Saga at-large district

The Saga at-large district (Japanese: 佐賀県選挙区, Hepburn: Saga-ken Senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Saga 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 679,289 registered voters as of September 2015.[1]

The Councillors currently representing Saga are:

Elected Councillors
class of 1947 election year class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term) (1947: 3-year term)
Eizaemon Fukagawa
(Democratic)		 1947 Masaki Imaizumi (JLP)
1950 Arata Sugihara (Liberal)
Heiichi Matsuoka (Liberal) 1953
1956 Arata Sugihara (Ind.)
Naotsugu Mabeshima
(LDP)[note 1]		 1959
1962 Arata Sugihara
(LDP)
1965
1968
1971
1974 Hidemaro Fukuoka
(LDP)
1977
1980
Kenichiro Otsubo
(LDP)[note 2]		 1982 by-election[note 3]
1983
1986 Seijiro Otsuka
(LDP)[note 4]
Makoto Miike
(LDP)[note 5]		 1986 by-election[note 6]
Takao Jinnouchi
(LDP)		 1988 by-election[note 7]
1989
1992
1995
1995 by-election[note 8] Hiromi Iwanaga
(LDP)
1998
2001
2004[7]
Minoru Kawasaki (DPJ) 2007[8]
2010[9] Takamaro Fukuoka
(LDP)
Yuhei Yamashita
(LDP)		 2013[10]
  1. Died in office 16 November 1981[2]
  2. Resigned 19 June 1986[3]
  3. Held 10 January 1982[3]
  4. Died in office 3 October 1995[3]
  5. Died in office 20 February 1988[4]
  6. Held 10 August 1986[4]
  7. Held 10 April 1988[5]
  8. Held 19 November 1995[6]

Election results
2013[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democratic Yuhei Yamashita
(endorsed by Komeito)		 223,810 64.6
Democratic Kazunori Aoki 83,447 24.1
Communist Yasutoshi Kamimura 30,920 8.9
Happiness Realization Toru Nakshima 8,067 2.3
Turnout
2010[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democratic Takamaro Fukuoka 256,673 60.5
Democratic Michiko Kakki
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 143,540 33.8
Communist Katsuhiro Yamaguchi 23,974 5.7
Turnout
2007[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Minoru Kawasaki
(Endorsed by People's New Party)		 210,452 49.6
Liberal Democratic Yoshiyuki Kawakami
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 189,212 44.6
Communist Junko Nakao 25,028 5.9
Turnout
2004[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democratic Hiromi Iwanaga
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 197,100 47.7
Democratic Minoru Kawasaki 177,139 42.9
Communist Akemi Muto 39,101 9.5
Turnout
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See also

Saga Prefecture districts for the House of Representatives:

References
  1. "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 11 March 2016.
  2. "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  3. "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  4. "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  5. "歴代参議院議員一覧" [List of Former House of Councillors Members] (PDF) (in Japanese). 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  6. "歴代参議院議員一覧" [List of Former House of Councillors Members] (PDF) (in Japanese). 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  7. "選挙区開票結果　<佐賀県>" [District election results, (Saga Prefecture)] (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  8. "選挙区　佐賀県 開票結果 参院選2007" [Saga At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  9. "選挙区 佐賀 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2010" [Saga At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  10. "選挙区 佐賀 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Saga At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2016.

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