Saitama 5th district

Legislative district of Japan

Saitama 5th District

Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives

Numbered map of Saitama Prefecture single-member districts

Prefecture| Saitama
Proportional District| Kita-Kantō
Electorate| 371,683 (2016)
Current constituency
Created| 1994
Seats| One
Party| Constitutional Democratic Party
Representative| Yukio Edano
Created from| Saitama's 5th "medium-sized" district
Municipalities| Saitama's Nishi, Kita, Minuma, Ōmiya and Chūō wards

Saitama 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Saitama Prefecture and covers Nishi, Kita, Minuma, Ōmiya and Chūō wards of the city of Saitama.

Yukio Edano of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) has held the district since the 2000 general election. After the Democratic Party dissolved and split in 2017, Edano ascended to leadership of the centre-left CDP, which became the second-largest party in the House of Representatives in the 2017 general election.

Edano along with other DPJ candidates won all but one district in Saitama in the 2009 DPJ landslide, wiping out the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from the prefecture. Their fortunes were reversed in the 2012 general election. Edano was the only member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in Saitama prefecture to retain his seat, as the party lost two-thirds of its seats nationwide amid a poor economy and relative geopolitical decline. While losing the race, Edano's resurgent LDP opponent Hideki Makihara managed to gain a proportional block seat. The margin closed down further in the 2014 election and Makihara was only within 3,300 votes from unseating Edano. Makihara was unable to overcome the margin in the 2017 election following the nationwide surge of the Edano-led CDP.[1] Edano was re-elected with a comfortable 20.28% majority.

## List of representatives

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Representative  | Party  | Dates  | Notes

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Nobuhiko Fukunaga |  | LDP | 1996 – 2000  |
Yukio Edano |  | DPJ | 2000 – 2016  | Incumbent
| DP | 2016 – 2017
| CDP | 2017 –

## Election results

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2021[2] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Constitutional Democratic | Yukio Edano | 113,615  | 51.38%  | 6.02
| Liberal Democratic | Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 107,532  | 48.62%  | 11.50
Majority  | 6,083  | 1.38  | 18.90
| Constitutional Democratic hold | Swing | 6.02  |
2017[3] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Constitutional Democratic | Yukio Edano | 119,091  | 57.40  | 11.31
| Liberal Democratic | Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 77,023  | 37.12  | 7.24
| Kibō no Tō | Hidefumi Takagi (endorsed by Ishin) | 11,379  | 5.48  | N/A
Majority  | 42,068  | 20.28  |
Turnout |  | 54.76  | 0.78
| Constitutional Democratic hold | Swing | 9.28  |
2014[4] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Yukio Edano  | 90,030  | 46.09  | 0.72
| Liberal Democratic | Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 86,636  | 44.36  | 3.57
| Communist | Yūko Yamamoto  | 18,654  | 9.55  | 3.19
Majority  | 3,394  | 1.73  |
Turnout |  | 55.54  |
| Democratic hold | Swing | 1.43  |
2012[5] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Yukio Edano (endorsed by PNP) | 93,585  | 45.37  | 13.68
| Liberal Democratic | Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 84,120  | 40.79  | 2.31
| Tomorrow | Toshihisa Fujishima (endorsed by NPD) | 15,434  | 7.48  | N/A
| Communist | Yutaka Ōishi  | 13,109  | 6.36  | N/A
Majority  | 9,465  | 4.58  |
Turnout |  |  |
| Democratic hold | Swing | 8.00  |
2009[6] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Yukio Edano  | 130,920  | 59.15  | 10.47
| Liberal Democratic | Hideki Makihara  | 85,139  | 38.48  | 4.75
| Happiness Realization | Masako Sasaki  | 5,274  | 2.38  | N/A
Majority  | 45,781  | 20.67  |
| Democratic hold | Swing | 7.61  |
2005[7] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Yukio Edano  | 103,014  | 48.68  |
| Liberal Democratic | Hideki Makihara (elected by PR) | 91,472  | 43.22  |
| Communist | Yutaka Matsushita  | 17,140  | 8.10  |
2003 Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Yukio Edano  | 95,626  | 56.4  |
| Liberal Democratic | Hideaki Takahashi  | 60,410  | 35.6  |
| Communist | Yutaka Matsushita  | 13,493  | 8.0  |
2000 Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Democratic | Yukio Edano  | 106,711  | 45.5  |
| Liberal Democratic | Nobuhiko Fukunaga | 86,179  | 36.8  |
| Communist | Yukio Fujiwara  | 34,192  | 14.6  |
| Liberal League | Chiwa Aida  | 7,369  | 3.1  |
1996 Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Liberal Democratic | Nobuhiko Fukunaga  | 63,120  | 30.9  |
| New Frontier | Zenjirō Kaneko | 54,032  | 26.4  |
| Democratic | Yukio Edano (elected by PR) | 51,425  | 25.2  |
| Communist | Yukio Fujiwara  | 33,643  | 16.5  |
| Liberal League | Masayuki Abe  | 2,127  | 1.0  |

## References

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1. ^ Osaki, Tomohiro (20 October 2017). "Anchored by Edano's underdog charm, CDP turning into formidable force ahead of election". Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
2. ^ "House of Representatives Election Saitama List of Candidates" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
3. ^ 小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県（定数15） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
4. ^ 小選挙区：埼玉県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
5. ^ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
6. ^ 小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
7. ^ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

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