Tokyo proportional representation block

The Tōkyō proportional representation block (Hirei [daihyō] Tōkyō burokku (比例[代表]東京ブロック)) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) "blocks", multi-member constituencies for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists solely of the prefecture of Tokyo making it one of two blocks covering only one prefecture, the other being Hokkaido. Following the introduction of proportional voting Tokyo elected 19 representatives by PR in the 1996 general election, and 17 since the election of 2000 when the total number of PR seats was reduced from 200 to 180.

Summary of results

Beyond remote parts of Western Tokyo on the mainland and the Izu and Ogasawara islands, Tokyo's population is concentrated in urban and suburban areas. Reformist and left-of-center parties have usually won a majority of votes and seats. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005 though, the LDP won a record 2.6 million votes in Tokyo; it would have received eight seats but hadn't nominated enough candidates: Of its 30 PR list candidates, 24 concurrently ran in districts; 23 won their district races, leaving only a total of seven list candidates to be elected by PR. One seat went to the SDP as it would have been assigned a hypothetical, 18th seat under the d'Hondt method.

general election DPJ LDP Komeito JCP SDP NFP ('96)/LP ('00)/
TPJ ('12)		 YP JRP Others
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
1996 1,213,677 23.4 5 1,398,791 27.0 5 – 923,764 17.8 3 280,391 5.4 1 1,275,432 24.6 5 – – 94,073 1.8 0
2000 1,653,045 29.0 6 1,110,177 19.5 4 726,203 12.7 2 817,045 14.3 2 377,230 6.6 1 776,018 13.6 2 – – 236,919 4.2 0
2003 2,291,124 39.9 8 1,867,544 32.5 6 805,640 14.0 2 532,376 9.3 1 247,103 4.3 0 – – – –
2005 1,962,225 29.6 6 2,665,417 40.2 (8→)7 820,126 12.4 2 586,017 8.8 1 300,782 4.5 (0→)1 – – – 290,027 4.4 0
2009 2,839,081 41.0 8 1,764,696 25.5 5 717,199 10.4 2 665,462 9.6 1 299,032 4.3 0 – 419,903 6.1 1 – 222,094 3.2 0
2012 1,008,011 15.4 3 1,626,057 24.9 5 662,743 10.1 2 484,365 7.4 1 136,889 2.1 0 448,689 6.9 1 762,730 11.7 2 1,298,309 19.9 3 109,814 1.7 0

Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, English name):

List of Representatives

Note: Party affiliations as of election day.

Years Elected Representatives
1996– Tetsuzō Fuwa Mutsumi Sasaki Taketoshi Nakajima Nobuto Hosaka Eiko Ishige Sadao Yamahana
died 1999, replaced by
Osamu Shibutani 		Banri Kaieda
Yukihisa Fujita Kōki Ishii Masamitsu Jōjima Shōzō Azuma Otohiko Endō Akihiro Ōta Keiichi Ishii
Takashi Fukaya Hyōsuke Kujiraoka Ichirō Takahashi Kiyoshi Ozawa Michio Ochi –
2000– Tetsuzō Fuwa Tomio Yamaguchi Nobuto Hosaka Tetsundo Iwakuni Masamitsu Jōjima Muneaki Samejima Kazuo Inoue
Eiko Ishige Hirosato Nakatsugawa Shōzō Azuma Yoshio Suzuki Akihiro Ōta Yōsuke Takagi Midori Matsushima
Kunio Hatoyama Tatsuya Itō Ichirō Takahashi –
2003– Tomio Yamaguchi Yukihiko Akutsu Yukihisa Fujita Kazuo Inoue Muneaki Samejima Hisashi Shimada Hirosato Nakatsugawa
Eiko Ishige Noboru Usami Yōsuke Takagi Michiyo Takagi Eita Yashiro Kunio Hatoyama Tatsuya Itō
Kaoru Yosano Ichirō Kamoshita Takashi Kosugi –
2005– Akira Kasai Nobuto Hosaka Yoshinori Suematsu Kōichi Katō Yōko Komiyama Akihisa Nagashima Akira Nagatsuma
Jin Matsubara Yōsuke Takagi Michiyo Takagi Kuniko Inoguchi Yamatada Tsuchiya Kazuo Aichi Jun'ichirō Yasui
Kenji Wakamiya Taku Ōtsuka Seiichirō Shimizu –
2009– Akira Kasai Kumiko Hayakawa Mitsuaki Takeda Eiko Ichige Kōki Kobayashi Kōichi Yoshida Tomotarō Kawashima
Hirosato Nakatsugawa Kōichirō Watanabe Mito Kakizawa Yōsuke Takagi Michiyo Takagi Ichirō Kamoshita Masaaki Taira
Kaoru Yosano Yuriko Koike Isshū Sugawara –
2012– Akira Kasai Ai Aoki Banri Kaieda Jin Matsubara Naoto Kan Toshiaki Ōkuma Hidehiro Mitani
Shintarō Ishihara Hirofumi Imamura Hiroshi Yamada Yōsuke Takagi Michiyo Takagi Kiyoshi Odawara Tsukasa Akimoto
Fumiaki Matsumoto Tsuneo Akaeda Tsuyoshi Tabata –

Election result 2009

Tokyo block results in the 2009 general election[1][2]
LDP: 1,764,696 votes (25.5%), 5 seats DPJ: 2,839,081 votes (41.0%), 8 seats Kōmeitō: 717,199 votes (10.4%), 2 seats
# Candidate District "Loss ratio"
(sekihairitsu) 		Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
1 Ichirō Kamoshita Tokyo 13 97.3% Elected 1 Kumiko Hayakawa Tokyo 17 77.1% Elected 1 Yōsuke Takagi PR only Elected
Masaaki Taira Tokyo 4 93.5% Elected Banri Kaieda Tokyo 1 Won district 2 Michiyo Takagi Elected
Kaoru Yosano Tokyo 1 91.7% Elected Yoshikatsu Nakayama Tokyo 2 Won district 3 Tomio Yoshida –
Yuriko Koike Tokyo 10 91.6% Elected Jin Matsubara Tokyo 3 Won district 4 Isoroku Endō –
Isshū Sugawara Tokyo 9 89.9% Elected Norihiko Fujita Tokyo 4 Won district JCP: 665,462 votes (9.6%), 1 seat
Nobuteru Ishihara Tokyo 8 Won district Yoshio Tezuka Tokyo 5 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Hakubun Shimomura Tokyo 11 Won district Yōko Komiyama Tokyo 6 Won district 1 Akira Kasai PR only Elected
Katsuei Hirasawa Tokyo 17 Won district Akira Nagatsuma Tokyo 7 Won district 2 Tomoyuki Tanigawa –
Shinji Inoue Tokyo 25 Won district Takatane Kiuchi Tokyo 9 Won district 3 Mariko Ikeda Tokyo 20 (23.1%) –
Midori Matsushima Tokyo 14 84.6% – Takako Ebata Tokyo 10 Won district 4 Michinobu Tokutome Tokyo 11 (31.1%) –
Kōichi Hagiuda Tokyo 24 81.9% – Ai Aoki Tokyo 12 Won district SDP: 299,032 votes (4.3%), no seat
Yukari Satō Tokyo 5 81.0% – Tairō Hirayama Tokyo 13 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Ben Kimura Tokyo 15 76.1% – Taketsuka Kimura Tokyo 14 Won district 1 Nobuto Hosaka Tokyo 8 (79.1%) –
Tatsuya Itō Tokyo 22 75.7% – Shōzō Azuma Tokyo 15 Won district 2 Ikkei Ikeda PR only –
Hirotaka Ishihara Tokyo 3 74.3% – Akihiro Hatsushika Tokyo 16 Won district YP: 419,903 votes (6.1%), 1 seat
Seiji Kihara Tokyo 20 70.2% – Naoto Kan Tokyo 18 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Kōsuke Itō Tokyo 23 64.4% – Yoshinori Suematsu Tokyo 19 Won district 1 Mito Kakizawa Tokyo 15 (36.9%) Elected
Yōhei Matsumoto Tokyo 19 62.0% – Kōichi Katō Tokyo 20 Won district NPN: 100,381 votes (1.4%), no seat
Takao Ochi Tokyo 6 59.0% – Akihisa Nagashima Tokyo 21 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Yūichi Ogawa Tokyo 21 55.9% – Ikuo Yamahana Tokyo 22 Won district 1 Yoshifu Arita Tokyo 11 (97.0%) –
Masatada Tsuchiya Tokyo 18 54.0% – Mari Kushibuchi Tokyo 23 Won district 2 Yūichi Gotō PR only –
Fumiaki Matsumoto Tokyo 7 47.4% – Yukihiko Akutsu Tokyo 24 Won district HRP: 35,667 votes (0.5%), no seat
23 Kenji Wakamiya PR only – 23 Mitsuaki Takeda PR only Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
24 Jun'ichirō Yasui – 24 Eiko Ishige Elected 1 Zuishō Motochikawa PR only –
25 Kazuo Aichi – 25 Kōki Kobayashi Elected 2 Dr. NakaMats –
26 Masaaki Kuniyasu – 26 Kōichi Yoshida Elected 3 Juninosuke Kawaguchi –
27 Hideo Ōnishi – 27 Tomotarō Kawashima Elected 4 Fumiya Satō –
28 Kazuo Ishida – 28 Hirosato Nakatsugawa Elected 5 Tadahiko Saitō –
PNP: 86,046 votes (1.2%), 0 seats 29 Kōichirō Watanabe Elected 6 Kōji Shirotori –
# Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected 30 Shigeko Shinohara – 7 Jikidō Aeba –
1 Keiichirō Nakamura PR only – –
2 Tarō Masago Tokyo 25 (45.5%) –

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Results of the 2009 general election
  2. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun: Election feature 2009
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