Ibaraki at-large district (original) (raw)

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Ibaraki at-large district
茨城県選挙区
Parliamentary constituencyfor the House of Councillors
Prefecture Ibaraki
Electorate 2,399,889[1]
Current constituency
Created 1947
Seats 4
Councillors Class of 2019: Ryōsuke Kōzuki (LDP) Takumi Onuma (CDP) Class of 2022: Kato Akiyoshi (LDP) Makiko Dougomi (Ind.)

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

The constituency represents the entire population of Ibaraki Prefecture. The district elects four Councillors to six-year terms, two each at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,411,307 registered voters as of September 2015.[2] The Councillors currently representing Ibaraki are:

Elected Councillors

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Class of 1947 election year Class of 1950(3-year term in 1947)
Yasuji Yūki(Ind.)[note 1] Masaji Shibata(Liberal)[note 2] 1947 Nobuo Ōhata(Social Democratic) Tsuneo Ikeda(Ind.)[note 3]
1950 Yūichi Kōri(Liberal) Shichihei Kikuta(National Democratic)
Shigefumi Miyata(Liberal) 1950 by-election[note 4]
Tsunesuke Mutō(Kaishintō) 1953
1956 Yūichi Kōri(LDP) Motojiro Mori(Social Democratic)
Tsunesuke Mutō[note 5](LDP) Sōzō Ōmori(Social Democratic) 1959
1962
Ichiji Suzuki(LDP) 1963 by-election[note 6]
Kishirō Nakamura[note 7](LDP) 1965
1968
Fujio Takeuchi[note 8](LDP) 1971
Tomi Nakamura(Minor party)[note 9] 1972 by-election[note 10]
1974 Taeko Iwakami[note 11](Minor party)[note 12] Osamu Yatabe(Social Democratic)
Yūichi Kōri(LDP) 1975 by-election[note 13]
Michitada Takasugi(Social Democratic) 1977
[note 14]1978 by-election Nirō Iwakami[note 15](LDP)
1980
Ikuo Soneda(LDP) 1983
1986
Makoto Taneda(Social Democratic) Akio Kanō[note 16](LDP) 1989
[note 17]1989 by-election Itsuo Nomura(LDP)
Yasu Kanō[note 18](LDP) 1992 by-election[note 19]
1992
Moto Kobayashi(New Frontier) 1995
1998 Kōichi Kuno[note 20](LDP) Akira Gunji(DPJ)
Moto Kobayashi(DPJ) 2001
2003 by-election[note 21] Hiroshi Okada(LDP)
2004[11]
Yukihisa Fujita(DPJ) Tamon Hasegawa(LDP) 2007[12]
2010[13]
Ryosuke Kouzuki(LDP) 2013[14]
2016
Takumi Onuma (CDP) 2019[15]
2022[16] Akiyoshi Kato (LDP) Masako Dogomi (Ind.)^
  1. ^ Later joined Ryokufūkai[7]
  2. ^ Died in office 15 September 1950[8]
  3. ^ Later joined the Labourers and Farmers Party[8]
  4. ^ Held 3 November 1950[7]
  5. ^ Died in office 6 August 1963[7]
  6. ^ Held 18 September 1963[8]
  7. ^ Died in office 21 December 1971[9]
  8. ^ Resigned 14 March 1975[9]
  9. ^ Wife of the deceased Kishirō Nakamura. Ran as a candidate of a minor party,[10] but later joined the LDP[9]
  10. ^ Held 6 February 1972[9]
  11. ^ Resigned 21 December 1977[8]
  12. ^ Elected as a candidate for the Ibaraki Agricultural Federation. Later joined the LDP[8]
  13. ^ Held 27 April 1975[8]
  14. ^ Held 5 February 1978[8]
  15. ^ Husband of Taeko Iwakami. Died in office 16 August 1989[8]
  16. ^ Died in office 26 February 1992[8]
  17. ^ Held 1 October 1989[8]
  18. ^ Wife of Akio Kanō
  19. ^ Held 12 April 1992[10]
  20. ^ Died in office 17 October 2002
  21. ^ Held 27 April 2003[10]
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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). 2 September 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
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  4. ^ "岡田 広（おかだ ひろし）：参議院" [Okada, Hiroshi: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. ^ "藤田 幸久（ふじた ゆきひさ）：参議院" [Fujita, Yukihisa: House of Councillors] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 April 2016.
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  9. ^ a b c d "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  10. ^ a b c d Satō, Yoshi (令) (December 2005). "Post-War By-Elections" (PDF) (in Japanese). national Diet Library. p. 92. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  11. ^ a b "選挙区開票結果 <茨城県>" [District results (Ibaraki)]. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  12. ^ a b "選挙区 茨城県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  13. ^ a b "選挙区 茨城県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙" [Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  14. ^ a b "選挙区 茨城県 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙" [Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  15. ^ "House of Councilors election 2019 electoral district Ibaraki". Retrieved 9 Nov 2023.
  16. ^ "Ibaraki House of Councilors election 2022 election news/vote counting results". Retrieved 9 Nov 2023.