Kagoshima at-large district
Kagoshima 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 two members to the House of Councillors, one per election.
Outline
The constituency represents the entire population of Kagoshima Prefecture and has 1,369,874 registered voters as of September 2015.[1]
As of 2021, the current representatives are:
- Hidehisa Otsuji, first elected in 1989. Up for election in 2025. Member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[2]
- Tetsuro Nomura, first elected in 2004. Up for election in 2022. Member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[3]
Elected members
People in this district elected the following members of the House of Councillors.[4][5]
- Inokichi Chuman - 1947 (nonparty)
- Kichinosuke Saigo - 1947 (nonparty), 1953 (LP), 1959 (LDP), 1965 (LDP)
- Kizaemon Ueno V - 1947 fill-in member (nonparty)
- Tadahiko Shimadzu - 1947 fill-in member (nonparty), 1950 (LP)
- Kiichiro Maenosono - 1947 by-election (DP)
- Yoshito Okamoto - 1947 by-election (nonparty)
- Tadataka Sata - 1950 (JSP), 1956 (JSP), 1962 (JSP)
- Tomoharu Inoue - 1953 (LP)
- Kaku Shigenari - 1956 (LDP)
- Shigeho Tanaka (politician) - 1956 by-election (LDP), 1962 (LDP), 1968 (LDP)
- Keikichi Taniguchi - 1959 (LDP), 1965 (LDP)
- Tameji Kawakami - 1968 (LDP)
- Yoshifumi Shibatate - 1971 (LDP)
- Tetsuo Tsuruzono - 1971 (JSP)
- Kichio Inoue - 1974 (LDP), 1980 (LDP), 1986 (LDP), 1992 (LDP), 1998 (LDP)
- Wataru Kubo - 1974 (JSP), 1983 (JSP), 1989 (JSP), 1995 (JSP)
- Souji Sata - 1975 by-election (LDP)
- Saburo Kanemaru - 1977 (LDP), 1983 (LDP)
- Takeo Tahara - 1977 (nonparty)
- Shinjiro Kawahara - 1980 (LDP), 1986 (LDP)
- Kaname Kamada - 1989 (LDP), 1995 (LDP)
- Kazuto Kamiyama - 1992 (JSP)
- Hiroshi Moriyama - 1998 (LDP)
- Yoshito Kajiya - 2001 (LDP), 2007 (LDP)
- Tetsuro Nomura - 2004 (LDP), 2010 (LDP), 2016 (LDP)
- Hidehisa Otsuji - 2013 (LDP), 2019 (LDP)
References
- "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 19 April 2016.
- "Mr.OTSUJI Hidehisa：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- "Mr.NOMURA Tetsuro：House of Councillors". www.sangiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- 衆議院・参議院, ed. (1990). 議会制度百年史 貴族院・参議院議員名鑑 (in Japanese). Japan: 大蔵省印刷局.
- 日外アソシエーツ, ed. (2017). 国政選挙総覧 1947～2016 (in Japanese). Japan: 日外アソシエーツ. ISBN 9784816926747.
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