The is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan

Diet of Japan

The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...

. It consists of Nagasaki Prefecture

Nagasaki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. The capital is the city of Nagasaki.- History :Nagasaki Prefecture was created by merging of the western half of the former province of Hizen with the island provinces of Tsushima and Iki...

 and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post

First-past-the-post

First-past-the-post voting refers to an election won by the candidate with the most votes. The winning potato candidate does not necessarily receive an absolute majority of all votes cast.-Overview:...

 system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Nagasaki like all districts used single non-transferable vote

Single non-transferable vote

The single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used in multi-member constituency elections.- Voting :In any election, each voter casts one vote for one candidate in a multi-candidate race for multiple offices. Posts are filled by the candidates with the most votes...

 to elect both its Councillors in one election.

Th Councillors currently representing Nagasaki are:

• Yukishige Ōkubo
  Yukishige Okubo
  is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Isahaya, Nagasaki and graduate of Nagasaki University, he had served in the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture since 2003...
  
   (DPJ, Ozawa group; term ends in 2013) and
• Genjirō Kaneko
  Genjiro Kaneko
  is the governor of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. A native of Ikitsuki, Nagasaki and graduate of Keio University, he was elected governor of Nagasaki Prefecture after serving in the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture for three terms since 1975 and then in the House of Representatives in the Diet for...
  
   (LDP; term ends in 2016), former Nagasaki governor and son of former representative and agriculture minister Iwazō Kaneko.

Single-member districts (ichinin-ku) for the House of Councillors often play a decisive role for the outcome of elections as little swing in votes is required to achieve a change of the Councillors elected there. Under the 1955 System

1955 System

The was the political system that arose in Japan from 1955 to 1993.-History:After World War II, in November 1945, the major prewar conservative, moderate, and progressives had reorganized and the Japanese Communist Party had been legalized. A cabinet under the parliamentary form of government was...

 Nagasaki voted consistently for conservative candidates until the landslide election of 1989 that led to a "twisted parliament" (nejire kokkai: opposition control of the House of Councillors). Following the party realignments of the 1990s when reformist conservative and liberal parties and ultimately the Democratic Party replaced the Socialists as the main opposition to the LDP, Nagasaki became a more closely contested potential swing district.

Elected Councillors

class of 1947	election year	class of 1950
#1 (1947: #1, 6-year term)		#1 (1947: #2, 3-year term)
Shigeo Fujino (Indep.)	1947 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1947 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 20 April 1947. The Japan Socialist Party won the most seats, although independents emerged as the largest group in the House...	Takeo Shimizu (JSP) †
	1948 by-el.	Moriichi Kadoya (DP Democratic Party (1947) Democratic Party was a right-wing political party in Japan. It was founded in spring 1947 by merging the Progressive Party of Inukai Takeru with a faction of Liberal Party led by Hitoshi Ashida and obtained 124 seats in 1947 elections. The party had held seven seats in Tetsu Katayama's government... )
	1950 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1950 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 June 1950, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Party won the most seats.-Results:...	Shun'ichirō Akiyama (LP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )
Shigeo Fujino (Yoshida LP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	1953 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1953 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 24 April 1953, electing half the seats in the House. The Yoshida faction of the Liberal Party won the most seats.-Results:...
	1956 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1956 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on July 8, 1956 electing half the seats in the House plus two vacant seats in the other half. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats, but failed to win a majority...	Shun'ichirō Akiyama (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
Shigeo Fujino (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	1959 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1959 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 2 June 1959, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.-Results:...
	1962 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1962 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 1 July 1962, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.-Results:...	Kan'ichi Kubo (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... ) #
Naozō Taura (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... ) †	1965 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1965 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 4 July 1965, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.-Results:...
Tatsuhiko Tatsuta (JSP)	w/o vote
	1968 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1968 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 7 July 1968, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.-Results:...
	1970 by-el.	Takiichirō Hatsumura (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
Teiji Nakamura (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	1971 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1971 House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 27 June 1971, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.-Results:...
	1974 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1974 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.-Results:...
	1977 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1977 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1977.Note that only half of this House of Councillors was up for election. The results show the whole legislature following the elections.-Results:...
	1980 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1980 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1980. On 16 May 1980, the Japan Socialist Party 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...
Hiroshi Miyajima (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	1983 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1983 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan on 26 June 1983. The House of Councillors elections were won by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.-Results:- References :* About Japan Series , Changing Japanese Politics, No...
	1986 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1986 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1986.Note that only half of this House of Councillors was up for election. The results show the whole legislature following the elections.- References :...
Toshiko Shinozaki (JSP)	1989 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1989 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in July 1989. The election result was a setback for ruling Liberal Democratic Party because of the Recruit scandal, 3% of consumption tax issue and involvement of Prime Minister Uno Sousuke in a sex scandal. The Social Democratic...
	1992 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1992 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1992.Note that only half of this House of Councillors was up for election. The results show the whole legislature following the elections.-Results:...	Sōichirō Matsutani (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
Tadashi Taura (NFP New Frontier Party The was a Japanese political party that existed during the mid-1990s. As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate socialists to neoliberals and conservatives... )	1995 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1995 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1995.Note that because of the circumstances around the creation of the New Frontier Party, it held seats in the House of Councillors without having won them in the prior election. Many of them were former members of the...
	1998 Japanese House of Councillors election, 1998 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan in 1998.Note that because of the dissolution of the Socialist Party in 1996 , the Democratic Socialist Party and the Kōmeitō in 1994, the creation and subsequent dissolution of the New Frontier Party, the establishment of the two...
Tadashi Taura (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	2001 Japanese House of Councillors election, 2001 Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan on 29 July 2001. It was the first national election since Junichiro Koizumi was appointed as prime minister after Yoshiro Mori...
	2004	Tadashi Inuzuka Tadashi Inuzuka is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a Senator in the House of Councillors of the Diet . A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Rikkyo University and received a master's degree from the University of Dallas in the United States...  (DPJ Democratic Party of Japan The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum... )
Yukishige Ōkubo Yukishige Okubo is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Isahaya, Nagasaki and graduate of Nagasaki University, he had served in the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture since 2003...  (DPJ Democratic Party of Japan The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum... )	2007 Japanese House of Councillors election, 2007 The for the upper house of the legislature of Japan were held on July 29, 2007. This was the only time Prime Minister Shinzō Abe had faced an election...
	2010 Japanese House of Councillors election, 2010 The for the upper house of the legislature of Japan were held on July 11, 2010. In the last election in 2007, the Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority to the Democratic Party of Japan , which managed to gain the largest margin since its formation in 1996. The House of Councillors is...	Genjirō Kaneko Genjiro Kaneko is the governor of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. A native of Ikitsuki, Nagasaki and graduate of Keio University, he was elected governor of Nagasaki Prefecture after serving in the assembly of Nagasaki Prefecture for three terms since 1975 and then in the House of Representatives in the Diet for...  (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )

#: resigned for the 1970 Nagasaki gubernatorial election; †: died in office