Aichi 7th district

Legislative district of Japan

Aichi 7th District

Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives

Numbered map of Aichi Prefecture single-member districts

Prefecture| Aichi
Proportional District| Tōkai
Electorate| 448,591 (2016)
Current constituency
Created| 1994
Seats| One
Party| Liberal Democratic Party
Representative| Junji Suzuki
Created from| Aichi's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Municipalities| Cities of Ōbu, Owariasahi, Toyoake, Nisshin, Nagakute, Aichi District.

Aichi 7th district (愛知県[第]7区, Aichi-ken-[dai-]nanaku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It covers the commuter and industrial towns northeast of Nagoya. The district consists of the cities of Ōbu, Owariasahi, Toyoake, Nisshin, Nagakute and Aichi District. As of 2016, 448,591 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

The district is currently represented by Junji Suzuki from Liberal Democratic Party.

## Background

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The commuter and industrial towns surrounding Nagoya have long been regarded as a bastion for anti-LDP forces and this district is no exception. The 7th district and its predecessors have continuously elected non-LDP members to the Diet. After the introduction of parallel voting and single-member districts in 1996, the district has only elected one LDP member, Junji Suzuki, who was elected in the LDP landslides of 2005, 2012, and 2021.[2]

## List of representatives

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Representative  | Party  | Dates  | Notes

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Takashi Aoyama |  | NFP | 1996 – 2000  |
Kenji Kobayashi |  | DPJ | 2000 – 2005  | Also lost in the PR block
Junji Suzuki |  | LDP | 2005 – 2009  | Also lost in the PR block
Shiori Yamao |  | DPJ | 2009 – 2012  | Also lost in the PR block
Junji Suzuki  |  | LDP | 2012 – 2014  | Won in the PR block
Shiori Yamao  |  | DPJ | 2014 – 2016  |
| DP | 2016 – 2017
| Ind | 2017
| CDP | 2017 – 2021
Junji Suzuki  |  | LDP | 2021 –  |

## Election results

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2021[3] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki | 144,725  | 54.7  | 4.9
| Constitutional Democratic | Kazuyoshi Morimoto | 88,914  | 33.6  |
| Communist | Hatsumi Suyama  | 30,956  | 11.7  |
Turnout |  | 59.54  | 0.01
| Liberal Democratic gain from Independent
2017[4] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Independent | Shiori Yamao | 128,163  | 50.16  | 4.56
| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 127,329  | 49.84  | 5.42
Majority  | 834  | 0.32  |
Turnout |  | 59.55  | 1.80
| Independent hold | Swing | 0.43  |
2014[5] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Shiori Yamao  | 113,474  | 46.60  | 10.74
| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 108,151  | 44.42  | 1.58
| Communist | Osamu Gōukon  | 21,872  | 8.98  | 2.87
Majority  | 4,677  | 2.18  |
Turnout |  | 57.75  | 4.56
| Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Swing | 4.58  |
2012[6] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 110,390  | 42.84  | 6.32
| Democratic | Shiori Yamao (endorsed by PNP) | 92,398  | 35.86  | 25.26
| Tomorrow | Hiromi Masaki (endorsed by NPD) | 39,141  | 15.19  | N/A
| Communist | Osamu Gōukon  | 15,732  | 6.11  | 3.75
Majority  | 17,992  | 6.98  |
Turnout |  | 62.31  | 10.38
| Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic | Swing | 15.79  |
2009[7] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Shiori Yamao  | 182,028  | 61.12  | 19.63
| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki  | 108,783  | 36.52  | 13.48
| Communist | Kumiko Nagata  | 7,032  | 2.36  | 6.15
Majority  | 73,245  | 24.60  |
Turnout |  | 72.69  |
| Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Swing | 16.56  |
2005[8] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki  | 134,535  | 50.00  |
| Democratic | Kenji Kobayashi | 111,654  | 41.49  |
| Communist | Takumi Sakabayashi  | 22,902  | 8.51  |
2003 Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Kenji Kobayashi  | 102,710  | 44.1  |
| Liberal Democratic | Takashi Aoyama (elected by PR) | 93,882  | 40.3  |
| Social Democratic | Reiko Ōshima  | 20,172  | 8.7  |
| Communist | Takumi Sakabayashi  | 16,255  | 7.0  |
2000 Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Kenji Kobayashi  | 86,651  | 38.5  |
| Liberal Democratic | Junji Suzuki  | 83,601  | 37.2  |
| Social Democratic | Reiko Ōshima (elected by PR) | 28,125  | 12.5  |
| Communist | Takumi Sakabayashi  | 23,095  | 10.3  |
| Liberal League | Isamu Harada  | 1,841  | 0.8  |
| Independent | Akihiro Ozaki  | 1,621  | 0.7  |
1996 Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| New Frontier | Takashi Aoyama  | 91,439  | 47.5  |
| Liberal Democratic | Taichi Niwa  | 49,727  | 25.9  |
| Democratic | Keiko Itō  | 24,620  | 12.8  |
| Communist | Hidetoshi Harada  | 23,009  | 12.0  |
| Liberal League | Tsuneo Ichikawa  | 2,045  | 2.0  |
| People's  | Yōko Ōshima  | 1,080  | 0.6  |
| Culture Forum  | Hiromichi Ebata  | 442  | 0.2  |

## References

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1. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
2. ^ "山尾志桜里のリベンジ選挙に、あの共産党が「裏支援」説" [In Shiori Yamao's Revenge Election, the Theory of JCP Tacit Support] (in Japanese). Livedoor news. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
3. ^ 小選挙区 愛知 5区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
4. ^ 小選挙区開票速報：愛知県（定数15） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
5. ^ 小選挙区：愛知県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
6. ^ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：愛知県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
7. ^ 小選挙区開票結果ー愛知県７区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
8. ^ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー愛知県７区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

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Aichi's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present)

part of the Tōkai PR block (21 seats)
House of Councillors
At-large (15→16 Representatives, 6→8 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993)

6 (19→22 Representatives, 6 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946)

2 (18 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942)

5 (17 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924)

13 (17 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917)
Nagoya city
counties (gunbu) (13 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898)

11 (11 Representatives)

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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

Tōhoku
(12 block seats, 23 district seats)|

Aomori

Iwate

Miyagi

Akita

Yamagata

Fukushima

Kita- (North) Kantō
(19 block seats, 32 district seats)|

Ibaraki

Tochigi

Gunma

Saitama

Minami- (South) Kantō
(23 block seats, 33 district seats)|

Chiba

Kanagawa

Yamanashi

Tokyo
(19 block seats, 25 district seats)|

Tokyo

Hokuriku-Shin'etsu
(10 block seats, 19 district seats)|

Niigata

Toyama

Ishikawa

Fukui

Nagano

Tōkai
(21 block seats, 32 district seats)|

Gifu

Shizuoka

Aichi

Mie

Kinki
(28 block seats, 47 district seats)|

Shiga

Kyoto

Osaka

Hyōgo

Nara

Wakayama

Chūgoku
(10 block seats, 20 district seats)|

Tottori

Shimane

Okayama

Hiroshima

Yamaguchi

Shikoku
(6 block seats, 11 district seats)|

Tokushima

Kagawa

Ehime

Kōchi

Kyūshū
(20 block seats, 35 district seats)|

Fukuoka

Saga

Nagasaki

Kumamoto

Ōita

Miyazaki

Kagoshima

Okinawa

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
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