Saitama at-large district

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.

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.

Saitama at-large district

埼玉県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
Prefecture| Saitama
Electorate| 6,170,471 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created| 1947
Seats| 8
Councillors| Class of 2019:

* Toshiharu Furukawa
* Hiroto Kumagai
* Katsuo Yakura
* Gaku Ito

Class of 2022:

* Masakazu Sekiguchi
* Kiyoshi Ueda
* Makoto Nishida
* Mari Takagi

## Recent election results

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2010[2] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP | Masakazu Sekiguchi | 655,028  | 20.6  |
| Kōmeitō | Makoto Nishida | 594,678  | 18.7  |
| DPJ | Motohiro Ōno | 557,398  | 17.5  |
| DPJ | Chiyako Shimada | 544,381  | 17.1  |
| YP | Tsukasa Kobayashi  | 416,663  | 13.1  |
| JCP | Gaku Itō  | 207,957  | 6.5  |
| NRP | Kōji Nakagawa  | 84,897  | 2.7  |
| SDP | Fumihiro Himori  | 72,185  | 2.3  |
| Independent  | Kōsei Hasegawa  | 37,731  | 1.2  |
| HRP | Hirotoshi Inda  | 9,536  | 0.3  |
Turnout | 3,246,247  | 55.83  |
2007[3] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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|
|
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| DPJ | Kuniko Kōda | 745,517  | 23.5  |
| LDP | Toshiharu Furukawa | 684,270  | 21.6  |
| DPJ | Ryūji Yamane | 665,063  | 21.0  |
| Kōmeitō | Hiroshi Takano | 623,723  | 19.7  |
| JCP | Sumiko Ayabe  | 277,440  | 8.7  |
| SDP | Etsuko Matsuzawa  | 104,403  | 3.3  |
| PNP | Tetsuo Sawada  | 72,756  | 2.3  |
Turnout | 3,227,638  | 56.35  |

## Historical Councillors elected from Saitama

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Class of 1947/1953/...  | Election Year  | Class of 1950/1956/...

|
|

(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

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House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors

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. ^ 参議院>第22回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
3. ^ 参議院>第21回参議院議員選挙>埼玉選挙区. go2senkyo.com ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2012-02-02.

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