Saitama at-large district

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Saitama at-large district
埼玉県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
Saitama in Japan.svg
Prefecture Saitama
Electorate6,170,471 (as of September 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats8
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Toshiharu Furukawa
  •   Hiroto Kumagai
  •   Katsuo Yakura
  •   Gaku Ito
Class of 2022:

Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.

Contents

Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.

Recent election results

2025: Saitama at-large 4 seats [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Toshiharu Furukawa 573,114 16.78 Decrease2.svg7.29
DPP Kumiko Ehara 535,706 15.69 new
CDP Hiroto Kumagai 480,330 14.06 Decrease2.svg0.65
Sanseitō Tsutomu Ōtsu 465,278 13.62 Increase2.svg10.65
Komeito (LDP) Katsuo Yakura 441,61312.93Decrease2.svg2.85
JCP Gaku Itō 227,4886.66Decrease2.svg1.18
Reiwa Nanae Sakurai198,9365.82Increase2.svg1.79
Ishin Miyumi Ryūno150,4754.41Decrease2.svg6.33
CPJ Tetsunobu Ishihama129,1303.78new
Team Mirai Kazuko Mutō83,9572.46new
Social Democratic Tamaki Takai50,3351.47
Anti-NHK Shinichi Yamada26,4690.78Steady2.svg
ShinseikaiYūka Masuyama25,3120.74new
Independent Yoshihide Saitō19,1900.56new
Reform PartyDaisaku Tsumura7,9920.23new
Turnout 56.88Increase2.svg6.63
Registered electors 6,127,388Decrease2.svg18,684
Party total seatsWonTotalChange
Liberal Democratic 12Steady2.svg
Constitutional Democratic 12Steady2.svg
Democratic Party For the People 11Increase2.svg1
Sanseitō 11Increase2.svg1
Kōmeitō 01Decrease2.svg1
Independent 01Steady2.svg
Communist 00Decrease2.svg1
Total48N/A
2010 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Masakazu Sekiguchi 655,02820.6
Kōmeitō Makoto Nishida 594,67818.7
DPJ Motohiro Ōno 557,39817.5
DPJ Chiyako Shimada 544,38117.1
YP Tsukasa Kobayashi416,66313.1
JCP Gaku Itō207,9576.5
NRP Kōji Nakagawa84,8972.7
SDP Fumihiro Himori72,1852.3
IndependentKōsei Hasegawa37,7311.2
HRP Hirotoshi Inda9,5360.3
Turnout 3,246,24755.83
2007 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Kuniko Kōda 745,51723.5
LDP Toshiharu Furukawa 684,27021.6
DPJ Ryūji Yamane 665,06321.0
Kōmeitō Hiroshi Takano 623,72319.7
JCP Sumiko Ayabe277,4408.7
SDP Etsuko Matsuzawa104,4033.3
PNP Tetsuo Sawada72,7562.3
Turnout 3,227,63856.35

Historical Councillors elected from Saitama

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

(1947: #1. 6 Year Term)

#2

(1947: #2, 6 Year Term)
(1992: #3, 3 Year Term)

#3#4#1

(1947: #3, 3-year term)

#2

(1947: #4, 3-year term)

#3#4
Eizo Kobayashi
(LP)
Yataro Hiranuma
(LP)
1947 Katsumasa Amada
(JSP)
Kazue Ishikawa
(DP)
1950 Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955
(JSP)
Shokichi Uehara
(LP)
Eizo Kobayashi
(Yoshida LP)
Katsumasa Amada
(Right JSP)
1953
1955 by el. Ryusaku Endo
(Indep.)
1956 Yuichi Osawa # 1960
(LDP)
Shokichi Uehara
(LDP)
Eizo Kobayashi
(LDP)
Katsumasa Amada † 1965
(JSP)
1959
1960 by el. Kanzo Oizumi
(LDP)
1962 Shokichi Uehara
(LDP)
Hideyuki Seya

(JSP)

Katsuji Mori
(JSP)
Yoshio Tsuchiya
(LDP)
1965
1968
Yoshio Tsuchiya
(Liberal Democratic Party (Japan))
Katsuji Mori
(JSP)
1971
1974 Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
Shokichi Uehara
(LDP)
Juro Morita
(NLC)
1977
1980 Ryoko Nao
(LDP)
Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
1983
1986 Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
Ryoko Nao
(LDP)
Hajime Fukuda
(JSP)
Yoshio Tsuchiya # 1992
(Indep.)
1989
Taizo Sato
(LDP)
1991 by-el. Noriyuki Sekine
(LDP)
1992 (including

by-el.)

Noriyuki Sekine
(LDP)
Hideyuki Seya
(JSP)
Hiroshi Takano
(NFP)
Sachiyo Abe
(JCP)
1995
1998 Takujiro Hamada # 2003

(Indep.)

Renzo Togashi
(JCP)
Toshio Fuji
(DPJ)
Taizo Sato
(Liberal Democratic Party (Japan))
Hiroshi Takano
(Komeito)
Ryuji Yamane
(DPJ)
2001
2003 by-el. Masakazu Sekiguchi
(LDP)
2004 Chiyako Shimada
(DPJ)
Masakazu Sekiguchi
(LDP)
Makoto Nishida
(Komeito)
Kuniko Koda
(DPJ)
Toshiharu Furukawa
(LDP)
2007
2010 Masakazu Sekiguchi
(LDP)
Makoto Nishida
(Komeito)
Motohiro Ōno
(DPJ)
Toshiharu Furukawa
(LDP)
Katsuo Yakura
(Komeito)
Kuniko Koda
(Your Party)
2013
2016 Motohiro Ōno # 2019
(DPJ)
Makoto Nishida
(Komeito)
Hiroto Kumagai
(CDP)
Katsuo Yakura
(Komeito)
Gaku Ito
(JCP)
2019
2019 by-el. Kiyoshi Ueda
(Indepen.)
2022 Mari Takagi
(CDP)

Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.

    References

    House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

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