Kanagawa 10th district (神奈川[県第]10区, Kanagawa[-ken dai-]jikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in North-eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and consists of Kawasaki City's three eastern wards of Kawasaki, Saiwai and Nakahara. As of September 2011, 494,755 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters the second lowest vote weight in the country behind Chiba 4th district.[1]
After the introduction of single-member districts, Kanagawa 10th district went narrowly to NFP Representative Eiji Nagai who had represented the pre-reform five-member Kanagawa 2nd district for the Japan New Party since 1993. Nagai became a Democrat in the wake of the NFP dissolution, but lost the district to Liberal Democrat Kazunori Tanaka (Yamasaki faction). Tanaka who became Senior Vice Minister during the Koizumi and First Abe Cabinets held onto the 10th district until the landslide election of 2009 when he lost to Democrat Kōriki Jōjima (Kawabata group=ex-DSP faction) who had been a representative from Tokyo (under his real name Masamitsu Jōjima) between 1996 and 2005. Jōjima went on to become a minister of state in the Noda Cabinet in 2011. In 2012, he was voted out of the House of Representatives alongside seven other sitting ministers in the Noda Cabinet. Tanaka was again appointed as a Senior Vice Minister in the Second Abe Cabinet.
List of representatives edit
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eiji Nagai | NFP | 1996–2000 | Joined Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People"), Minseitō ("Democratic" or "Civil Government Party"), Minshutō ("Democratic Party") in the NFP dissolution Re-elected in the Southern Kantō PR block | |
| Kazunori Tanaka | LDP | 2000–2009 | Re-elected by PR | |
| Kōriki Jōjima | DPJ | 2009–2012 | Failed re-election by PR | |
| Kazunori Tanaka | LDP | 2012– | Incumbent | |
Election results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Kazunori Tanaka | 104,832 | 41.39 | ||
| Innovation | Ryūna Kanamura (elected by PR) | 69,594 | 27.48 | ||
| Communist | Kimie Hatano | 48,839 | 19.28 | ||
| DPP | Atsushi Suzuki (elected by PR) | 30,013 | 11.85 | ||
| Turnout | 55.04 |  5.19
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP – Kōmeitō | Kazunori Tanaka | 104,994 | 37.5 | ||
| DPJ – PNP | Kōriki Jōjima | 61,255 | 21.9 | ||
| YP | Eiichirō Kume | 44,493 | 15.9 | ||
| JRP | Teruhisa Ishikawa | 44,185 | 15.8 | ||
| JCP | Toshihiro Nakano | 25,310 | 9.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ – PNP | Kōriki Jōjima | 152,921 | 49.3 | ||
| LDP – Kōmeitō | Kazunori Tanaka (elected by PR) | 118,641 | 38.2 | ||
| JCP | Takashi Kasaki | 33,134 | 10.7 | ||
| HRP | Ryūichi Shimazaki | 5,746 | 1.9 | ||
| Turnout | 317163 | 65.46 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Kazunori Tanaka | 160,669 | 56.4 | ||
| DPJ | Keikō Hakariya | 89,025 | 31.3 | ||
| JCP | Takashi Kasaki | 34,971 | 12.3 | ||
| Turnout | 291,800 | 64.41 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Kazunori Tanaka | 114,766 | 48.1 | ||
| DPJ | Keikō Hakariya (elected by PR) | 89,752 | 37.6 | ||
| JCP | Takashi Kasaki | 34,003 | 14.3 | ||
| Turnout | 246,726 | 55.62 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Kazunori Tanaka | 94,183 | 39.6 | ||
| DPJ | Eiji Nagai (elected by PR) | 87,775 | 36.9 | ||
| JCP | Takashi Kasaki | 48,812 | 20.5 | ||
| LL | Kengo Kanehira | 7,180 | 3.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFP | Eiji Nagai | 70,276 | 31.2 | ||
| LDP | Kazunori Tanaka (elected by PR) | 68,892 | 30.6 | ||
| JCP | Masahiro Nakaji (elected by PR) | 48,488 | 21.5 | ||
| DPJ | Hisashi Shibata | 35,101 | 15.6 | ||
| LL | Nobuaki Iwaki | 2,406 | 1.1 | ||
| Turnout | 230,812 | 54.79 | |||
References edit
- ^ Ministry of general affairs: 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)
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- ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
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