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Okinawa's House of Representatives districts as of 2018

Okinawa currently sends 8 elected members to the Diet of Japan, 6 to the House of Representatives and 2 to the House of Councillors.

House of Representatives

The current House of Representatives Okinawa delegation consists of 2 members of the LDP, 1 JCP, 1 SDP, 1 LP and 1 NIK.

District seats

District Representative Party Incumbency
1st Seiken Akamine (C-Naha) JCP 15 December 2014 – present
2nd Kunio Arakaki (SD-Ginowan) SDP 3 November 2021 – present
3rd Aiko Shimajiri (LD-Okinawa City) LDP 3 November 2021 – present
4th Kōsaburō Nishime (LD-Haebaru) LDP 1 November 2017 – present

PR seats

Okinawa Prefecture is part of the Kyushu proportional representation block. In the current Diet, there are two Representatives from Okinawa elected through the Kyushu PR block.

Representative(s) Party District contested Incumbency
Kōnosuke Kokuba (LD-Naha) LDP Okinawa-1st 15 December 2014 – present
Masahisa Miyazaki (LD-Ginowan) LDP Okinawa-2nd 22 November 2018 – present

House of Councillors

The current House of Councillors Okinawa delegation consists of 2 independent members. Both are members of the Okinawa Whirlwind caucus in the House. The members are elected from the Okinawa at-large district.

Party Councillors Term ends Incumbency
OW Yōichi Iha 2022 26 July 2016 – present
Tetsuo Takara 2025 29 July 2019 – present

References

  1. "沖縄県" (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd
Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō
Block
8 seats
Hokkaidō
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Tōhoku
Block
12 seats
Aomori
1
2
3
Iwate
1
2
3
Miyagi
1
2
3
4
5
Akita
1
2
3
Yamagata
1
2
3
Fukushima
1
2
3
4
Kita- (North) Kantō
Block
19 seats
Ibaraki
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Tochigi
1
2
3
4
5
Gunma
1
2
3
4
5
Saitama
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Minami- (South) Kantō
Block
23 seats
Chiba
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Kanagawa
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Yamanashi
1
2
Tokyo
Block
19 seats
Tokyo
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu
Block
10 seats
Niigata
1
2
3
4
5
Toyama
1
2
3
Ishikawa
1
2
3
Fukui
1
2
Nagano
1
2
3
4
5
Tōkai
Block
21 seats
Gifu
1
2
3
4
5
Shizuoka
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Aichi
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Mie
1
2
3
4
Kinki
Block
28 seats
Shiga
1
2
3
Kyoto
1
2
3
4
5
6
Osaka
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Hyōgo
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Nara
1
2
3
Wakayama
1
2
Chūgoku
Block
10 seats
Tottori
1
2
Shimane
1
2
Okayama
1
2
3
4
Hiroshima
1
2
3
4
5
6
Yamaguchi
1
2
3
Shikoku
Block
6 seats
Tokushima
1
2
Kagawa
1
2
3
Ehime
1
2
3
Kōchi
1
2
Kyūshū
Block
20 seats
Fukuoka
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Saga
1
2
Nagasaki
1
2
3
Kumamoto
1
2
3
4
Ōita
1
2
3
Miyazaki
1
2
3
Kagoshima
1
2
3
4
Okinawa
1
2
3
4
Eliminated districts
Eliminiated in 2002
Hokkaido 13
Yamagata 4
Shizuoka 9
Shimane 3
Oita 4
Eliminiated in 2013
Fukui 3
Yamanashi 3
Tokushima 3
Kochi 3
Saga 3
Eliminiated in 2017
Aomori 4
Iwate 4
Mie 5
Nara 4
Kumamoto 5
Kagoshima 5
Eliminiated in 2022
Miyagi 6
Fukushima 5
Niigata 6
Shiga 4
Wakayama 3
Okayama 5
Hiroshima 7
Yamaguchi 4
Ehime 4
Nagasaki 4
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