Okinawa's Diet electoral districts

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

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

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	Kantoku Teruya (SD-Ginowan)	SDP	10 November 2003 – present
3rd	Vacant		13 September 2018 – 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
Mikio Shimoji (Is-Naha)	NIK	Okinawa-1st	15 December 2014 – present

House of Councillors

The current House of Councillors Hokkaido 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	Keiko Itokazu	2019	26 July 2004 – present
OW	Yōichi Iha	2022	26 July 2016 – present
		2022

References

"沖縄県" (PDF). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Retrieved 3 February 2018.

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[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 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 PR block seats, 12 FPTP district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku (13 PR block seats, 23 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 32 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 33 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 25 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 19 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 32 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 47 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 20 FPTP 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 PR block seats, 11 FPTP district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)
Kyūshū (20 PR block seats, 35 FPTP 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