Ibaraki at-large district

The Ibaraki at-large district (Japanese: 茨城県選挙区, Hepburn: Ibaraki-ken senkyoku) 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.

Ibaraki at-large district
茨城県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Ibaraki
Electorate	2,399,889[1]
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	4
Councillors	Class of 2019:   Ryōsuke Kōzuki (LDP)   Takumi Onuma (CDP) Class of 2022:   Kato Akiyoshi (LDP)   Makiko Dougomi (Ind.)

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.^[2] The Councillors currently representing Ibaraki are:

• Akira Gunji (Democratic Party, third term; term ends in 2016)^[3]
• Hiroshi Okada (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), third term; term ends in 2016)^[4]
• Yukihisa Fujita (Democratic Party, second term; term ends in 2019)^[5]
• Ryosuke Kouzuki (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)^[6]

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947		election year	Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947)
Yasuji Yūki (Ind.)[note 1]	Masaji Shibata (Liberal)[note 2]	1947	Nobuo Ōhata (Social Democratic)	Tsuneo Ikeda (Ind.)[note 3]
		1950	Yūichi Kōri (Liberal)	Shichihei Kikuta (National Democratic)
	Shigefumi Miyata (Liberal)	1950 by-election[note 4]
Tsunesuke Mutō (Kaishintō)		1953
		1956	Yūichi Kōri (LDP)	Motojiro Mori (Social Democratic)
Tsunesuke Mutō[note 5] (LDP)	Sōzō Ōmori (Social Democratic)	1959
		1962
Ichiji Suzuki (LDP)		1963 by-election[note 6]
Kishirō Nakamura[note 7] (LDP)		1965
		1968
	Fujio Takeuchi[note 8] (LDP)	1971
Tomi Nakamura (Minor party)[note 9]		1972 by-election[note 10]
		1974	Taeko Iwakami[note 11] (Minor party)[note 12]	Osamu Yatabe (Social Democratic)
	Yūichi Kōri (LDP)	1975 by-election[note 13]
Michitada Takasugi (Social Democratic)		1977
		[note 14]1978 by-election	Nirō Iwakami[note 15] (LDP)
		1980
	Ikuo Soneda (LDP)	1983
		1986
Makoto Taneda (Social Democratic)	Akio Kanō[note 16] (LDP)	1989
		[note 17]1989 by-election	Itsuo Nomura (LDP)
	Yasu Kanō[note 18] (LDP)	1992 by-election[note 19]
		1992
Moto Kobayashi (New Frontier)		1995
		1998	Kōichi Kuno[note 20] (LDP)	Akira Gunji (DPJ)
Moto Kobayashi (DPJ)		2001
		2003 by-election[note 21]	Hiroshi Okada (LDP)
		2004[11]
Yukihisa Fujita (DPJ)	Tamon Hasegawa (LDP)	2007[12]
		2010[13]
	Ryōsuke Kōzuki (LDP)	2013[14]
		2016
Takumi Onuma (CDP)		2019[15]
		2022[16]	Akiyoshi Kato (LDP)	Masako Dogomi (Ind.)^

1. Later joined Ryokufūkai^[7]
2. Died in office 15 September 1950^[8]
3. Later joined the Labourers and Farmers Party^[8]
4. Held 3 November 1950^[7]
5. Died in office 6 August 1963^[7]
6. Held 18 September 1963^[8]
7. Died in office 21 December 1971^[9]
8. Resigned 14 March 1975^[9]
9. Wife of the deceased Kishirō Nakamura. Ran as a candidate of a minor party,^[10] but later joined the LDP^[9]
10. Held 6 February 1972^[9]
11. Resigned 21 December 1977^[8]
12. Elected as a candidate for the Ibaraki Agricultural Federation. Later joined the LDP^[8]
13. Held 27 April 1975^[8]
14. Held 5 February 1978^[8]
15. Husband of Taeko Iwakami. Died in office 16 August 1989^[8]
16. Died in office 26 February 1992^[8]
17. Held 1 October 1989^[8]
18. Wife of Akio Kanō
19. Held 12 April 1992^[10]
20. Died in office 17 October 2002
21. Held 27 April 2003^[10]

Election results

2013^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ryosuke Kouzuki (endorsed by Komeito)	560,642	48.4
	Democratic	Yukihisa Fujita	204,021	17.6
	Your	Junko Ishihara	153,403	13.3
	Restoration	Akira Ishii	127,823	11.0
	JCP	Kyoko Kobayashi	97,197	8.4
	Happiness Realization	Koki Nakamura	14,586	1.3
Turnout

2010^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Okada	499,566	38.7
	Democratic	Akira Gunji (Endorsed by People's New Party)	307,022	23.8
	Democratic	Tomohiro Nagatsuka	204,753	15.9
	Your	Shigenori Okawa	151,375	11.7
	Sunrise	Rie Yoshida	65,913	5.1
	JCP	Nobutoshi Inaba	50,136	3.9
	Happiness Realization	Koki Nakamura	11,664	0.9
Turnout

2007^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yukihisa Fujita	540,174	43.4
	LDP	Tamon Hasegawa	427,297	34.3
	Independent	Masao Ishizu	114,358	9.2
	JCP	Takeo Taya	86,288	6.9
	People's New	Toshitaka Kudo	52,621	4.2
	Kyōsei Shintō	Hiromitsu Muto	23,845	1.9
Turnout

2004^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Okada (endorsed by Komeito)	583,471	50.5
	Democratic	Akira Gunji	477,948	41.3
	JCP	Takeo Taya	94,837	8.2
Turnout

2003 By-Election^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Okada	717,140	80.6
	JCP	Osamu Kojima	172,455	19.4
Turnout				39.61

See also

• List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan
• Ibaraki 4th district, one of seven districts that represents Ibaraki Prefecture in the House of Representatives