Tohoku proportional representation block

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.

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	DPJ			LDP			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	513,410	11.1	2	1,630,777	35.3	6	–			442,790	9.6	1	382,271	8.3	1	1,532,987	33.2	6	–						121,828	2.6	0
2000	1,024,253	21.2	3	1,545,028	32.0	5	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	1,784,768	37.4	5	1,794,284	37.6	6	565,179	11.9	1	313,290	6.6	1	310,187	6.5	1	–			–						–
2005	1,748,165	33.6	5	1,901,595	36.5	6	620,638	11.9	1	325,176	6.2	1	362,523	7.0	1	–			–						244,933	4.7	0
2009	2,433,836	45.5	7	1,491,761	27.9	4	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	805,709	18.6	3	1,238,716	28.6	5	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	863,539	22.5	4	1,265,372	32.9	5	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

Note: Party affiliations as of election day.

Years	Elected Representatives
1996–	Zenmei Matsumoto	Ichirō Hino	Kōdō Kohata	Tatsuo Sasayama	Kōki Hagino	Yoshiyuki Hozumi	Ichio Kumagai	Toshiaki Endō
1996–	Kenjirō Hatakeyama	Kōichirō Genba	Yoshihisa Inoue	Yasusuke Konta	Kijūrō Sugahara	Hidefumi Minorikawa	Kōji Futada	Tokuichirō Tamazawa
2000–	Zenmei Matsumoto	Ichirō Hino died 2003, replaced by Masayo Tanabu	Kijūrō Sugahara resigned 2001, replaced by Kentarō Ishihara	Kentarō Kudō	Hidefumi Minorikawa died 2003, replaced by Kyōichi Tsushima	Hiroyuki Arai	Kōji Sakamoto	–
2000–	Tetsuo Kanno	Yasusuke Konta	Takao Satō	Yoshinobu Takahashi	Yoshihisa Inoue	Kōki Hagino	Ichio Kumagai
2003–	Chizuko Takahashi	Kiyohito Hashimoto	Yōsuke Kondō	Michihiko Kano	Masayoshi Yoshino	Kōki Hagino	Tokuichirō Tamazawa
2003–	Kiyohiro Yamamoto	Teruhiko Mashiko	Izumi Yoshida	Yoshihisa Inoue	Kōji Futada	Kyōichi Tsushima	Masashi Nakano
2005–	Chizuko Takahashi	Kazuko Kōri	Yōsuke Kondō	Masayo Tanabu	Kōji Sakamoto	Tatsuo Satō	Atsushi Watanabe
2005–	Tetsuo Kanno	Hokuto Yokoyama	Izumi Yoshida	Yoshihisa Inoue	Masashi Nakano	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	Kōji Futada
2009–	Chizuko Takahashi	Masayo Tanabu	Noriko Nakanowatari	Kazuo Takamatsu	Kazuyuki Yamaguchi	Masayoshi Yoshino	Toshiaki Endō
2009–	Hideo Yoshiizumi	Kyōichi Tsushima	Miki Wajima resigned in 2012, replaced by Ippu Watanabe	Chōuemon Kikuchi	Yoshihisa Inoue	Kenya Akiba	Katsutoshi Kaneda
2012–^[1]	Chizuko Takahashi	Izumi Yoshida	Kazuko Kōri	Shinji Oguma	Yoshihisa Inoue	Takashi Fujiwara	Miyo Ōkubo
2012–^[1]	Kōji Hata	Yōsuke Kondō	Hiroki Hayashi	Toshihide Muraoka	Hinako Takahashi	Hidenori Hashimoto	Sachiko Kanno
2014–^[2]	Chizuko Takahashi	Yōsuke Kondō	Kazuko Kōri	Toshihide Muraoka	Yoshihisa Inoue	Takashi Fujiwara	Hidenori Hashimoto
2014–^[2]	Emi Kaneko	Manabu Terata	Sekio Masuta	Yūichi Mayama	Ichirō Kanke	Hinako Takahashi	Shigeaki Katsunuma

References

1 2 "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.
1 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.
↑ 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

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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