Chiba 4th district

Chiba 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Western Chiba and covers the city of Funabashi. As of 2016, 459,431 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] In the 2009 and 2012 general elections, the district has the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan at more than two times as many voters as the district with the highest electoral weight, Kōchi-3rd.[2]

Chiba 4th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Chiba Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureChiba
Proportional DistrictMinami-Kantō
Electorate459,431 (2016)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyIndependent (DP)
RepresentativeYoshihiko Noda
Created fromChiba's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesMost of Funabashi city

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Funabashi was part of Chiba 1st district where four Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has represented Chiba 4th district since 2000 after initially losing it as a candidate for the New Frontier Party by 105 votes to Liberal Democrat Shōichi Tanaka in 1996. Amid the LDP landslide in 2012 that returned them into power, then-PM Noda became a rare DPJ politician who actually increased his share of vote in his constituency.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Shōichi Tanaka LDP 1996 – 2000
Yoshihiko Noda DPJ 2000 – 2016 Incumbent
DP 2016 – 2017
Ind 2017 –

Election results
2017[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Yoshihiko Noda 131,024 59.59 8.90
Liberal Democratic Tatsuya Kimura (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 61,804 28.11 1.21
Communist Toshirō Fukatsu 14,955 6.80 3.73
Innovation Hiroshi Satō 12,104 5.50 N/A
Majority 69,220 31.48
Turnout 49.41 3.75
Independent hold Swing 5.06
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 119,193 51.69 5.59
Liberal Democratic Tatsuya Kimura (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 67,600 29.32 4.01
Communist Kazuko Saitō (elected by PR) 24,275 10.53 3.00
Independent Ken'ichi Nishio (endorsed by the Greens) 19,510 8.46 N/A
Majority 51,593 22.37
Turnout 53.16 6.30
Democratic hold Swing 4.80
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda (endorsed by PNP) 163,334 57.28 3.64
Liberal Democratic Mikio Fujita (endorsed by NKP) 72,187 25.31 2.95
Tomorrow Yukiko Miyake (endorsed by NPD) 28,187 9.88 N/A
Communist Kazuko Saitō 21,459 7.53 0.09
Majority 91,147 31.97
Turnout 307,954 59.46 3.67
Democratic hold Swing 3.30

In 2009, Yoshihiko Noda's candidacy was formally supported by the People's New Party, Mikio Fujita by New Komeito.[6]

2009[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda (endorsed by PNP) 162,153 53.64 8.75
Liberal Democratic Mikio Fujita (endorsed by NKP) 85,425 28.26 16.32
Your Itoko Noyashiki 28,280 9.35 N/A
Communist Kazuko Saitō 23,050 7.62 0.73
Happiness Realization Kōichirō Yamanaka 3,403 1.13 N/A
Majority 76,728 25.38
Turnout 307,954 63.13 0.24
Democratic hold Swing 12.52
2005[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 129,834 44.89 10.9
Liberal Democratic Mikio Fujita (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP) 128,890 44.58 11.7
Communist Toshinori Niki 24,138 8.35 2.9
Independent Kōji Nagano 6,311 2.18 N/A
Majority 956 0.31
Turnout 294,777 63.37 9.08
Democratic hold Swing 11.3
2003[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 135,522 55.8 8.5
Liberal Democratic Masaru Hasegawa (endorsed by NKP) 80,051 32.9 1.9
Communist Yukiko Tsuga 27,441 11.3 6.9
Turnout 249,446 54.29 9.08
Democratic hold Swing 5.2
2000[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 116,156 47.3 15.4
Liberal Democratic Ken'ichi Nishio (endorsed by NKP) 76,067 31.0 1.0
Communist Shōji Ishii 44,586 18.2 2.0
Liberal League Yutaka Akimoto 8,899 3.5 N/A
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing 8.2
1996[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Shōichi Tanaka 73,792 32.0
New Frontier Yoshihiko Noda 73,687 31.9
Democratic Takayuki Kojima 45,924 19.9
Communist Shin'ichi Maruyama 37,300 16.2
Turnout 235,653 55.07
Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
  2. 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 (in Japanese)
  3. 小選挙区開票速報：千葉県（定数13） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  4. 小選挙区：千葉県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  5. 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  6. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  7. 小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県４区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  8. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-08. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  9. ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー千葉県ヨ４区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  10. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-07-29. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  11. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  12. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
House of Representatives of Japan
Preceded by
Tokyo 18th district		 Constituency represented by the Prime Minister
2011 – 2012		 Succeeded by
Yamaguchi 4th district

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