Kyoto at-large district

The Kyoto at-large district (Japanese: 京都府選挙区, Hepburn: Kyōto-fu senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Kyoto Prefecture in the House of Councillors of the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house.

Kyōto at-large district
京都府選挙区
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Kyoto
Electorate	2,097,987 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	4
Councillors	Class of 2019:   Akiko Kurabayashi (JCP)   Shoji Nishida (LDP) Class of 2022:   Tetsuro Fukuyama (CDP)   Akira Yoshii (LDP)

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Kyoto Prefecture. Since its inception in 1947, the district has elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 2,088,383 registered voters as of September 2015.^[2] The Councillors currently representing Kyoto are:

• Shoji Nishida (LDP, third term)^[3]
• Akiko Kurabayashi (Japanese Communist Party (JCP), second term)^[4]
• Tetsuro Fukuyama (Democratic Party, fifth term)^[5]
• Akira Yoshii (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term)^[6]

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947		election year	Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947)
Rinichi Hatano [ja] (Ind.)[note 1]	Kunihiko Kanie [ja] (Social Democratic)	1947	Ōnogi Hidejirō[note 2] (LDP)[note 3]	Shuichiro Oku [ja] (Liberal)
		1950		Ikuo Oyama (Ind.)[note 4]
Seiichi Inoue [ja] (LDP)[note 5]	Katsuo Takenaka [ja][note 6] (Right Socialist)	1953
		1956 by-election[note 7]		Hideo Konishi [ja] (LDP)
		1956		Totaro Fujita [ja] (Social Democratic)
	Eiichi Nagasue [ja][note 8] (Social Democratic)	1959
		1962
	Mitsunori Ueki [ja] (LDP)	1963 by-election[note 9]
Kazutaka Ohashi [ja][note 10] (Social Democratic)		1965
		1966 by-election[note 11]	Yukio Hayashida[note 12] (LDP)
		1968		Kenji Kawada [ja] (JCP)
		1971
Hanji Ogawa [ja] (LDP)		1974 by-election[note 13]
		1974
Akio Sato (JCP)		1977
		1978 by-election[note 14]	Minoru Ueda [ja] (LDP)
		1980		Shinnosuke Kamitani [ja] (JCP)
		1983
		1986	Yukio Hayashida (LDP)
Teiko Sasano [ja] (Democratic Reform [ja])[note 15]	Yoshihiro Nishida [ja] (LDP)	1989
		1992		Tokiko Nishiyama [ja] (JCP)
		1995
		1998	Tetsuro Fukuyama (DPJ)[note 16]
Koji Matsui (DPJ)		2001
		2004[10]		Satoshi Ninoyu (LDP)
	Shoji Nishida (LDP)	2007[11]
		2010[12]
Akiko Kurabayashi (JCP)		2013[13]
		2016[14]
		2019[15]		Akira Yoshii (LDP)
		2022[16]

1. Later joined Ryokufūkai^[7]
2. Died in office 4 March 1966.^[8]
3. Elected in 1947 and 1950 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
4. Died in office 30 November 1955^[8]
5. Elected in 1947 and 1953 as a member of the LDP's predecessor Liberal Party
6. Died in office 26 January 1959^[7]
7. Held 15 January 1956^[9]
8. Resigned 30 October 1963 to contest the December general election for the House of Representatives^[7]
9. Held 10 December 1963^[9]
10. Resigned 13 March 1974 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election^[8][9]
11. Held 27 April 1966^[9]
12. Resigned 15 March 1978 to contest the Kyoto gubernatorial election^[7][9]
13. Held 21 April 1974^[9]
14. Held 23 April 1978^[9]
15. Contested the 1989 election as a member of the Rengō no Kai.
16. Contested the 1998 election as an independent but joined the DPJ soon after.

Election results

2022^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Akira Yoshii (Endorsed by Komeito)	293,071	28.2
	CDP	Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent)	275,140	26.5
	Ishin	Yuko Kusui	257,852	24.8
	JCP	Ayako Takeyama	130,260	12.5
	Sanseitō	Yuki Adachi	40,500	3.9
	Ishin Seito Shimpu	Kumi Hashimoto	21,614	2.1
	Anti-NHK	Tastuya Hoshino	8,946	0.9
	Anti-NHK	Masahiko Omi	7,181	0.7
	Ganbare Nippon	Motoyuki Hirai	5,414	0.5
Turnout			1,039,978

2019^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shoji Nishida (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	421,731	44.2
	JCP	Akiko Kurabayashi	246,436	25.8
	CDP	Hiroko Masuhara	232,354	24.4
	Anti-NHK	Akihisa Yamada	37,353	3.9
	Olive Party	Takashi Mikami	16,057	1.9
Turnout

2013^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shoji Nishida (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito)	390,577	37.0
	JCP	Akiko Kurabayashi	219,273	20.7
	Democratic	Keiro Kitagami	201,297	19.0
	Restoration	Seisuke Yamauchi	56,409	16.8
	Your	Yoko Kinoshita	71,983	6.8
	Happiness Realization	Shusaku Soga	6,119	0.6
	Uchide Party	Nobuo Shindo	2,906	0.3
Turnout

2010^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent) (Endorsed by People's New Party)	374,550	34.3
	LDP	Satoshi Ninoyu (Incumbent)	308,296	28.2
	JCP	Mariko Narumiya	181,691	16.6
	Your	Takuya Nakagawa	120,262	11.0
	Democratic	Mitsue Kawakami [ja]	94,761	8.7
	Happiness Realization	Satoko Kitagawa	11,962	1.1
Turnout

2007^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Koji Matsui (Incumbent)	501,979	43.6
	LDP	Shoji Nishida (Endorsed by Komeito)	362,274	31.4
	JCP	Mariko Narumiya	275,285	23.9
	Ishin Seito Shimpu	Toyokazu Okido	12,799	1.1
Turnout

2004^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Tetsuro Fukuyama (Incumbent)	484,297	43.8
	LDP	Satoshi Ninoyu (Endorsed by Komeito)	358,512	32.4
	JCP	Tokiko Nishiyama [ja] (Incumbent)	263,548	23.8
Turnout

See also

• List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan