Hiroshima 7th district

Hiroshima 7th district (Hiroshima-ken dai-nana-ku (広島県第7区) or simply Hiroshima nana-ku (広島7区)) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Hiroshima and consists of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012, 377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Hiroshima 3rd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

The first representative for the single-member 7th district was former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa for the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2000, he was followed by Yōichi Miyazawa (LDP), son of former Hiroshima governor Hiroshi Miyazawa, nephew of Kiichi Miyazawa, grandson of Representatives Yutaka Miyazawa and Masaki Kishida and great-grandson of Representative Heikichi Ogawa. In the landslide election of 2009 when the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition lost its majority, Takashi Wada, husband of former Finance minister Tatsuo Murayama's granddaughter, won the district against Miyazawa for the Democratic Party. In the landslide election of 2012 when the DPJ-PNP coalition lost more than two-thirds of its seats, Liberal Democrat Fumiaki Kobayashi won the district.

List of representatives
Party Representative Dates Notes
LDP Kiichi Miyazawa 1996–2000
LDP Yōichi Miyazawa 2000–2009 Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block[2]
DPJ Takashi Wada 2009–2012 Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block
LDP Fumiaki Kobayashi 2012–Present Incumbent

Election results
2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (NK) Fumiaki Kobayashi 93,491 47.5
DPJ (PNP) Takashi Wada 52,543 26.7
JRP (YP) Daisuke Sakamoto (won PR seat) 38,919 19.8
JCP Takushi Kanbara 11,777 6.0
2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Takashi Wada 133,871
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Yōichi Miyazawa 111,321
HRP Mitsuo Uematsu 3,879
Turnout 254,275 67.86
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yōichi Miyazawa 122,465
DPJ Takashi Wada 104,009
JCP Mikie Morikawa 14,444
Turnout 245,522 66.28
2003[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yōichi Miyazawa 90,487
DPJ Takashi Wada (elected by PR) 73,252
Independent Toshimasa Yamada 23,185
JCP Mikie Morikawa 11,100
Turnout 203,782 55.46
2000[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Yōichi Miyazawa 112,145
DPJ Toshimasa Yamada (elected by PR) 68,500
JCP Mikie Morikawa 20,765
1996[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kiichi Miyazawa 95,045
DPJ Minoru Yanagida 69,603
NSP Shinsaku Takahashi 21,240
JCP Matsutarō Shimizu 14,915
Turnout 204,490 58.64

References
  1. 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>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 (in Japanese)
  2. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>中国>自民. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11. External link in |work= (help)
  3. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　広島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  4. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11. External link in |work= (help)
  5. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11. External link in |work= (help)
  6. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11. External link in |work= (help)
  7. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11. External link in |work= (help)
  8. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11. External link in |work= (help)

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