Tottori at-large district

The Tottori at-large district (Japanese: 鳥取県選挙区, Hepburn: Tottori-ken Senkyoku) was a constituency that represents Tottori Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. Councillors are elected to the house by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. Since the establishment of the current House of Councillors electoral system in 1947, the district has elected two Councillors, one each at elections held every three years. With its 474,963 registered voters (as of September 2015)^[1] it is the smallest electoral district for the house. Accordingly, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Shimane At-large district to create the Tottori-Shimane At-large district;^[2] this change took effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor was elected.

The Councillors currently representing Tottori are:

• Kazuyuki Hamada (Party for Japanese Kokoro; term ends in 2016)
• Shoji Maitachi (Liberal Democratic Party; term ends in 2019)

Elected Councillors

class of 1947	election year	class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term)		(1947: 3-year term)
Teizo Kadota (Tottori Farmers' Federation)	1947	Nobuyoshi Tanaka (Democratic)
	1950	Yoshio Nakata (Social Democratic)[notes 1]
Hideyuki Miyoshi (Ind.)[notes 2]	1953
Yoshio Nakata (Social Democratic)	1956 by-election
	1956	Zenichi Nakahara (LDP)
	1959
	1962
Masao Miyazaki (LDP)	1965
	1968	Kaku Ashika (Social Democratic)
	1971
	1974	Jiro Ishiba (LDP)[notes 3]
Koichi Hirota (Social Democratic)	1977
	1980
	1981 by-election	Kuniji Kobayashi (LDP)
Shoji Nishimua (LDP)	1983
	1986	Shigenobu Sakano (LDP)[notes 4]
Tatsuo Yoshida (Ind.)	1989
	1992
Takayoshi Tsuneda (Ind.)	1995
	1998
	2001
	2002 by-election	Kotaro Tamura (Ind.)
	2004	Kotaro Tamura (LDP)
Yoshihiro Kawakami (DPJ)	2007
	2010[3]	Kazuyuki Hamada (LDP)[notes 5]
Shoji Maitachi (LDP)	2013[4]
	2016	Seat abolished
Seat abolished	2019

1. Resigned 4 March 1956 in order to contest by-election
2. Died in office 14 February 1956
3. Died in office 16 September 1981
4. Died in office 17 April 2002
5. Elected as LDP candidate but has switched parties several times since

Election results

2013^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shoji Maitachi (endorsed by Komeito)	160,783	58.2
	Democratic	Noriyuki Kawakami	82,717	30.0
	JCP	Naoyuki Iwanaga	19,600	7.1
	Happiness Realization	Yuriko Yoshioka	6,782	2.5
	Independent	Hiroshi Inoue	6,158	2.2
Turnout				58.88

2010^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kazuyuki Hamada	158,445	50.8
	Democratic	Mari Sakano (Endorsed by People's New Party)	132,720	42.6
	JCP	Naoyuki Iwanaga	20,613	6.6
Turnout				65.77