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The Aichi at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan that represents Aichi Prefecture. From 1947 until 2013 it has elected six Councillors, three every three years by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. A 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law increased the district's representation to eight Councillors; [1] the change began to take effect at the 2016 election, at which four Councillors were elected.

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Aichi at-large district
愛知県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
Aichi in Japan.svg
Prefecture Aichi
Electorate6,128,080 (as of September 2022) [2]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats8
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Yasuyuki Sakai
  •   Kohei Otsuka
  •   Maiko Tajima
  •   Nobuo Yasue

Class of 2022:

Elected Councillors

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

1947: #1, 6 Year Term

#2

1947: #2, 6 Year Term
1975: #1, 2 Year Term

#3

1947: #3, 6 Year Term

#4#1

1947: #4, 3 Year Term
1990: #1, 2 Year Term

#2

1947: #5, 3 Year Term
1966: #1, 2 Year Term
1994: #1, 1 Year Term

#3

1947: #6, 3 Year Term

#4
Takurō Yamanouchi
(Indep.) [3] 		Saichi Yamada
(JLP)		 Shichirō Takenaka
(Indep.) [4] 		1947 [5] Ushirō Saeki
(Indep.) [3] 		Ryōen Kusaba
(JLP)		 Yoshio Kuriyama
(Indep.) [6]
1950 [7] Banji Naruse
(JSP)		Ryōen Kusaba
(LP)		 Yoneji Yamamoto
(LP)
Hiroko Hasebe (Indep.) Shinichi Kondō
(Left, JSP)		 Hideo Aoyagi (LP) 1953 [8]
1956 [9] Ryōen Kusaba † 1966
(LDP)		 Yoneji Yamamoto
(LDP)
Takeo Sugiura (LDP) Hideo Aoyagi (LDP) 1959 [10]
1962 [11] Sakae Shibata (LDP)
Ichiro Yagi (LDP)1963 by-el. [12]
1965 [13]
1966 by-el. [14] Taro Yokoi (LDP)
1968 [15] Kunihiko Shibuya (Kōmeitō)
Shoji Suhara † 1975 (JSP) Shigezo Hashimoto (LDP) 1971 [16]
1974 [17] Shoji Morishita (JSP) Shigenobu Sanji # 1994 (DSP) Isshu Fujikawa (LDP)
Isamu Fukui (LDP)1975 by-el. [18]
Tomi Baba (Komeito) Kei Inoue (DSP) 1977 [19]
1980 [20] Kentaro Takagi † 1990 (Indep.) Hiroshi Ogi (LDP)
Hiroshi Yoshikawa (LDP) 1983 [21]
1986 [22]
Kei Inoue (DSP) Sachiko Maehata (JSP) 1989 [23]
1990 by-el. [24] Yoshihisa Oshima (LDP)
1992 [25] Kiyohiro Araki (Kōmeitō) Shoji Shinma # 1994 (DSP)
1994 by-el. [26] Yuzuru Tsutugi (Indep.)
Seiji Suzuki (LDP) Mahiko Suehiro (Indep.) Tamotsu Yamamoto (NFP) 1995 [27]
1998 [28] Yoshitake Kimata (DPJ) Taisuke Sato (DPJ) Hiroko Hatta (JSP)
Kohei Otsuka (DPJ) Tamotsu Yamamoto (Komeito) 2001 [29]
2004 [30] Katsuhito Asano (LDP)
Kuniko Tanioka (DPJ) 2007 [31]
2010 [32] Yoshitaka Saitō (DPJ) Misako Yasui (DPJ) Masahito Fujikawa (LDP)
Yasuyuki Sakai (LDP) Michiyo Yakushiji (Your Party) 2013 [33]
2016 [34] Masahito Fujikawa (LDP) Yoshitaka Saitō (DP) Ryuji Satomi (Komeito) Takae Itō (LDP)
Maiko Tajima (CDP) Nobuo Yasue (Komeito) 2019
2022 Ryuji Satomi (Komeito) Yoshitaka Saitō (CDP)

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

Previous election results

2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Yasuyuki Sakai (Incumbent)737,71725.74%
Democratic Party for the People Kohei Otsuka (Incumbent)506,81717.69%
Constitutional Democratic Maiko Tajima 461,53116.10%
Komeito Nobuo Yasue
(Endorsed by Liberal Democratic Party)		453,24615.82%
Ishin Maki Misaki269,0819.39%
Communist Hatsumi Suyama216,6747.56%
The Party to Protect the People from NHK Yukari Suenaga85,2622.98%
Social Democratic Ryohei Hirayama43,7561.53%
IndependentKin Ishii32,1421.12%
ShijinashiHiroyuki Ushida25,2190.88%
Workers' PartyHitoshi Furukawa17,9050.62%
Tsubasa PartyBen Hashimoto16,4250.57%
Turnout 6,119,14348.18%−7.23%
2016 [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Masahito Fujikawa (Incumbent)961,09629.3
Democratic Yoshitaka Saito (Incumbent)575,11917.5
Komeito Ryuji Satomi
(Endorsed by Liberal Democratic Party)		531,48816.2
Democratic Takae Ito 519,51015.8
Communist Hatsumi Suyama302,4899.2
Genzei Nippon Kayo Okuda218,1716.7
Social Democratic Ryohei Hirayama64,7812.0
Japanese Kokoro Makoto Igeta 59,6511.8
Happiness Realization Hiromi Nakane47,0881.4
Turnout
2013 [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Yasuyuki Sakai 1,056,14535.4
Democratic Kōhei Ōtsuka (Incumbent)741,59824.9
Your Michiyo Yakushiji 347,41111.6
Communist Nobuko Motomura 271,2789.1
Restoration Hiroshi Kondō 263,9188.5
Genzei Nippon Yukio Uta152,0385.1
Green Wind Makoto Hirayama (Incumbent)62,9852.1
Social Democratic Yoshinori Itō47,1041.6
Happiness Realization Hiromi Nakane30,1991.0
MitamayamaSōsaburo Mitamayama11,2770.4
Turnout 3,099,25852.65
2010 [32]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Masahito Fujikawa 918,187
Democratic Yoshitaka Saitō 750,723
Democratic Misako Yasui 676,681
Your Michiyo Yakushiji529,130
Communist Nobuko Motomura193,710
Social Democratic Mitsuko Aoyama102,989
Happiness Realization Hiromi Nakane37,338
Turnout 3,349,98357.46
2007 [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Kōhei Ōtsuka (Incumbent)880,856
Liberal Democratic Seiji Suzuki (Incumbent)734,153
Democratic Kuniko Tanioka 720,777
Komeito Tamotsu Yamamoto (Incumbent)587,268
Communist Hiroko Hatta 293,607
Social Democratic Ryōhei Hirayama69,853
IndependentTakashi Hyōdō22,273
Ishin Seitō Shinpū Masaji Tsuge13,301
Kyōsei Shintō Kōtarō Arakawa12,435
Turnout 3,397,61959.12

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  31. 1 2 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>愛知選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  32. 1 2 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>愛知選挙区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
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