Tokyo 8th district

Tokyo 8th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers western parts of the former city of Tokyo. The district consists of Suginami ward. As of 2012, 462,330 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Suginami had been part of Tokyo 4th district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

The only representative for the 8th district since its creation has been Nobuteru Ishihara (LDP, Yamasaki→Ishihara faction), the son of former environment minister and governor of Tokyo Shintarō Ishihara (JRP, formerly LDP, Ishihara→Fukuda faction). In the most recent Representatives election of 2012, he was challenged by actor Tarō Yamamoto who ran as an independent with Social Democratic support, but trailed Ishihara by more than 60,000 votes, and Democrat Yoriko Madoka who had before been a member of the House of Councillors until the 2010 regular election.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Nobuteru Ishihara		LDP	1996 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Nobuteru Ishihara	132,521	46.9
	Independent (SDP)	Taro Yamamoto	71,028	25.2
	DPJ	Yoriko Madoka	54,881	19.4
	JCP	Masatake Jōho	23,961	8.5

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Nobuteru Ishihara	147,514
	SDP (DPJ, PNP support)	Nobuto Hosaka	116,723
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	24,965
	HRP	Seiichi Ueta	6,132
Turnout			301,928	65.5

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	161,966
	DPJ	Morio Suzuki	94,074
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	26,819
Turnout			288,840	64.61

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	136,429
	DPJ	Morio Suzuki	78,007
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	17,572
	SDP	Akiko Sugiyama	16,156
Turnout			254,314	57.39

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	105,779
	DPJ	Mitsuyo Katayama	77,132
	JCP	Kazuko Yamazaki	36,546
	Independent	Hidenori Hasegawa	22,799

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	74,856
	NFP	Hiroshi Yamada	67,670
	JCP	Kazuyoshi Hatta	40,677
	DPJ	Seijun Murata	37,598
	Independent	Takeshi Tsuji	8,324
Turnout			234,869	55.64

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 (Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.

Tokyo's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 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 PR Tokyo PR block House of Councillors At-large (25 Representatives (PR block: 19→17), 8→10 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (43 Representatives, 8 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (22 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (31 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (25 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Tokyo city counties (gunbu) (16 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (12 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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