Representatives elected in the Japanese general election, 2012
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46th House of Representatives | (2012) |
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This is a list of Representatives elected to the House of Representatives at the 2012 general election, held on 16 December 2012, for the Forty-Sixth election period of the House of Representatives beginning with the 182nd session of the National Diet of Japan.
Composition
"In-house group" (breakdown by party) |
Representatives | |
---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (Jiyūminshutō) | 290 | |
Democratic Party of Japan, Japan Innovation Party and Club of Independents (Minshu・Ishin・Mushozoku Club) (DPJ: 71, JIP: 21, independent: 1) |
93 | |
Komeito (Kōmeitō) | 35 | |
Japanese Communist Party (Nihon Kyōsantō) | 21 | |
Initiatives from Osaka (Ōsaka ishin no kai) | 13 | |
Vision of Reform (Kaikaku kesshū no kai) | 5 | |
People's Life Party and Tarō Yamamoto and friends (Seikatsu no Tō to Yamamoto Tarō to nakamatachi) | 2 | |
Social Democratic Party (Shakaiminshutō・Shimin Rengō) (SDP: 2, independents: 0) |
2 | |
Independents (independents: 9, Kanagawa minna no kaikaku: 1, LDP: 1 (Speaker), DPJ: 1 (Vice-Speaker)) |
12 | |
Vacant (Hokkaido 5 and Kyoto 3, by-elections planned for April 24, 2016)[2][3] | 2 | |
Total | 475 |
Changes since the opening session
- 182nd Diet
- December 2012
- Bunmei Ibuki, LDP group→independent (elected President)
- Hirotaka Akamatsu, DPJ group→independent (elected Vice President)
- Seven TPJ group members form PLP
- Tomoko Abe, TPJ group→independent (remains TPJ member)
- Shizuka Kamei, TPJ group→independent (joins Green Wind)
- Kunio Hatoyama, independent→LDP
- December 2012
- 183rd Diet
- May 2013
- Shingo Nishimura, JRP→independent (expelled)
- Tomohiro Ishikawa (party: New Party Daichi, group: independent) resigns
- June 2013
- Takako Suzuki (party: New Party Daichi, group: independent) joins as Hokkaidō proportional replacement for Tomohiro Ishikawa
- May 2013
List of Representatives elected in the general election
Note: Affiliation among Representatives elected may change at any given time.
Table of contents:
Hokkaidō · Tōhoku · Northern Kantō · Southern Kantō · Tōkyō · Hokuriku-Shin'etsu · Tōkai · Kinki · Chūgoku · Shikoku · Kyūshū |
List of Representatives elected in the 2012 general election as proportional replacements
- Takako Suzuki (2013 Hokkaidō PR block replacement for Tomohiro Ishikawa from the NPD list)
- Kōichirō Shimizu (Kinki PR block runner-up on the JRP list, fills seat vacated by Hideo Higashikokubaru in 2013)
- Tatsuo Kawabata (Kinki PR block runner-up on the DPJ list, fills seat vacated by Taizō Mikazuki in 2014)
Representative elected in the 2014 special election
- Masuo Kaneko (LDP, April 2014 special election in Kagoshima's 2nd district)
References
- ↑ House of Representatives: Strength of Political Groups in the House of Representatives (Japanese version that additionally contains a list of Representatives sorted by group: 会派名及び会派別所属議員数)
- ↑ Nihon Keizai Shimbun, September 15, 2015: 衆院北海道5区の補選、16年4月実施へ
- ↑ NHK NewsWeb, February 16, 2016: 宮崎氏の議員辞職許可 衆院京都3区は4月に補選
See also
- Results of the Japanese general election, 2012 (lists Representatives elected by constituency)
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