Osaka at-large district

大阪府選挙区Parliamentary constituency
for the House of CouncillorsPrefectureOsakaElectorate7,322,198(as of September 2022)[1]Current constituencyCreated1947Seats8CouncillorsClass of 2019:   Mizuho Umemura
  •   Tōru Azuma
  •   Hisatake Sugi
  •   Fusae Ohta
  • Class of 2022:

    •   Kaori Takagi
    •   Rui Matsukawa
    •   Hitoshi Asada
    •   Hirotaka Ishikawa

    The Osaka at-large district (Japanese: 大阪府選挙区, Hepburn: Ōsaka-ken senkyoku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors that elects Councillors to represent Osaka Prefecture in the National Diet of Japan. From 1947 the district has elected three Councillors every three years by single non-transferable vote for six-year terms, such that there are six Councillors representing the district in the 242-member house. A revision to the Public Officers Electoral Law in 2012 increased the district's representation so that four Councillors were elected at the July 2013 election which will give the district a total eight Councillors by 2019.[2]

    The district has 7,140,578 registered voters (as of September 2015), making it the third-largest district behind the Tokyo and Kanagawa districts.[3] The current Councillors for the district are:

    Elected Councillors

    class of 1947 election
    year
    class of 1950
    Tetsuo Iwaki
    (Democratic)
    Masakazu Morishita
    (Social Democratic)[note 1]
    Mitsuji Nakai
    (Democratic)[note 1]
    1947 Gisen Sato (JLP) Shinzo Ōya (JLP) Shigeo Murao
    (Social Democratic)
    1950 Gisen Sato (Liberal) Shinzo Ōya (Liberal)
    Fukuzo Nakayama (Ryokufūkai) Haruji Mizobuchi (Liberal) 1951 by-el.[note 2]
    Masakazu Morishita
    (Right Socialist)[note 3]
    Tokuji Kameda
    (Left Socialist)
    1953
    1956 Gisen Sato (LDP)[note 4] Shigeo Tsubaki
    (Social Democratic)
    Giichiro Shiraki (Ind.)
    Mitsuzo Ōkawa (LDP)[note 5] 1957 by-el.[note 6]
    Vacant[note 7] 1959 by-el.[note 8] Mitsuzo Ōkawa (LDP)
    Bunzo Akama (LDP)[note 9] Shigeo Murao
    (Social Democratic)
    Tokuji Kameda
    (Social Democratic)
    1959
    1962 Fukuzo Nakayama (LDP)
    Fujio Tashiro (Komeito)[note 10] 1965
    1968 Taro Nakayama
    (LDP)
    Shigeo Murao
    (Social Democratic)
    Giichiro Shiraki
    (Komeito)
    Shizuko Sasaki
    (Social Democratic)
    1971
    Takeko Kutsunugi
    (Communist)
    1973 by-el.[note 11]
    1974 Atsushi Hashimoto
    (Communist)
    Tai Morishita (LDP)[note 12] 1977
    1980 Eiichi Nakamura (Ind.)
    Knock Yokoyama (Ind.) 1983
    1986 Kiyoshi Nishikawa (Ind.) Takeko Kutsunugi
    (Communist)
    Akinori Mineyama
    (Komeito)
    Kazutaka Tsuboi (LDP) 1987 by-el.[note 13]
    Hidekatsu Yoshii
    (Communist)
    1988 by-el.[note 14]
    Kazuyoshi Shirahama
    (Komeito)
    Takashi Tanihata
    (Social Democratic)
    1989
    1992 Kazutaka Tsuboi (LDP) Eiichi Yamashita
    (Komeito)
    Yoshiki Yamashita
    (Communist)
    Kazuyoshi Shirahama
    (New Frontier)
    Shuzen Tanigawa (LDP) 1995
    1998 Takeshi Miyamoto
    (Communist)
    Takashi Yamamoto (DPJ) Kazuyoshi Shirahama
    (Komeito)
    2001
    2004 Issei Kitagawa (LDP) Motoyuki Odachi (DPJ)
    Satoshi Umemura (DPJ) 2007
    2010 Hirotaka Ishikawa
    (Komeito)
    Toru Azuma (Restoration) Kotaro Tasumi
    (Communist)
    Hisatake Sugi
    (Komeito)
    Takuji Yanagimoto (LDP) 2013
    2016 Rui Matsukawa (LDP) Hitoshi Asada (Initiatives) Kaori Takagi (Initiatives)
    Notes:
    1. ^ a b Resigned 31 March 1951.[4]
    2. ^ Held 16 May 1951.[4]
    3. ^ Died in office 5 March 1957.[4]
    4. ^ Resigned 29 March 1959.[5]
    5. ^ Resigned on 5 April 1959 to contest the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gisen Sato[5]
    6. ^ Held 23 April 1957.[5]
    7. ^ Vacancy caused by Ohkawa's resignation on 5 April 1959 to contest the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gisen Sato[5]
    8. ^ Held 30 April 1959.[5]
    9. ^ Died in office 2 May 1973.[5]
    10. ^ Resigned 25 January 1988.[6]
    11. ^ Held 17 June 1973.[5]
    12. ^ Died in office 14 November 1987.[4]
    13. ^ Held 27 December 1987.[6]
    14. ^ Held 28 February 1988.[4]

    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. ^ "Weighing Vote Disparity in Japan's Upper House". 30 July 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
    3. ^ "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 2 March 2016.
    4. ^ a b c d e "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
    5. ^ a b c d e f g "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
    6. ^ a b "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
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