The 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) 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; 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)Resigned 4 March 1956 in order to contest by-election Hideyuki Miyoshi(Ind.)Died in office 14 February 1956 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)Died in office 16 September 1981 Koichi Hirota(Social Democratic) 1977 1980 1981 by-election Kuniji Kobayashi(LDP) Shoji Nishimua(LDP) 1983 1986 Shigenobu Sakano(LDP)Died in office 17 April 2002 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 Kazuyuki Hamada(LDP)Elected as LDP candidate but has switched parties several times since Shoji Maitachi(LDP) 2013 2016 Seat abolished Seat abolished 2019
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