Hiroshima 7th District (広島県第7区, Hiroshima-ken dai-nana-ku, or simply Hiroshima nana-ku (広島7区)) was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It was located in Hiroshima and consisted of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012, 377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] The district was eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments and became the Hiroshima 6th district.
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
edit| 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 | 2012–2024 | Constituency abolished | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Fumiaki Kobayashi (endorsed by Komeito) | 123,396 | 66.45 | ||
| CDP | Hironori Sato | 45,520 | 24.51 | ||
| JCP | Akemi Murai | 11,580 | 6.24 | ||
| Independent | Kayo Hashimoto | 5207 | 2.80 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Fumiaki Kobayashi (endorsed by Komeito) | 93,491 | 47.5 | ||
| Democratic | Takashi Wada (endorsed by the PNP) | 52,543 | 26.7 | ||
| Restoration | Daisuke Sakamoto (won PR seat)(endorsed by Your Party) | 38,919 | 19.8 | ||
| JCP | Takushi Kanbara | 11,777 | 6.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Takashi Wada (endorsed by the PNP) | 133,871 | |||
| LDP | Yōichi Miyazawa (endorsed by Komeito) | 111,321 | |||
| Happiness Realization | Mitsuo Uematsu | 3,879 | |||
| Turnout | 254,275 | 67.86 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Yōichi Miyazawa | 122,465 | |||
| Democratic | Takashi Wada | 104,009 | |||
| JCP | Mikie Morikawa | 14,444 | |||
| Turnout | 245,522 | 66.28 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Yōichi Miyazawa | 90,487 | |||
| Democratic | Takashi Wada (elected by PR) | 73,252 | |||
| Independent | Toshimasa Yamada | 23,185 | |||
| JCP | Mikie Morikawa | 11,100 | |||
| Turnout | 203,782 | 55.46 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Yōichi Miyazawa | 112,145 | |||
| Democratic | Toshimasa Yamada (elected by PR) | 68,500 | |||
| JCP | Mikie Morikawa | 20,765 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Kiichi Miyazawa | 95,045 | |||
| Democratic | Minoru Yanagida | 69,603 | |||
| New Socialist Party (Japan) | Shinsaku Takahashi | 21,240 | |||
| JCP | Matsutarō Shimizu | 14,915 | |||
| Turnout | 204,490 | 58.64 | |||
References
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