Hiroshima at-large district

Hiroshima at-large district
広島県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Hiroshima
Electorate	2,297,308 (as of September 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	4
Councillors	Class of 2019:   Haruko Miyaguchi [a] (CDP)   Shinji Morimoto (CDP) Class of 2022:   Yoichi Miyazawa (LDP)   Eri Mikami (CDP)

Hiroshima at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Hiroshima Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two per election. ^[2] The current Councillors are

• Minoru Yanagida (since 1998). ^[3] Member of the Democratic party for the People.
• Shinji Morimoto (since 2013). ^[4] Member of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
• Haruko Miyaguchi (since 2021). ^[5] Member of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
• Yoichi Miyazawa (since 2010). ^[6] Member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

House of Councillors elected members

Class of (1947/1953/...)		Election	Class of (1950/1956/...)
#1 1947: #1, 6 Year Term	#2 1947: #2 6 Year Term		#1 1947: #3, 3 Year Term	#2 1947: #4, 3 Yeart Term
Shikazo Sasaki (Indep.)	Gishin Yamashita (Indep.)	1947	Setsuo Yamada (JSP)	Gesshū Iwamoto (Indep.)
		1950		Takeichi Nita (Yoshida LP)
Tsunei Kusunose (Yoshida LP)		1950 by-el.
Gishin Yamashita (Right JSP)	Kiichi Miyazawa (Yoshida LP)	1953
		1956	Mamoru Nagano (LDP)	Setsuo Yamada (JSP)
Kiichi Miyazawa (LDP)	Susumu Fujita (JSP)	1959
		1962	Tadayasu Iwasawa † 1966 (LDP)	Kenichi Matsumoto (JSP)
Masāki Fujita (LDP)		1965
		1966 by-el.	Makoto Nakatsui (LDP)
		1968
		1971
		1974	Izuo Nagano † 1981 (LDP)	Manso Hamamoto (JSP)
		1977
		1980		Hiroyuki KonishI (DSP)
		1981 by-el.	Hiroshi Miyazawa (LDP)
	Manso Hamamoto (JSP)	1983
		1986
Manso Hamamoto (JSP)	Yūzan Fujita # 1993 (LDP)	1989
		1992		Kimiko Kurihara (JSP)
	Kensei Mizote (LDP)	1993 by-el.
Kensei Mizote (LDP)	Kenji Sugekawa (NFP)	1995
		1998	Ikuo Kamei (LDP)	Minoru Yanagida (Indep.)
Takeaki Kashimura (Indep.)	Kensei Mizote (LDP)	2001
		2004	Minoru Yanagida (DPJ)	Ikuo Kamei (LDP)
Koji Sato (DPJ)		2007
		2010	Yoichi Miyazawa (LDP)	Minoru Yanagida (DPJ)
Kensei Mizote (LDP)	Shinji Morimoto (DPJ)	2013
		2016
Shinji Morimoto (Indep.)	Anri Kawai ‡ 2021 (LDP)	2019
	Haruko Miyaguchi (Concentration Hiroshima)	2021 by-el
		2022		Eri Mikami (Indep.)

†: Died in office ‡: Election nullified #: Resigned to run for Governor

Election results

2022

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoichi Miyazawa (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	530,375	50.33%	0.57
	Independent	Eri Mikami (Endorsed by Rally Hiroshima & RENGO)	259,363	24.61%	New
	Ishin	Osamu Morikawa	114,442	10.86%	New
	JCP	Takae Nakamura	58,461	5.55%	New
	Sanseito	Chiharu Asai	52,969	5.03%	New
	Anti-NHK	Toshimitsu Watanabe	11,087	1.05%	New
	Independent	Noritoshi Tamada	7,335	0.70%	New
	Happiness Realization	Masao Nomura	7,149	0.68%	New
	Independent	Toshifumi Ubuhara	6,717	0.64%	New
	Anti-NHK	Inokai Noriyuki	5,846	0.55%	New
Turnout			1,053,744	46.79%	13.18

Notes

1. Anri Kawai, who had been elected in 2019 behind Morimoto, was convicted of vote-buying in 2021. Miyaguchi was elected in the single seat by-election later that year.

References

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. "House of Councillors | Japanese government". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
3. "Mr.YANAGIDA Minoru：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
4. "Mr.MORIMOTO Shinji：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
5. "Ms.MIYAGUCHI Haruko：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
6. "Mr.MIYAZAWA Yoichi：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.