Kanagawa 18th district

Kanagawa 18th district (神奈川県第18区, Kanagawa-ken dai-jyūhakku or 神奈川18区, Kanagawa jyūhakku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in western Kawasaki. The district consists of the wards of Takatsu, Miyamae and Nakahara. As of December 1, 2020, 449,625 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Kanagawa 18th district
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of inner Kanagawa single-member districts
PrefectureKanagawa
Proportional DistrictSouthern Kanto
Electorate449,625 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created2002
SeatsOne
PartyLiberal Democratic
RepresentativeDaishirō Yamagiwa
Created fromKanagawa 8th, 9th, 10th district
MunicipalitiesTakatsu, parts of Miyamae and Nakahara wards in Kawasaki

In 2003, the first election since the establishment of this electoral district, Takkeshi Hidaka of the Democratic Party was elected, and Daishirō Yamagiwa of the Liberal Democratic Party was proportionally restored. Since then, he has alternated between Yamagiwa in 2005 and Hidaka in 2009, but since 2012, Yamagiwa has continued to be elected.

List of members representing the district
Member Party Dates Electoral history Notes
Takeshi Hidaka Democratic November 10, 2003 –
August 8, 2005		 Redistricted from the 7th district and Re-elected in 2003.
Lost re-election.		 Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block.
Daishirō Yamagiwa Liberal Democratic September 12, 2005 –
July 21, 2009		 Re-elected in 2005.
Lost re-election.		 Elected in 2003 by the Southern Kanto PR block.
Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block.
Takeshi Hidaka Democratic August 31, 2009 –
July 11, 2012		 Elected in 2009.
Lost re-election.		 Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block.
Tomorrow July 11, 2012 –
November 16, 2012
Daishirō Yamagiwa Liberal Democratic December 17, 2012 –
present		 Elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2017.		 Incumbent

Election results

2017 • 2014 • 2012 • 2009 • 2005 • 2003

2017
2017 Japanese general election[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Daishirō Yamagiwa 111,285 51.1
Kibō Kazuya Mimura 66,057 30.4
Communist Yasuhisa Wakabayashi 40,252 18.5
Total votes 217,594 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2014
2014 Japanese general election[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Daishirō Yamagiwa 86,869 40.0
Future Generations Hiroshi Nakada 59,138 27.2
Innovation Itaru Kitamura 26,691 12.3
Communist Yoshio Shioda 24,616 11.3
People's Life Takeshi Hidaka 20,105 9.2
Total votes 217,419 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2012
2012 Japanese general election[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Daishirō Yamagiwa 82,333 40.9
Your Jirō Funakawa 43,873 21.8
Democratic Shinsuke Amiya 34,205 17.0
Tomorrow Takeshi Hidaka 25,279 12.5
Communist Masako Yamazaki 15,514 7.7
Total votes 201,204 100.0
Liberal Democratic gain from Tomorrow

2009
2009 Japanese general election[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Takeshi Hidaka 110,239 48.8
Liberal Democratic Daishirō Yamagiwa 82,221 36.4
Communist Hiroyuki Muneta 15,832 7.0
Your Kōtarō Fujisaki 14,325 6.3
Happiness Realization Hiroko Tōyama 3,209 1.4
Total votes 225,826 100.0

2005
2005 Japanese general election[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Daishirō Yamagiwa 111,787 53.7
Democratic Takeshi Hidaka 77,877 37.4
Communist Hiroyuki Muneta 18,345 8.8
Total votes 208,009 100.0
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2003
2003 Japanese general election[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Takeshi Hidaka 64,879 38.0
Liberal Democratic Daishirō Yamagiwa (elected by PR) 58,001 33.9
Independent Eiichi Ogawa 15,136 8.9
Independent Keiko Hirata 13,267 7.8
Communist Hiroyuki Muneta 13,084 7.7
Social Democratic Hideaki Takemura 5,610 3.3
Independent Yukio Anzai 875 0.5
Total votes 170,852 100.0

References
  1. "選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registered voters]. Kanagawa Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2020.
  2. 神奈川18区. NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. 神奈川18区. NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  4. 神奈川18区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  5. 神奈川18区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  6. 神奈川18区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  7. 神奈川18区

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