Iwate 4th district

Iwate 4th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Iwate
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	305,917
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	PLP
Representative	Ichirō Ozawa (1996-)
Created from	Iwate's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	The cities of Hanamaki, Kitakami, Ōshū, and the districts of Waga and Isawa

Iwate 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in southwestern Iwate and consists of the cities of Hanamaki, Kitakami and Ōshū as well as the Waga and Isawa Districts. As of 2012, 305,917 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Iwate 2nd district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

The only representative for Iwate 4th district since its creation in 1996 has been former Liberal Democratic Party secretary-general Ichirō Ozawa (LDP→JRP→NFP→LP→DPJ→LF→TPJ→PLP)

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Ichirō Ozawa	NFP	1996 – 2000
	LP	2000 – 2003
	DPJ	2003 – 2012	Formed People's Life First, joined Tomorrow Party of Japan in 2012
	TPJ	2012 – 2014	Formed People's Life Party in 2012
	PLP	2014 –	Incumbent

Election results

2014^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Life	Ichirō Ozawa	75,293	47.8
	Liberal Democratic	Takashi Fujiwara (endorsed by Komeito) (elected by PR)	57,824	36.7
	Communist	Tsunaki Takahashi	24,421	15.5

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tomorrow	Ichirō Ozawa (endorsed by NPD)	78,057	45.5
	Liberal Democratic	Takashi Fujiwara (elected by PR)	47,887	27.9
	Democratic	Toshiaki Oikawa	28,593	16.7
	Communist	Kōki Takahashi	17,033	9.9

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ichirō Ozawa (supported by PNP)	133,978
	Liberal Democratic	Yoshinobu Takahashi (endorsed by Komeito)	41,690
	Social Democratic	Senryū Obara	28,925
	Communist	Sadakiyo Segawa	8,288
	Happiness Realization	Akira Yasunaga	1,280
Turnout			216,754	76.18

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ichirō Ozawa	124,578.000
	Liberal Democratic	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	48,093.000
	Social Democratic	Kōki Kubo	23,727.697
	Communist	Kōki Takahashi	11,420.291
Turnout			210,247.000	73.36

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ichirō Ozawa	128,458.000
	Liberal Democratic	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	37,251.000
	Social Democratic	Kōki Kubo	20,936.334
	Communist	Kōki Takahashi	10,642.653
Turnout			200,128.000	69.87

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ichirō Ozawa	119,099
	Social Democratic	Yukihiro Kimura	37,417
	Liberal Democratic	Kōichi Igata	28,926
	Communist	Ryōko Sakamoto	14,051

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Ichirō Ozawa	125,619
	Social Democratic	Reijirō Sawafuji	38,482
	Liberal Democratic	Kōichi Igata	20,179
	Communist	Natsuko Yaegashi	9,933
Turnout			197,093	71.45

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2014>開票結果　小選挙区　岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-12-16.
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-06.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09. External link in |work= (help)

Iwate's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 PR part of the Tōhoku PR block (16→14 seats) House of Councillors At-large (4 Representatives, 2 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 (8→7 Representatives, 2 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (8 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (7 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Morioka city counties (gunbu) (6 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 (5 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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