Aichi 5th district

Aichi 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Aichi Prefecture and consists of Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards, the cities of Kiyosu and Kitanagoya and the Nishikasugai district. As of 2012, 414,870 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Nagoya is considered a "Democratic kingdom" (minshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). But Aichi's 5th district is the only electoral district in Nagoya (Aichi 1 to 5) that also contains areas outside Nagoya. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005, it became the first district in Nagoya that the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could win since the introduction of single-member districts in 1996: Liberal Democrat Takahide Kimura won narrowly against the Democratic incumbent Hirotaka Akamatsu who was then only reelected in the Tōkai proportional representation block. Akamatsu had represented Aichi's 5th district since 1996 and regained the seat in the 2009 general election. He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Hatoyama cabinet. In 2012, he lost the district by less than 2,000 votes to Liberal Democrat Kenji Kanda.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Hirotaka Akamatsu	DPJ	1996–2005	Reelected to a proportional seat in the Tōkai block
Takahide Kimura	LDP	2005–2009	Retired
Hirotaka Akamatsu	DPJ	2009–2012	Reelected to a proportional seat in the Tōkai block
Kenji Kanda	LDP	2012–

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kenji Kanda (also PR candidate)	67,218	32.0
	DPJ (PNP)	Hirotaka Akamatsu (won PR seat)	65,423	31.1
	JRP (YP)	Ken'ichi Koyama (also PR candidate)	37,806	18.0
	TPJ (NPD)	Yūkichi Maeda (also PR candidate)	23,609	11.2
	JCP	Hiroki Fujii	16,206	7.7

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	158,235
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Mutsumi Teranishi (PR candidate)	88,964
	Happiness Realization Party	Tomoko Yoshida	8,042
Turnout			261,917	63.6

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	117,017
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (won PR seat)	107,605
	JCP	Akemi Kawae	17,523
Turnout			246,842	61.6

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	104,346
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	90,668
	JCP	Hiroyuki Egami	16,255
Turnout			217,109	54.7

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	82,943
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	64,970
	JCP	Asako Kodama	21,516
	LL	Takayoshi Itō	2,274

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	48,648
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	46,485
	NFP	Yutaka Banno	43,028
	JCP	Tadahiro Nagatomo	17,670
	Independent	Tsutomu Suzuki	768
	Japan Nation Party	Minoru Ichikawa	470
	Culture forum (Bunka fōramu)	Takao Uchiyama	335

References

↑ 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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　愛知. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-27.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>愛知県>愛知5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-05-03.

Aichi's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 PR part of the Tōkai PR block (21 seats) House of Councillors At-large (15 Representatives, 6 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (19→22 Representatives, 6 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (18 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 (17 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 (17 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Nagoya city counties (gunbu) (13 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (11 Representatives)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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