Summary
Tokyo 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 western part of former Tokyo City and is almost coterminous with Suginami Ward (a small area in the south-east is part of the Tokyo 7th district). 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.
| Tokyo 8th District | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
 Numbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts | |
| Prefecture | Tokyo |
| Proportional District | Tokyo |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Seats | One |
| Party | CDP |
| Representative | Harumi Yoshida |
| Created from | Tokyo 4th district |
| Wards | Most of Suginami |
As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.[1]
Before a series of electoral reforms in 1994, Suginami Ward had been part of Tokyo 4th district, where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
From the creation of the district until 2021, the only representative for the district was Nobuteru Ishihara, a former LDP secretary-general and Minister of the Environment who headed his own faction and is the son of Shintarō Ishihara former Governor of Tōkyō. Ishihara lost the seat to Harumi Yoshida, a university professor, in the 2021 elections. Tarō Yamamoto, leader of the Reiwa Shinsengumi, had announced he'd run in the district, but he bowed out and endorsed Yoshida.[2]
List of representatives edit
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nobuteru Ishihara | LDP | 1996–2021 | ||
| Harumi Yoshida | CDP | 2021–present | ||
Election results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Harumi Yoshida (endorsed by Reiwa and SDP | 137,341 | 48.45 |  18.49
| |
| Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 105,381 | 37,17 |  2.05
| |
| Innovation | Keiji Kasatani | 40,763 | 14.38 | ||
| Majority | 11.28 | ||||
| Turnout | 61.03 | 5.61
| |||
| CDP gain from Liberal Democratic | Swing | 10.27 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 99,863 | 39.22 | 8.34
| |
| CDP | Harumi Yoshida | 76,283 | 29.96 | ||
| Kibō no Tō | Takatane Kiuchi | 41,175 | 16.17 | ||
| Communist | Fumiko Osanai | 22,399 | 8.80 | ||
| Independent | Yoriko Madoka | 11,997 | 4.71 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
In popular culture edit
The 8th district is featured in the fifth season of the anime Aggretsuko, with the main character Retsuko running for election to the district for the Rage Party against her boyfriend Haida's brother Jiro to succeed his father Juzo.
References edit
- ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
- ^ "山本太郎氏 衆院選、東京8区で出馬へ 石原伸晃元自民幹事長と対決 野党共闘の象徴目指す". Tokyo Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ 開票速報 小選挙区：東京 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ 小選挙区：東京 - 開票速報 - 2017総選挙 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ "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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- ^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
- ^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
- ^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
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