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Mie at-large district

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Mie 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.

Mie at-large district
三重県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
PrefectureMie
Electorate1,460,720 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats2
CouncillorsClass of 2019:

  Yūmi Yoshikawa (LDP)
Class of 2022:

  Sachiko Yamamoto (LDP)

Mie, similar to other rural, 2-seat districts, is now an LDP stronghold. However, during the 90s and 00s, it showed a tendency to break towards the opposition; it elected independents, along with some members of the Democratic Party of Japan. However, with the Democratic Party's collapse throughout the mid-2010s, it began to trend away from the opposition. The last opposition member to serve the district was Hirokazu Shiba, who was narrowly re-elected in 2016 and did not run for re-election in 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.