Tokyo proportional representation block
The Tōkyō proportional representation block (Hirei [daihyō] Tōkyō burokku (比例[代表]東京ブロック)), or more formally the proportional representation tier "Tokyo Metropolis electoral district" (東京都選挙区, Tōkyō-to senkyo-ku), is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) "blocks", multi-member constituencies for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists solely of the prefecture of Tokyo making it one of two blocks covering only one prefecture, the other being Hokkaido. Following the introduction of proportional voting Tokyo elected 19 representatives by PR in the 1996 general election, and 17 since the election of 2000 when the total number of PR seats was reduced from 200 to 180.
| Tokyo Proportional Representation Block | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
 Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with an arrow pointing to the Tokyō block | |
| Prefecture | Tokyo |
| Electorate | 11,385,086 |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Seats | 17 |
| Representatives | 17 (LDP-6, CDP-4, Hope-3, Komeito-2,JCP-2) |
Summary of results
Beyond remote parts of Western Tokyo on the mainland and the Izu and Ogasawara islands, Tokyo's population is concentrated in urban and suburban areas. Reformist and left-of-center parties have usually won a majority of votes and seats. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005 though, the LDP won a record 2.6 million votes in Tokyo; it would have received eight seats but hadn't nominated enough candidates: Of its 30 PR list candidates, 24 concurrently ran in single-member districts as dual candidates; 23 won their district races, leaving only a total of seven list candidates to be elected by PR. One seat went to the SDP as it would have been assigned a hypothetical, 18th seat under the d'Hondt method.
| general election | LDP | DPJ/ CDP ('17) |
Komeito | JCP | SDP | NFP ('96)/LP ('00)/ TPJ ('12)/PLP ('14) |
YP/ Kibō ('17) | JRP ('12)/JIP ('14)/ JRP ('17) |
Others | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |
| 1996 | 1,398,791 | 27.0 | 5 | 1,213,677 | 23.4 | 5 | – | 923,764 | 17.8 | 3 | 280,391 | 5.4 | 1 | 1,275,432 | 24.6 | 5 | – | – | 94,073 | 1.8 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1,110,177 | 19.5 | 4 | 1,653,045 | 29.0 | 6 | 726,203 | 12.7 | 2 | 817,045 | 14.3 | 2 | 377,230 | 6.6 | 1 | 776,018 | 13.6 | 2 | – | – | 236,919 | 4.2 | 0 | ||||
| 2003 | 1,867,544 | 32.5 | 6 | 2,291,124 | 39.9 | 8 | 805,640 | 14.0 | 2 | 532,376 | 9.3 | 1 | 247,103 | 4.3 | 0 | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| 2005 | 2,665,417 | 40.2 | (8→)7 | 1,962,225 | 29.6 | 6 | 820,126 | 12.4 | 2 | 586,017 | 8.8 | 1 | 300,782 | 4.5 | (0→)1 | – | – | – | 290,027 | 4.4 | 0 | ||||||
| 2009 | 1,764,696 | 25.5 | 5 | 2,839,081 | 41.0 | 8 | 717,199 | 10.4 | 2 | 665,462 | 9.6 | 1 | 299,032 | 4.3 | 0 | – | 419,903 | 6.1 | 1 | – | 222,094 | 3.2 | 0 | ||||
| 2012 | 1,626,057 | 24.9 | 5 | 1,008,011 | 15.4 | 3 | 662,743 | 10.1 | 2 | 484,365 | 7.4 | 1 | 136,889 | 2.1 | 0 | 448,689 | 6.9 | 1 | 762,730 | 11.7 | 2 | 1,298,309 | 19.9 | 3 | 109,814 | 1.7 | 0 |
| 2014[1] | 1,847,986 | 32.1 | 6 | 939,795 | 16.3 | 3 | 700,127 | 12.1 | 2 | 885,927 | 15.4 | 3 | 129,992 | 2.3 | 0 | 156,170 | 2.7 | 0 | – | 816,047 | 14.2 | 3 | 287,352 | 5.0 | 0 | ||
| 2017[2] | 1,816,184 | 30.5 | 6 | 1,405,836 | 23.6 | 4 | 644,634 | 10.8 | 2 | 618,332 | 10.4 | 2 | 56,732 | 1.0 | 0 | – | 1,039,647 | 17.4 | 3 | 198,127 | 3.3 | 0 | 181,483 | 3.0 | 0 | ||
Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, English name):
- DPJ "Democratic Party", Minshutō, Democratic Party of Japan
- LDP Liberal Democratic Party, Jiyūminshutō
- Kōmeitō "Justice Party", Kōmeitō, Komeito
- JCP Japanese Communist Party, Nihon Kyōsantō
- SDP Social Democratic Party, Shakaiminshutō
- NFP New Frontier Party, Shinshintō
- LP Liberal Party, Jiyūtō
- YP "Everybody's Party", Minna no Tō, Your Party
- NSP New Socialist Party, Shin-shakaitō
- LL Liberal League, Jiyū-rengō
- IC "Assembly of Independents", Mushozoku no Kai, Independents' Club
- SP Socialist Party, Shakaitō
- CP Conservative Party, Hoshutō
- NPN New Party Nippon, Shintō Nippon
- PNP People's New Party, Kokumin Shintō
- HRP Happiness Realization Party, Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō
List of representatives
Note: Party affiliations as of election day.
Election result 2009
| LDP: 1,764,696 votes (25.5%), 5 seats | DPJ: 2,839,081 votes (41.0%), 8 seats | Kōmeitō: 717,199 votes (10.4%), 2 seats | ||||||||||||
| # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" (sekihairitsu) | Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ichirō Kamoshita | Tokyo 13 | 97.3% | Elected | 1 | Kumiko Hayakawa | Tokyo 17 | 77.1% | Elected | 1 | Yōsuke Takagi | PR only | Elected | |
| Masaaki Taira | Tokyo 4 | 93.5% | Elected | Banri Kaieda | Tokyo 1 | Won district | 2 | Michiyo Takagi | Elected | |||||
| Kaoru Yosano | Tokyo 1 | 91.7% | Elected | Yoshikatsu Nakayama | Tokyo 2 | Won district | 3 | Tomio Yoshida | – | |||||
| Yuriko Koike | Tokyo 10 | 91.6% | Elected | Jin Matsubara | Tokyo 3 | Won district | 4 | Isoroku Endō | – | |||||
| Isshū Sugawara | Tokyo 9 | 89.9% | Elected | Norihiko Fujita | Tokyo 4 | Won district | JCP: 665,462 votes (9.6%), 1 seat | |||||||
| Nobuteru Ishihara | Tokyo 8 | Won district | Yoshio Tezuka | Tokyo 5 | Won district | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | ||||
| Hakubun Shimomura | Tokyo 11 | Won district | Yōko Komiyama | Tokyo 6 | Won district | 1 | Akira Kasai | PR only | Elected | |||||
| Katsuei Hirasawa | Tokyo 17 | Won district | Akira Nagatsuma | Tokyo 7 | Won district | 2 | Tomoyuki Tanigawa | – | ||||||
| Shinji Inoue | Tokyo 25 | Won district | Takatane Kiuchi | Tokyo 9 | Won district | 3 | Mariko Ikeda | Tokyo 20 | (23.1%) | – | ||||
| Midori Matsushima | Tokyo 14 | 84.6% | – | Takako Ebata | Tokyo 10 | Won district | 4 | Michinobu Tokutome | Tokyo 11 | (31.1%) | – | |||
| Kōichi Hagiuda | Tokyo 24 | 81.9% | – | Ai Aoki | Tokyo 12 | Won district | SDP: 299,032 votes (4.3%), no seat | |||||||
| Yukari Satō | Tokyo 5 | 81.0% | – | Tairō Hirayama | Tokyo 13 | Won district | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | |||
| Ben Kimura | Tokyo 15 | 76.1% | – | Taketsuka Kimura | Tokyo 14 | Won district | 1 | Nobuto Hosaka | Tokyo 8 | (79.1%) | – | |||
| Tatsuya Itō | Tokyo 22 | 75.7% | – | Shōzō Azuma | Tokyo 15 | Won district | 2 | Ikkei Ikeda | PR only | – | ||||
| Hirotaka Ishihara | Tokyo 3 | 74.3% | – | Akihiro Hatsushika | Tokyo 16 | Won district | YP: 419,903 votes (6.1%), 1 seat | |||||||
| Seiji Kihara | Tokyo 20 | 70.2% | – | Naoto Kan | Tokyo 18 | Won district | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | |||
| Kōsuke Itō | Tokyo 23 | 64.4% | – | Yoshinori Suematsu | Tokyo 19 | Won district | 1 | Mito Kakizawa | Tokyo 15 | (36.9%) | Elected | |||
| Yōhei Matsumoto | Tokyo 19 | 62.0% | – | Kōichi Katō | Tokyo 20 | Won district | NPN: 100,381 votes (1.4%), no seat | |||||||
| Takao Ochi | Tokyo 6 | 59.0% | – | Akihisa Nagashima | Tokyo 21 | Won district | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | |||
| Yūichi Ogawa | Tokyo 21 | 55.9% | – | Ikuo Yamahana | Tokyo 22 | Won district | 1 | Yoshifu Arita | Tokyo 11 | (97.0%) | – | |||
| Masatada Tsuchiya | Tokyo 18 | 54.0% | – | Mari Kushibuchi | Tokyo 23 | Won district | 2 | Yūichi Gotō | PR only | – | ||||
| Fumiaki Matsumoto | Tokyo 7 | 47.4% | – | Yukihiko Akutsu | Tokyo 24 | Won district | HRP: 35,667 votes (0.5%), no seat | |||||||
| 23 | Kenji Wakamiya | PR only | – | 23 | Mitsuaki Takeda | PR only | Elected | # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | ||
| 24 | Jun'ichirō Yasui | – | 24 | Eiko Ishige | Elected | 1 | Zuishō Motochikawa | PR only | – | |||||
| 25 | Kazuo Aichi | – | 25 | Kōki Kobayashi | Elected | 2 | Dr. NakaMats | – | ||||||
| 26 | Masaaki Kuniyasu | – | 26 | Kōichi Yoshida | Elected | 3 | Juninosuke Kawaguchi | – | ||||||
| 27 | Hideo Ōnishi | – | 27 | Tomotarō Kawashima | Elected | 4 | Fumiya Satō | – | ||||||
| 28 | Kazuo Ishida | – | 28 | Hirosato Nakatsugawa | Elected | 5 | Tadahiko Saitō | – | ||||||
| PNP: 86,046 votes (1.2%), 0 seats | 29 | Kōichirō Watanabe | Elected | 6 | Kōji Shirotori | – | ||||||||
| # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected | 30 | Shigeko Shinohara | – | 7 | Jikidō Aeba | – | ||||
| 1 | Keiichirō Nakamura | PR only | – | – | ||||||||||
| 2 | Tarō Masago | Tokyo 25 | (45.5%) | – | ||||||||||
References
- Yomiuri Shimbun: 2014 House of Representatives election results, proportional representation, Tokyo block (in Japanese)
- MIC: 平成２９年１０月２２日執行衆議院議員総選挙・最高裁判所裁判官国民審査結果調, pp. 35 & 52–54 (in Japanese)
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Results of the 2009 general election
- Yomiuri Shimbun: Election feature 2009