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.

Fukuoka at-large district
福岡県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Fukuoka
Electorate	4,223,753 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	6
Councillors	Class of 2019:   Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)   Rokuta Shimono (Komeito)   Kuniyoshi Noda (CDP) Class of 2022:   Satoshi Ōie (LDP)   Yukihito Koga (CDP)   Kōzō Akino (Komeito)

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[2]	Torazō Hamada (JSP)	Senju Shimada (JSP)	Inoo Dan (JLP)
		Hōsei Yoshida (JSP)	1950 by-el.[3]
			1950[4]	Masao Komatsu (JSP)	Inoo Dan (LP)	Takao Nishida (DP)
Hōsei Yoshida (JSP, left)	Toshihiro Kennoki (Yoshida LP)	Shunsaku Noda (Ryokufūkai)	1953[5]
			1955 by-el.[6]		Tsunekatsu Yamamoto (JSP, left)
			1956[7]	Tsunekatsu Yamamoto (JSP)	Kiyomi Abe (JSP)	Takao Nishida (LDP)
			1958 by-el.[8]	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)
Hōsei Yoshida (JSP)	Shunsaku Noda (LDP)	Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	1959[9]
			1962[10]	Hikaru Kamei (LDP)	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)	Ryūsuke Moribe (LDP)
Ichitarō Komiya (JSP)			1963 by-el.[11]
Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	Momotarō Yanagida (LDP)	Akira Ono (JSP)	1965[12]
			1967 by-el.[13]	Katsuyuki Onimaru (LDP)
			1968[14]	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)	Katsuyuki Onimaru (LDP)	Masafumi Yoneda (LDP)
Akira Ono (JSP)	Toshihiro Kennoki (LDP)	Momotarō Yanagida (LDP)	1971[15]
			1974[16]		Kazuhisa Arita (LDP)	Yoshiharu Kuwana (Kōmeitō)
Masao Endō (LDP)	Tatsuru Harada (Kōmeitō)	Akira Ono (JSP)	1977[17]
			1980[18]	Shūji Kurauchi (LDP)	Isamu Koyanagi (JSP)
			1983[19]
			1986[20]	Yukihiro Fukuda (LDP)	Shirō Watanabe (JSP)	Kazuki Motomura (LDP)
			1989 by-el.[21]	Sadao Fuchigami (JSP)
Akira Ono (JSP)	Kentarō Koba (Kōmeitō)	Kei Ōma (LDP)	1989[22]
			1991 by-el.[23]			Kichinosuke Shigetomi (LDP)
			1992[24]	Kazunobu Yokoo (Kōmeitō)		Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP)
Kentarō Koba (NFP)	Shigeko Mieno (JSP)	–	1995[25]
			1998[26]	Kazuo Hirotomo (Indep.)	Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP)	–
Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)	Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ)		2001[27]
			2004[28]	Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ)
Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ)	Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)		2007[29]
			2010[30]	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ)
Masaji Matsuyama (LDP)	Kuniyoshi Noda (DPJ)		2013
			2016	Yukihito Koga (DPJ)	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Hiromi Takase (Kōmeitō)
	Rokuta Shimono (Kōmeitō)		2019
		Kuniyoshi Noda (CDP)	2022	Satoshi Ōie (LDP)	Yukihito Koga (CDP)	Kōzō Akino (Kōmeitō)

Recent election results

2022

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Satoshi Ōie (Incumbent)	586,217	29.21%
	CDP	Yukihito Koga (Incumbent)	438,876	21.87%
	Komeito	Kōzō Akino (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Liberal Democratic Party)	348,700	17.38%
	Ishin	Mayumi Tatsuno	158,772	7.91%
	DPP	Kyoko Ota	133,900	6.67%
	JCP	Shozo Majima	98,747	4.92%
	Reiwa	Fumiyo Okuda	82,333	4.10%
	Sanseito	Shinsuke Nonaka	72,263	3.60%
	Social Democratic	Umi Tsukazaki	30,190	1.50%
	Anti-NHK	Kaori Mashima	14,513	0.72%
	Anti-NHK	Eiji Kumamaru	9,309	0.46%
	Anti-NHK	Masako Wada	8,917	0.44%
	Happiness Realization	Masatoshi Enatsu	7,962	0.40%
	Independent	Issei Tsushima	7,186	0.36%
	Japan First	Rei Senzaki	4,908	0.24%
	Truth of Renewable Energy	Yoshiaki Kumisaka	3,868	0.19%
Turnout			2,006,661	48.76%	5.01

2019

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masaji Matsuyama (Incumbent)	583,351	33.19%
	Komeito	Rokuta Shimono (Endorsed by Liberal Democratic Party)	401,495	22.84%
	CDP	Kuniyoshi Noda (Incumbent) (Endorsed by SDP)	365,634	20.80%
	JCP	Kono Sachiko	171,436	9.75%
	DPP	Kumiko Haruta	143,955	8.19%
	Anti-NHK	Naohiro Kawaguchi	46,362	2.64%
	CES	Akiko Hondo	15,511	0.88%
	Happiness Realization	Masatoshi Enatsu	15,380	0.88%
	Tsubasa	Hamatake Shinichi	14,586	0.83%
Turnout			1,757,710	42.85%	10.03

2010^[30]

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^[29]

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