# Saitama at-large district

Saitama at-large district is a three-member constituency of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet of Japan. It consists of Saitama and elects three Councillors for six-year terms every three years by single non-transferable vote.
Until a reapportionment in the 1990s, effective in the 1995 and 1998 Councillors elections, Saitama was a two-member district electing a total of four Councillors.

## Recent election results

2010 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Masakazu Sekiguchi | 655,028 | 20.6 |
| | Kōmeitō | Makoto Nishida | 594,678 | 18.7 |
| | DPJ | Motohiro Ōno | 557,398 | 17.5 |
| | DPJ | Chiyako Shimada | 544,381 | 17.1 |
| | YP | Tsukasa Kobayashi | 416,663 | 13.1 |
| | JCP | Gaku Itō | 207,957 | 6.5 |
| | NRP | Kōji Nakagawa | 84,897 | 2.7 |
| | SDP | Fumihiro Himori | 72,185 | 2.3 |
| | Independent | Kōsei Hasegawa | 37,731 | 1.2 |
| | HRP | Hirotoshi Inda | 9,536 | 0.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3,246,247 | 55.83 |
2007 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Kuniko Kōda | 745,517 | 23.5 |
| | LDP | Toshiharu Furukawa | 684,270 | 21.6 |
| | DPJ | Ryūji Yamane | 665,063 | 21.0 |
| | Kōmeitō | Hiroshi Takano | 623,723 | 19.7 |
| | JCP | Sumiko Ayabe | 277,440 | 8.7 |
| | SDP | Etsuko Matsuzawa | 104,403 | 3.3 |
| | PNP | Tetsuo Sawada | 72,756 | 2.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3,227,638 | 56.35 |

## Historical Councillors elected from Saitama

| Class of 1947/1953/... | Class of 1947/1953/... | Class of 1947/1953/... | Class of 1947/1953/... | Election Year | Class of 1950/1956/... | Class of 1950/1956/... | Class of 1950/1956/... | Class of 1950/1956/... |
| #1 (1947: #1. 6 Year Term) | #2 (1947: #2, 6 Year Term) (1992: #3, 3 Year Term) | #3 | #4 | Election Year | #1 (1947: #3, 3-year term) | #2 (1947: #4, 3-year term) | #3 | #4 |
| Eizo Kobayashi (LP) | Yataro Hiranuma (LP) | | | 1947 | Katsumasa Amada (JSP) | Kazue Ishikawa (DP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (LP) | Yataro Hiranuma (LP) | | | 1950 | Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955 (JSP) | Shokichi Uehara (LP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (Yoshida LP) | Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP) | | | 1953 | Yoshio Matsunaga † 1955 (JSP) | Shokichi Uehara (LP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (Yoshida LP) | Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP) | | | 1955 by el. | Ryusaku Endo (Indep.) | Shokichi Uehara (LP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (Yoshida LP) | Katsumasa Amada (Right JSP) | | | 1956 | Yuichi Osawa # 1960 (LDP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (LDP) | Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP) | | | 1959 | Yuichi Osawa # 1960 (LDP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (LDP) | Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP) | | | 1960 by el. | Kanzo Oizumi (LDP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | | |
| Eizo Kobayashi (LDP) | Katsumasa Amada † 1965 (JSP) | | | 1962 | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Katsuji Mori (JSP) | Yoshio Tsuchiya (LDP) | | | 1965 | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Katsuji Mori (JSP) | Yoshio Tsuchiya (LDP) | | | 1968 | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Katsuji Mori (JSP) | | | 1971 | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Katsuji Mori (JSP) | | | 1974 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Juro Morita (NLC) | | | 1977 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Shokichi Uehara (LDP) | | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Juro Morita (NLC) | | | 1980 | Ryoko Nao (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Juro Morita (NLC) | | | 1983 | Ryoko Nao (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Juro Morita (NLC) | | | 1986 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Ryoko Nao (LDP) | | |
| Hajime Fukuda (JSP) | Yoshio Tsuchiya # 1992 (Indep.) | | | 1989 | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Ryoko Nao (LDP) | | |
| Hajime Fukuda (JSP) | Taizo Sato (LDP) | | | 1991 by-el. | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) | | |
| Hajime Fukuda (JSP) | Taizo Sato (LDP) | | | 1992 (including by-el.) | Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Hiroshi Takano (NFP) | Taizo Sato (LDP) | Sachiyo Abe (JCP) | | 1995 | Noriyuki Sekine (LDP) | Hideyuki Seya (JSP) | | |
| Hiroshi Takano (NFP) | Taizo Sato (LDP) | Sachiyo Abe (JCP) | | 1998 | Takujiro Hamada # 2003 (Indep.) | Renzo Togashi (JCP) | Toshio Fuji (DPJ) | |
| Taizo Sato (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Hiroshi Takano (Komeito) | Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) | | 2001 | Takujiro Hamada # 2003 (Indep.) | Renzo Togashi (JCP) | Toshio Fuji (DPJ) | |
| Taizo Sato (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Hiroshi Takano (Komeito) | Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) | | 2003 by-el. | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Renzo Togashi (JCP) | Toshio Fuji (DPJ) | |
| Taizo Sato (Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) | Hiroshi Takano (Komeito) | Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) | | 2004 | Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |
| Kuniko Koda (DPJ) | Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) | | 2007 | Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |
| Kuniko Koda (DPJ) | Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Ryuji Yamane (DPJ) | | 2010 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | Motohiro Ōno (DPJ) | |
| Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Kuniko Koda (Your Party) | | 2013 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | Motohiro Ōno (DPJ) | |
| Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Kuniko Koda (Your Party) | | 2016 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Motohiro Ōno # 2019 (DPJ) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |
| Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Hiroto Kumagai (CDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Gaku Ito (JCP) | 2019 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Motohiro Ōno # 2019 (DPJ) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |
| Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Hiroto Kumagai (CDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Gaku Ito (JCP) | 2019 by-el. | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Kiyoshi Ueda (Indepen.) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | |
| Toshiharu Furukawa (LDP) | Hiroto Kumagai (CDP) | Katsuo Yakura (Komeito) | Gaku Ito (JCP) | 2022 | Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) | Kiyoshi Ueda (Indepen.) | Makoto Nishida (Komeito) | Mari Takagi (CDP) |
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.