Okayama 4th district

Okayama 4th district is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in central coastal Okayama and covers the majority of the city of Kurashiki and the (as administrative unit: former) county of Tsukubo that has only one remaining municipality: Hayashima town. As of September 2012, 367,702 eligible voters were registered in the district, giving it slightly below average vote weight.^[1]

The first representative for Okayama 4th district was Liberal Democrat Ryūtarō Hashimoto who had represented the five-member 2nd district before the electoral reform, as had his father Ryōgo before him. Hashimoto, hit by a scandal over political donations from the Japanese Dentists' Federation in 2004, retired from politics in the 2005 general election. His son Gaku tried to "inherit" the seat, but lost to Democrat Michiyoshi Yunoki by a margin of about 6,000 votes. Hashimoto won a seat in the Chūgoku proportional representation block. In his second attempt in the 2009 general election, he lost to Yunoki by an even wider margin (sekihairitsu 72.4) and also failed to win a proportional seat. In his third attempt in the landslide election of 2012, Hashimoto won the district.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Ryūtarō Hashimoto	LDP	1996–2005	Retired from politics
Michiyoshi Yunoki	DPJ	2005–2012	Re-elected to a proportional seat in the Chūgoku block
Gaku Hashimoto	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Recent election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Gaku Hashimoto	91,155	46.4
	DPJ (PNP)	Michiyoshi Yunoki (won PR seat)	64,293	32.7
	JRP	Masaharu Akazawa	29,798	15.2
	JCP	Nobuko Sumasu	11,125	5.7

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP)	Michiyoshi Yunoki	134,319	57.0
	LDP (NK)	Gaku Hashimoto	97,284	41.3
	HRP	Miyuka Koiwai	3,929	1.7
Turnout			240,713	66.1

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Michiyoshi Yunoki	102,370	47.4
	LDP	Gaku Hashimoto (elected by PR)	96,356	44.6
	JCP	Tsuyoshi Azuma	17,094	7.9
Turnout			223,514	62.4

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ryūtarō Hashimoto	104,653	56.5
	DPJ	Michiyoshi Yunoki	66,199	35.7
	JCP	Tsuyoshi Azuma	14,367	7.8
Turnout			192,293	54.3

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: 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)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　岡山. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-15.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 岡山4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 岡山4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 岡山4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-02-08.

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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