Kagoshima at-large district
{{Infobox constituency
|name=Kagoshima at-large district
|nativename={{no bold|鹿児島県選挙区}}
|type=Parliamentary
|parl_name=House of Councillors
|image=Kagoshima in Japan.svg
|image_size=250px
|district_label=Prefecture
|district=Kagoshima
|electorate=1,319,420 (as of September 2022){{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=2
|member_label=Councillors
|member=Class of 2019:{{ubl
|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Hidehisa Otsuji (LDP)
}}
Class of 2022:
{{ubl
|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}|border=darkgray}} Tetsuro Nomura (LDP)
}}}}
Kagoshima at-large district is a constituency in the House of Councillors of Japan, the upper house of the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It currently elects two members to the House of Councillors, one per election. It has, historically, similar to other 2-seat, rural prefectures, been an LDP stronghold. The last opposition member elected was before the House of Councilor seat reform, when the JSP elected a candidate in 1995. The closest any party has come to defeating the LDP in the district since was 2007, when Ino Minayoshi lost by only three thousand votes. However, LDP candidates in the district have typically been kept below 50%, mainly due to LDP-infighting; Shuji Maeda took 15% of the vote in the district in 2019, which kept Otsuji below 50%, and in 2022, Ayumi Saigo took a similar amount of the vote, leading to Nomura receiving just under 50% again.
Outline
The constituency represents the entire population of Kagoshima Prefecture and has {{formatnum:1369874}} 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=19 April 2016}}
As of 2021, the current representatives are:
- Hidehisa Otsuji, first elected in 1989. Up for election in 2025. Member of the Liberal Democratic Party.{{Cite web|title=Mr.OTSUJI Hidehisa：House of Councillors|url=https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/eng/members/profile/5989018.htm|access-date=2021-08-18|website=www.sangiin.go.jp}}
- Tetsuro Nomura, first elected in 2004. Up for election in 2022. Member of the Liberal Democratic Party.{{Cite web|title=Mr.NOMURA Tetsuro：House of Councillors|url=https://www.sangiin.go.jp/japanese/joho1/kousei/eng/members/profile/7004046.htm|access-date=2021-08-18|website=www.sangiin.go.jp}}
Elected members
People in this district elected the following members of the House of Councillors.{{cite book |editor=衆議院・参議院 |year=1990 |title=議会制度百年史 貴族院・参議院議員名鑑 |language=ja |location=Japan |publisher=大蔵省印刷局}}{{cite book |editor=日外アソシエーツ |year=2017 |title=国政選挙総覧 1947～2016 |language=ja |location=Japan |publisher=日外アソシエーツ |isbn=9784816926747}}
- {{ill|Inokichi Chuman|ja|中馬猪之吉}} - 1947 (nonparty)
- {{ill|Kichinosuke Saigo|ja|西郷吉之助}} - 1947 (nonparty), 1953 (LP), 1959 (LDP), 1965 (LDP)
- {{ill|Kizaemon Ueno V|ja|上野喜左衛門 (5代)}} - 1947 fill-in member (nonparty)
- Tadahiko Shimadzu - 1947 fill-in member (nonparty), 1950 (LP)
- {{ill|Kiichiro Maenosono|ja|前之園喜一郎}} - 1947 by-election (DP)
- {{ill|Yoshito Okamoto|ja|岡元義人}} - 1947 by-election (nonparty)
- {{ill|Tadataka Sata|ja|佐多忠隆}} - 1950 (JSP), 1956 (JSP), 1962 (JSP)
- {{ill|Tomoharu Inoue|ja|井上知治}} - 1953 (LP)
- {{ill|Kaku Shigenari|ja|重成格}} - 1956 (LDP)
- {{ill|Shigeho Tanaka (politician)|ja|田中茂穂 (政治家)}} - 1956 by-election (LDP), 1962 (LDP), 1968 (LDP)
- {{ill|Keikichi Taniguchi|ja|谷口慶吉}} - 1959 (LDP), 1965 (LDP)
- {{ill|Tameji Kawakami|ja|川上為治}} - 1968 (LDP)
- {{ill|Yoshifumi Shibatate|ja|柴立芳文}} - 1971 (LDP)
- {{ill|Tetsuo Tsuruzono|ja|鶴園哲夫}} - 1971 (JSP)
- {{ill|Kichio Inoue|ja|井上吉夫}} - 1974 (LDP), 1980 (LDP), 1986 (LDP), 1992 (LDP), 1998 (LDP)
- Wataru Kubo - 1974 (JSP), 1983 (JSP), 1989 (JSP), 1995 (JSP)
- {{ill|Souji Sata|ja|佐多宗二}} - 1975 by-election (LDP)
- {{ill|Saburo Kanemaru|ja|金丸三郎}} - 1977 (LDP), 1983 (LDP)
- {{ill|Takeo Tahara|ja|田原武雄}} - 1977 (nonparty)
- {{ill|Shinjiro Kawahara|ja|川原新次郎}} - 1980 (LDP), 1986 (LDP)
- {{ill|Kaname Kamada|ja|鎌田要人}} - 1989 (LDP), 1995 (LDP)
- {{ill|Kazuto Kamiyama|ja|上山和人}} - 1992 (JSP)
- Hiroshi Moriyama - 1998 (LDP)
- Yoshito Kajiya - 2001 (LDP), 2007 (LDP)
- Tetsuro Nomura - 2004 (LDP), 2010 (LDP), 2016 (LDP)
- Hidehisa Otsuji - 2013 (LDP), 2019 (LDP)
See also
References
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{{Japan House of Councillors Districts}}
{{coord missing|Kagoshima Prefecture}}