Tohoku proportional representation block

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The Tōhoku proportional representation block (比例[代表]東北ブロック Hirei [daihyō] Tōhoku burokku?) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of the Tōhoku region, namely the prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima. Upon the introduction of proportional voting at the 1996 general election, the block elected 16 Representatives to the House. The block's representation was reduced to 14 Representatives at the 2000 general election.

Summary of results

All major national parties have managed to obtain at least one of the PR seats in Tōhoku since the introduction of proportional voting in 1996. The region also contains several strongholds: Aomori in particular is a typical "conservative kingdom" and leans towards the LDP alongside with the Western prefectures along the Sea of Japan coast; Iwate is the home of Ichirō Ozawa, former NFP, LP and DPJ president and a "Democratic kingdom" having also the first prefectural parliament in Japan where the Democrats managed to obtain the status of strongest party in 2007.

General election DPJ LDP Kōmeitō JCP SDP NFP ('96)/
LP ('00)/
TPJ ('12)/
PLP ('14)		 JRP ('12)/
JIP ('14)		 YP Others
Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats Votes  % Seats
1996 513,410 11.1 2 1,630,777 35.3 6 – 442,790 9.6 1 382,271 8.3 1 1,532,987 33.2 6 – 121,828 2.6 0
2000 1,024,253 21.2 3 1,545,028 32.0 5 474,238 9.8 1 391,055 8.1 1 517,267 10.7 1 786,751 16.3 3 – 96,174 2.0 0
2003 1,784,768 37.4 5 1,794,284 37.6 6 565,179 11.9 1 313,290 6.6 1 310,187 6.5 1 – – –
2005 1,748,165 33.6 5 1,901,595 36.5 6 620,638 11.9 1 325,176 6.2 1 362,523 7.0 1 – – 244,933 4.7 0
2009 2,433,836 45.5 7 1,491,761 27.9 4 516,688 9.7 1 315,201 5.9 1 316,635 5.9 1 – – 241,445 4.5 0 36,295 0.7 0
2012 805,709 18.6 3 1,238,716 28.6 5 398,131 9.2 1 256,838 5.9 1 160,367 3.7 0 391,216 9.0 1 725,006 16.7 2 306,102 7.1 1 56,412 1.3 0
2014 863,539 22.5 4 1,265,372 32.9 5 431,169 11.2 2 379,811 9.9 1 131,857 3.4 0 181,487 4.7 0 499,437 13.0 2 – 89,227 2.3 0

List of Representatives

Note: Party affiliations as of election day.

Years Elected Representatives
1996– Zenmei Matsumoto Ichirō Hino Kōdō Kohata Tatsuo Sasayama Kōki Hagino Yoshiyuki Hozumi Ichio Kumagai Toshiaki Endō
Kenjirō Hatakeyama Kōichirō Genba Yoshihisa Inoue Yasusuke Konta Kijūrō Sugahara Hidefumi Minorikawa Kōji Futada Tokuichirō Tamazawa
2000– Zenmei Matsumoto Ichirō Hino
died 2003, replaced by
Masayo Tanabu		 Kijūrō Sugahara
resigned 2001, replaced by
Kentarō Ishihara		 Kentarō Kudō Hidefumi Minorikawa
died 2003, replaced by
Kyōichi Tsushima		 Hiroyuki Arai Kōji Sakamoto –
Tetsuo Kanno Yasusuke Konta Takao Satō Yoshinobu Takahashi Yoshihisa Inoue Kōki Hagino Ichio Kumagai
2003– Chizuko Takahashi Kiyohito Hashimoto Yōsuke Kondō Michihiko Kano Masayoshi Yoshino Kōki Hagino Tokuichirō Tamazawa
Kiyohiro Yamamoto Teruhiko Mashiko Izumi Yoshida Yoshihisa Inoue Kōji Futada Kyōichi Tsushima Masashi Nakano
2005– Chizuko Takahashi Kazuko Kōri Yōsuke Kondō Masayo Tanabu Kōji Sakamoto Tatsuo Satō Atsushi Watanabe
Tetsuo Kanno Hokuto Yokoyama Izumi Yoshida Yoshihisa Inoue Masashi Nakano Tokuichirō Tamazawa Kōji Futada
2009– Chizuko Takahashi Masayo Tanabu Noriko Nakanowatari Kazuo Takamatsu Kazuyuki Yamaguchi Masayoshi Yoshino Toshiaki Endō
Hideo Yoshiizumi Kyōichi Tsushima Miki Wajima
resigned in 2012, replaced by
Ippu Watanabe		 Chōuemon Kikuchi Yoshihisa Inoue Kenya Akiba Katsutoshi Kaneda
2012–[1] Chizuko Takahashi Izumi Yoshida Kazuko Kōri Shinji Oguma Yoshihisa Inoue Takashi Fujiwara Miyo Ōkubo
Kōji Hata Yōsuke Kondō Hiroki Hayashi Toshihide Muraoka Hinako Takahashi Hidenori Hashimoto Sachiko Kanno
2014–[2] Chizuko Takahashi Yōsuke Kondō Kazuko Kōri Toshihide Muraoka Yoshihisa Inoue Takashi Fujiwara Hidenori Hashimoto
Emi Kaneko Manabu Terata Sekio Masuta Yūichi Mayama Ichirō Kanke Hinako Takahashi Shigeaki Katsunuma

Recent results

  • #: List rank assigned by the party
  • District column: For double candidates who concurrently ran in a single-member electoral district, the district column contains the electoral district where they stood and the sekihairitsu (lit. "narrow defeat ratio"), the ratio of margin of defeat. It determines the ranking of candidates who are put on the same list rank by their party.
  • (in parentheses): Double candidates who are not eligible for election in the proportional block either because they won their district races or were disqualified for having received less than 10% of the vote in the district race (also the threshold for losing the deposit)

2014

Tōhoku block results in the 2014 general House of Representatives election[2]
# Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status
LDP: 1,265,372 votes (32.9%), 5 seats DPJ: 863,539 votes (22.5%), 4 seats JIP: 499,437 votes (13.0%), 2 seats
1 (Jun Tsushima) Aomori 1 (won) 1 (Takeshi Shina) Iwate 1 (won) 1 (Shinji Oguma) Fukushima 4 (won)
(Akinori Eto) Aomori 2 (won) (Tōru Kikawada) Iwate 3 (won) Sekio Masuta Aomori 1 (94.2%) Elected
(Tadamori Ōshima) Aomori 3 (won) (Jun Azumi) Miyagi 5 (won) Toshihide Muraoka Akita 3 (94.0%) Elected
(Tarō Kumura) Aomori 4 (won) (Kōichirō Genba) Fukushima 3 (won) Hiroki Hayashi Miyagi 2 (66.4%) –
(Shun'ichi Suzuki) Iwate 2 (won) Emi Kaneko Fukushima 1 (94.8%) Elected Noriko Nakanowatari Aomori 2 (34.8%) –
(Tōru Doi) Miyagi 1 (won) Yōsuke Kondō Yamagata 2 (92.3%) Elected Kōmeitō: 431,169 votes (11.2%), 2 seats
(Ken'ya Akiba) Miyagi 2 (won) Manabu Terata Akita 1 (87.0%) Elected 1 Yoshihisa Inoue – Elected
(Akihiro Nishimura) Miyagi 3 (won) Kazuko Kōri Miyagi 1 (86.8%) Elected 2 Yūichi Mayama – Elected
(Shintarō Itō) Miyagi 4 (won) Izumi Yoshida Fukushima 5 (84.4%) – JCP: 379,811 votes (9.9%), 1 seat
(Itsunori Onodera) Miyagi 6 (won) Masayo Tanabu Aomori 3 (82.8%) – 1 Chizuko Takahashi – Elected
(Hiroyuki Togashi) Akita 1 (won) Takashi Midorikawa Akita 2 (69.1%) – 2 Tomo Iwabuchi – –
(Katsutoshi Kaneda) Akita 2 (won) Kiyohito Hashimoto Miyagi 3 (64.2%) – PLP: 181,487 votes (4.7%), no seat
(Nobuhide Minorikawa) Akita 3 (won) Mitsunori Akabe Fukushima 2 (63.6%) – 1 (Ichirō Ozawa) Iwate 4 (won)
(Toshiaki Endō) Yamagata 1 (won) Masae Ido Miyagi 4 (51.2%) – Kōji Hata Iwate 2 (84.1%) -
(Norikazu Suzuki) Yamagata 2 (won) Takashi Yamauchi Aomori 4 (48.1%) – 3 Sadao Hirano – –
(Ayuko Katō) Yamagata 3 (won) Masahiro Harada Yamagata 1 (46.7%) – PFG: 71,026 votes (1.8%), no seat
(Yoshitami Kameoka) Fukushima 1 (won) Sayuri Kamata Miyagi 6 (32.4%) – 1 (Teruaki Masumoto) Miyagi 2 (16.7%) DQ
(Takumi Nemoto) Fukushima 2 (won) (Taisei Yoshida) Yamagata 3 (20.0%) DQ 2 Nakako Uda – –
(Masayoshi Yoshino) Fukushima 5 (won) 19 Yoshiaki Kobayashi – – HRP: 18,201 votes (0.5%), no seat
Ichirō Kanke Fukushima 4 (99.2%) Elected SDP: 131,857 votes (3.4%), no seat 1 Hisshō Yanai – –
Takashi Fujiwara Iwate 4 (76.7%) Elected 1 (Uzen Ogawa) Fukushima 4 (17.8%) DQ 2 Ryōta Shirotori – –
Hinako Takahashi Iwate 1 (60.4%) Elected (Takashi Kuwajima) Miyagi 2 (12.8%) DQ 3 Tetsushi Yui – –
Hidenori Hashimoto Iwate 3 (57.4%) Elected (Mitsumasa Hosokawa) Iwate 1 (11.7%) DQ
Shigeaki Katsunuma Miyagi 5 (52.9%) Elected (Masamichi Itō) Akita 1 (8.1%) DQ
Kentarō Uesugi Fukushima 3 (52.0%) 5 Masahiro Kimura – –
26 Sachiko Kanno – –
27 Osamu Yoshida – –
28 Fumito Murakami – –

2012

Tōhoku block results in the 2012 general House of Representatives election[1]
# Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status
LDP: 1,238,716 votes (28.6%), 5 seats DPJ: 805,709 votes (18.6%), 3 seats JRP: 725,006 votes (16.7%), 2 seats
1 (Jun Tsushima) Aomori 1 (won) 1 (Takeshi Shina) Iwate 1 (won) 1 Shinji Oguma Fukushima 4 (69.7%) Elected
(Akinori Eto) Aomori 2 (won) (Tōru Kikawada) Iwate 3 (won) 2 Toshihide Muraoka Akita 3 (76.5%) Elected
(Tadamori Ōshima) Aomori 3 (won) (Jun Azumi) Miyagi 5 (won) Sekio Masuta Aomori 1 (64.7%) –
(Tarō Kimura) Aomori 4 (won) (Kōichirō Genba) Fukushima 3 (won) 4 Masashi Nakano Miyagi 2 (59.1%) –
(Shun'ichi Suzuki) Iwate 2 (won) Izumi Yoshida Fukushima 5 (88.7%) Elected Noboru Usami Fukushima 5 (42.8%) –
(Tōru Doi) Miyagi 1 (won) Yōsuke Kondō Yamagata 2 (81.2%) Elected Masaki Hatakeyama Miyagi 4 (38.2%) –
(Ken'ya Akiba) Miyagi 2 (won) Kazuko Kōri Miyagi 1 (69.6%) Elected Takeaharu Satō Yamagata 3 (35.2%) –
(Akihiro Nishimura) Miyagi 3 (won) Michihiko Kano Yamagata 1 (68.9%) – Kazunori Midorikawa Fukushima 2 (27.9%) –
(Shintarō Itō) Miyagi 4 (won) Keiki Ishiyama Miyagi 4 (67.6%) – Hiroaki Kawano Yamagata 2 (26.1%) –
(Itsunori Onodera) Miyagi 6 (won) Manabu Terata Akita 1 (67.1%) – (Nobuhiro Ōmiya) Akita 1 (20.9%) DQ
(Hiroyuki Togashi) Akita 1 (won) Hiroshi Kawaguchi Akita 2 (62.5%) – Kōmeitō: 398,131 votes (9.2%), 1 seat
(Katsutoshi Kaneda) Akita 2 (won) Masayo Tanabu Aomori 3 (61.6%) – 1 Yoshihisa Inoue – Elected
(Nobuhide Minorikawa) Akita 3 (won) Kiyohito Hashimoto Miyagi 3 (53.2%) – 2 Yūichi Mayama – –
(Toshiaki Endō) Yamagata 1 (won) Azuma Konno Miyagi 2 (45.8%) – TPJ: 391,216 votes (9.0%), 1 seat
(Norikazu Suzuki) Yamagata 2 (won) Hideki Ōba Fukushima 1 (36.7%) – 1 Kōji Hata Iwate 2 (65.9%) Elected
(Yoshitami Kameoka) Fukushima 1 (won) Toshiaki Oikawa Iwate 4 (36.6%) – Yasunori Saitō Miyagi 2 (44.8%) –
(Takumi Nemoto) Fukushima 2 (won) Kyōichi Tsushima Aomori 4 (33.6%) – Hokuto Yokoyama Aomori 1 (43.7%) –
(Ichirō Kanke) Fukushima 4 (won) Yasuo Saitō Fukushima 2 (26.4%) – Yōzaburō Ishihara Fukushima 1 (41.3%) –
(Gōji Sakamoto) Fukushima 5 (won) Mariko Mitsui Akita 3 (24.3%) – Kazumi Ōta Fukushima 2 (27.1%) –
Hinako Takahashi Iwate 1 (78.7%) Elected Tomonobu Nakamura Aomori 2 (22.9%) – Kimiko Kyōno Akita 3 (25.9%) –
Takashi Fujiwara Iwate 4 (61.3%) Elected Sayuri Kamata Miyagi 6 (21.5%) – (Kazuo Takamatsu) Akita 1 (13.2%) DQ
Hidenori Hashimoto Iwate 3 (57.8%) Elected (Rina Hatano) Aomori 1 (23.3%) DQ 8 Chōuemon Kikuchi – –
Miyo Ōkubo Miyagi 5 (47.8%) Elected YP: 306,102 votes (7.1%), 1 seat 9 Yōko Tasso Iwate 1 (74.5%) –
Sachiko Kanno Fukushima 3 (45.2%) Elected 1 Hiroki Hayashi Miyagi 1 (43.7%) Elected Naomi Satō Iwate 3 (69.4%) –
25 Osamu Yoshida – – Fumihiro Kikuchi Miyagi 2 (30.2%) – Noriko Nakanowatari Aomori 2 (22.1%) –
26 Fumito Murakami – – (Kazumasa Sugamoto) Fukushima 5 (16.5%) DQ (Masato Yokota) Miyagi 1 (18.9%) DQ
JCP: 256,838 votes (5.9%), 1 seat SDP: 160,367 votes (3.7%), no seat (Takashi Yamanouchi) Aomori 3 (17.1%) DQ
1 Chizuko Takahashi – Elected 1 Hideo Yoshiizumi Yamagata 3 (31.9%) – (Nobuko Abe) Miyagi 5 (12.7%) DQ
2 Tomo Iwabuchi – – Hiroshi Ishida Akita 2 (23.4%) – (Kiichi Matsumoto) Fukushima 5 (11.2%) DQ
NRP: 41,587 votes (1.0%), no seat Uzen Ogawa Fukushima 4 (21.9%) – 16 Tamikazu Kawaguchi – –
1 Kentarō Uesugi – – (Masahiro Isawa) Iwate 1 (17.7%) DQ HRP: 14,825 votes (0.3%), no seat
– (Takashi Kuwajima) Miyagi 1 (7.4%) DQ 1 Hironori Matsushima – –
6 Fumiyo Yamana – – 2 Shūji Nakanishi – –
7 Tetsuo Kanno – – 3 Hidemitsu Sakai – –

2009

Tōhoku block results in the 2009 general election[3][4]
LDP: 1,491,761 votes (27.9%), 4 seats DPJ: 2,433,836 votes (45.5%), 7 seats Kōmeitō: 516,688 votes (9.7%), 1 seat
# Candidate District "Loss ratio"
(sekihairitsu)		 Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
1 Masayoshi Yoshino Fukushima 3 (35.5%) Elected 1 Masayo Tanabu Aomori 3 99.5% Elected 1 Yoshihisa Inoue PR only Elected
2 Ken'ya Akiba PR only Elected Kyōichi Tsushima Aomori 4 86.8% Elected 2 Kaneshige Wakamatsu –
3 Toshiaki Endō Yamagata 1 98.7% Elected Noriko Nakanowatari Aomori 2 74.2% Elected 3 Tetsuya Kawamata –
Katsutoshi Kaneda Akita 2 98.5% Elected Hokuto Yokoyama Aomori 1 Won district JCP: 315,201 votes (5.9%), 1 seat
Akinori Eto Aomori 2 Won district Takeshi Shina Iwate 1 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Tadamori Ōshima Aomori 3 Won district Kōji Hata Iwate 2 Won district 1 Chizuko Takahashi PR only Elected
Tarō Kimura Aomori 4 Won district Tōru Kikawada Iwate 3 Won district 2 Shizue Miyamoto –
Itsunori Onodera Miyagi 6 Won district Kazuko Kōri Miyagi 1 Won district 3 Satoshi Suzuki Akita 1 17.0% –
Kōichi Katō Yamagata 3 Won district Yasunori Saitō Miyagi 2 Won district Mikio Katō Miyagi 4 9.9% –
Nobuhide Minorikawa Akita 3 88.9% – Kiyohito Hashimoto Miyagi 3 Won district Yō Yoshimata Aomori 1 7.8% –
Yoshitaka Kameoka Fukushima 1 87.4% – Keiki Ishiyama Miyagi 4 Won district Sadakiyo Segawa Iwate 4 6.1% –
Takumi Nemoto Fukushima 2 84.9% – Jun Azumi Miyagi 5 Won district Masayuki Satō Yamagata 1 5.6% –
Shun'ichi Suzuki Iwate 2 82.1% – Manabu Terata Akita 1 Won district SDP: 316,635 votes (5.9%), 1 seat
Akihiro Nishimura Miyagi 3 79.0% – Mikiko Kyōno Akita 3 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Shintarō Itō Miyagi 4 77.2% – Michihiko Kano Yamagata 1 Won district 1 Hideo Yoshiizumi Yamagata 3 61.5% Elected
Masami Saitō Miyagi 5 70.7% – Yōsuke Kondō Yamagata 2 Won district Tetsuo Kanno Miyagi 6 53.6% –
Kōji Futada Akita 1 66.3% – Yōsaburō Ishihara Fukushima 1 Won district Kiyohiro Yamamoto Akita 2 25.2% –
Kōji Sakamoto Fukushima 5 65.5% – Kazumi Ōta Fukushima 2 Won district Senryō Obara Iwate 4 21.5% –
Masashi Nakano Miyagi 2 62.3% – Kōichirō Genba Fukushima 3 Won district Hidehiko Watanabe Aomori 1 12.6% –
Tōru Doi Miyagi 1 58.2% – Kōzō Watanabe Fukushima 4 Won district Masahiro Isawa Iwate 1 11.2% –
Atsushi Watanabe Fukushima 4 53.8% – Izumi Yoshida Fukushima 5 Won district YP: 241,445 votes (4.5%), no seat
Hironori Suzuki Yamagata 2 48.7% – 22 Miki Wajima PR only Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Hidenori Hashimoto Iwate 3 46.9% – 23 Kazuo Takamatsu Elected 1 Shinji Oguma Fukushima 4 46.7% –
Hinako Takahashi Iwate 1 43.4% – 24 Chōuemon Kikuchi Elected Shigehito Sasaki Akita 2 9.2% –
Yoshinobu Takahashi Iwate 4 31.1% – 25 Kazuyuki Yamaguchi Elected HRP: 36,295 votes (0.7%), no seat
26 Nobuhiro Ōmiya PR only – 26 Tamikazu Kawaguchi – (removed) # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
27 Shigeyo Nagaoka – 27 Ippu Watanabe – (in 2012) 1 Hironori Matsushima PR only –
28 Hisataka Satō – 28 Hisashi Suzuki – 2 Yukiya Uejō –
– 3 Maki Akimoto –

References

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

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