Kanagawa 10th district

Kanagawa 10th district (神奈川[県第]10区, Kanagawa[-ken dai-]jikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in North-eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and consists of Kawasaki City's three eastern wards of Kawasaki, Saiwai and Nakahara. As of September 2011, 494,755 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters the second lowest vote weight in the country behind Chiba 4th district.[1]

Electoral districts in Kanagawa Prefecture

After the introduction of single-member districts, Kanagawa 10th district went narrowly to NFP Representative Eiji Nagai who had represented the pre-reform five-member Kanagawa 2nd district for the Japan New Party since 1993. Nagai became a Democrat in the wake of the NFP dissolution, but lost the district to Liberal Democrat Kazunori Tanaka (Yamasaki faction). Tanaka who became Senior Vice Minister during the Koizumi and First Abe Cabinets held onto the 10th district until the landslide election of 2009 when he lost to Democrat Kōriki Jōjima (Kawabata group=ex-DSP faction) who had been a representative from Tokyo (under his real name Masamitsu Jōjima) between 1996 and 2005. Jōjima went on to become a minister of state in the Noda Cabinet in 2011. In 2012, he was voted out of the House of Representatives alongside seven other sitting ministers in the Noda Cabinet. Tanaka was again appointed as a Senior Vice Minister in the Second Abe Cabinet.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Eiji Nagai NFP 1996–2000 Joined Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People"), Minseitō ("Democratic" or "Civil Government Party"), Minshutō ("Democratic Party") in the NFP dissolution
Re-elected in the Southern Kantō PR block
Kazunori Tanaka LDP 2000–2009 Re-elected by PR
Kōriki Jōjima DPJ 2009–2012 Failed re-election by PR
Kazunori Tanaka LDP 2012– Incumbent

Election results
2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP – Kōmeitō Kazunori Tanaka 104,994 37.5
DPJ – PNP Kōriki Jōjima 61,255 21.9
YP Eiichirō Kume 44,493 15.9
JRP Teruhisa Ishikawa 44,185 15.8
JCP Toshihiro Nakano 25,310 9.0
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ – PNP Kōriki Jōjima 152,921 49.3
LDP – Kōmeitō Kazunori Tanaka (elected by PR) 118,641 38.2
JCP Takashi Kasaki 33,134 10.7
HRP Ryūichi Shimazaki 5,746 1.9
Turnout 317163 65.46
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kazunori Tanaka 160,669 56.4
DPJ Keikō Hakariya 89,025 31.3
JCP Takashi Kasaki 34,971 12.3
Turnout 291,800 64.41
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kazunori Tanaka 114,766 48.1
DPJ Keikō Hakariya (elected by PR) 89,752 37.6
JCP Takashi Kasaki 34,003 14.3
Turnout 246,726 55.62
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Kazunori Tanaka 94,183 39.6
DPJ Eiji Nagai (elected by PR) 87,775 36.9
JCP Takashi Kasaki 48,812 20.5
LL Kengo Kanehira 7,180 3.0
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Eiji Nagai 70,276 31.2
LDP Kazunori Tanaka (elected by PR) 68,892 30.6
JCP Masahiro Nakaji (elected by PR) 48,488 21.5
DPJ Hisashi Shibata 35,101 15.6
LL Nobuaki Iwaki 2,406 1.1
Turnout 230,812 54.79

References
  1. Ministry of general affairs: 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)
  2. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  3. 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川10区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. External link in |work= (help)
  4. 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川10区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. External link in |work= (help)
  5. 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川10区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. External link in |work= (help)
  6. 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川10区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. External link in |work= (help)
  7. 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川10区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. External link in |work= (help)
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