The Nagano at-large district (長野県選挙区, Nagano-ken senkyo-ku) is a multi-member constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Nagano Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two every three years by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. It is unique among similar rural, two-seat districts for its loyalty to opposition parties; an LDP candidate has not won the district since it became a two-seat contest in 2016. The last time it won the prefecture-wide vote was in 2013, when the DP did not win a single prefecture nationwide, and it had remained an opposition bulwark since well before the House of Councilors reform election in 1995.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947 election year class of 1950
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term)		 #2
(1947: #2, 6-year term)		 #1
(1947: #3, 3-year term)		 #2
(1947: #4, 3-year term)
Sanshichi Hanyū
(JSP)		 Shirō Kiuchi
(DP)		 1947[2] Tatsuya Yonekura
(Coop.)		 Morio Kinoshita † 1947
(JLP)
1948 by-el.[3] Uemon Ikeda
(JLP)
1950[4] Kotora Tanahashi
(JSP)		 Uemon Ikeda
(LP)
Sanshichi Hanyū
(leftist faction JSP)		 Shirō Kiuchi
(Yoshida faction LP)		 1953[5]
1956[6] Kunitarō Koyama
(LDP)
Sanshichi Hanyū
(JSP)		 Shirō Kiuchi
(LDP)		 1959[7]
1962[8] Torao Hayashi
(JSP)
1965[9]
1968[10]
1971[11]
1974[12] Ippei Koyama
(JSP)		 Tadao Natsume
(LDP)
Maki Murasawa
(JSP)		 Shin'ichirō Shimojō
(LDP)		 1977[13]
1980[14] Tadao Natsume
(LDP)		 Ippei Koyama
(JSP)
Shin'ichirō Shimojō
(LDP)		 Maki Murasawa
(JSP)		 1983[15]
1986[16] Ippei Koyama
(JSP)		 Kazuto Mukaiyama
(LDP)
Maki Murasawa
(JSP)		 Shin'ichirō Shimojō
(LDP)		 1989[17]
1992[18] Toshimi Kitazawa
(LDP)		 Kiyoshi Imai
(JSP)
Mineo Koyama
(NFP)		 Maki Murasawa † 1999
(JSP)		 1995[19]
1998[20] Toshimi Kitazawa
(DPJ)		 Masatoshi Wakabayashi # 2010
(LDP)
Yūichirō Hata
(DPJ)		 1999 by-el.[21]
Hiromi Yoshida
(LDP)		 2001[22]
2004[23]
Yūichirō Hata
(DPJ)		 Hiromi Yoshida
(LDP)		 2007[24]
2010[25] Kenta Wakabayashi
(LDP)		 Toshimi Kitazawa
(DPJ)

Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned; †: died in office.

Recent election results

2010[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kenta Wakabayashi 293,539 26.4
DPJ Toshimi Kitazawa 290,027 26.1
DPJ Yōko Takashima 217,655 19.6
YP Yōsei Ide 183,949 16.6
JCP Sanae Nakano 116,496 10.5
HRP Hiroaki Usuda 8,959 0.8
Turnout 1,138,024 64.72
2007[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yūichirō Hata 538,690 47.9
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Hiromi Yoshida 301,635 26.8
JCP Sanae Nakano 194,407 17.3
SDP Hiroji Nakagawa 89,579 8.0
Turnout 1,149,558 65.04

Notes

  1. ↑ Elected in a by-election following the death of his brother, Yuichiro Hata, from COVID-19

References

House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

  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. ↑ 参議院>第1回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  3. ↑ 参議院>第1回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  4. ↑ 参議院>第2回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  5. ↑ 参議院>第3回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  6. ↑ 参議院>第4回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  7. ↑ 参議院>第5回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  8. ↑ 参議院>第6回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  9. ↑ 参議院>第7回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  10. ↑ 参議院>第8回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  11. ↑ 参議院>第9回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  12. ↑ 参議院>第10回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  13. ↑ 参議院>第11回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  14. ↑ 参議院>第12回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  15. ↑ 参議院>第13回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  16. ↑ 参議院>第14回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  17. ↑ 参議院>第15回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  18. ↑ 参議院>第16回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  19. ↑ 参議院>第17回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  20. ↑ 参議院>第18回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  21. ↑ 参議院>第18回参議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  22. ↑ 参議院>第19回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  23. ↑ 参議院>第20回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  24. 1 2 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  25. 1 2 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>長野選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-13.

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