Saitama at-large district
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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.
Saitama at-large district | |
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埼玉県選挙区 | |
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors | |
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Prefecture | Saitama |
Electorate | 6,170,471 (as of September 2022)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1947 |
Seats | 8 |
Councillors | Class of 2019: Class of 2022: |
Recent election results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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
[edit]Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.
References
[edit]House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.