Masakazu Sekiguchi
    (LDP)     		Makoto Nishida
    (Komeito)     		Motohiro Ōno
    (DPJ)
    Toshiharu Furukawa
    (LDP)     		Katsuo Yakura
    (Komeito)     		Kuniko Koda
    (Your Party)     		2013
    2016 Motohiro Ōno # 2019
    (DPJ)     		Makoto Nishida
    (Komeito)
    Hiroto Kumagai
    (CDP)     		Katsuo Yakura
    (Komeito)     		Gaku Ito
    (JCP)     		2019
    2019 by-el. Kiyoshi Ueda
    (Indepen.)
    2022 Mari Takagi
    (CDP)

    Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.


    References

    House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

    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.
    2. ^ 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
    3. ^ 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
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