Fukuoka at-large district

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Fukuoka at-large district
福岡県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
Fukuoka in Japan.svg
Prefecture Fukuoka
Electorate4,223,753 (as of September 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats6
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)
  •   Rokuta Shimono (Komeito)
  •   Kuniyoshi Noda (CDP)

Class of 2022:

Fukuoka at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of the entire prefecture of Fukuoka and is represented by four Councillors electing two per election by single non-transferable vote.

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Between 1947 and 1995 Gunma was represented by six Councillors. The 1994 electoral reform reapportioned the number of seats, increasing the number of Councillors in Miyagi, Saitama, Kanagawa and Gifu by two each (one per election) and reducing the number in Hokkaido, Hyogo and Fukuoka. Since the election of 2001 Fukuoka, like most two-member districts, has split seats between the two major parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

Elected Councillors

class of 1947election yearclass of 1950
#1
(1947: #1, 6-year term)
#2
(1947: #2, 6-year term)
#3
(1947: #3, 6-year term)
#1
(1947: #4, 3-year term)
#2
(1947: #5, 3-year term)
#3
(1947: #6, 3-year term)
Shunsaku Noda
(Indep.)
Kane Hatano
(JSP)
Tamotsu Hashigami
(DP)
1947 [2] Torazō Hamada
(JSP)
Senju Shimada
(JSP)
Inoo Dan
(JLP)
Hōsei Yoshida
(JSP)
1950 by-el. [3]
1950 [4] Masao Komatsu
(JSP)
Inoo Dan
(LP)
Takao Nishida
(DP)
Hōsei Yoshida
(JSP, left)
Toshihiro Kennoki
(Yoshida LP)
Shunsaku Noda
(Ryokufūkai)
1953 [5]
1955 by-el. [6] Tsunekatsu Yamamoto
(JSP, left)
1956 [7] Tsunekatsu Yamamoto
(JSP)
Kiyomi Abe
(JSP)
Takao Nishida
(LDP)
1958 by-el. [8] Isamu Koyanagi
(JSP)
Hōsei Yoshida
(JSP)
Shunsaku Noda
(LDP)
Toshihiro Kennoki
(LDP)
1959 [9]
1962 [10] Hikaru Kamei
(LDP)
Isamu Koyanagi
(JSP)
Ryūsuke Moribe
(LDP)
Ichitarō Komiya
(JSP)
1963 by-el. [11]
Toshihiro Kennoki
(LDP)
Momotarō Yanagida
(LDP)
Akira Ono
(JSP)
1965 [12]
1967 by-el. [13] Katsuyuki Onimaru
(LDP)
1968 [14] Isamu Koyanagi
(JSP)
Katsuyuki Onimaru
(LDP)
Masafumi Yoneda
(LDP)
Akira Ono
(JSP)
Toshihiro Kennoki
(LDP)
Momotarō Yanagida
(LDP)
1971 [15]
1974 [16] Kazuhisa Arita
(LDP)
Yoshiharu Kuwana
(Kōmeitō)
Masao Endō
(LDP)
Tatsuru Harada
(Kōmeitō)
Akira Ono
(JSP)
1977 [17]
1980 [18] Shūji Kurauchi
(LDP)
Isamu Koyanagi
(JSP)
1983 [19]
1986 [20] Yukihiro Fukuda
(LDP)
Shirō Watanabe
(JSP)
Kazuki Motomura
(LDP)
1989 by-el. [21] Sadao Fuchigami
(JSP)
Akira Ono
(JSP)
Kentarō Koba
(Kōmeitō)
Kei Ōma
(LDP)
1989 [22]
1991 by-el. [23] Kichinosuke Shigetomi
(LDP)
1992 [24] Kazunobu Yokoo
(Kōmeitō)
Gōtarō Yoshimura
(LDP)
Kentarō Koba
(NFP)
Shigeko Mieno
(JSP)
1995 [25]
1998 [26] Kazuo Hirotomo
(Indep.)
Gōtarō Yoshimura
(LDP)
Masaji Matsuyama
(LDP)
Tsukasa Iwamoto
(DPJ)
2001 [27]
2004 [28] Tsutomu Ōkubo
(DPJ)
Tsukasa Iwamoto
(DPJ)
Masaji Matsuyama
(LDP)
2007 [29]
2010 [30] Satoshi Ōie
(LDP)
Tsutomu Ōkubo
(DPJ)
Masaji Matsuyama
(LDP)
Kuniyoshi Noda (DPJ) 2013
2016 Yukihito Koga (DPJ) Satoshi Ōie
(LDP)
Hiromi Takase (Kōmeitō)
Rokuta Shimono (Kōmeitō) 2019
Kuniyoshi Noda (CDP) 2022 Satoshi Ōie
(LDP)
Yukihito Koga (CDP) Kōzō Akino (Kōmeitō)

Recent election results

2010 [30]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Satoshi Ōie 774,618
DPJ Tsutomu Ōkubo 673,749
YP Masao Satō287,349
Independent (DPJ, SDP support)Kaname Tsutsumi176,149
JCP Kiyoshi Shinoda145,093
PNP Gōtarō Yoshimura 113,607
HRP Kazue Yoshitomi25,693
Turnout 2,295,55756.07
2007 [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Tsukasa Iwamoto 1,003,170
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Masaji Matsuyama 791,152
JCP Miyuki Tanaka185,713
SDP Hideo Kanaiwa113,293
Ishin Seitō Shinpū Yoshihisa Baba35,942
Kyōsei Shintō Takayuki Shūnan15,244
Turnout 2,234,28554.83

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