Tokyo 8th district
Tōkyō 8th district (東京都第8区, Tōkyō-to dai-hachiku or simply 東京8区, Tōkyō-hachiku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in the most populous part of Tōkyō Metropolis, and covers the metropolis's Suginami Ward. The district was created in 1994 as part of an electoral reform effort in the Japanese House of Representatives, and was first implemented in the 1996 general election.
Tōkyō 8th District | |
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Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
Numbered map of single-member districts located in Tōkyō Metropolis's 23 wards | |
Prefecture | Tōkyō Metropolis |
Proportional District | Tōkyō |
Electorate | 469,285 (2015)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1994 |
Seats | One |
Party | LDP |
Representative | Nobuteru Ishihara |
Created from | Tōkyō's 4th "medium-sized" district |
Municipalities | Tōkyō's Suginami Ward |
As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.[2]
Before a series of electoral reforms in 1994, Suginami Ward had been part of Tōkyō 4th district, where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
The only representative for the 8th district since its creation has been Nobuteru Ishihara (LDP, currently Ishihara faction), the son of former environment minister and Governor of Tōkyō Shintarō Ishihara (JRP, formerly LDP, Ishihara, then Fukuda faction).
List of representatives
Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
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Nobuteru Ishihara | LDP | 1996–present | ||
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 116,193 | 47.56 | ||
Democratic | Yoriko Madoka (endorsed by PLP) | 73,348 | 30.02 | ||
Communist | Shingo Sawada | 37,788 | 15.47 | ||
Independent | Tatsuo Suzuki | 16,981 | 6.95 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 132,521 | 46.9 | ||
Independent | Tarō Yamamoto (endorsed by SDP, TPJ) | 71,028 | 25.2 | ||
Democratic | Yoriko Madoka | 54,881 | 19.4 | ||
Communist | Masatake Jōho | 23,961 | 8.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 147,514 | 49.9 | ||
Social Democratic | Nobuto Hosaka (endorsed by DPJ, PNP) | 116,723 | 39.5 | ||
Communist | Shunji Sawada | 24,965 | 8.5 | ||
Happiness Realization | Seiichi Ueta | 6,132 | 2.1 | ||
Turnout | 301,928 | 65.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara | 161,966 | 57.3 | ||
Democratic | Morio Suzuki | 94,074 | 33.3 | ||
Communist | Shunji Sawada | 26,819 | 9.5 | ||
Turnout | 288,840 | 64.61 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP) | 136,429 | 55.0 | ||
Democratic | Morio Suzuki | 78,007 | 31.4 | ||
Communist | Shunji Sawada | 17,572 | 7.1 | ||
Social Democratic | Akiko Sugiyama | 16,156 | 6.5 | ||
Turnout | 254,314 | 57.39 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP) | 105,779 | 43.7 | ||
Democratic | Mitsuyo Katayama | 77,132 | 31.8 | ||
Communist | Kazuko Yamazaki | 36,546 | 15.1 | ||
Independent | Hidenori Hasegawa | 22,799 | 9.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara | 74,856 | 32.7 | ||
New Frontier | Hiroshi Yamada | 67,670 | 29.5 | ||
Communist | Kazuyoshi Hatta | 40,677 | 17.8 | ||
Democratic | Seijun Murata | 37,598 | 16.4 | ||
Independent | Takeshi Tsuji | 8,324 | 3.6 | ||
Turnout | 234,869 | 55.64 |
References
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
- "Data Sets". Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 February 2013.
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