Saitama at-large district
| Saitama at-large district | |
|---|---|
| 埼玉県選挙区 | |
| Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors | |
 | |
| Prefecture | Saitama |
| Electorate | 6,170,471 (as of September 2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1947 |
| Seats | 8 |
| Councillors | Class of 2019: Class of 2022:
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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.
Recent election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Toshiharu Furukawa | 573,114 | 16.78 |  7.29 | |
| DPP | Kumiko Ehara | 535,706 | 15.69 | new | |
| CDP | Hiroto Kumagai | 480,330 | 14.06 | 0.65 | |
| Sanseitō | Tsutomu Ōtsu | 465,278 | 13.62 |  10.65 | |
| Komeito (LDP) | Katsuo Yakura | 441,613 | 12.93 | 2.85 | |
| JCP | Gaku Itō | 227,488 | 6.66 | 1.18 | |
| Reiwa | Nanae Sakurai | 198,936 | 5.82 | 1.79 | |
| Ishin | Miyumi Ryūno | 150,475 | 4.41 | 6.33 | |
| CPJ | Tetsunobu Ishihama | 129,130 | 3.78 | new | |
| Team Mirai | Kazuko Mutō | 83,957 | 2.46 | new | |
| Social Democratic | Tamaki Takai | 50,335 | 1.47 | ||
| Anti-NHK | Shinichi Yamada | 26,469 | 0.78 |  | |
| Shinseikai | Yūka Masuyama | 25,312 | 0.74 | new | |
| Independent | Yoshihide Saitō | 19,190 | 0.56 | new | |
| Reform Party | Daisaku Tsumura | 7,992 | 0.23 | new | |
| Turnout | 56.88 | 6.63 | |||
| Registered electors | 6,127,388 | 18,684 | |||
| Party total seats | Won | Total | Change | ||
| Liberal Democratic | 1 | 2 | | ||
| Constitutional Democratic | 1 | 2 | | ||
| Democratic Party For the People | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sanseitō | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Kōmeitō | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Independent | 0 | 1 | | ||
| Communist | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Total | 4 | 8 | N/A | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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) | #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
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