Gunma 4th district

Legislative district of Japan

Gunma 4th District

群馬県第4区
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Prefecture| Gunma
Proportional Block| Northern Kanto
Electorate| 295,213 (as of 1 September 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created| 1994
Seats| One
Party| LDP
Representative| Tatsuo Fukuda

Gunma 4th district (群馬県第4区, Gunma-ken dai-yon-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Gunma and consists of the city of Fujioka, the Southern part of Takasaki city (without the former municipalities of Gunma, Misato, Haruna and Kurabuchi) as well as Kanna town and Ueno village in Tano county. As of 2009, 292,356 eligible voters were registered in the district.[2]

Before the electoral reform that took effect in 1996, the area was part of the multi-member Gunma 3rd district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Gunma is a "conservative kingdom" (hoshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party, and the pre-1996 multi-seat 3rd district had been home to the families of LDP presidents and Prime Ministers of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone, Takeo Fukuda and Keizō Obuchi. The new 4th district's first representative was Fukuda's son Yasuo Fukuda (Machimura faction) who was elected LDP president and Prime Minister himself in 2007 over Tarō Asō (Asō faction). In the LDP's landslide defeat in 2009, Fukuda held his seat over Yukiko Miyake, one of the "Ozawa girls", a group of first-time female candidates handpicked by former Democratic Party president Ichirō Ozawa. Miyake easily won a seat in the Northern Kantō proportional representation block. She followed Ozawa out of the party in 2012 and ran for his Tomorrow Party of Japan in Democratic Party president Yoshihiko Noda's Chiba 4th district where she failed to win even a tenth of the vote, disqualifying her also for potential re-election in the proportional representation bloc.

In Gunma 4th district, Yasuo Fukuda retired in 2012 and was safely succeeded by his son Tatsuo.

## List of representatives

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Representative  | Party  | Dates  | Notes

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Yasuo Fukuda |  | LDP | 1996–2012  | Prime Minister of Japan (2007-2008), retired in 2012
Tatsuo Fukuda |  | LDP | 2012–  | Son of Yasuo Fukuda

## Election results

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

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| LDP (Kōmeitō)  | Tatsuo Fukuda | 105,359  | 65.02  |
| CDP (SDP)  | Kuniyoshi Suminokura  | 56,682  | 34.98  |
2017[4] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP (Kōmeitō)  | Tatsuo Fukuda | 93,262  | 60.78  |
| Kibō no Tō (DPJ)  | Hiroki Fuwa  | 36,167  | 23.57  |
2012[5] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP (Kōmeitō, NRP)  | Tatsuo Fukuda | 93,220  | 55.7  |
| JRP | Ayaka Miyaharada  | 42,536  | 25.4  |
| DPJ | Kazuya Aoki  | 17,336  | 10.4  |
| JCP | Sadao Hagiwara  | 14,174  | 8.5  |
2009[6] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP (Kōmeitō support)  | Yasuo Fukuda | 103,852  | 51.9  |
| DPJ (PNP support)  | Yukiko Miyake (elected by PR)  | 91,904  | 45.9  |
| HRP | Takayuki Morita  | 4,315  | 2.2  |
Turnout | 205,416  | 70.72  |
2005[7] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP | Yasuo Fukuda | 118,517  | 62.8  |
| DPJ | Masaki Nakajima  | 56,364  | 29.9  |
| JCP | Etsuo Sakai  | 13,809  | 7.3  |
Turnout | 192,933  | 67.03  |
2003[8] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP | Yasuo Fukuda | 98,903  | 62.1  |
| DPJ | Yukio Tomioka  | 48,427  | 30.4  |
| JCP | Shinmei Ogasawara  | 11,815  | 7.4  |
Turnout | 164,403  | 57.5  |
2000[9] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP | Yasuo Fukuda | 94,517  | 57.7  |
| DPJ | Masaki Nakajima  | 49,063  | 29.9  |
| JCP | Kiyoko Nomura  | 20,284  | 12.4  |
1996[10] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| LDP | Yasuo Fukuda | 73,674  | 46.0  |
| NFP | Minoru Komai  | 45,134  | 28.2  |
| DPJ | Masaki Nakajima  | 24,977  | 15.6  |
| JCP | Toshihiko Iizuka  | 16,425  | 10.3  |
Turnout | 166,505  | 60.47  |

## References

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1. ^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of September 1, 2020]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-24.
2. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (in Japanese)
3. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
4. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
5. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
6. ^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
7. ^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
8. ^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
9. ^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
10. ^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.

House of Representatives (Japan)

Preceded by

Yamaguchi 4th district

|  Constituency represented by the prime minister
2007–2008  | Succeeded by

Fukuoka 8th district

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Gunma's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present)

part of the Northern Kantō PR block (20 seats)
House of Councillors
At-large (5 Representatives, 4→2 Councillors)

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

3 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946)
At-large (10 Representatives)

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

2 (9 Representatives)

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

6 (8 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917)
Maebashi city
Takasaki city
counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)

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

5 (5 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|

Block
8 seats
Hokkaidō

Tōhoku|

Block
12 seats
Aomori

Iwate

Miyagi

Akita

Yamagata

Fukushima

Kita- (North) Kantō|

Block
19 seats
Ibaraki

Tochigi

Gunma

Saitama

Minami- (South) Kantō|

Block
23 seats
Chiba

Kanagawa

Yamanashi

Tokyo|

Block
19 seats
Tokyo

Hokuriku-Shin'etsu|

Block
10 seats
Niigata

Toyama

Ishikawa

Fukui

Nagano

Tōkai|

Block
21 seats
Gifu

Shizuoka

Aichi

Mie

Kinki|

Block
28 seats
Shiga

Kyoto

Osaka

Hyōgo

Nara

Wakayama

Chūgoku|

Block
10 seats
Tottori

Shimane

Okayama

Hiroshima

Yamaguchi

Shikoku|

Block
6 seats
Tokushima

Kagawa

Ehime

Kōchi

Kyūshū|

Block
20 seats
Fukuoka

Saga

Nagasaki

Kumamoto

Ōita

Miyazaki

Kagoshima

Okinawa

Eliminated districts|

Eliminiated in 2002
Hokkaido 13
Yamagata 4
Shizuoka 9
Shimane 3
Oita 4

Eliminiated in 2013
Fukui 3
Yamanashi 3
Tokushima 3
Kochi 3
Saga 3

Eliminiated in 2017
Aomori 4
Iwate 4
Mie 5
Nara 4
Kumamoto 5
Kagoshima 5

Eliminiated in 2022
Miyagi 6
Fukushima 5
Niigata 6
Shiga 4
Wakayama 3
Okayama 5
Hiroshima 7
Yamaguchi 4
Ehime 4
Nagasaki 4
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