Tokyo 25th district

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Tōkyō 25th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Western mainland Tokyo and covers, aside from the Izu and Ogasawara islands (part of the 3rd district), the most rural parts of the prefecture: the cities of Ōme, Fussa, Akiruno, Hamura and the Nishitama county. As of 2012, 321,319 eligible voters were registered in the district giving it the highest vote weight in Tokyo – several districts in former Tokyo city in Eastern Tokyo have more than 450,000 voters – but still more than 1.5 times as many voters as the least populated electoral districts in Japan.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo 11th district that elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since its creation, Tokyo 25th district has been a relatively safe seat for the Liberal Democratic Party and withstood the landslide Democratic victory in the 2009 general election. Its first representative, former defence minister Yōzō Ishikawa (Miyazawa→Kōno faction (present-day Asō faction)) who had represented the pre-reform 11th district since 1976, was succeeded by Shinji Inoue (Asō faction), a former MLIT bureaucrat.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Yōzō Ishikawa		LDP	1996–2003	Retired from politics in 2003
Shinji Inoue		LDP	2003–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō, NRP)	Shinji Inoue	100,523	54.4
	DP (PNP)	Mitsuaki Takeda	28,751	15.5
	JRP	Teppei Matsumoto	27,258	14.7
	JCP	Takashi Inoue	17,720	9.6
	TPJ (NPD)	Tarō Masago	10,689	5.8

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Shinji Inoue	106,201.000	52.5
	PNP (DPJ, SDP support)	Tarō Masago	48,373.000	23.9
	JCP	Osamu Suzuki	21,044.259	10.4
	Independent	Yasushi Suzuki	19,874.733	9.8
	HRP	Masato Kobuna	6,673.000	3.3
Turnout			208,168.000	65.24

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shinji Inoue	113,800	57.0
	DPJ	Hisashi Shimada	66,008	33.0
	JCP	Takuya Suzuki	19,954	10.0
Turnout			204,240	64.43

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shinji Inoue	80,443	46.3
	DPJ	Hisashi Shimada (elected by PR)	71,151	40.9
	JCP	Takuya Suzuki	15,381	8.8
	Independent	Shōji Ikeda	6,858	3.9
Turnout			180,601	57.25

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yōzō Ishikawa	88,007	48.9
	DPJ	Hisashi Shimada	62,352	34.6
	JCP	Takuya Suzuki	25,325	14.1
	LL	Mitsuyoshi Okamura	4,299	2.4

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yōzō Ishikawa	72,180	41.0
	NFP	Takashi Usui	62,028	35.2
	JCP	Yōji Yoshinaga	22,312	12.7
	DPJ	Yasushi Suzuki	19,611	11.1
Turnout			180,674	60.2

References

↑ 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 (Japanese)
↑ "総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-14.
↑ "衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京25区". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
↑ "衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京25区". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
↑ "衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京25区". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
↑ "衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京25区". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
↑ "衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京25区". ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-05-06.

v t e Tokyo's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 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 PR Tokyo PR block House of Councillors At-large (25 Representatives (PR block: 19→17), 8→10 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (43 Representatives, 8 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (22 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (31 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (25 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Tokyo city counties (gunbu) (16 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (12 Representatives)

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