Tokyo 25th district

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

  1. ↑ 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 (in Japanese)
  2. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  3. ↑ 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. External link in |work= (help)
  4. ↑ 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. External link in |work= (help)
  5. ↑ 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. External link in |work= (help)
  6. ↑ 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. External link in |work= (help)
  7. ↑ 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. External link in |work= (help)

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