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The Tottori at-large district (Japanese: 鳥取県全県区, Hepburn: Tottori-ken Zenken-ku) was an electoral district represented in the House of Representatives in the National Diet of Japan. From 1947 until 1993, it elected four representatives from Tottori Prefecture.

History

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In the 1947 Japanese general election, the Japan Socialist Party was the only party to have two winning candidates for the district, while the Liberal Party and Tottori Prefectural Farmers' Union had one each.[1] For the next four elections until the 1955 Japanese general election, most of the winning candidates would come from parties that would eventually merge into the Liberal Democratic Party; the only two exceptions were Kaku Ashika [ja] and Itaru Yonehara [ja], who were elected to the district for left-wing parties.[1] Starting with the 1958 Japanese general election, the LDP would hold at least half of the district's seats for the rest of the district's existence.[1] Ashika, Bun Takebe [ja], and Koken Nosaka being the only representatives elected from the district without any affiliation with the LDP.[1]

At the time the Public Offices Election Law [ja] came into law in 1950, the district encompassed the entirely of Tottori Prefecture.[2]

Due to the 1994 Japanese electoral reform, the at-large district was replaced with two single-member districts starting with the 1996 Japanese general election.[3]

Results

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1947[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Naomichi Inada [ja] 37,540 16.7 New
Socialist Hideo Shōji [ja] 35,704 15.9 New
Other Jitsuzō Horie [ja] 31,946 14.2 New
Socialist Shizuo Kajikawa [ja] 30,325 13.5 New
Liberal Katsutarō Kadowaki [ja] 29,036 12.9 New
Other Shōzō Matsuda 22,432 10.0 New
National Cooperative Tatsu Tanaka 13,596 6.0 New
JCP Itaru Yonehara [ja] 11,751 5.2 New
Socialist Toyokichi Fujii 6,314 2.8 New
Other Gorō Ikegami 3,585 1.6 New
Other Hikozō Yuhara 2,316 1.0 New
1949[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JCP Itaru Yonehara [ja] 43,654 17.0 11.8
Democratic Liberal Naomichi Inada [ja] 39,805 15.5 New
Democratic Liberal Katsutarō Kadowaki [ja] 39,244 15.3 New
Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 35,779 14.0 −1.9
Labourers and Farmers Jitsuzō Horie [ja] 28,792 11.2 New
Democratic Liberal Yūji Tejima 26,501 10.3 New
Socialist Hideo Shōji [ja] 18,094 7.1 −6.4
Socialist Shizuo Kajikawa 17,300 6.7 3.9
Pro-American Benevolent Workers' Party Reiko Gotō 3,563 1.4 New
Democratic Yukito Uchida 1,977 0.8 New
Japan Social Reform Party Gorō Ikegami 1,745 0.7 New
1952[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Left Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 43,369 14.8 New
Liberal Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 43,278 14.7 New
Liberal Masami Nakata [ja] 41,223 14.7 New
Kaishintō Yoshimi Furui [ja] 39,817 13.6 New
Japan Reconstruction Federation Hideyuki Miyoshi [ja] 32,468 11.1 New
Independent Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 29,544 10.1 New
Liberal Katsutarō Kadowaki [ja] 28,446 9.7 New
Liberal Naomichi Inada [ja] 12,552 4.3 New
Liberal Yūji Tejima 11,398 3.9 New
JCP Itaru Yonehara [ja] 7,920 2.7 −14.3
Independent Moriya Hatashin 3,741 1.3 New
1953[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Left Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 48,276 17.1 2.3
Kaishintō Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 45,227 16.0 2.5
Liberal Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 42,604 15.1 0.4
Kaishintō Yoshimi Furui [ja] 42,517 15.1 New
Liberal Masami Nakata [ja] 41,399 14.6 −0.1
Liberal Katsutarō Kadowaki [ja] 30,316 10.7 1.0
Left Socialist Kanji Morimoto 19,864 7.0 New
JCP Itaru Yonehara [ja] 6,664 2.4 −0.3
Independent Moriya Hatashin 5,597 2.0 0.7
1955[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshimi Furui [ja] 62,538 21.9 New
Left Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 59,564 20.8 3.7
Democratic Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 54,128 18.9 New
Liberal Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 49,545 17.3 2.2
Right Socialist Toshitada Nakanishi 33,481 11.7 New
Independent Moriya Hatashin 14,483 5.1 3.1
JCP Itaru Yonehara [ja] 12,197 4.3 1.9
1958[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 56,529 19.1 −1.7
LDP Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 56,452 19.1 New
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 54,132 18.3 New
Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 45,999 15.5 New
Socialist Toshitada Nakanishi 41,216 13.9 New
Independent Katsutarō Kadowaki [ja] 18,832 6.4 New
Independent Moriya Hatashin 9,132 3.1 −2.0
Independent Naomichi Inada [ja] 5,936 2.0 New
JCP Ichiji Kawake 4,634 1.6 −2.7
Independent Akira Umebayashi 3,113 1.1 New
1960[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 75,927 26.1 12.2
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 66,989 23.0 3.9
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 61,551 21.2 2.1
LDP Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 55,699 19.2 0.9
Democratic Socialist Toshitada Nakanishi 23,564 8.1 New
JCP Ichiji Kawake 6,928 2.4 0.8
1963[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 60,804 20.7 −2.3
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 60,277 20.5 −0.7
LDP Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 57,897 19.7 0.5
Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 57,380 19.5 −6.6
Democratic Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 50,937 17.3 9.2
JCP Minoru Ishio 6,737 2.3 −0.1
1967[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 64,002 25.6 6.1
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 59,180 23.7 3.0
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 56,422 22.6 2.1
LDP Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 54,385 21.8 2.1
Socialist Kaku Ashika [ja] 54,262 21.7 New
JCP Toshitomo Takeuchi 6,424 2.6 0.3
1969[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 65,582 20.5 −3.2
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 64,638 20.2 −2.4
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 45,635 14.3 −7.5
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 43,798 13.7 −11.9
Kōmeitō Tomomasa Kawakami 41,285 12.9 New
Socialist Yoshio Nakata [ja] 32,295 10.1 −11.7
Independent Isao Akihisa 19,351 6.0 New
JCP Minoru Ishio 7,296 2.3 −0.3
1972[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 61,431 18.3 −2.2
LDP Masamichi Akazawa [ja] 55,584 16.5 −3.7
Independent Yasuo Shimada [ja] 54,373 16.2 New
Socialist Koken Nosaka 53,192 15.8 2.1
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 49,106 14.6 4.5
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 47,511 14.1 −0.2
JCP Taizō Tanaka 15,153 4.5 2.2
1976[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 59,328 16.2 −2.1
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 58,128 15.8 −0.7
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 53,990 14.7 −1.1
Socialist Koken Nosaka 49,594 13.5 −1.1
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 46,571 12.7 −1.4
LDP Yasuo Shimada [ja] 42,089 11.5 New
Kōmeitō Kenji Yamazaki 40,898 11.1 New
JCP Taizō Tanaka 11,980 3.3 −1.2
Independent Shinzō Koga 4,290 1.2 New
1979[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 64,080 17.8 1.6
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 60,753 16.9 1.1
Socialist Koken Nosaka 60,705 16.9 2.2
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 57,575 16.0 2.5
LDP Jitsuzō Tokuyasu [ja] 53,978 15.0 2.3
LDP Yasuo Shimada [ja] 47,759 13.3 1.8
JCP Shūichi Itani 12,830 3.6 0.3
Independent Yukihiro Tanaka 1,539 0.4 New
1980[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 71,217 19.9 2.1
Socialist Koken Nosaka 63,847 17.8 0.9
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 63,735 17.8 1.8
LDP Yoshimi Furui [ja] 63,701 17.8 0.9
LDP Yasuo Shimada [ja] 59,164 16.5 1.5
Independent Takayoshi Tsuneda [ja] 23,495 6.6 New
JCP Shūichi Itani 12,683 3.5 −0.1
1983[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yasuo Shimada [ja] 80,406 22.7 2.8
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 67,603 19.1 1.3
LDP Kōzō Hirabayashi [ja] 67,054 18.9 1.1
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 66,121 18.7 2.2
Socialist Koken Nosaka 61,752 17.4 −0.4
JCP Mutsumi Yasuda 8,935 2.5 −1.0
Independent Shigenori Uchita 2,081 0.6 New
1986[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kōzō Hirabayashi [ja] 71,015 18.6 −4.1
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 69,933 18.3 −0.6
Socialist Koken Nosaka 66,067 17.3 −1.8
LDP Shigeru Ishiba 56,534 14.8 −3.9
Kōmeitō Nobutaka Kumagai 51,632 13.5 New
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 46,917 12.3 −5.1
Independent Mitsuru Shimada 11,307 3.0 New
JCP Mutsumi Yasuda 8,097 2.1 −0.4
1990[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shigeru Ishiba 82,169 21.5 2.9
Socialist Koken Nosaka 75,439 19.8 2.5
Socialist Bun Takebe [ja] 75,112 19.7 7.4
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 71,354 18.7 0.4
LDP Kōzō Hirabayashi [ja] 66,345 17.4 2.6
JCP Naoyuki Iwanaga 8,332 2.2 0.1
Independent Toyoaki Nakanishi 1,829 0.5 New
Independent Shigenori Uchita 900 0.2 −0.4
1993[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Shigeru Ishiba 137,025 40.4 New
LDP Kōzō Hirabayashi [ja] 69,508 20.5 −1.0
Socialist Koken Nosaka 59,497 17.5 −2.3
LDP Hideyuki Aizawa [ja] 48,793 14.4 −4.3
JCP Yasuko Sasaki 24,579 7.2 5.0
Turnout 467,413 73.7

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Election results:
  2. ^ 別表第一 (100) (in Japanese). House of Representatives. 15 April 1950. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  3. ^ 別表第一 (104) (in Japanese). House of Representatives. 25 November 1994. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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