Toyama at-large district

The Toyama at-large district (Japanese: 富山県選挙区, Hepburn: Toyama-ken senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Toyama Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It has two Councillors in the 242-member house.

Outline

The constituency represents the entire population of Toyama Prefecture. The district elects two Councillors to six-year terms, one at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 888,832 registered voters as of September 2015.^[1] The Councillors currently representing Toyama are:

• Kotaro Nogami (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), second term; term ends in 2016. Previously represented the district from 2001-2007.)^[2]
• Shigeru Douko [ja] (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)^[3]

Elected Councillors

Class of 1947	election year	Class of 1950 (3-year term in 1947)
Toyokazu Ishizaka [ja] (Japan Liberal)	1947	Hisayoshi Ogawa (National Cooperative)
	1950	Saburo Oyama[note 1] (Ind.)[note 2]
	1951 by-election[note 3]	Tetsuji Tachi (LDP)[note 4]
	1953
	1956
Shiro Sakurai (LDP)	1959
	1962
	1965
	1968	Kazuo Sugihara (Social Democratic)
Naoji Tachibana [ja] (LDP)	1971
	1974	Minoru Yoshida[note 5] (LDP)
Kimitomo Takahira (LDP)	1977
	1980
	1982 by-election[note 6]	Soto Oki[note 7] (LDP)
	1983
	1986	Yoshio Nagata [ja][note 8] (LDP)
Yasumasa Kakuma [ja] (LDP)	1989
	1992
	1995
	1998[note 8]
		Masaaki Tanibayashi [ja][note 8] (DPJ)
Kotaro Nogami (LDP)	2001
	2004[8]	Tsunenori Kawai (LDP)
Takashi Morita (Ind.)[note 9]	2007[9]
	2010[10]	Kotaro Nogami (LDP)
Shigeru Dōko (LDP)	2013[11]

1. Died in office 3 October 1951^[4]
2. Later joined the Liberal Party^[4]
3. Held 16 November 1951^[5]
4. First elected in 1951 as an independent.
5. Died in office 16 November 1982^[6]
6. Held 26 December 1982^[7]
7. Died in office 28 June 1987^[4]
8. Yoshio Nagata was elected to a third term in the election held on 12 July 1998 with 47.7% of the vote but died on 22 August. As his death was within three months of the election, Masaaki Tanibayashi, who placed second in the election with 21.1%, was promoted to the seat as of 1 September 1998. The difference of 137,168 votes is said to be the biggest loss be a candidate who was subsequently promoted.
9. Later joined the People's New Party

Election results

2013^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shigeru Douko [ja] (endorsed by Komeito)	328,638	77.1
	JCP	Wataru Takahashi	51,569	12.1
	Independent	Yoshiteru Nishie	27,509	6.4
	Happiness Realization	Kaoru Yoshida	18,797	4.4
Turnout

2010^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kotaro Nogami (former member)	322,739	56.2
	Democratic	Yoshihiko Aimoto [ja]	223,691	39.0
	JCP	Wataru Takahashi	27,500	4.8
Turnout

2007^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Takashi Morita (endorsed by Democratic, Social Democratic and People's New parties)	291,714	50.1
	LDP	Kotaro Nogami (incumbent) (endorsed by Komeito)	265,882	45.7
	JCP	Kazuyuki Izumino	24,240	4.2
Turnout

2004^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Tsunenori Kawai (endorsed by Komeito)	236,318	46.3
	Democratic	Masaaki Tanibayashi [ja] (Incumbent)	190,013	37.2
	Social Democratic	Akira Ogawa	57,486	11.3
	JCP	Toshihito Ueda	26,458	5.2
Turnout

See also

• List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan