Iwate 4th district

Iwate 4th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It was located in southwestern Iwate and consisted of the cities of Hanamaki, Kitakami and Ōshū as well as the Waga and Isawa Districts. As of 2012, 305,917 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Iwate 4th District
Former Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Iwate
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	305,917
Former constituency
Created	1994
Abolished	2017
Seats	One
Party	ー
Representative	ー
Created from	Iwate's 2nd "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	The cities of Hanamaki, Kitakami, Ōshū, and the districts of Waga and Isawa

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Iwate 2nd district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote. In a 2017 reapportionment, Iwate lost one seat and was subdivided into three districts. The area of the old 4th district is now part of the new 3rd district^[2]

The only representative for Iwate 4th district from its creation in 1996 to its abolition has been former Liberal Democratic Party secretary-general Ichirō Ozawa (LDP→JRP→NFP→LP→DPJ→LF→TPJ→PLP).

List of representatives

Election	Representative	Party	Notes
1996	Ichirō Ozawa	NFP
2000		LP
2003		DPJ
2005
2009
2012		TPJ
2014		PLP

Election results

2014^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	People's Life	Ichirō Ozawa	75,293	47.8
	LDP	Takashi Fujiwara (endorsed by Komeito) (elected by PR)	57,824	36.7
	JCP	Tsunaki Takahashi	24,421	15.5

2012^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tomorrow	Ichirō Ozawa (endorsed by NPD)	78,057	45.5
	LDP	Takashi Fujiwara (elected by PR)	47,887	27.9
	Democratic	Toshiaki Oikawa	28,593	16.7
	JCP	Kōki Takahashi	17,033	9.9

2009^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ichirō Ozawa (supported by PNP)	133,978
	LDP	Yoshinobu Takahashi (endorsed by Komeito)	41,690
	Social Democratic	Senryū Obara	28,925
	JCP	Sadakiyo Segawa	8,288
	Happiness Realization	Akira Yasunaga	1,280
Turnout			216,754	76.18

2005^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ichirō Ozawa	124,578.000
	LDP	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	48,093.000
	Social Democratic	Kōki Kubo	23,727.697
	JCP	Kōki Takahashi	11,420.291
Turnout			210,247.000	73.36

2003^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ichirō Ozawa	128,458.000
	LDP	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	37,251.000
	Social Democratic	Kōki Kubo	20,936.334
	JCP	Kōki Takahashi	10,642.653
Turnout			200,128.000	69.87

2000^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ichirō Ozawa	119,099
	Social Democratic	Yukihiro Kimura	37,417
	LDP	Kōichi Igata	28,926
	JCP	Ryōko Sakamoto	14,051

1996^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Ichirō Ozawa	125,619
	Social Democratic	Reijirō Sawafuji	38,482
	LDP	Kōichi Igata	20,179
	JCP	Natsuko Yaegashi	9,933
Turnout			197,093	71.45

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. MIC: Summary of changes to the House of Representatives single-member districts (also contains the changes to the proportional districts) & Map of changes in Iwate (in Japanese)
3. 総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-12-16.
4. 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-06.
5. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
6. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
7. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
8. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
9. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-09-09.