Hiroshima 7th district

Hiroshima 7th district (Hiroshima-ken dai-nana-ku (広島県第7区) or simply Hiroshima nana-ku (広島7区)) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Hiroshima and consists of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012, 377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Hiroshima 3rd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

The first representative for the single-member 7th district was former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa for the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2000, he was followed by Yōichi Miyazawa (LDP), son of former Hiroshima governor Hiroshi Miyazawa, nephew of Kiichi Miyazawa, grandson of Representatives Yutaka Miyazawa and Masaki Kishida and great-grandson of Representative Heikichi Ogawa. In the landslide election of 2009 when the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition lost its majority, Takashi Wada, husband of former Finance minister Tatsuo Murayama's granddaughter, won the district against Miyazawa for the Democratic Party. In the landslide election of 2012 when the DPJ-PNP coalition lost more than two-thirds of its seats, Liberal Democrat Fumiaki Kobayashi won the district.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kiichi Miyazawa	LDP	1996 – 2000
Yōichi Miyazawa	LDP	2000 – 2009	Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block^[2]
Takashi Wada	DPJ	2009 – 2012	Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block
Fumiaki Kobayashi	LDP	2012 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Fumiaki Kobayashi	93,491	47.5
	DPJ (PNP)	Takashi Wada	52,543	26.7
	JRP (YP)	Daisuke Sakamoto (won PR seat)	38,919	19.8
	JCP	Takushi Kanbara	11,777	6.0

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Takashi Wada	133,871
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Yōichi Miyazawa	111,321
	HRP	Mitsuo Uematsu	3,879
Turnout			254,275	67.86

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yōichi Miyazawa	122,465
	DPJ	Takashi Wada	104,009
	JCP	Mikie Morikawa	14,444
Turnout			245,522	66.28

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yōichi Miyazawa	90,487
	DPJ	Takashi Wada (elected by PR)	73,252
	Independent	Toshimasa Yamada	23,185
	JCP	Mikie Morikawa	11,100
Turnout			203,782	55.46

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yōichi Miyazawa	112,145
	DPJ	Toshimasa Yamada (elected by PR)	68,500
	JCP	Mikie Morikawa	20,765

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kiichi Miyazawa	95,045
	DPJ	Minoru Yanagida	69,603
	NSP	Shinsaku Takahashi	21,240
	JCP	Matsutarō Shimizu	14,915
Turnout			204,490	58.64

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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (Japanese)
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>中国>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　広島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-15.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.

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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