Shimane at-large district

The Shimane at-large district (Japanese: 島根県選挙区, Hepburn: Shimane-ken Senkyoku) was a constituency that represents Shimane 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 576,297 registered voters (as of September 2015)^[1] it is the second-smallest electoral district for the house. Accordingly, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Tottori At-large district to create the Tottori-Shimane At-large district;^[2] this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor will be elected.

The Councillor currently representing Shimane is:

• Saburo Shimada (LDP; term ends in 2019)

Elected Councillors

class of 1947	election year	class of 1950
(1947: 6-year term)		(1947: 3-year term)
Genichiro Date (Ind.)	1947	Noboru Utsunomiya (Ind.)
	1950	Yoshio Sakurauchi (People's Democratic)
Shigeo Odachi (Liberal)[notes 1]	1953
Hiroshi Sano (Ind.)	1955 by-election
	1956	Akira Kodaki (LDP)[notes 2]
	1958 by-election	Toshinaga Yamamoto (LDP)
Hiroshi Sano (LDP)	1959
	1962	Toshinaga Yamamoto (Ind.)
Hideo Nakamura (Social Democratic)	1965
	1968	Toshinaga Yamamoto (LDP)
	1971
	1974	Hisaoki Kamei (LDP)
Zenju Nariai (LDP)	1977
	1980
	1983
	1986	Mikio Aoki (LDP)
Hisato Iwamoto (Ind.)	1989
	1992
Shuntaro Kageyama (LDP)	1995
	1998
	2001
	2004
Akiko Kamei (People's New)	2007
	2010[3]	Kazuhiko Aoki (LDP)
Saburo Shimada (LDP)	2013[4]
	2016	Seat abolished
Seat abolished	2019

1. Died in office 25 September 1955
2. Died in office 28 May 1958

Election results

2013^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Saburo Shimada (endorsed by Komeito)	202,181	57.8
	Green Wind	Akiko Kamei	115,043	32.9
	JCP	Shinichi Mukose	26,255	7.5
	Happiness Realization	Setsuko Ikeda	6,054	1.7
Turnout				60.89

2010^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kazuhiko Aoki	222,448	52.9
	Democratic	Hirotaka Iwata	151,351	36.0
	Your	Tomoo Sakurauchi	28,183	6.7
	JCP	Ikuhisa Ishitobi	18,512	4.4
Turnout				71.70

References

1. "平成２７年９月２日（定時登録日）現在における選挙人名簿 登録者数の概要" [2 September 2015 (Periodic Registration Day) Current enrolled voters - Overview of number of registered voters] (in Japanese). 2 September 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
2. "Upper House districts set for shake-up after electoral reform laws pass Diet". Japan Times. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
3. "選挙区 島根 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2010" [Shimane At-large district election results, 2010 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
4. "選挙区 島根 選挙結果 参議院選挙（参院選）2013" [Shimane At-large district election results, 2013 House of Councillors election]. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 22 February 2016.