The is a constituency that represents Gifu Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has three Councillors in the 242-member house.
Outline From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 election, Gifu elected two Councillors to six-year terms at alternating elections held every three years. Electoral reform in 1994 increased Gifu's representation to four Councillors, which began to take effect at the 1992 election, at which two Councillors were elected.
In September 2012 Gifu had 1,684,766 registered voters, the second-lowest of the 12 prefectures that were represented by 4 Councillors at that time. By comparison, the three most populous districts of Hokkaido, Hyogo at-large district and Fukuoka districts each had more than 4 million voters but were also represented by four Councillors each. To address this malapportionment, a November 2012 amendment to the Public Offices Election Law reduced Gifu's representation (along with Fukushima's) representation to two Councillors. This change began to take effect at the 2013 election, when only one Councillor was elected in Gifu, and will be completed at the 2016 election. The district has 1,666,610 registered voters as of September 2015.
The Councillors currently representing Fukushima are: Takeyuki Watanabe (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016) Yoshiharu Komiyama (Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), first term; term ends in 2016) Yasutada Ohno (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)
Elected Councillors Note: Party listed is at the time of election class of 1947 election year class of 1950 #2 #1(1947: 6-year term) #1(1947: 3-year term) #2 - Osamu Ito(Social Democratic) 1947 Jinkichi Watanabe (Ind.) - 1950 Shinzo Koike(Liberal) Keiichi Tanaka(Liberal) 1953 1956 Shinzo Koike(LDP) Keiichi Tanaka(LDP) 1959 1962 Namio Nakamura(Social Democratic) 1965 1968 1971 1974 Heigo Fujii(LDP) Hiromu Asano(LDP) 1977 1980Feb. 1981 by-election Takao Fujii(LDP) Reijo Sugiyama(LDP)June 1981 by-election 1983 1986 Kazunobu Takai(Rengō no Kai) 1989 1992 Shoya Iwasaki(Social Democratic)1993 by-election Junichi Kasahara(LDP) Kenji Hirata(New Frontier) Akira Ohno (LDP) 1995 Tsuyako Ōno (Ind.)1996 by-election 1998 Iwada Matsuo (Ind.) Yasuo Yamashita(DPJ) Kenji Hirata (DPJ) Tsuyako Ōno(LDP) 2001 2004 Iwao Matsuda (LDP) Takao Fujii (Ind.) 2007 2010 Takeyuki Watanabe (LDP) Yoshiharu Komiyama (DPJ) Seat abolished Yasutada Ōno (LDP) 2013
Election results
See also List of districts of the House of Councillors of Japan Gifu 1st district, one of Gifu Prefecture's five districts in the House of Representatives
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