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.
Current Councillors from Saitama are:
- in the class of 2016 :
- * Masakazu Sekiguchi, 4th term,
- * Makoto Nishida, 3rd term,
- * Kiyoshi Ueda, 1st term.
- in the class of 2007 :
- * Kuniko Kōda, 1st term,
- * Toshiharu Furukawa, 1st term, and
- * Ryūji Yamane, 2nd term.
Historical Councillors elected from Saitama
Party affiliations as of election day; #: resigned to run in Saitama gubernatorial election; †: died in office.
