The bills would also change the current system, in which three to six members are elected in each district, to single-seat districts.

She is the only one of them elected from a single-seat district, for all the others won proportional representation seats in Parliament, effectively given to them by their parties.

The 21 members of the House of Representatives are elected in single-seat districts in a first-past-the-post system.

The party fielded one candidate from a single-seat district while Suzuki headed a roster of three candidates for the proportional representation constituency.

But under the new system, 300 of the 500 seats will come from winner-take-all single-seat districts.

It was hoped that the smaller size of single-seat districts would also reduce the expense of staff, offices, and constituent services.

The single-seat district was restored in 1843.

Squeezing the Opposition One proposal by the governing party would have created 500 new single-seat districts.

The new political map will have 300 single-seat districts.

In the new 500-seat lower house of Parliament, the key legislative body, 300 seats will be chosen from these single-seat districts.