Chiba 4th district

Chiba 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Western Chiba and covers the city of Funabashi. As of 2012, 497,350 eligible voters were registered in the district making it in the 2009 and 2012 general elections the district with the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan at more than two times as many voters as the district with the highest electoral weight, Kōchi 3.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Funabashi was part of Chiba 1st district where four Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

Democrat Yoshihiko Noda has represented Chiba 4th district since 2000 after initially losing it as a candidate for the New Frontier Party by 105 votes to Liberal Democrat Shōichi Tanaka in 1996.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Shōichi Tanaka		LDP	1996 – 2000
Yoshihiko Noda		DPJ	2000 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ – PNP	Yoshihiko Noda	163,334	57.3
	LDP	Mikio Fujita	72,187	25.3
	TPJ – NPD	Yukiko Miyake	28,187	9.9
	JCP	Kazuko Saitō	21,459	7.5

In 2009, Yoshihiko Noda's candidacy was formally supported by the People's New Party, Mikio Fujita by New Komeito.^[3]

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yoshihiko Noda	162,153	53.6	+8.7
	Liberal Democratic	Mikio Fujita	85,425	28.3	-16.3
	Your	Itoko Noyashiki	28,280	9.4
	Communist	Kazuko Saitō	23,050	7.6	-0.6
	Happiness Realization Party	Kōichirō Yamanaka	3,403	1.1
Turnout			307,954	63.13	-0.24
	Democratic hold		Swing

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yoshihiko Noda	129,834	44.9	-10.9
	Liberal Democratic	Mikio Fujita (elected by PR)	128,890	44.6	+11.7
	Communist	Toshinori Niki	24,138	8.4	-2.9
	Independent	Kōji Nagano	6,311	2.1
Turnout			294,777	63.37	+9.08
	Democratic hold		Swing

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yoshihiko Noda	135,522	55.8	+8.5
	Liberal Democratic	Masaru Hasegawa	80,051	32.9	+1.9
	Communist	Yukiko Tsuga	27,441	11.3	-6.9
Turnout			249,446	54.29	+9.08
	Democratic hold		Swing

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yoshihiko Noda	116,156	47.3	+27.4
	Liberal Democratic	Ken'ichi Nishio	76,067	31.0	-1.0
	Communist	Shōji Ishii	44,586	18.2	+2.0
	Liberal League (Japan)	Yutaka Akimoto	8,899	3.5
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shōichi Tanaka	73,792	32.0
	New Frontier	Yoshihiko Noda	73,687	31.9
	Democratic	Takayuki Kojima	45,924	19.9
	Communist	Shin'ichi Maruyama	37,300	16.2
Turnout			235,653	55.07
	Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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 (Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　千葉. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
1 2 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-07.

House of Representatives of Japan
Preceded by Tokyo 18th district	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 2011 – 2012	Succeeded by Yamaguchi 4th district

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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