Tohoku proportional representation block

Tōhoku Proportional Representation Block
Tōhoku Proportional Representation Block
	Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with an arrow pointing to the Tōhoku block
Prefectures	Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, and Fukushima
Electorate	7,538,808
Current constituency
Created	1994
Number of members	13

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, and to 13 in the 2017 election.[1]

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	LDP			DPJ			Kōmeitō			JCP			SDP			NFP ('96)/ LP ('00)/ TPJ ('12)/ PLP ('14)			JRP ('12)/ JIP ('14)			YP			Others
General election	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
1996	1,630,777	35.3	6	513,410	11.1	2	–			442,790	9.6	1	382,271	8.3	1	1,532,987	33.2	6	–						121,828	2.6	0
2000	1,545,028	32.0	5	1,024,253	21.2	3	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	1,794,284	37.6	6	1,784,768	37.4	5	565,179	11.9	1	313,290	6.6	1	310,187	6.5	1	–			–						–
2005	1,901,595	36.5	6	1,748,165	33.6	5	620,638	11.9	1	325,176	6.2	1	362,523	7.0	1	–			–						244,933	4.7	0
2009	1,491,761	27.9	4	2,433,836	45.5	7	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	1,238,716	28.6	5	805,709	18.6	3	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	1,265,372	32.9	5	863,539	22.5	4	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

Elected Representatives
Tenure	1996-2000			2000-03		2003-05	2005-09	2009-12		2012-14		2014-pres.
Rep. Party	Zenmei Matsumoto JCP					Chizuko Takahashi JCP
Rep. Party	Kenjirō Hatakeyama SDP			Tetsuo Kanno SDP		Kiyohiro Yamamoto SDP	Tetsuo Kanno SDP	Hideo Yoshiizumi SDP		Kōji Hata TPJ	Kōji Hata PLP (from 2013)	Emi Kaneko DPJ	Emi Kaneko DP (from 2016)
Rep. Party	Ichirō Hino (died 2003) DPJ				Masayo Tanabu DPJ	Kiyohito Hashimoto DPJ	Masayo Tanabu DPJ			Kazuko Kōri DPJ			Kazuko Kōri DP (from 2016)
Rep. Party	Kenji Kodama DPJ			Takao Satō DPJ		Yōsuke Kondō DPJ		Noriko Nakanowatami DPJ		Yōsuke Kondō DPJ			Yōsuke Kondō DP (from 2016)
Rep. Party	Yasusuke Konta NFP	Yasasuke Konta DPJ (from 1998)				Izumi Yoshida DPJ		Kazuo Takamatsu DPJ		Izumi Yoshida DPJ		Manabu Terata DPJ	Manabu Terata DP (from 2016)
Rep. Party	Kijūrō Sugahara NFP	Kijūrō Sugahara (resigned 2001) Lib. (from 1998)			Kentarō Ishihara Lib.	Michihiko Kano DPJ	Kazuko Kōri DPJ	Kazuyuki Yamaguchi DPJ		Shinji Oguma JRP	Shinji Oguma JIP (from 2014)	Sekio Masuta JIP	Sekio Masuta DP (from 2016)
Rep. Party	Tatsuo Sasayama NFP	Tatsuo Sasayama Lib. (from 1998)		Kentarō Kudō Lib.		Teruhiko Mashiko DPJ	Hokuto Yokoyama DPJ	Kyōichi Tsushima DPJ		Toshihide Muraoka JRP (until 2014)	Toshihide Muraoka JRP (2014-15)	Toshihide Muraoka Vision of Reform (2015-16)	Toshihide Muraoka DP (from 2016)
Rep. Party	Yoshihisa Inoue NFP	Yoshihisa Inoue Komeito (from 1998)
Rep. Party	Kōdō Kohata NFP	Kōdō Kohata DPJ (from 1998)		Yoshinobu Takahashi Lib.		Masashi Nakano LDP		Miki Wajima (resigned in 2012) DPJ	Ippu Watanabe DPJ	Hiroki Hayashi YP	Hiroki Hayashi Unity Party (2013-14); member of JIP for 2 months in 2014	Yūichi Mayama Komeito
Rep. Party	Kōki Hagino NFP	Kōki Hagino LDP (from 1998)					Atsushi Watanabe LDP	Chōuemon Kikuchi DPJ		Sachiko Kanno LDP		Ichirō Kanke LDP
Rep. Party	Hidefumi Minorikawa (died 2003) LDP				Kyōichi Tsushima LDP		Tatsuo Satō LDP	Katsutoshi Kaneda LDP		Miyo Ōkubo LDP		Shigeaki Katsunama LDP
Rep. Party	Ichio Kumagai LDP					Tokuichirō Tamazawa LDP		Kenya Akiba LDP		Hinako Takahashi LDP
Rep. Party	Kōji Futada LDP			Hiroyuki Arai LDP		Kōji Futada LDP		Masayoshi Yoshino LDP		Hidenori Hashimoto LDP
Rep. Party	Toshiaki Endō LDP			Kōji Sakamoto LDP		Masayoshi Yoshino LDP	Kōji Sakamoto LDP	Toshiaki Endō LDP		Takashi Fujiwara LDP
Rep. Party	Tokuichirō Tamazawa LDP		Seat abolished
Rep. Party	Yoshiyuki Hozumi LDP		Seat abolished

References

MIC: 2017 changes to House of Representatives electoral districts (in Japanese)
総選挙2014>開票結果　比例代表　東北（定数14）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-12-01.
総選挙2012>開票結果　比例代表　東北（定数14）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Results of the 2009 general election
Yomiuri Shimbun: Election feature 2009

JANJAN, The Senkyo: Results of general and by-elections for the House of Representatives 1890–2010

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[1] MIC: 2017 changes to House of Representatives electoral districts (in Japanese)

[yomiuri2014-2] 総選挙2014>開票結果　比例代表　東北（定数14）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-12-01.

[yomiuri2012-3] 総選挙2012>開票結果　比例代表　東北（定数14）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[4] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Results of the 2009 general election

[5] Yomiuri Shimbun: Election feature 2009

First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 (4) Iwate 1 2 3 (4) Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Minami- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)
Tokyo (17 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (11 block seats, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 (5)
Kinki (28 block seats, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 (4) Wakayama 1 2 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 (5) Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 (5) Okinawa 1 2 3 4
(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002, 2013 and 2017 reapportionments