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The Yamagata at-large district (Japanese: 山形県選挙区, Hepburn: Yamagata-ken Senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Yamagata Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. Councillors are elected to the house by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. Since the establishment of the current House of Councillors electoral system in 1947, the district has elected two Councillors, one each at elections held every three years. It has 898,671 registered voters as of September 2022.[1]

PrefectureYamagata
Electorate898,671 (as of September 2022)[1]
Created1947
Seats2
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Yamagata at-large district
山形県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Councillors
PrefectureYamagata
Electorate898,671 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created1947
Seats2
CouncillorsClass of 2028:
  •   Yasue Funayama (DPP)
Class of 2031:
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Elected Councillors

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Class of 1947 Election year Class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term)
Shigeyasu Kosugi
(Ind.)		 1947 Rokurōbē Ogata (Ind.)
1950 Mataji Kobayashi
(Socialist)
Saburo Unno
(Left Socialist)		 1953
1956 Yasusuke Matsuzawa
(Socialist)[note 1]
Michio Murayama
(LDP)		 1959
1959 by-el.[note 2] Isami Shirai
(LDP)
1962 Isami Shirai
(LDP)
Gorō Itō
(LDP)		 1965
1968 Isami Shirai
(LDP)
Gorō Itō
(LDP)		 1971
1974 Tōkichi Abiko
(LDP)
Keigi Furuya
(LDP)		 1977
1980 Tōkichi Abiko
(LDP)
Keigi Furuya
(LDP)		 1983
1986 Teibin Suzuki
(LDP)
Yasumatsu Hoshikawa
(Rengō no Kai)		 1989
1992 Teibin Suzuki
(LDP)
Masatoshi Abe
(Ind.)		 1995
1998 Koichi Kishi
(LDP)
Masatoshi Abe
(LDP)		 2001
2004 Koichi Kishi
(LDP)
Yasue Funayama (DPJ) 2007[4]
2010[5] Koichi Kishi
(LDP)
Mizuho Onuma
(LDP)		 2013[6]
2016[7] Yasue Funayama
(Ind.)
Michiya Haga
(Ind.)		 2019[8]
2022[9] Yasue Funayama
(DPP)
Michiya Haga
(Ind.)		 2025[10]
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  1. [1]
    Died in office 18 June 1959.[2]
  2. [2]
    Held 24 July 1959.[3]

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

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2025: Yamagata at-large 1 seat[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent (CDP) Michiya Haga (Endorsed by CDP and DPFP) 248,864 46.81 Decrease3.43[a]
LDP Rika Ōuchi 194,478 36.58 Decrease7.47
Sanseitō Tomoaki Satō 66,262 12.46 Increase10.37
JCP Osamu Miidera 17,387 3.27 Decrease0.32
Anti-NHK Manabu Ōnuki 4,701 0.88 Decrease0.43
Turnout 62.55 Increase0.68
Registered electors 860,991
Party total seats Won Total Change
Independent 1 1 Steady
Democratic Party For the People 1 1 Steady
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2022: Yamagata at-large 1 seat[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPP Yasue Funayama 269,494 49.0 Decrease10.05 (compared to 2016 result)
LDP Rika Ōuchi 242,433 44.0 Decrease3.3
JCP Shō Ishikawa 19,767 3.6
Sanseitō Akira Kuroki 11,481 2.1
Anti-NHK Akira Koizumi 7,217 1.3 Decrease1.2
Turnout 61.87 Increase1.13
Registered electors 899,997
Party total seats Won Total Change
Independent 1 1 Steady
Democratic Party For the People 1 1 Steady
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Elections in the 2010s

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2013[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Mizuho Onuma
(endorsed by Komeito)		 272,779 48.2
Green Wind Yasue Funayama
(Endorsed by SDP)		 252,040 44.6
JCP Toshio Ota 33,718 6.0
Happiness Realization Ryota Shirotori 7,193 1.3
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2010[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Koichi Kishi 263,987 43.6
Democratic Yosei Umetsu
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 222,942 36.8
Your Hiroaki Kawano 88,238 14.6
JCP Toshio Ota 30,348 5.0
Turnout
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Elections in the 2000s

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2007[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yasue Funayama
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 371,071 57.3
LDP Mieko Shinohara
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 238,515 36.8
JCP Masayuki Sato 38,008 5.9
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Notes

  1. [a]
    compared to 2019 result

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