Kagoshima at-large district

Kagoshima at-large district
鹿児島県選挙区
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Councillors
Prefecture	Kagoshima
Electorate	1,319,420 (as of September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1947
Seats	2
Councillors	Class of 2019:   Hidehisa Otsuji (LDP) Class of 2022:   Tetsuro Nomura (LDP)

Kagoshima at-large district is a constituency in the House of Councillors of Japan, the upper house of the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It currently elects two members to the House of Councillors, one per election. It has, historically, similar to other 2-seat, rural prefectures, been an LDP stronghold. The last opposition member elected was before the House of Councilor seat reform, when the JSP successfully elected a candidate in 1995. The closest any party has come to defeating the LDP in the district since was 2007, when Ino Minayoshi lost by only three thousand votes. However, LDP candidates in the district have typically been kept below 50%, mainly due to LDP-infighting; Shuji Maeda took 15% of the vote in the district in 2019, which kept Otsuji below 50%, and in 2022, Ayumi Saigo took a similar amount of the vote, leading to Nomura receiving just under 50% again.