The is a constituency that represents

Gifu Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...

in the

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in the

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. It currently has three Councillors in the 242-member house.

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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

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Hyogo at-large district The is a constituency that represents Hyogo Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has five Councillors in the 242-member house, but this representation will increase to six by July 2019. Outline The constituenc ...

and

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districts each had more than 4 million voters but were also represented by four Councillors each. To address this

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, 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 (

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(DPJ), first term; term ends in 2016) * Yasutada Ohno (LDP, first term; term ends in 2019)

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