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Ibaraki at-large district

{{Short description|Japan House of Councillors constituency}}

{{Infobox constituency|name=Ibaraki at-large district|nativename={{no bold|茨城県選挙区}}|type=Parliamentary|parl_name=House of Councillors|image=Ibaraki in Japan.svg|image_size=250px|district_label=Prefecture|district=Ibaraki|electorate=2,399,889{{cite web|url=https://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_R04.html|access-date=2023-01-04|title=総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数|language=ja|trans-title=Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022}}|year=1947|seats=4|member_label=Councillors|member=Class of 2019:

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|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Ryōsuke Kōzuki (LDP)

|{{Color box|{{party color|Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan}}|border=darkgray}} Takumi Onuma (CDP)

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Class of 2022:

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|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Kato Akiyoshi (LDP)

|{{Color box|{{party color|Independent politician}}|border=darkgray}} Makiko Dougomi (Ind.)

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The {{nihongo|Ibaraki at-large district|茨城県選挙区|Ibaraki-ken senkyoku|lead=yes}} is a constituency that represents Ibaraki Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Ibaraki Prefecture. The district elects four Councillors to six-year terms, two each at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,411,307 registered voters as of September 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000392737.xlsx |title=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 |trans-title=Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015 |language=Japanese |date=2 September 2015 |access-date=6 April 2016}} The Councillors currently representing Ibaraki are:

  • Akira Gunji (Democratic Party, third term; term ends in 2016){{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/giin/profile/5998021.htm |title=郡司　彰（ぐんじ　あきら）：参議院 |trans-title=Gunji, Akira: House of Councillors |language=Japanese |access-date=6 April 2016}}
  • Hiroshi Okada (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), third term; term ends in 2016){{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/giin/profile/7003002.htm |title=岡田　広（おかだ　ひろし）：参議院 |trans-title=Okada, Hiroshi: House of Councillors |language=Japanese |access-date=6 April 2016}}
  • Yukihisa Fujita (Democratic Party, second term; term ends in 2019){{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/giin/profile/7007049.htm |title=藤田　幸久（ふじた　ゆきひさ）：参議院 |trans-title=Fujita, Yukihisa: House of Councillors |language=Japanese |access-date=6 April 2016}}
  • Ryosuke Kouzuki (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019){{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/giin/profile/7013022.htm |title=上月　良祐（こうづき　りょうすけ）：参議院 |trans-title=Kouzuki, Ryosuke: House of Councillors |language=Japanese |access-date=6 April 2016}}

Elected Councillors

class="wikitable" border="1"
colspan="2" | Class of 1947

! election year

! colspan="2" | Class of 1950
(3-year term in 1947)

rowspan="3" | Yasuji Yūki
(Ind.){{refn|group=note|Later joined Ryokufūkai{{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_ma_wa.htm |title=List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa) |language=Japanese |date=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903201125/http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_ma_wa.htm#ma |archive-date=3 September 2009 |access-date=6 April 2016 |publisher=House of Councillors}}}}

| rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Masaji Shibata
(Liberal){{refn|group=note|Died in office 15 September 1950{{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_a_sa.htm |title=List of Former Councillors (A to Sa) |language=Japanese |date=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902102101/http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_a_sa.htm |archive-date=2 September 2009 |access-date=6 April 2016 |publisher=House of Councillors}}}}

! style="text-align: center" | 1947

| bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Nobuo Ōhata
(Social Democratic)

| bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Tsuneo Ikeda
(Ind.){{refn|group=note|Later joined the Labourers and Farmers Party}}

style="text-align: right" | 1950

| rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Yūichi Kōri
(Liberal)

| rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCD" | Shichihei Kikuta
(National Democratic)

rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Shigefumi Miyata
(Liberal)

! style="text-align: left" | 1950 by-election{{refn|group=note|Held 3 November 1950}}

rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Tsunesuke Mutō
(Kaishintō)

! style="text-align: left" | 1953

style="text-align: right" | 1956

| rowspan="8" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Yūichi Kōri
(LDP)

| rowspan="8" bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Motojiro Mori
(Social Democratic)

rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Tsunesuke Mutō{{refn|group=note|Died in office 6 August 1963}}
(LDP)

| rowspan="5" bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Sōzō Ōmori
(Social Democratic)

! style="text-align: left" | 1959

style="text-align: right" | 1962
bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Ichiji Suzuki
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 1963 by-election{{refn|group=note|Held 18 September 1963}}

rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Kishirō Nakamura{{refn|group=note|Died in office 21 December 1971{{cite web|url=http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_ta_ha.htm |title=List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha) |language=Japanese |date=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903112257/http://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/san60/s60_shiryou/giin_ta_ha.htm |archive-date=3 September 2009 |access-date=6 April 2016 |publisher=House of Councillors}}}}
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 1965

style="text-align: right" | 1968
rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Fujio Takeuchi{{refn|group=note|Resigned 14 March 1975}}
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 1971

rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Tomi Nakamura
(Minor party){{refn|group=note|Wife of the deceased Kishirō Nakamura. Ran as a candidate of a minor party,{{cite web|url=http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/publication/refer/200512_659/065905.pdf |title=Post-War By-Elections |language=Japanese |date=December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210180554/http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/publication/refer/200512_659/065905.pdf |page=92 |last=Satō |first= Yoshi (令) |archive-date=10 December 2006 |access-date=6 April 2016 |publisher=national Diet Library}} but later joined the LDP}}

! style="text-align: left" |1972 by-election{{refn|group=note|Held 6 February 1972}}

style="text-align: right" | 1974

| rowspan="3" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Taeko Iwakami{{refn|group=note|Resigned 21 December 1977}}
(Minor party){{refn|group=note|Elected as a candidate for the Ibaraki Agricultural Federation. Later joined the LDP}}

| rowspan="12" bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Osamu Yatabe
(Social Democratic)

rowspan="4" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Yūichi Kōri
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" |1975 by-election{{refn|group=note|Held 27 April 1975}}

rowspan="5" bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Michitada Takasugi
(Social Democratic)

! style="text-align: left" | 1977

style="text-align: right" | {{refn|group=note|Held 5 February 1978}}1978 by-election

| rowspan="5" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Nirō Iwakami{{refn|group=note|Husband of Taeko Iwakami. Died in office 16 August 1989}}
(LDP)

style="text-align: right" | 1980
rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Ikuo Soneda
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 1983

style="text-align: right" | 1986
rowspan="4" bgcolor="#EEBBFF" | Makoto Taneda
(Social Democratic)

| rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Akio Kanō{{refn|group=note|Died in office 26 February 1992}}
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 1989

style="text-align: right" | {{refn|group=note|Held 1 October 1989}}1989 by-election

| rowspan="4" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Itsuo Nomura
(LDP)

rowspan="7" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Yasu Kanō{{refn|group=note|Wife of Akio Kanō}}
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 1992 by-election{{refn|group=note|Held 12 April 1992}}

style="text-align: right" | 1992
rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FF6699" | Moto Kobayashi
(New Frontier)

! style="text-align: left" | 1995

style="text-align: right" | 1998

| rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Kōichi Kuno{{refn|group=note|Died in office 17 October 2002}}
(LDP)

| rowspan="9" bgcolor="#FFEECC" | Akira Gunji
(DPJ)

rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FFEECC" | Moto Kobayashi
(DPJ)

! style="text-align: left" | 2001

style="text-align: right" | 2003 by-election{{refn|group=note|Held 27 April 2003}}

| rowspan="7" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Hiroshi Okada
(LDP)

style="text-align: right" | 2004{{cite web|url=http://www.asahi.com/2004senkyo/kaihyo/B08.html |title=選挙区開票結果　<茨城県> |trans-title=District results (Ibaraki) |publisher=Asahi Shimbun |access-date=6 April 2016}}
rowspan="4" bgcolor="#FFEECC" | Yukihisa Fujita
(DPJ)

| rowspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Tamon Hasegawa
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 2007{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin2007/kaihyou/ye08.htm |title=選挙区　茨城県 開票結果 参院選2007 |trans-title=Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2007 House of Councillors election |publisher=Yomiuri Shimbun |access-date=6 April 2016}}

style="text-align: right" | 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin/2010/kaihyou/ye08.htm |title=選挙区　茨城県 開票結果 参院選2010 参院選 選挙 |trans-title=Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election |publisher=Yomiuri Shimbun |access-date=6 April 2016}}
rowspan="4" bgcolor="#CCFFCC" | Ryōsuke Kōzuki
(LDP)

! style="text-align: left" | 2013{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin/2013/kaihyou/ye08.htm |title=選挙区　茨城県 開票結果 参院選2013 参院選 選挙 |trans-title=Ibaraki At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election |publisher=Yomiuri Shimbun |access-date=6 April 2016}}

style="text-align: right"|2016
rowspan="2" |Takumi Onuma (CDP)

!style="text-align: left"|2019{{cite web|url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin/2019/YE08XXXXXX000/|access-date=9 Nov 2023|title=House of Councilors election 2019 electoral district Ibaraki}}

style="text-align: right"|2022{{cite web|url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin/YE08XXXXXX000/|access-date=9 Nov 2023|title=Ibaraki House of Councilors election 2022 election news/vote counting results}}

|Akiyoshi Kato (LDP)

|Masako Dogomi (Ind.){{Note|Aligned with Opposition}}

{{reflist|group=note|30em}}

Election results

{{Election box begin | title=2013}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

|candidate = Ryosuke Kouzuki
(endorsed by Komeito)

|votes = 560,642

|percentage = 48.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)

|candidate = Yukihisa Fujita

|votes = 204,021

|percentage = 17.6

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Your Party

|candidate = Junko Ishihara

|votes = 153,403

|percentage = 13.3

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Japan Restoration Party

|candidate = Akira Ishii

|votes = 127,823

|percentage = 11.0

|change =

}} {{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Japanese Communist Party

|candidate = Kyoko Kobayashi

|votes = 97,197

|percentage = 8.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Happiness Realization Party

|candidate = Koki Nakamura

|votes = 14,586

|percentage = 1.3

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes =

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=2010}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

|candidate = Hiroshi Okada

|votes = 499,566

|percentage = 38.7

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)

|candidate = Akira Gunji
(Endorsed by People's New Party)

|votes = 307,022

|percentage = 23.8

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party of Japan

|candidate = Tomohiro Nagatsuka

|votes = 204,753

|percentage = 15.9

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Your Party

|candidate = Shigenori Okawa

|votes = 151,375

|percentage = 11.7

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Sunrise Party

|candidate = Rie Yoshida

|votes = 65,913

|percentage = 5.1

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Japanese Communist Party

|candidate = Nobutoshi Inaba

|votes = 50,136

|percentage = 3.9

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Happiness Realization Party

|candidate = Koki Nakamura

|votes = 11,664

|percentage = 0.9

|change =

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=2007}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)

|candidate = Yukihisa Fujita

|votes = 540,174

|percentage = 43.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

|candidate = Tamon Hasegawa

|votes = 427,297

|percentage = 34.3

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate |

|party = Independent

|candidate = Masao Ishizu

|votes = 114,358

|percentage = 9.2

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Japanese Communist Party

|candidate = Takeo Taya

|votes = 86,288

|percentage = 6.9

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = People's New Party

|candidate = Toshitaka Kudo

|votes = 52,621

|percentage = 4.2

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate minor party|

|party = Kyōsei Shintō

|candidate = Hiromitsu Muto

|votes = 23,845

|percentage = 1.9

|change =

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=2004}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

|candidate = Hiroshi Okada
(endorsed by Komeito)

|votes = 583,471

|percentage = 50.5

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)

|candidate = Akira Gunji

|votes = 477,948

|percentage = 41.3

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Japanese Communist Party

|candidate = Takeo Taya

|votes = 94,837

|percentage = 8.2

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

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{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=2003 By-Election}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

|candidate = Hiroshi Okada

|votes = 717,140

|percentage = 80.6

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Japanese Communist Party

|candidate = Osamu Kojima

|votes = 172,455

|percentage = 19.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes =

|percentage = 39.61

|change =

}}

{{Election box end}}

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Japan House of Councillors Districts}}

{{coord missing|Ibaraki Prefecture}}

Category:Districts of the House of Councillors (Japan)

Category:Politics of Ibaraki Prefecture

Category:Constituencies established in 1947

Category:1947 establishments in Japan