Results of the 2012 Japanese general election (Shikoku proportional representation block)

The Shikoku proportional representation block was one of 11 multi-member districts (and 311 districts overall) that were contested at the general election for the House of Representatives in the Japanese National Diet on 16 December 2012. Six seats were available for election via open party lists. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won the election in a landslide, which returned former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to power. In the Shikoku PR block, the LDP won two of the six seats with 30.7% of the vote.

Voters who participated in the election cast one ballot for the proportional block and a separate ballot for one of the 13 smaller single-member districts that are located within Shikoku.

Results

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Prior to the election, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) held three of the six PR block seats as well as 5 of the 13 small electorates that make up the block. The opposition LDP held 2 of the PR seats and the 8 remaining electorates, while their traditional junior coalition partner Komeito held the final PR seat.

The 2012 general election delivered a landslide victory to the LDP, with 294 of the 480 seats won at the national level. The election decimated the DPJ from a pre-election position of 230 to just 57 seats.[1] In the Shikoku PR block, the DPJ lost 2 of their seats as their vote was reduced to 16.0%, down from 43.2% in the 2009 election. Junya Ogawa lost his seat in Kagawa 1st district but was the DPJ candidate to suffer the narrowest defeat, so he was able to retain a seta in the house. The newly-formed Japan Restoration Party gained the two seats lost by the DPJ.[2] In the 13 single-member electorates, the LDP gained 4 seats, with Yuichiro Tamaki being the only DPJ member to retain his seat in the Kagawa 2nd district.[3]

Elected candidates
Party Representative Party
rank
Term #
LDP Takakazu Seto 1 1st
Restoration Fumiki Sakurauchi 1 1st
DPJ Junya Ogawa 1 3rd
LDP Yasuji Izuhara 14 2nd
Komeito Noritoshi Ishida 1 6th
Restoration Arata Nishioka 1 1st
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Liberal Democratic Party567,19330.6620
Japan Restoration Party394,39321.322New
Democratic Party of Japan296,91416.051–2
Komeito276,90714.9710
Japanese Communist Party106,9765.7800
Your Party93,0905.030New
Tomorrow Party of Japan63,8303.450New
Social Democratic Party42,7622.3100
Happiness Realization Party8,1710.4400
Total1,850,236100.0060
Valid votes1,850,23696.94
Invalid/blank votes58,3653.06
Total votes1,908,601100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,291,31357.99
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications[4][5]

Party lists

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Liberal Democratic Party

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Liberal Democratic Party Number of votes: 567,193 Percentage of votes: 30.7% Number of seats won: 2
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Takakazu Seto Kagawa 2nd district 91.0  Y Elected to block
1 Mamoru Fukuyama Tokushima 1st district  Y Won Tokushima 1st district
1 Shunichi Yamaguchi Shikoku proportional representation block Tokushima 2nd district  Y Won Tokushima 2nd district
1 Masazumi Gotoda Tokushima 3rd district Tokushima 3rd district  Y Won Tokushima 3rd district
1 Takuya Hirai Shikoku proportional representation block Kagawa 1st district  Y Won Kagawa 1st district
1 Keitaro Ono Kagawa 3rd district  Y Won Kagawa 3rd district
1 Yasuhisa Shiozaki Ehime 1st district Ehime 1st district  Y Won Ehime 1st district
1 Seiichiro Murakami Ehime 2nd district Ehime 2nd district  Y Won Ehime 2nd district
1 Toru Shiraishi Ehime 3rd district  Y Won Ehime 3rd district
1 Koichi Yamamoto Ehime 4th district Ehime 4th district  Y Won Ehime 4th district
1 Teru Fukui Kochi 1st district Kochi 1st district  Y Won Kochi 1st district
1 Gen Nakatani Kochi 2nd district Kochi 2nd district  Y Won Kochi 2nd district
1 Yuji Yamamoto Kochi 3rd district Kochi 3rd district  Y Won Kochi 3rd district
14 Yasuji Izuhara  Y Elected to block Former Kinki PR block representative
15 Ichiro Nagai
16 Naka Takahashi
17 Toshinori Matsuzaki
18 Reiko Shinozaki

Democratic Party of Japan

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Democratic Party of Japan Number of votes: 296,914 Percentage of votes: 16.0% Number of seats won: 1
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Junya Ogawa Kagawa 1st district Kagawa 1st district 75.0  Y Elected to block
1 Hirobumi Niki Shikoku proportional representation block Tokushima 3rd district 72.3  N Lost seat
1 Yoshito Sengoku Tokushima 1st district Tokushima 1st district 66.5  N Lost seat
1 Miho Takai Tokushima 2nd district Tokushima 2nd district 65.6  N Lost seat
1 Yoichi Shiraishi Ehime 3rd district Ehime 3rd district 60.1  N Lost seat
1 Shu Oishi Kochi 1st district 58.9
1 Hideyuki Takahashi Shikoku proportional representation block Ehime 4th district 46.1  N Lost seat
1 Takako Nagae Shikoku proportional representation block Ehime 1st district 42.6  N Lost seat
1 Yuichiro Tamaki Kagawa 2nd district Kagawa 2nd district  Y Won Kagawa 2nd district

Japan Restoration Party

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Japan Restoration Party Number of votes: 394,393 Percentage of votes: 21.3% Number of seats won: 2
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Fumiki Sakurauchi Ehime 4th district 78.2  Y Elected to block Former House of Councillors member
1 Arata Nishioka Ehime 2nd district 63.2  Y Elected to block
1 Natsue Mori Ehime 3rd district 41.8
1 Toshihide Ikemoto Ehime 1st district 41.5
5 Shinya Fujimura Kochi 1st district 37.0
5 Eiji Imanishi Kagawa 1st district 23.9 Former Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member
7 Junji Ouchi

Komeito

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Komeito Number of votes: 276,907 Percentage of votes: 15.0% Number of seats won: 1
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Noritoshi Ishida Shikoku proportional representation block  Y Elected to block
2 Shinichi Tsukiyama

Japanese Communist Party

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Japanese Communist Party Number of votes: 106,976 Percentage of votes: 5.8% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Masaru Sasaoka
2 Naoaki Haruna (Former member) Kochi 1st district

Your Party

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Your Party Number of votes: 93,090 Percentage of votes: 5.0% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Teruaki Nakayama

Tomorrow Party of Japan

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Tomorrow Party Number of votes: 63,830 Percentage of votes: 3.4% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Toshiro Tomochika Ehime 2nd district Former House of Councillors member
2 Yoko Washino

Social Democratic Party

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Social Democratic Party Number of votes: 42,762 Percentage of votes: 2.3% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Haruhiko Maida Kagawa 3rd district

Happiness Realization Party

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Happiness Realization Party Number of votes: 8,171 Percentage of votes: 0.4% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Jikido Aeba
2 Akemi Takeo

References

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  1. ^ "衆院選2012 衆院選 選挙" [2012 House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  2. ^ "四国 【比例代表】 開票結果 総選挙2012 衆院選" [Shikoku (PR List) election results, 2012 general election, House of Reps election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ^ "香川 小選挙区 開票結果 総選挙2012 衆院選 選挙" [Kagawa districts, election results, 2012 House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  4. ^ "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率(比例代表)" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  5. ^ "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率(比例代表)" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 7 March 2016.