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Hiroshima at-large district
広島県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
Prefecture Hiroshima
Electorate2,297,308 (as of September 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats4
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Haruko Miyaguchi [a] (CDP)
  •   Shinji Morimoto (CDP)

Class of 2022:

Hiroshima at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Hiroshima Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two per election. [2] The current Councillors are

House of Councillors elected members

Class of (1947/1953/...) Election Class of (1950/1956/...)
#1

1947: #1, 6 Year Term

#2

1947: #2 6 Year Term

#1

1947: #3, 3 Year Term

#2

1947: #4, 3 Yeart Term

Shikazo Sasaki
(Indep.)
Gishin Yamashita
(Indep.)
1947 Setsuo Yamada
( JSP)
Gesshū Iwamoto
(Indep.)
1950 Takeichi Nita
( Yoshida LP)
Tsunei Kusunose
( Yoshida LP)
1950 by-el.
Gishin Yamashita ( Right JSP) Kiichi Miyazawa
( Yoshida LP)
1953
1956 Mamoru Nagano
( LDP)
Setsuo Yamada
( JSP)
Kiichi Miyazawa
( LDP)
Susumu Fujita
( JSP)
1959
1962 Tadayasu Iwasawa † 1966
( LDP)
Kenichi Matsumoto
( JSP)
Masāki Fujita
( LDP)
1965
1966 by-el. Makoto Nakatsui
( LDP)
1968
1971
1974 Izuo Nagano † 1981
( LDP)
Manso Hamamoto
( JSP)
1977
1980 Hiroyuki KonishI ( DSP)
1981 by-el. Hiroshi Miyazawa
( LDP)
Manso Hamamoto
( JSP)
1983
1986
Manso Hamamoto
( JSP)
Yūzan Fujita # 1993
( LDP)
1989
1992 Kimiko Kurihara ( JSP)
Kensei Mizote
( LDP)
1993 by-el.
Kensei Mizote
( LDP)
Kenji Sugekawa ( NFP) 1995
1998 Ikuo Kamei
( LDP)
Minoru Yanagida
(Indep.)
Takeaki Kashimura
(Indep.)
Kensei Mizote
( LDP)
2001
2004 Minoru Yanagida ( DPJ) Ikuo Kamei
( LDP)
Koji Sato ( DPJ) 2007
2010 Yoichi Miyazawa
( LDP)
Minoru Yanagida ( DPJ)
Kensei Mizote
( LDP)
Shinji Morimoto ( DPJ) 2013
2016
Shinji Morimoto
(Indep.)
Anri Kawai ‡ 2021
( LDP)
2019
Haruko Miyaguchi
(Concentration Hiroshima)
2021 by-el
2022 Eri Mikami
(Indep.)

†: Died in office ‡: Election nullified #: Resigned to run for Governor

Notelist

  1. ^ Anri Kawai, who had been elected in 2019 behind Morimoto, was convicted of vote-buying in 2021. Miyaguchi was elected in the single seat by-election later that year.

References

  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. ^ "House of Councillors | Japanese government". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ^ "Mr.YANAGIDA Minoru:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  4. ^ "Mr.MORIMOTO Shinji:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  5. ^ "Ms.MIYAGUCHI Haruko:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  6. ^ "Mr.MIYAZAWA Yoichi:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.