Northern Kanto proportional representation block

Proportional representation block of Northern Kanto, Japan

Northern Kanto Proportional Representation Block

Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives

Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Northern Kanto block highlighted

Prefectures| Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Ibaraki
Electorate| 11,834,554[1]
Current constituency
Number of members| 19
Representatives| LDP-7, CDP-5, Komeito-3, Ishin-2, JCP-1,DPFP-1[2]

The Northern Kanto proportional representation block (北関東比例ブロック, Kantō hokubu hirei burokku) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan.[3][4] It consists of the northern part of the Kanto region, and consists of the prefectures of Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama and Ibaraki.[5] Proportional voting blocks were first introduced in the 1996 General Election.[6] The block elects 19 members to the House of Representatives.

## See also

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* List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan

## References

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1. ^ "Number of registered electoral rolls and overseas electoral rolls for each constituency, etc". soumu.go.jp. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
2. ^ "Results of the 2021 Japanese General Election". nhk.or.jp. NHK. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
3. ^ "Changes to Voting Age? 20 or 18?". www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
4. ^ Berman, Daniel (2010-07-21). "In Recent Japanese Elections An Unequal Electoral System Explains the Government's Defeat". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
5. ^ "Northern Kantō | region, Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
6. ^ Christensen, Raymond V. (1994). "Electoral Reform in Japan: How It was Enacted and Changes It May Bring". Asian Survey. 34 (7): 589–605\. doi:10.2307/2645370. JSTOR 2645370.

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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

Former districts|

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

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

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

Abolished 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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