Aichi 5th district

Aichi 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Aichi Prefecture and consists of Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards, the cities of Kiyosu and Kitanagoya and the Nishikasugai district. As of 2016, 428,423 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] The current representative of this district is Vice Speaker Hirotaka Akamatsu of the Constitutional Democratic Party.

Aichi 5th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Aichi Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureAichi
Proportional DistrictTōkai
Electorate428,423 (2016)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyConstitutional Democratic Party
RepresentativeHirotaka Akamatsu
Created fromAichi's 1st, 2nd and 6th "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesNagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards
Cities of Kiyosu and Kitanagoya
Nishikasugai District

Nagoya is considered a "Democratic kingdom" (minshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). But Aichi's 5th district is the only electoral district in Nagoya (Aichi 1 to 5) that also contains areas outside Nagoya. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005, it became the first district in Nagoya that the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could win since the introduction of single-member districts in 1996: Liberal Democrat Takahide Kimura won narrowly against the Democratic incumbent Akamatsu who was then only reelected in the Tōkai proportional representation block. Akamatsu had represented Aichi's 5th district since 1996 and regained the seat in the 2009 general election. He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Hatoyama Cabinet. In 2012, he lost the district by less than 2,000 votes to Liberal Democrat Kenji Kanda. Akamatsu regained the district in 2014 and has held it until the present.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 1996 – 2005 Won in the PR block
Takahide Kimura LDP 2005 – 2009 Retired
Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 2009 – 2012 Won in the PR block
Kenji Kanda LDP 2012 – 2014 Won in the PR block
Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 2014 – 2016 Incumbent
DP 2016 – 2017
CDP 2017 –

Election results
2017[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Constitutional Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu 91,081 46.49 1.96
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 72,651 37.08 0.78
Kibō Naoaki Nonobe (endorsed by Genzei Nippon) 32,179 16.43 N/A
Majority 18,430 9.41
Turnout 46.88 0.60
Constitutional Democratic hold Swing 1.37
2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (endorsed by the Greens) 84,226 44.53 13.42
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda (elected by PR) 71,616 37.86 5.89
Communist Hiroki Fujii 23,069 12.20 4.49
Future Generations Shōichi Yasuda 10,231 5.41 N/A
Majority 12,610 6.57
Turnout 47.28 5.41
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing 3.77
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda 67,218 31.97 2.88
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (elected by PR, endorsed by PNP) 65,423 31.11 29.88
Restoration Ken'ichi Koyama (endorsed by YP) 37,806 17.98 N/A
Tomorrow Yūkichi Maeda (endorsed by NPD) 23,609 11.23 N/A
Communist Hiroki Fujii 16,206 7.71 N/A
Majority 1,795 0.86
Turnout 52.69 10.9
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing 13.50
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (endorsed by PNP) 158,235 61.99 17.54
Liberal Democratic Mutsumi Teranishi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 88,964 34.85 13.47
Happiness Realization Tomoko Yoshida 8,042 3.15 N/A
Majority 69,271 27.14
Turnout 261,917 63.6 2.0
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing 15.51
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Takahide Kimura 117,017 48.32
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (elected by PR) 107,605 44.45
Communist Akemi Kawae 17,523 7.23
Turnout 246,842 61.6
2003[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate) 104,346
LDP Takahide Kimura (PR candidate) 90,668
JCP Hiroyuki Egami 16,255
Turnout 217,109 54.7
2000[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate) 82,943
LDP Takahide Kimura (PR candidate) 64,970
JCP Asako Kodama 21,516
LL Takayoshi Itō 2,274
1996[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate) 48,648
LDP Takahide Kimura (PR candidate) 46,485
NFP Yutaka Banno 43,028
JCP Tadahiro Nagatomo 17,670
Independent Tsutomu Suzuki 768
Japan Nation Party Minoru Ichikawa 470
Culture forum (Bunka fōramu) Takao Uchiyama 335

References
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
  2. 小選挙区開票速報：愛知県（定数15）. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. 小選挙区：愛知県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  4. 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：愛知県. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  5. 小選挙区開票結果ー愛知県７区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  6. ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー愛知県５区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  7. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  8. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  9. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2010-05-03.

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