Hyogo 8th district

Hyogo 8th district (兵庫県第8区 Hyōgo-ken Dai-hachiku), also referred to as Hyōgo hachi-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyōgo and consists of the city of Amagasaki. As of September 2015, 379,207 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 2nd district that elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, it has been represented by three people: former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former governor of Nagano Prefecture Yasuo Tanaka, and the current representative Hiromasa Nakano, who worked under Fuyushiba in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba New Frontier Party(1996–98) 1996 – 2009
Komeito(1998-2009)
Yasuo Tanaka New Party Nippon 2009 – 2012
Hiromasa Nakano Komeito 2012–present

Election results

2014[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Kōmeitō Hiromasa Nakano 94,687 60.9 14.3
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 60,849 39.1 28.3
Turnout
2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Kōmeitō Hiromasa Nakano 97,562 46.6 5.3
New Party Nippon Yasuo Tanaka 62,697 30.0 -12.2
Democratic Hideko Muroi 26,246 12.6 12.6
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 22,645 10.8 2.7
Turnout
2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Party Nippon Yasuo Tanaka 106,225 42.2 42.2
Kōmeitō Tstsuzo Fuyushiba 103,918 41.3 -5.0
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 20,327 8.1 -4.5
Social Democratic Banko Ichiki 18,770 7.5 1.6
Happiness Realization Tomokazu Sumide 2,532 1.0 1.0
Turnout
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Kōmeitō Tstsuzo Fuyushiba 109,957 46.3
Democratic Kunihiko Muroi 83,288 35.1
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 29,986 12.6
Social Democratic Munenori Ueda 14,019 5.9
Turnout

References

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