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Shizuoka At-large District
The is a constituency that represents Shizuoka Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It has four Councillors in the 242-member house. Outline The constituency represents the entire population of Shizuoka Prefecture. Since its inception in 1947, the district has elected four Councillors to six-year terms, two at alternating elections held every three years. The district has 3,052,579 registered voters as of September 2015. The Councillors currently representing Shizuoka are: * Yuji Fujimoto (Democratic Party (DP), second term; term ends in 2016) * Shigeki Iwai Shigeki Iwai (born 2 June 1968 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of ... ( Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), first term; term ends in 2016) * Takao Makino (LDP, second term; term ends in 2019) * Kazuya Shimba (DP, third term; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northeast, Nagano Prefecture to the north, and Aichi Prefecture to the west. Shizuoka is the capital and Hamamatsu is the largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture, with other major cities including Fuji, Numazu, and Iwata. Shizuoka Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast and features Suruga Bay formed by the Izu Peninsula, and Lake Hamana which is considered to be one of Japan's largest lakes. Mount Fuji, the tallest volcano in Japan and cultural icon of the country, is partially located in Shizuoka Prefecture on the border with Yamanashi Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture has a significant motoring heritage as the founding location of Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha, and is home to the Fuji International Speedway. History Shizuoka Prefe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 2 June 1959,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 23 July 1989. There were several controversial issues dominating the pre-election atmosphere, all of which reflected negatively of the ruling LDP. The most important, according to most polls, was the introduction of an unpopular 3% consumption tax law which had been forced through the Diet by Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita despite boycotts by the opposition parties, an act which hurt the LDP's image with the public. A second issue was the infamous Recruit scandal, which induced the resignation of Takeshita and his cabinet members and left a major stain on the LDP's integrity to the public. There was also resistance to the LDP's gradual adoption of import liberalisation of food products, which lost the party their traditional rural voters resentful of farm imports. Even more, there was incumbent Prime Minister Sōsuke Uno's sex scandal which had come to light only a month earlier. The result of all of this negative feeling to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1986. Only half of this House of Councillors was up for election. The results show the whole legislature following the elections. Results By constituency References {{Japanese elections Japanese House of Councillors The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or ... House of Councillors (Japan) elections House of Councillors election Japanese House of Councillors election Election and referendum articles with incomplete results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 26 June 1983. The result was a victory for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which won 68 of the 126 seats up for election, retaining its majority in the House. Results By constituency References *About Japan Series (1999), ''Changing Japanese Politics'', No. 24, Tokyo: Foreign Press Center. *Mahendra Prakash (2004), ''Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003'', New Delhi: JNU {{Japanese elections Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... House of Councillors (Japan) elections 1983 elections in Japan June 1983 events in Asia Election and referendum articles with incomplete results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 22 June 1980. On 16 May the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) brought no-confidence motion before the Diet relating to corruption issues, proposing more defense spending and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives to withdraw its backing from the government. Unexpectedly, 69 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members of the Diet from the Fukuda Takeo, Miki Takeo and Hidenao Nakagawa factions abstained from voting on the motion. The government was defeated by 56 votes in total of 243 and resigned. For the first time elections for both the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives were elected at the same time. In the elections of both the houses the LDP gained a majority. Results By constituency References *About Japan Series (1999), ''Changing Japanese Politics'', No. 24, Tokyo: Foreign Press Center. *Mahendra Prakash (2004), ''Coalition Experience in Japanese Politics: 1993-2003'', New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan in 1977. Only half of the House of Councillors was up for election. The main question of this election was whether or not the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would be able to retain its hold on an absolute majority of the seats in the House of Councillors, something it has maintained since the party's founding in 1955. Early forecasts had speculated that this dramatic downturn for the LDP may have been possible, but in the end the LDP kept its razor-thin hold on majority control by having four LDP-allied independents cooperate with it. As per usual for the time, the LDP did very well in the sparsely-populated single member districts and even managed to hold its own not only in the two-member districts, but even in the more heavily urbanised three- and four-member districts which were projected to be tough wins for the LDP. The LDP's clearest struggling was in the national district, where its popular vote declined by 8.5% when compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 18 December 1983 to elect the 511 members of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives. The voter turnout was 67.94%, the lowest it had ever been in post-war history up to that point, and a low which would not be surpassed until 1993 Japanese general election, ten years later. Contrary to pre-election polls by national daily papers which projected a comfortable majority for the LDP, the latter party lost 34 seats compared to the previous election, falling six seats short of the 256 needed for majority control. As a result, the major conservative party was forced to form a majority coalition government for the first time since Katayama Cabinet, 1948. In order to do so, the LDP formed a coalition with the New Liberal Club, a move which JSP leader Masashi Ishibashi called a "betrayal of the electorate." It is likely that the LDP's losses resulted in great part due to running too many candidates and thus falling prey to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 7 July 1974, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. This election has been marked by polar opposite predictions by political commentators, some claiming that the LDP would see diasterous results following severe price inflation and the 1973 oil crisis, although as the election approached, others confidently believed the LDP would see marked success following shifts in forecasts. The results ended up somewhere in between, with the LDP falling down to 126 seats, exactly half barely holding onto a thin majority by enlisting the help of two LDP-aligned independents. The biggest winner among the opposition was the Japanese Communist Party, the only major party to see an increase in the popular vote. Its number of seats was doubled, thanks to skillful allocation of votes for specific candidates, with many JCP candidates spread equitably among the lower ranks of the national district res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 27 June 1971,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. Results By constituency Refe ...
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1968 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 7 July 1968,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats, although this marked the first House of Councillors election in the LDP's history in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 July 1965,Table 13: Persons Elected and Votes Polled by Political Parties - Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947–2004) electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats. Results By constituency Refere ...
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