Saitama at-large district

Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.

Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.

Current Councillors from Saitama are:

• in the class of 2016 (term ends 2022):
  • Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP, Nukaga faction), 4th term,
  • Makoto Nishida (Kōmeitō), 3rd term,
  • Kiyoshi Ueda (Ind.), 1st term.
• in the class of 2007 (term ends 2013):
  • Kuniko Kōda (DPJ), 1st term,
  • Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP, Machimura faction), 3rd term, and
  • Ryūji Yamane (DPJ, Kawabata (=ex-DSP) group), 2nd term.

Recent election results

2010

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masakazu Sekiguchi	655,028	20.6
	Kōmeitō	Makoto Nishida	594,678	18.7
	DPJ	Motohiro Ōno	557,398	17.5
	DPJ	Chiyako Shimada	544,381	17.1
	YP	Tsukasa Kobayashi	416,663	13.1
	JCP	Gaku Itō	207,957	6.5
	NRP	Kōji Nakagawa	84,897	2.7
	SDP	Fumihiro Himori	72,185	2.3
	Independent	Kōsei Hasegawa	37,731	1.2
	HRP	Hirotoshi Inda	9,536	0.3
Turnout			3,246,247	55.83

2007

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Kuniko Kōda	745,517	23.5
	LDP	Toshiharu Furukawa	684,270	21.6
	DPJ	Ryūji Yamane	665,063	21.0
	Kōmeitō	Hiroshi Takano	623,723	19.7
	JCP	Sumiko Ayabe	277,440	8.7
	SDP	Etsuko Matsuzawa	104,403	3.3
	PNP	Tetsuo Sawada	72,756	2.3
Turnout			3,227,638	56.35

Historical Councillors elected from Saitama

Class of 1947/1953/...				Election Year	Class of 1950/1956/...
#1 (1947: #1. 6 Year Term)	#2 (1947: #2, 6 Year Term) (1992: #3, 3 Year Term)	#3	#4		#1 (1947: #3, 3-year term)	#2 (1947: #4, 3-year term)	#3	#4
Eizo Kobayashi (LP)	Yataro Hiranuma (LP)			1947	Katsumasa Amada (JSP)	Kazue Ishikawa (DP)
				1950	Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955 (JSP)	Shokichi Uehara (LP)
Eizo Kobayashi (Yoshida LP)	Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP)			1953
				1955 by el.	Ryukasu Endo (Indep.)
				1956	Yuichi Osawa # 1960 (LDP)	Shokichi Uehara (LDP)
Eizo Kobayashi (LDP)	Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP)			1959
				1960 by el.	Kanzo Oizumi (LDP)
				1962	Shokichi Uehara (LDP)	Hideyuki Seya (JSP)
Katsuji Mori (JSP)	Yoshio Tsuchiya (LDP)			1965
				1968
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan))	Katsuji Mori (JSP)			1971
				1974	Hideyuki Seya (JSP)	Shokichi Uehara (LDP)
	Juro Morita (NLC)			1977
				1980	Ryoko Nao (LDP)	Hideyuki Seya (JSP)
				1983
				1986	Hideyuki Seya (JSP)	Ryoko Nao (LDP)
Hajime Fukuda (JSP)	Yoshio Tsuchiya # 1992 (Indep.)			1989
	Taizo Sato (LDP)			1991 by-el.		Noriyuki Sekine (LDP)
				1992 (including by-el.)	Noriyuki Sekine (LDP)	Hideyuki Seya (JSP)
Hiroshi Takano (NFP)		Sachiyo Abe (JCP)		1995
				1998	Takujiro Hamada # 2003 (Indep.)	Renzo Togashi (JCP)	Toshio Fuji (DPJ)
Taizo Sato (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan))	Hiroshi Takano (Komeito)	Ryuji Yamane (DPJ)		2001
				2003 by-el.	Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP)
				2004	Chiyako Shimada (DPJ)	Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP)	Makoto Nishida (Komeito)
Kuniko Koda (DPJ)	Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP)			2007
				2010	Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP)	Makoto Nishida (Komeito)	Motohiro Ōno (DPJ)
Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP)	Katsuo Yakura (Komeito)	Kuniko Koda (Your Party)		2013
				2016		Motohiro Ōno # 2019 (DPJ)	Sanehito Nishida (Komeito)
	Hiroto Kumagai (CDP)	Katsuo Yakura (Komeito)	Gaku Ito (JCP)	2019
				2019 by-el.		Seiji Ueda (Indepen.)
				2022				Mari Takagi (CDP)

Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.

References

House of Councillors: Alphabetical list of former Councillors