Aomori at-large district

The Aomori at-large district (Japanese: 青森県選挙区, Hepburn: Aomori-ken Senkyoku) is a constituency that represents Aomori 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. It has 1,122,948 registered voters as of September 2015.[1]

The Councillors currently representing Aomori are:

• Masayo Tanabu (Democratic Party (DP)); elected for the first time in 2016, and her current term will end in 2022.
• Motome Takisawa (LDP); elected to his first term in 2013, reelected in 2019 and his current term will end in 2025.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947	election year	class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term)		(1947: 3-year term)
Naotake Satō (Ind.)	1947	Zenjirō Hirano (Democratic)
	1950	Tetsuo Kudō (Liberal)
Naotake Satō (Ryokufūkai)	1953
	1953 by-el.	Junzo Sasamori (Progressive)
	1956	Junzo Sasamori (LDP)
	1959
	1962
Bunji Tsushima (LDP)	1965
	1968	Tatsuo Yamazaki (Ind.)
	1971
Iwazo Terashita (LDP)	1973 by-el.
	1974	Tatsuo Yamazaki (LDP)
	1977
Kanpei Matsuo (LDP)	1980 by-el.
	1980
	1983
	1986	Tatsuo Yamazaki (Ind.)
Takao Mikami (Ind.)	1989
	1991 by-el.	Kanpei Matsuo (Liberal National Congress)
	1992	Kanpei Matsuo (LDP)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (New Frontier)	1995
	1998	Masami Tanabu (Ind.)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (LDP)	2001
	2004	Masami Tanabu (DPJ)
Kōji Hirayama (DPJ)	2007
	2010[2]	Tsutomu Yamazaki (LDP)
Motome Takisawa (LDP)	2013[3]
	2016[4]	Masayo Tanabu (DP)
	2019[5]

Election results

2019[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Motome Takisawa	239,757	51.5	+0.2
	Constitutional Democratic	Satoru Odagiri	206,582	44.4	-
	Protect the People from NHK	Hinako Koyama	19,310	4.1	-
Turnout			1,109,104	42,94%55,31%	-12.37%

2016[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Masayo Tanabu	302,867	49.2	-
	Liberal Democratic	Tsutomu Yamazaki	294,815	47.9	-
	Happiness Realization	Yuuki Mikuni	18,071	2.9	-
Turnout			1,140,629	55,31%

2013[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Motome Takisawa (endorsed by Komeito)	261,575	51.3
	People's Life	Kōji Hirayama (endorsed by Social Democratic Party, Green Wind)	76,432	15.0
	Your	Rina Hatano	63,528	12.5
	Independent	Shin Kudo (endorsed by Democratic Party)	53,062	10.4
	Communist	Yo Yoshimata	48,290	9.5
	Happiness Realization	Akihiro Ishita	6,659	1.3
Turnout

2010[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Tsutomu Yamazaki	287,385	46.8
	Democratic	Rina Hatano (Endorsed by People's New Party)	222,875	36.3
	Sunrise	Sekio Masuta	49,102	8.0
	Communist	Yo Yoshimata	31,040	5.1
	Social Democratic	Kiyohiko Yamada	23,803	3.9
Turnout

See also

• Aomori 1st district - one of 4 districts that represents Aomori Prefecture in the House of Representatives

References

• "List of Former Councillors (A to Sa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
• "List of Former Councillors (Ta to Ha)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
• "List of Former Councillors (Ma to Wa)" (in Japanese). House of Councillors. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2016.

Footnotes

1. As of 2 September 2015. "平成２７年９月２日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of resident and non-resident enrolled voters as of 2 September 2015] (in Japanese). 2 September 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
2. "選挙区 青森 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2010" [Aomori At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
3. "選挙区 青森 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Aomori At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
4. . NHK https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/archives/sangiin/2016/index.html#!skh_0200. Retrieved 25 September 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. . NHK https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/sangiin/2019/02/skh43393.html. Retrieved 25 September 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)