Okayama at-large district

Okayama at-large district
岡山県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Okayama
Electorate	1,550,291 (as of September 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	2
Councillors	Class of 2019:   Masahiro Ishii (LDP) Class of 2022:   Kimi Onoda (LDP)

Okayama 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 2 members to the House of Councillors, 1 per election. The current representatives are:

• Kimi Onoda, first elected in 2016. Term ends in 2022. Member of the Liberal Democratic Party. ^[2]
• Masahiro Ishii, first elected in 2013. Term ends in 2025. Member of the Liberal Democratic Party. ^[3]

The district has an electorate of 1,578,647 as of May 2021. ^[4]

Members elected to House of Councillors

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 Year Term
Gunji Shimamura (Indep.)	Hideo Kuroda (LP)	1947	Toshie Ota (JSP)	Katsuji Itano (JCP)
		1950	Saburō Eda (JSP)	Takenori Kato (Yoshida LP)
Chozo Akiyama (Left JSP)	Gunji Shimamura (Ryokufūkai)	1953
		1956		Tsuyuro Kondo (LDP)
Chozo Akiyama (JSP)	Takenori Kato (LDP)	1959
		1962	Yusaku Yayama (JSP)
	Mutsuo Kimura (Indep.)	1964 by-el.
	Mutsuo Kimura (LDP)	1965
		1968	Kazuo Koeda (LDP)	Yusaku Yayama (JSP)
		1971
		1974	Takenori Kato (LDP)	Kumao Terada (JSP)
Mutsuo Kimura (LDP)	Chozo Akiyama (JSP)	1977
		1980
		1983
		1986		Junji Ichī (Indep.)
Toranosuke Katayama (LDP)	Nobuko Mori (JSP)	1989
		1992	Norifumi Kato (LDP)	Junji Ichī (JSP)
	Mie Ishida (NFP)	1995
		1998	Satsuki Eda (DPJ)	Norifumi Kato (LDP)
		2001
		2004
Yumiko Himei (DPJ)		2007
		2010
Masahiro Ishii (LDP)		2013
		2016	Kimi Onoda (LDP)
		2019
		2022

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. "Ms.ONODA Kimi：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
3. "Mr.ISHII Masahiro：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
4. "総務省｜令和2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". 総務省 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-08-18.