Tokyo at-large district Prefecture Tokyo Proportional Block National PR Electorate 11,539,720 (as of September 2022)[ 1] Created 1947 Seats 12 Councillors Class of 2019:
Class of 2022:
Tokyo at-large district (東京都選挙区 , Tokyo-to Senkyo-ku ) is an electoral district of the House of Councillors in the National Diet , the national legislature of Japan. The district was created in 1947 by the new Constitution of Japan and sent 8 members to the House from 1947 until 2007. From 2007 until 2016, this district sent 10 members to the House, and from 2016 onwards, the district has sent 12 councillors to the House, making it by far the largest constituency in the House of Councillors.
Elected Councillors
class of (1947/1953/...)
Election Year
class of (1950/1956/...)
#1(1947: #1, 6-year term)
#2(1947: #2, 6-year term)
#3(1947: #3, 6-year term; 1962: #5, 3-year term)
#4(1947: #4, 6-year term)
#5
#6
#1(1947: #5, 3-year term)
#2(1947: #6, 3-year term)
#3(1947: #7, 3-year term)
#4(1947: #8, 3-year term)
#5
#6
Tatsurō Sakurauchi (DP )
Suejirō Yoshikawa (JSP )
Kiyoshi Shima (JSP )
Takeo Kurokawa (JLP )
–
–
1947 [ 2]
Kei Hoashi (Indep.)[ 3]
Tamae Fukagawa (Indep.)
Masao Nishikawa (JLP )
Heiichi Tōyama (JLP )
–
–
1950 [ 4]
Ken Yasui (LP )
Toshiharu Shigemori (JSP )
Makoto Hori (Workers and Farmers Party )
Tamae Fukagawa (DP )
Takeo Kurokawa (Yoshida LP )
Fusae Ichikawa (Indep.)
Sōji Okada (JSP, left )
Kei Ishii (Yoshida LP )
1953 [ 5]
1956 [ 6]
Ken Yasui (LDP )
Sanzō Nosaka (JCP )
Kiyoshi Shima (JSP )
Toshiharu Shigemori (JSP )
Yasu Kashiwabara (Indep.)[ 7]
Kinjirō Aikawa (LDP )
Takeo Kurokawa (LDP )
1959 [ 8]
Sanzō Nosaka (JCP ) [ note 1]
1962 & by-election [ 9]
Satoru Izumi (Indep.)[ 7]
Kei Ishii (LDP )
Sōji Okada (JSP )
Sanzō Nosaka (JCP )
Hiroshi Hōjō (Kōmeitō )
Kihachirō Kimura (JSP )
Fusae Ichikawa (Indep.)
1965 [ 10]
1968 [ 11]
Ken’ichi Abe (Kōmeitō )
Ken Yasui (LDP )
Masatoshi Matsushita (DSP )
Hideo Urabe (JSP )
Bunbē Hara (LDP )
Akira Kuroyanagi (Kōmeitō )
Norio Kijima (DSP )
Sanzō Nosaka (JCP )
1971 [ 12]
1974 [ 13]
Ken Yasui (LDP )
Tetsu Ueda (JSP )
Ken’ichi Abe (Kōmeitō )
Kōichirō Ueda (JCP )
Kōji Kakizawa (NLC )
1977 [ 14]
1980 [ 15]
Ken Yasui (Indep.)
Tadao Miki (Kōmeitō )
Kōichirō Ueda (JCP )
Tokuma Utsunomiya (Indep.)[ 16]
Chinpei Nozue (Tax Party )
Bunbē Hara (LDP )
Akira Kuroyanagi (Kōmeitō )
Isao Naitō (JCP )
1983 [ 17]
1986 [ 18]
Tadao Miki (Kōmeitō )
Kiyoko Ono (LDP )
Tetsuo Tanabe (LDP )
Kōichirō Ueda (JCP )
Hideo Den (Indep.)[ 19]
Chinpei Nozue (Tax Party )
Akira Kuroyanagi (Kōmeitō )
1989 [ 20]
1992 [ 21]
Toshiko Hamayotsu (Kōmeitō )
Kōichirō Ueda (JCP )
Kensaku Morita (Indep.)[ 22]
Kiyoko Ono (LDP )
Yūichirō Uozumi (NFP )
Sanzō Hosaka (LDP )
Yasuo Ogata (JCP )
Hideo Den (Peace and Citizens Union)
1995 [ 23]
1998 [ 24]
Toshio Ogawa (DPJ )
Toshiko Hamayotsu (Kōmeitō )
Miyo Inoue (JCP )
Atsuo Nakamura (Indep.)[ 25]
Sanzō Hosaka (LDP )
Natsuo Yamaguchi (Kōmeitō )
Kan Suzuki (DPJ )
Yasuo Ogata (JCP )
2001 [ 26]
2004 [ 27]
Masaharu Nakagawa (LDP )
Toshio Ogawa (DPJ )
Renhō (DPJ )
Yūji Sawa (Kōmeitō )
Masako Ōkawara (DPJ )
Tamayo Marukawa (LDP )
Ryūhei Kawada (Indep.)[ 28]
2007 [ 29]
2010 [ 30]
Renhō (DPJ )
Toshiko Takeya (Kōmeitō )
Masaharu Nakagawa (LDP )
Toshio Ogawa (DPJ )
Kōta Matsuda (YP )
Tamayo Marukawa (LDP )
Yoshiko Kira (JCP )
Tarō Yamamoto (Indep.)
Keizō Takemi (LDP )
2013 [ 31]
2016 [ 32]
Renhō (DP )
Masaharu Nakagawa (LDP )
Toshiko Takeya (Kōmeitō )
Taku Yamazoe (JCP )
Kentarō Asahi (LDP )
Toshio Ogawa (DP )
Ayaka Shiomura (CDP )
Shun Otokita (Ishin )
Keizō Takemi (LDP )
2019 [ 33]
2022 [ 34]
Kentarō Asahi (LDP )
Toshiko Takeya (Kōmeitō )
Taku Yamazoe (JCP )
Renhō (CDP )
Akiko Ikuina (LDP )
Tarō Yamamoto (Reiwa )
^ Winner of the by-election by coming in 5th place during the 1962 election.
Election Results
Notes:
Decimals from anbunhyō ("fractional proportional votes" that stem from ambiguous votes, e.g. from ballots reading just "Suzuki") omitted in the 2016, 2013 and 2007 results
(2016 only) (*): ineligible as runner-up replacement (kuriage-tōsen) , lost deposit
A scatter diagram showing the correlation between the rates of votes, which each major candidates obtained, and average household income in each municipalities. It is based on data by Tokyo Metropolitan Government Election Administration Commission[ 35] and Statistics Japan.[ 36] Two candidates from LDP (green) are more supported in municipalities, where average household income is higher, while Takeya from Komeito (yellow) is more supported where average household income is lower.
Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
^ Her real name is Ikue Matsudo, however she ran under her stage name of Saya Takagi
^ Originally nominated by the DPJ , but the nomination due to her refusal to move to the proportional representation district since she was doing worse in the party survey, and so ran as an independent
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1940s
References
^ "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 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第1回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 1st House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1947. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ joined Ryokufūkai
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第2回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 2nd House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1950. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第3回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 3rd House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1953. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第4回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 4th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1956. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b joined Kōmeito
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第5回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 5th House of Councilors Election]. 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). 1959. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第6回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 6th House of Councilors Election]. go2senyo.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第7回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 7th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1965. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第8回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 8th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1968. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第9回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 9th House of Councillors Election]. 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). 1971. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第10回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 10th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1974. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第11回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 11th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1977. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第12回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 12th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1980. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ endorsed by New Liberal Club and Socialist Democratic Federation
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第13回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 13th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1983. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第14回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 14th House of Councilors Election]. 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). 1986. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ president of the Socialist Democratic Federation , founded Shintō Goken Liberal ("New Party Liberals for protecting the constitution") in 1994
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第15回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-Large District - 15th House of Councilors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1989. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第16回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large District - 16th House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1995. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ joined the Democratic Socialist Party parliamentary group as an independent, joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 1994
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第17回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large District - 17th House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1995. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第18回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large District - 18th House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 1998. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ New Party Sakigake →Midori no Kaigi (Japan Greens, lit. "Green Conference"; not to be confused with Japan Greens (Midori no Table /"Green Table") or Greens Japan (Midori no Mirai /"Green Future"))
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第19回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large District - 19th House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 2001. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b >"東京選挙区 - 第20回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large district - 20th House of Coucnnillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 2004. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ joined Your Party in 2009
^ a b >東京選挙区 - 第21回参議院議員選挙 [Tokyo At-Large District - 21st House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b 東京選挙区 - 第22回参議院議員選挙 [Tokyo at large district - 22nd House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). 2010. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第23回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo At-large District - 24th House of Councillors Election]. 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). 2013. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第24回参議院議員選挙" . 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第25回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large district - 25th House of Councillors Election]. 選挙ドットコム (in Japanese). 2019. Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ a b "東京選挙区 - 第26回参議院議員選挙" [Tokyo at-large District - 26th House of Councillors Election]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-19 .
^ "参議院議員選挙(平成28年7月10日執行) 投開票結果" (in Japanese). Tokyo Metropolitan Government Election Administration Commission. Retrieved 2016-08-26 .
^ "住宅・土地統計調査 統計表一覧" (in Japanese). Statistics Japan. Retrieved 2016-08-26 .
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