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Toshio Masuda (politician)
is a Japanese politician and a former member of the House of Representatives. Career In 1959, Masuda was first elected to the Kumagaya City Council and served one term. In April 1967, he ran for the first time in an election for a member of the Saitama Prefectural Assembly from Kumagaya City. Since then, he has served as a member of the Saitama Prefectural Assembly for four terms, and from March 1981 to March 1982, he has also served as chairman of the Saitama Prefectural Assembly. In May 1982, he resigned as a member of the Saitama Prefectural Assembly and ran for a mayor of Kumagaya City and was elected for the first time. In June 1986, he resigned as the mayor of Kumagaya City in the middle of his second term. On the 6th of the following month, he ran as an independent from Saitama 3rd district in the 1986 Japanese general election for members of the House of Representatives, but failed. On 18 February 1990, he ran again as an independent from Saitama 3rd district in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation, and 289 are elected from single-member constituencies. The overall voting system used to elect the House of Representatives is a parallel system, a form of semi-proportional representation. Under a parallel system the allocation of list seats does not take into account the outcome in the single seat constituencies. Therefore, the overall allocation of seats in the House of Representatives is not proportional, to the advantage of larger parties. In contrast, in bodies such as the German ''Bundestag'' or the New Zealand Parliament the election of single-seat members and party list members is linked, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
