Ehime at-large district
Ehime at-large district (愛媛県選挙区 Ehime-ken senkyoku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It represents Ehime Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Ehime like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election. It has 1,169,427 registered voters as of September 2015.[1] As a predominantly rural district, it has favoured the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate in most elections.
The current Councillors for Ehime are:
- Junzo Yamamoto (LDP, second term, expires 2016)[2]
- Takumi Ihara (LDP, first term, expires 2019)[3]
Elected Councillors
| class of 1947 (1947: #1, 6-year term) |
election year | class of 1950 (1947: #2, 3-year term) |
|---|---|---|
| Sadatake Hisamatsu (Ehime Democratic Party)[note 1] |
1947 | Tsunetaro Nakahira (Social Democratic) |
| 1950 | Hachijiro Mitsuhashi (Social Democratic)[5] | |
| Minoru Tamayanagi (Ind.) | 1951 by-el.[note 2] | |
| Isamu Yuyama (Japan Teachers' Political Federation) |
1953 | |
| 1956 | Senjitsu Horimoto (LDP) | |
| Keikichi Masuhara (LDP) | 1959 | |
| 1962 | ||
| 1965 | ||
| 1968 | ||
| 1971 | ||
| 1974 | Masami Aoi (LDP) | |
| Tokutaro Higaki (LDP) | 1977 | |
| 1980 | Yukio Nakagawa (LDP) | |
| 1983 | ||
| 1986 | ||
| Oasmu Ikeda (Rengō no Kai) | 1989 | |
| 1992 | Takeshi Noma (LDP) | |
| Yasuhisa Shiozaki (LDP)[note 3] | 1995 | |
| 1998 | ||
| Katsutsugu Sekiya (LDP) | 2000 by-el.[note 4] | |
| 2001 | ||
| 2004 | Junzo Yamamoto (LDP) | |
| Toshirō Tomochika (Ind.) | 2007 | |
| 2010[2] | ||
| Takumi Ihara (LDP) | 2013[3] | |
References
- ↑ "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 3 March 2016.
- 1 2 "選挙区 愛媛 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Ehime At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- 1 2 "選挙区 愛媛 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Ehime At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- 1 2 "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- ↑ "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
- ↑ "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- ↑ "国会関係日誌 (12.6.3～7.6)" [National Diet Diary (3 June - 6 July 2000] (PDF). Retrieved 3 March 2016.
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