Fukuoka at-large district

Fukuoka at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of the entire prefecture of Fukuoka and is represented by four Councillors electing two per election by single non-transferable vote.

Between 1947 and 1995 Gunma was represented by six Councillors. The 1994 electoral reform reapportioned the number of seats, increasing the number of Councillors in Miyagi, Saitama, Kanagawa and Gifu by two each (one per election) and reducing the number in Hokkaido, Hyogo and Fukuoka. Since the election of 2001 Fukuoka, like most two-member districts, has split seats between the two major parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

Elected Councillors

class of 1947			election year	class of 1950
#1 (1947: #1, 6-year term)	#2 (1947: #2, 6-year term)	#3 (1947: #3, 6-year term)		#1 (1947: #4, 3-year term)	#2 (1947: #5, 3-year term)	#3 (1947: #6, 3-year term)
Shunsaku Noda (Indep.)	Kane Hatano (JSP)	Tamotsu Hashigami (DP)	1947[1]	Torazō Hamada (JSP)	Senju Shimada (JSP)	Inoo Dan (JLP)
		Hōsei Yoshida (JSP)	1950 by-el.[2]
			1950[3]	Masao Komatsu (JSP)	Inoo Dan (LP)	Takao Nishida (DP)
Hōsei Yoshida (JSP, left)	Toshihiro Kennoki (Yoshida LP)	Shunsaku Noda (Ryokufūkai)	1953[4]
			1955 by-el.[5]		Tsunekatsu Yamamoto (JSP, left)
			1956[6]	Tsunekatsu Yamamoto (JSP)	Kiyomi Abe (JSP)	Takao Nishida (LDP)
			1958 by-el.[7]	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)
Hōsei Yoshida (JSP)	Shunsaku Noda (LDP)	Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	1959[8]
			1962[9]	Hikaru Kamei (LDP)	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)	Ryūsuke Moribe (LDP)
Ichitarō Komiya (JSP)			1963 by-el.[10]
Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	Momotarō Yanagida (LDP)	Akira Ono (JSP)	1965[11]
			1967 by-el.[12]	Katsuyuki Onimaru (LDP)
			1968[13]	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)	Katsuyuki Onimaru (LDP)	Masafumi Yoneda (LDP)
Akira Ono (JSP)	Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	Momotarō Yanagida (LDP)	1971[14]
			1974[15]		Kazuhisa Arita (LDP)	Yoshiharu Kuwana (Kōmeitō)
Masao Endō (LDP)	Tatsuru Harada (Kōmeitō)	Akira Ono (JSP)	1977[16]
			1980[17]	Shūji Kurauchi (LDP)	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)
			1983[18]
			1986[19]	Yukihiro Fukuda (LDP)	Shirō Watanabe (JSP)	Kazuki Motomura (LDP)
			1989 by-el.[20]	Sadao Fuchigami (JSP)
Akira Ono (JSP)	Kentarō Koba (Kōmeitō)	Kei Ōma (LDP)	1989[21]
			1991 by-el.[22]			Kichinosuke Shigetomi (LDP)
			1992[23]	Kazunobu Yokoo (Kōmeitō)		Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP)
Kentarō Koba (NFP)	Shigeko Mieno (JSP)	–	1995[24]
			1998[25]	Kazuo Hirotomo (Indep.)	Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP)	–
Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)	Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ)		2001[26]
			2004[27]	Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ)
Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ)	Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)		2007[28]
			2010[29]	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ)

Recent election results

2010[29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	LDP	Satoshi Ōie	774,618
	DPJ	Tsutomu Ōkubo	673,749
	YP	Masao Satō	287,349
	Independent (DPJ, SDP support)	Kaname Tsutsumi	176,149
	JCP	Kiyoshi Shinoda	145,093
	PNP	Gōtarō Yoshimura	113,607
	HRP	Kazue Yoshitomi	25,693
Turnout			2,295,557	56.07

2007[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DPJ	Tsukasa Iwamoto	1,003,170
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Masaji Matsuyama	791,152
	JCP	Miyuki Tanaka	185,713
	SDP	Hideo Kanaiwa	113,293
	Ishin Seitō Shinpū	Yoshihisa Baba	35,942
	Kyōsei Shintō	Takayuki Shūnan	15,244
Turnout			2,234,285	54.83

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