Results of the 2012 Japanese general election (Shikoku proportional representation block)

The Shikoku proportional representation block was one of 11 multi-member districts (and 311 districts overall) that were contested at the general election for the House of Representatives in the Japanese National Diet on 16 December 2012. Six seats were available for election via open party lists. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won the election in a landslide, which returned former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to power. In the Shikoku PR block, the LDP won two of the six seats with 30.7% of the vote.

Voters who participated in the election cast one ballot for the proportional block and a separate ballot for one of the 13 smaller single-member districts that are located within Shikoku.

Results

Prior to the election, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) held three of the six PR block seats as well as 5 of the 13 small electorates that make up the block. The opposition LDP held 2 of the PR seats and the 8 remaining electorates, while their traditional junior coalition partner Komeito held the final PR seat.

The 2012 general election delivered a landslide victory to the LDP, with 294 of the 480 seats won at the national level. The election decimated the DPJ from a pre-election position of 230 to just 57 seats.^[1] In the Shikoku PR block, the DPJ lost 2 of their seats as their vote was reduced to 16.0%, down from 43.2% in the 2009 election. Junya Ogawa lost his seat in Kagawa 1st district but was the DPJ candidate to suffer the narrowest defeat, so he was able to retain a seta in the house. The newly-formed Japan Restoration Party gained the two seats lost by the DPJ.^[2] In the 13 single-member electorates, the LDP gained 4 seats, with Yuichiro Tamaki being the only DPJ member to retain his seat in the Kagawa 2nd district.^[3]

Elected candidates
Party		Representative	Party rank	Term #
	LDP	Takakazu Seto	1	1st
	Restoration	Fumiki Sakurauchi	1	1st
	DPJ	Junya Ogawa	1	3rd
	LDP	Yasuji Izuhara	14	2nd
	Komeito	Noritoshi Ishida	1	6th
	Restoration	Arata Nishioka	1	1st


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Liberal Democratic Party	567,193	30.66	2	0
	Japan Restoration Party	394,393	21.32	2	New
	Democratic Party of Japan	296,914	16.05	1	–2
	Komeito	276,907	14.97	1	0
	Japanese Communist Party	106,976	5.78	0	0
	Your Party	93,090	5.03	0	New
	Tomorrow Party of Japan	63,830	3.45	0	New
	Social Democratic Party	42,762	2.31	0	0
	Happiness Realization Party	8,171	0.44	0	0
Total		1,850,236	100.00	6	0

Valid votes		1,850,236	96.94
Invalid/blank votes		58,365	3.06
Total votes		1,908,601	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,291,313	57.99
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications^[4]^[5]

Party lists

Liberal Democratic Party

	Liberal Democratic Party		Number of votes: 567,193		Percentage of votes: 30.7%	Number of seats won: 2
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Takakazu Seto		Kagawa 2nd district	91.0	Y Elected to block
1	Mamoru Fukuyama		Tokushima 1st district	—	Y Won Tokushima 1st district
1	Shunichi Yamaguchi	Shikoku proportional representation block	Tokushima 2nd district	—	Y Won Tokushima 2nd district
1	Masazumi Gotoda	Tokushima 3rd district	Tokushima 3rd district	—	Y Won Tokushima 3rd district
1	Takuya Hirai	Shikoku proportional representation block	Kagawa 1st district	—	Y Won Kagawa 1st district
1	Keitaro Ono		Kagawa 3rd district	—	Y Won Kagawa 3rd district
1	Yasuhisa Shiozaki	Ehime 1st district	Ehime 1st district	—	Y Won Ehime 1st district
1	Seiichiro Murakami	Ehime 2nd district	Ehime 2nd district	—	Y Won Ehime 2nd district
1	Toru Shiraishi		Ehime 3rd district	—	Y Won Ehime 3rd district
1	Koichi Yamamoto	Ehime 4th district	Ehime 4th district	—	Y Won Ehime 4th district
1	Teru Fukui	Kochi 1st district	Kochi 1st district	—	Y Won Kochi 1st district
1	Gen Nakatani	Kochi 2nd district	Kochi 2nd district	—	Y Won Kochi 2nd district
1	Yuji Yamamoto	Kochi 3rd district	Kochi 3rd district	—	Y Won Kochi 3rd district
14	Yasuji Izuhara				Y Elected to block	Former Kinki PR block representative
15	Ichiro Nagai
16	Naka Takahashi
17	Toshinori Matsuzaki
18	Reiko Shinozaki

Democratic Party of Japan

	Democratic Party of Japan		Number of votes: 296,914		Percentage of votes: 16.0%	Number of seats won: 1
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Junya Ogawa	Kagawa 1st district	Kagawa 1st district	75.0	Y Elected to block
1	Hirobumi Niki	Shikoku proportional representation block	Tokushima 3rd district	72.3	N Lost seat
1	Yoshito Sengoku	Tokushima 1st district	Tokushima 1st district	66.5	N Lost seat
1	Miho Takai	Tokushima 2nd district	Tokushima 2nd district	65.6	N Lost seat
1	Yoichi Shiraishi	Ehime 3rd district	Ehime 3rd district	60.1	N Lost seat
1	Shu Oishi		Kochi 1st district	58.9
1	Hideyuki Takahashi	Shikoku proportional representation block	Ehime 4th district	46.1	N Lost seat
1	Takako Nagae	Shikoku proportional representation block	Ehime 1st district	42.6	N Lost seat
1	Yuichiro Tamaki	Kagawa 2nd district	Kagawa 2nd district	—	Y Won Kagawa 2nd district

Japan Restoration Party

	Japan Restoration Party		Number of votes: 394,393		Percentage of votes: 21.3%	Number of seats won: 2
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Fumiki Sakurauchi		Ehime 4th district	78.2	Y Elected to block	Former House of Councillors member
1	Arata Nishioka		Ehime 2nd district	63.2	Y Elected to block
1	Natsue Mori		Ehime 3rd district	41.8
1	Toshihide Ikemoto		Ehime 1st district	41.5
5	Shinya Fujimura		Kochi 1st district	37.0
5	Eiji Imanishi		Kagawa 1st district	23.9		Former Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member
7	Junji Ouchi

Komeito

	Komeito		Number of votes: 276,907		Percentage of votes: 15.0%	Number of seats won: 1
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Noritoshi Ishida	Shikoku proportional representation block			Y Elected to block
2	Shinichi Tsukiyama

Japanese Communist Party

	Japanese Communist Party		Number of votes: 106,976		Percentage of votes: 5.8%	Number of seats won: 0
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Masaru Sasaoka
2	Naoaki Haruna	(Former member)	Kochi 1st district

Your Party

	Your Party		Number of votes: 93,090		Percentage of votes: 5.0%	Number of seats won: 0
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Teruaki Nakayama

Tomorrow Party of Japan

	Tomorrow Party		Number of votes: 63,830		Percentage of votes: 3.4%	Number of seats won: 0
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Toshiro Tomochika		Ehime 2nd district			Former House of Councillors member
2	Yoko Washino

Social Democratic Party

	Social Democratic Party		Number of votes: 42,762		Percentage of votes: 2.3%	Number of seats won: 0
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Haruhiko Maida		Kagawa 3rd district

Happiness Realization Party

	Happiness Realization Party		Number of votes: 8,171		Percentage of votes: 0.4%	Number of seats won: 0
Rank	Name	Incumbency	District contested	Loss ratio (Sekihairitsu)	Result	Notes
99999	AAA	AAA	AAA	99999	AAA
000	ZZZ	ZZZ	ZZZ	000	ZZZ
1	Jikido Aeba
2	Akemi Takeo

References

^ "衆院選2012 衆院選選挙" [2012 House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ "四国【比例代表】開票結果総選挙2012 衆院選" [Shikoku (PR List) election results, 2012 general election, House of Reps election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ "香川小選挙区開票結果総選挙2012 衆院選選挙" [Kagawa districts, election results, 2012 House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率（比例代表）" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
^ "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率（比例代表）" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[1] "衆院選2012 衆院選選挙" [2012 House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[2] "四国【比例代表】開票結果総選挙2012 衆院選" [Shikoku (PR List) election results, 2012 general election, House of Reps election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[3] "香川小選挙区開票結果総選挙2012 衆院選選挙" [Kagawa districts, election results, 2012 House of Representatives election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[4] "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率（比例代表）" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[5] "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率（比例代表）" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

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