Hyogo 11th district

Hyogo 11th district (兵庫県第11区 Hyōgo-ken dai-jūikku or simply 兵庫11区 Hyōgo 11-ku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southwestern Hyōgo and is based on the 1995 borders of the city of Himeji; the former towns of Ieshima, Yumesaki, Kōdera and Yasutomi that merged into Himeji in 2006 are part of the 12th district. As of September 2015, 387,509 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed part of Hyōgo 4th district where four Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, it has been represented by two people: Tōru Toida of the Liberal Democratic Party, the son of former representative and health minister Saburō Toida, and Takeaki Matsumoto, formerly of the Democratic Party of Japan, son of former representative and defense minister Jūrō Matsumoto and great-great-grandson of former prime minister Hirobumi Itō.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Tōru Toida	LDP	1996 – 2000
Takeaki Matsumoto	DPJ	2000 – 2005	Elected to the Kinki PR block in 2005
Tōru Toida	LDP	2005 – 2009
Takeaki Matsumoto	DPJ	2009 –

Election results

2014 general election

The 47th election for the House of Representatives held in December 2014 saw Takeaki Matsumoto retain the district for the Democratic Party by once again defeating the LDP candidate Nobuhide Zushi. It was Matsumoto's third consecutive win and he is currently serving his fifth term as the district's representative and his sixth consecutive term in the House of Representatives. Zushi was officially endorsed by Komeito, the LDP's junior coalition partner.^[2]

2014^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takeaki Matsumoto	90,182	49.6	10.0
	Liberal Democratic	Nobuhide Zushi	74,562	41.0	9.4
	Communist	Kazushige Nigauri	17,020	9.4	3.4
Turnout

2012 general election

The 46th election for the House of Representatives saw Takeaki Matsumoto retain the district by defeating the LDP's candidate, newcomer Nobuhide Zushi. Matsumoto was one of a minority of DPJ members to retain his seat as the party was swept from power, losing 174 of its 231 seats in a landslide victory to the LDP led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Matsumoto was officially endorsed by the DPJ's coalition partner, the People's New Party, while Zushi was endorsed by Komeito. This election saw the rise of the Japan Restoration Party, which won 54 seats in the election. The party's candidate in Hyogo 11th, company director Sōichirō Katada, was endorsed by Your Party.^[3]

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takeaki Matsumoto	80,760	39.6	-21.7
	Liberal Democratic	Nobuhide Zushi	64,509	31.6	-4.6
	Restoration	Sōichirō Katada	46,462	22.8	22.8
	Communist	Midori Shirakami	12,304	6.0	6.0
Turnout

Earlier elections

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takeaki Matsumoto	146,058	61.3	14.8
	Liberal Democratic	Tōru Toida	86,203	36.2	-11.3
	Happiness Realization	Tomoko Bōda	6,013	2.5	2.5
Turnout			243,796	63.95	-0.5

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Tōru Toida	113,401	47.5	5.9
	Democratic	Takeaki Matsumoto Elected to Kinki PR block	110,966	46.5	-6.1
	Communist	Noriaki Takeuchi	14,441	6.0	0.2
Turnout			242,650	64.45	5.94

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takeaki Matsumoto	112,898	52.6	5.2
	Liberal Democratic	Tōru Toida	89,159	41.6	0.7
	Communist	Noriaki Takeuchi	12,494	5.8	-2.6
Turnout			219,263	58.51

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Takeaki Matsumoto	101,566	47.4	33.1
	Liberal Democratic	Tōru Toida	87,624	40.9	8.1
	Communist	Kazuya Koike	18,056	8.4	0.3
	Liberal League	Chiaki Hattori	7,119	3.3	3.3

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Tōru Toida	64,896	32.8
	New Frontier	Takeshi Gotō	61,185	30.9
	Democratic	Shigeru Gotō	28,303	14.3
	Independent	Takeaki Matsumoto	27,371	13.8
	Communist	Katsumi Nankō^[9]	15,970	8.1

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)
1 2 "総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [General Election 2014 - Election Results: Hyogo Electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
1 2 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-06.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>兵庫県>兵庫11区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-08. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>兵庫県>兵庫11区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-08. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>兵庫県>兵庫11区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-08. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>兵庫県>兵庫11区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-08. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>兵庫県>兵庫11区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-08. External link in |work= (help)
↑ ?, 南光勝美

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 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

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 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 proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 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

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 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 proportional representation block - 29 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 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 proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 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 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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