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

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 and Itaru Yonehara, 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, 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 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

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Election results:
  2. ↑ "別表第一". Act No. 100 of 15 April 1950 (in Japanese). House of Representatives. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "別表第一". Act No. 104 of 25 November 1994 (in Japanese). House of Representatives. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
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