Niigata's Diet electoral districts

Niigata currently sends 12 elected members to the Diet of Japan, 9 to the House of Representatives and 3 to the House of Councillors. The prefecture will lose 1 Councillor to reapportionment starting 2019.

Niigata's House of Representatives districts as of 2018[1]

House of Representatives

The current House of Representatives Hokkaido delegation consists of 5 members of the LDP, 3 independents (including 1 member of the DP) and 1 CDP.

District seats

District	Representative	Party	Incumbency
1st	Chinami Nishimura (CD-Niigata City)	CDP	1 November 2017 – present
2nd	Eiichiro Washio (Ind-Tsubame)	I	1 November 2017 – present
3rd	Takahiro Kuroiwa (Ind-Shibata)	I	24 December 2014 – present
4th	Makiko Kikuta (D-Sanjō)	I (DP)	1 November 2017 – present
5th	Hirohiko Izumida (LD-Nagaoka)	LDP	1 November 2017 – present
6th	Shūichi Takatori (LD-Jōetsu)	LDP	26 December 2012 – present

PR seats

Representative	Party	District contested	Incumbency
Hiroaki Saitō (LD-Shibata)	LDP	Niigata-3rd	24 December 2014 – present
Tōru Ishizaki (LD-Niigata City)		Niigata-1st	1 November 2017 – present
Shinichi Hosoda (LD-Kashiwazaki)		Niigata-2nd	1 November 2017 – present

House of Councillors

The current House of Councillors Hokkaido delegation consists of 1 member of the CDP, 1 LDP and 1 LP. The members are elected from the Niigata at-large district.

Party	Councillors	Term ends	Incumbency
CDP	Naoki Kazama	2019	29 July 2007 – present
LDP	Ichirō Tsukada	2019	29 July 2007 – present
LP	Yūko Mori	2022	26 July 2016 – present

References

"新潟県" (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

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[1] "新潟県" (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 (4) Iwate 1 2 3 (4) Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district 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
Minami- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)
Tokyo (17 block seats, 25 district 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
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (11 block seats, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 (5)
Kinki (28 block seats, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 (4) Wakayama 1 2 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 (5) Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 (5) Okinawa 1 2 3 4
(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002, 2013 and 2017 reapportionments