# Tokushima at-large district

Tokushima at-large district (徳島県選挙区, Tokushima-ken senkyoku) was a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Tokushima Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Tokushima like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election.
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. Tokushima in predominantly rural Shikoku has for decades voted for candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) or ex-LDP conservative independents by large margins. In the landslide election of 1989 that left the LDP-led government without a majority in the House of Councillors for the first time, a so-called "twisted parliament" (nejire kokkai), Harumi Inui from RENGO trade union federation's Rengō no Kai won Tokushima against incumbent Tomoyoshi Kamanaga by a margin of 60,000 votes.
With its 641,534 registered voters (as of September 2015), it is the fourth-smallest electoral district for the house. To address the imbalance in representation between districts, a 2015 revision of the Public Officers Election Law will see the district merged with the Kochi At-large district to create the Tokushima-Kochi At-large district; this change will begin to take effect at the 2016 election, at which one Councillor will be elected.
The current Councillors for Tokushima are:
* Yusuke Nakanishi (LDP, term expires 2016)
* Toru Miki (LDP, term expires 2019)

## Elected Councillors

| class of 1947 | election year | class of 1950 |
| #1 (1947: #1, 6-year term) | election year | #1 (1947: #2, 3-year term) |
| Yojin Akazawa (Kakushin Kyōdō, "Progressive Cooperation") | 1947 | Makio Kishino (Indep.) |
| Yojin Akazawa (Kakushin Kyōdō, "Progressive Cooperation") | 1947 by-el. | Mitsu Kōro (DP) |
| Yojin Akazawa (Kakushin Kyōdō, "Progressive Cooperation") | 1950 | Mitsu Kōro (NDP) |
| Yokichirō Miki (Indep.) | 1953 | Mitsu Kōro (NDP) |
| Yokichirō Miki (Indep.) | 1956 | Mitsu Kōro (LDP) |
| Yokichirō Miki (LDP) | 1959 | Mitsu Kōro (LDP) |
| Yokichirō Miki (LDP) | 1962 | Mitsu Kōro (LDP) |
| Yokichirō Miki (LDP) | 1965 | Mitsu Kōro (LDP) |
| Yokichirō Miki (LDP) | 1968 | Kentarō Kujime (LDP) |
| Kōshō Ogasa (Indep.) | 1971 | Kentarō Kujime (LDP) |
| Kōshō Ogasa (Indep.) | 1974 | Kentarō Kujime (Indep.) |
| Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP) | 1977 | Kentarō Kujime (Indep.) |
| Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP) | 1980 | Ken Naitō (LDP) |
| Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP) | 1983 | Ken Naitō (LDP) |
| Tomoyoshi Kamenaga (LDP) | 1986 | Kōji Matsuura (LDP) |
| Harumi Inui (Rengō no Kai) | 1989 | Kōji Matsuura (LDP) |
| Harumi Inui (Rengō no Kai) | 1992 | Kōji Matsuura (LDP) |
| Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) | 1995 | Kōji Matsuura (LDP) |
| Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) | 1998 | Kiseko Takahashi (Indep.) |
| Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) | 2001 | Kiseko Takahashi (Indep.) |
| Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) | 2004 | Masakatsu Koike (LDP) |
| Tomoji Nakatani (DPJ) | 2007 | Masakatsu Koike (LDP) |
| Tomoji Nakatani (DPJ) | 2010 | Yūsuke Nakanishi (LDP) |
| Toru Miki (LDP) | 2013 | Yūsuke Nakanishi (LDP) |
| Toru Miki (LDP) | 2016 | seat to be abolished |
| seat to be abolished | 2019 | seat to be abolished |