Tokyo proportional representation block

Tokyo Proportional Representation Block
Tokyo Proportional Representation Block
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Tōkyō block highlighted
Prefecture	Tokyo
Electorate	11,385,086
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	19
Representatives	19 (LDP-5, CDP-5, DPFP-3 Ishin-2, Komeito-2, JCP-1, Reiwa-1)

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.

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
general election	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.

D'Hondt allocation order	1996	2000	2003	2005	2009	2012	2014	2017	2021
1	Takashi Fukaya	Tetsundo Iwakuni	Yukihiko Akutsu	Kuniko Inoguchi	Kumiko Hayakawa	Kiyoshi Odawara	Tsukasa Akimoto	Takao Ochi	Kei Takagi
2	Masamitsu Jōjima	Midori Matsushima	Eita Yashiro	Yoshinori Suematsu	Ichiro Kamoshita	Shintarō Ishihara	Akihisa Nakajima	Yoshio Tezuka	Shunsuke Ito
3	Eiko Ishige	Masamitsu Jōjima	Yukihisa Fujita	Yamatada Tsuchiya	Mitsuaki Takeda	Banri Kaieda	Fumiaki Matsumoto	Jin Matsubara	Yohei Matsumoto
4	Tetsuzo Fuwa	Tetsuzo Fuwa	Kunio Hatoyama	Kōichi Katō	Eiko Ichige	Tsukasa Akimoto	Akira Kasai	Miki Yamada	Tsukasa Abe [ja]
5	Hyosuke Kujiraoka	Shōzō Azuma	Yosuke Tagaki	Kazuo Aichi	Masaaki Taira	Toshiaki Ōkuma	Takayuki Ochiai	Yoshinori Suematsu	Yōsuke Takagi
6	Shōzō Azuma	Akihiro Ōta	Kazuo Inoue	Yōsuke Takagi	Yōsuke Takagi	Yōsuke Takagi	Yōsuke Takagi	Yōsuke Takagi	Akira Kasai
7	Sadao Yamahana died 1999, replaced by Osamu Shibutani	Kunio Hatoyama	Tatsuya Itō	Jun'ichirō Yasui	Kōki Kobayashi	Hirofumi Imamura	Hayato Suzuki	Akira Kasai	Takao Ochi
8	Ichirō Takahashi	Muneaki Samejima	Muneaki Samejima	Yōko Komiyama	Akira Kasai	Fumiaki Matsumoto	Jin Matsubara	Kiyoshi Odawara	Yosuke Suzuki
9	Mutsumi Sasaki	Kazuo Inoue	Tomio Yamaguchi	Akira Kasai	Kaoru Yosano	Jin Matsubara	Megumi Maekawa	Mito Kakizawa	Kenji Wakamiya
10	Otohiko Endō	Tomio Yamaguchi	Kaoru Yosano	Kenji Wakamiya	Kōichi Yoshida	Akira Kasai	Tōru Miyamoto	Akihiro Hatsushika	Banri Kaieda
11	Banri Kaieda	Yoshio Suzuki	Hisashi Shimada	Akihisa Nagashima	Tomotarō Kawashima	Ai Aoki	Akihiro Hatsushika	Fumiaki Matsumoto	Taisuke Ono
12	Kiyoshi Ozawa	Nobuto Hosaka	Michiyo Takagi	Taku Ōtsuka	Yuriko Koike	Hiroshi Yamada	Masaru Wakasa resigned 2016, replaced by Tsuyoshi Tabata	Takao Ando	Akihisa Nagashima
13	Akihiro Ōta	Tatsuya Itō	Hirosato Nakatsugawa	Michiyo Takagi	Mito Kakizawa	Tsuneo Akaeda	Michiyo Takaki	Ikuo Yamahana	Taro Yamamoto resigned, replaced by Mari Kushibuchi
14	Taketoshi Nakajima	Yōsuke Takagi	Ichirō Kamoshita	Akira Nagatsuma	Hirosato Nakatsugawa	Hidehiro Mitani	Naoto Kan	Shunsuke Ito	Koichi Kasai [ja]
15	Yukihisa Fujita	Eiko Ishige	Eiko Ishige	Seiichiro Shimizu	Michiyo Takagi	Naoto Kan	Tsuneo Akaeda	Michiyo Takagi	Toru Miyamoto
16	Nobuto Hosaka	Ichirō Takahashi	Takashi Kosugi	Jin Matsubara	Kōichirō Watanabe	Michiyo Takagi	Saori Ikeuchi	Toru Miyamoto	Hirotaka Ishihara
17	Michio Ochi	Hirosato Nakatsugawa	Noboru Usami	Nobuto Hosaka	Isshū Sugawara	Tsuyoshi Tabata	Takatane Kiuchi	Kei Tagaki	Masako Ōkawara
18	Keiichi Ishii
19	Kōki Ishii

Election result 2009

Tokyo block results in the 2009 general election^[3]^[4]
#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio" (sekihairitsu)	Elected	#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected	#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected
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
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	PR only		–
	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

JANJAN, The Senkyo: Results of general and by-elections for the House of Representatives 1890–2010

[yomiuri_2014-1] Yomiuri Shimbun: 2014 House of Representatives election results, proportional representation, Tokyo block (in Japanese)

[2] 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)

[3] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Results of the 2009 general election

[4] Yomiuri Shimbun: Election feature 2009

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

Tokyo Proportional Representation Block
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Tōkyō block highlighted
Prefecture	Tokyo
Electorate	11,385,086
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	19
Representatives	19 (LDP-5, CDP-5, DPFP-3 Ishin-2, Komeito-2, JCP-1, Reiwa-1)