Kagoshima at-large district

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Kagoshima at-large district
鹿児島県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
Kagoshima in Japan.svg
Prefecture Kagoshima
Electorate1,319,420 (as of September 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats2
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Hidehisa Otsuji (LDP)

Class of 2022:

Kagoshima at-large district is a constituency in the House of Councillors of Japan, the upper house of the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It currently elects two members to the House of Councillors, one per election. It has, historically, similar to other 2-seat, rural prefectures, been an LDP stronghold. The last opposition member elected was before the House of Councilor seat reform, when the JSP successfully elected a candidate in 1995. The closest any party has come to defeating the LDP in the district since was 2007, when Ino Minayoshi lost by only three thousand votes. However, LDP candidates in the district have typically been kept below 50%, mainly due to LDP-infighting; Shuji Maeda took 15% of the vote in the district in 2019, which kept Otsuji below 50%, and in 2022, Ayumi Saigo took a similar amount of the vote, leading to Nomura receiving just under 50% again.

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Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Kagoshima Prefecture and has 1,369,874 registered voters as of September 2015. [2]

As of 2021, the current representatives are:

Elected members

People in this district elected the following members of the House of Councillors. [5] [6]

See also

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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. ↑ "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 19 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Mr.OTSUJI Hidehisa：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  4. ↑ "Mr.NOMURA Tetsuro：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  5. ↑ 衆議院・参議院, ed. (1990). 議会制度百年史 貴族院・参議院議員名鑑 (in Japanese). Japan: 大蔵省印刷局.
  6. ↑ 日外アソシエーツ, ed. (2017). 国政選挙総覧 1947～2016 (in Japanese). Japan: 日外アソシエーツ. ISBN   9784816926747.

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