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Hiroshima at-large district

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Hiroshima at-large district
広島県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
PrefectureHiroshima
Electorate2,297,308 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats4
CouncillorsClass of 2019:
  •   Haruko Miyaguchi[a] (CDP)
  •   Shinji Morimoto (CDP)

Class of 2022:

Hiroshima at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Hiroshima Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two per election.[2] The current Councillors are

House of Councillors elected members

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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 Yeart Term

Shikazo Sasaki
(Indep.)
Gishin Yamashita
(Indep.)
1947 Setsuo Yamada
(JSP)
Gesshū Iwamoto
(Indep.)
1950 Takeichi Nita
(Yoshida LP)
Tsunei Kusunose
(Yoshida LP)
1950 by-el.
Gishin Yamashita (Right JSP) Kiichi Miyazawa
(Yoshida LP)
1953
1956 Mamoru Nagano
(LDP)
Setsuo Yamada
(JSP)
Kiichi Miyazawa
(LDP)
Susumu Fujita
(JSP)
1959
1962 Tadayasu Iwasawa † 1966
(LDP)
Kenichi Matsumoto
(JSP)
Masāki Fujita
(LDP)
1965
1966 by-el. Makoto Nakatsui
(LDP)
1968
1971
1974 Izuo Nagano † 1981
(LDP)
Manso Hamamoto
(JSP)
1977
1980 Hiroyuki KonishI (DSP)
1981 by-el. Hiroshi Miyazawa
(LDP)
Manso Hamamoto
(JSP)
1983
1986
Manso Hamamoto
(JSP)
Yūzan Fujita # 1993
(LDP)
1989
1992 Kimiko Kurihara (JSP)
Kensei Mizote
(LDP)
1993 by-el.
Kensei Mizote
(LDP)
Kenji Sugekawa (NFP) 1995
1998 Ikuo Kamei
(LDP)
Minoru Yanagida
(Indep.)
Takeaki Kashimura
(Indep.)
Kensei Mizote
(LDP)
2001
2004 Minoru Yanagida (DPJ) Ikuo Kamei
(LDP)
Koji Sato (DPJ) 2007
2010 Yoichi Miyazawa
(LDP)
Minoru Yanagida (DPJ)
Kensei Mizote
(LDP)
Shinji Morimoto (DPJ) 2013
2016
Shinji Morimoto
(Indep.)
Anri Kawai ‡ 2021
(LDP)
2019
Haruko Miyaguchi
(Concentration Hiroshima)
2021 by-el
2022 Eri Mikami
(Indep.)

†: Died in office ‡: Election nullified #: Resigned to run for Governor

Notelist

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  1. ^ Anri Kawai, who had been elected in 2019 behind Morimoto, was convicted of vote-buying in 2021. Miyaguchi was elected in the single seat by-election later that year.

References

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  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. ^ "House of Councillors | Japanese government". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ^ "Mr.YANAGIDA Minoru:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  4. ^ "Mr.MORIMOTO Shinji:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  5. ^ "Ms.MIYAGUCHI Haruko:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  6. ^ "Mr.MIYAZAWA Yoichi:House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-06.