Hyogo 8th district

Hyogo 8th district (兵庫県第8区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-hachiku), also referred to as Hyōgo hachi-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyōgo and consists of the city of Amagasaki. As of September 2015, 379,207 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 2nd district that elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, it has been represented by three people: former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former governor of Nagano Prefecture Yasuo Tanaka, and the current representative Hiromasa Nakano, who worked under Fuyushiba in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba		New Frontier Party(1996–98)	1996 – 2009
		Komeito(1998-2009)
Yasuo Tanaka		New Party Nippon	2009 – 2012
Hiromasa Nakano		Komeito	2012–present

Election results

2017[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	94,116	63.6	2.7
	Communist	Terufumi Horiuchi	53,964	36.4	-2.7
Turnout

2014[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	94,687	60.9	14.3
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	60,849	39.1	28.3
Turnout

2012[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	97,562	46.6	5.3
	New Party Nippon	Yasuo Tanaka	62,697	30.0	-12.2
	Democratic	Hideko Muroi	26,246	12.6	12.6
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	22,645	10.8	2.7
Turnout

2009[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Party Nippon	Yasuo Tanaka	106,225	42.2	42.2
	Komeito	Tstsuzo Fuyushiba	103,918	41.3	-5.0
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	20,327	8.1	-4.5
	Social Democratic	Banko Ichiki	18,770	7.5	1.6
	Happiness Realization	Tomokazu Sumide	2,532	1.0	1.0
Turnout

2005[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Tstsuzo Fuyushiba	109,957	46.3
	Democratic	Kunihiko Muroi	83,288	35.1
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	29,986	12.6
	Social Democratic	Munenori Ueda	14,019	5.9
Turnout

References

1. "平成27年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
2. "総選挙2017>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2017 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
3. "総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
4. "総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
5. "総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
6. "総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.