Ehime at-large district
Japan House of Councillors constituency
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Ehime at-large district (愛媛県選挙区, Ehime-ken senkyoku) is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It represents Ehime Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Ehime like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election. It has 1,169,427 registered voters as of September 2015.[2] As a predominantly rural district, it has favoured the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate in most elections.
| Ehime At-Large District | |
|---|---|
| 愛媛県選挙区 | |
| Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors | |
| |
| Prefecture | Ehime |
| Electorate | 1,134,208 (as of 1 September 2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1947 |
| Seats | 2 |
| Councillors | Class of 2019:
Class of 2022: |
The current Councillors for Ehime are:
- Junzo Yamamoto (LDP, third term, expires 2022)[3][needs update]
- Takako Nagae (Independent, first term, expires 2025)
Current Councillors
As of 31 January 2023, the current Councillors for Ehime are:
- Junzo Yamamoto (LDP, third term, expires 2022)[3]
- Takako Nagae (Independent, first term, expires 2025)
Elected Councillors
| Class of 1947 (1947: #1, 6-year term) |
election year | Class of 1950 (1947: #2, 3-year term) |
|---|---|---|
| Sadatake Hisamatsu (Ehime Democratic Party)[note 1] |
1947 | Tsunetaro Nakahira (Social Democratic) |
| 1950 | Hachijiro Mitsuhashi (Social Democratic)[5] | |
| Minoru Tamayanagi (Ind.) | 1951 by-el.[note 2] | |
| Isamu Yuyama (Japan Teachers' Political Federation) |
1953 | |
| 1956 | Senjitsu Horimoto (LDP) | |
| Keikichi Masuhara (LDP) | 1959 | |
| 1962 | ||
| 1965 | ||
| 1968 | ||
| 1971 | ||
| 1974 | Masami Aoi (LDP) | |
| Tokutaro Higaki (LDP) | 1977 | |
| 1980 | Yukio Nakagawa (LDP) | |
| 1983 | ||
| 1986 | ||
| Oasmu Ikeda (Rengō no Kai) | 1989 | |
| 1992 | Takeshi Noma (LDP) | |
| Yasuhisa Shiozaki (LDP)[note 3] | 1995 | |
| 1998 | ||
| Katsutsugu Sekiya (LDP) | 2000 by-el.[note 4] | |
| 2001 | ||
| 2004 | Junzo Yamamoto (LDP) | |
| Toshirō Tomochika (Ind.) | 2007 | |
| 2010[8] | ||
| Takumi Ihara (LDP) | 2013[9] | |
| 2016[10] | ||
| Takako Nagae (Ind.) | 2019 | |
| 2022 |
Election results
Elections in the 2020s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Junzo Yamamoto (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito) |
318,846 | 59.04% |  9.46 | |
| Independent | Chika Takami (Endorsed by CDP) |
173,229 | 32.08% | New | |
| Sanseito | Kuniyasu Yagi | 27,912 | 5.17% | New | |
| Anti-NHK | Hirokuni Yoshihara | 12,714 | 2.35% | New | |
| JCP | Takashi Matsuki | 7,350 | 1.36% | New | |
| Turnout | 540,051 | 48.81% |  3.58 | ||