Kyoto at-large district

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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

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.[1] The Councillors currently representing Kyoto are:

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947 election year Class of 1950
(3-year term in 1947)
ja (Rinichi Hatano) (Ind.)[note 1] ja (Kunihiko Kanie)
(Social Democratic)		 1947 ja (Hidejiro Onogi)[note 2]
(LDP)[note 3]		 ja (Shuichiro Oku) (Liberal)
1950 Ikuo Oyama (Ind.)[note 4]
ja (Seiichi Inoue)
(LDP)[note 5]		 ja (Katsuo Takenaka)[note 6]
(Right Socialist)		 1953
1956 by-election[note 7] ja (Hideo Konishi) (LDP)
1956 ja (Totaro Fujita)
(Social Democratic)
ja (Eiichi Nagasue)[note 8]
(Social Democratic)		 1959
1962
ja (Mitsunori Ueki)
(LDP)		 1963 by-election[note 9]
ja (Kazutaka Ohashi)[note 10]
(Social Democratic)		 1965
1966 by-election[note 11] Yukio Hayashida[note 12]
(LDP)
1968 ja (Kenji Kawada) (JCP)
1971
ja (Hanji Ogawa) (LDP) 1974 by-election[note 13]
1974
ja (Akio Sato (politician, born 1927); Akio Sato) (JCP) 1977
1978 by-election[note 14] ja (Minoru Ueda)
(LDP)
1980 ja (Shinnosuke Kamitani)
(JCP)
1983
1986 Yukio Hayashida
(LDP)
ja (Teiko Sasano)
(ja (Democratic Reform Party (Japan); Democratic Reform))[note 15]		 ja (Yoshihiro Nishida)
(LDP)		 1989
1992 ja (Tokiko Nishiyama) (JCP)
1995
1998 Tetsuro Fukuyama
(DPJ)[note 16]
Koji Matsui
(DPJ)		 2001
2004[9] Satoshi Ninoyu
(LDP)
Shoji Nishida
(LDP)		 2007[10]
2010[11]
ja (Akiko Kurabayashi) (JCP) 2013[12]
  1. ↑ Later joined Ryokufūkai[6]
  2. ↑ Died in office 4 March 1966.[7]
  3. ↑ Elected in 1947 and 1950 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
  4. ↑ Died in office 30 November 1955[7]
  5. ↑ Elected in 1947 and 1953 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
  6. ↑ Died in office 26 January 1959[6]
  7. ↑ Held 15 January 1956[8]
  8. ↑ Resigned 30 October 1963 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives[6]
  9. ↑ Held 10 December 1963[8]
  10. ↑ Resigned 13 March 1974 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election[7][8]
  11. ↑ Held 27 April 1966[8]
  12. ↑ Resigned 15 March 1978 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election[6][8]
  13. ↑ Held 21 April 1974[8]
  14. ↑ Held 23 April 1978[8]
  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.

See also

References

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