Aichi 5th district

Aichi 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Aichi Prefecture and consists of Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards and the city of Kiyosu. As of 2016, 428,423 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Aichi 5th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Aichi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Aichi
Proportional District	Tōkai
Electorate	350,279 (2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Atsushi Nishikawa [ja]
Created from	Aichi's 1st, 2nd and 6th "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards City of Kiyosu

Nagoya is considered a "Democratic kingdom" (minshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). But Aichi's 5th district is the only electoral district in Nagoya (Aichi 1 to 5) that also contains areas outside Nagoya. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005, it became the first district in Nagoya that the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could win since the introduction of single-member districts in 1996: Liberal Democrat Takahide Kimura won narrowly against the Democratic incumbent Hirotaka Akamatsu who was then only reelected in the Tōkai proportional representation block. Akamatsu had represented Aichi's 5th district since 1996 and regained the seat in the 2009 general election. He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Hatoyama Cabinet. In 2012, he lost the district by less than 2,000 votes to Liberal Democrat Kenji Kanda. Akamatsu regained the district in 2014 and held it until 2021.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Hirotaka Akamatsu		DPJ	1996 – 2005	Won in the PR block
Takahide Kimura		LDP	2005 – 2009	Retired
Hirotaka Akamatsu		DPJ	2009 – 2012	Won in the PR block
Kenji Kanda		LDP	2012 – 2014	Won in the PR block
Hirotaka Akamatsu		DPJ	2014 – 2016
		DP	2016 – 2017
		CDP	2017 – 2021
Kenji Kanda		LDP	2021 – 2024
Atsushi Nishikawa [ja]		CDP	2024 –

Election results

2024 general election^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Atsushi Nishikawa [ja]	54,818	34.6	2.0
	LDP	Kenji Kanda [ja]	36,662	23.1	18.1
	Ishin	Maki Misaki	33,568	21.2	1.0
	CPJ	Katsuyoshi Tanaka	22,007	13.9
	JCP	Hiroyuki Egami	11,601	7.3
Registered electors			348,602
Turnout				47.24	1.39
	CDP gain from LDP

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kenji Kanda (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	84,320	41.2	4.1
	CDP	Atsushi Nishikawa	74,995	36.6	9.9
	Ishin	Maki Misaki (elected by PR)	45,540	22.2
Turnout				48.63	1.75
	LDP gain from CDP

2017^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Hirotaka Akamatsu	91,081	46.49	1.96
	LDP	Kenji Kanda (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	72,651	37.08	0.78
	Kibō no Tō	Naoaki Nonobe (endorsed by Genzei Nippon)	32,179	16.43	N/A
Majority			18,430	9.41
Turnout				46.88	0.60
	CDP hold		Swing	1.37

2014^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hirotaka Akamatsu (endorsed by the Greens)	84,226	44.53	13.42
	LDP	Kenji Kanda (elected by PR)	71,616	37.86	5.89
	JCP	Hiroki Fujii	23,069	12.20	4.49
	Future Generations	Shōichi Yasuda	10,231	5.41	N/A
Majority			12,610	6.57
Turnout				47.28	5.41
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	3.77

2012^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Kenji Kanda	67,218	31.97	2.88
	Democratic	Hirotaka Akamatsu (elected by PR, endorsed by PNP)	65,423	31.11	29.88
	Restoration	Ken'ichi Koyama (endorsed by YP)	37,806	17.98	N/A
	Tomorrow	Yūkichi Maeda (endorsed by NPD)	23,609	11.23	N/A
	JCP	Hiroki Fujii	16,206	7.71	N/A
Majority			1,795	0.86
Turnout				52.69	10.9
	LDP gain from Democratic		Swing	13.50

2009^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hirotaka Akamatsu (endorsed by PNP)	158,235	61.99	17.54
	LDP	Mutsumi Teranishi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	88,964	34.85	13.47
	Happiness Realization	Tomoko Yoshida	8,042	3.15	N/A
Majority			69,271	27.14
Turnout			261,917	63.6	2.0
	Democratic gain from LDP		Swing	15.51

2005^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takahide Kimura	117,017	48.32
	Democratic	Hirotaka Akamatsu (elected by PR)	107,605	44.45
	JCP	Akemi Kawae	17,523	7.23
Turnout			246,842	61.6

2003^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	104,346
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	90,668
	JCP	Hiroyuki Egami	16,255
Turnout			217,109	54.7

2000^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	82,943
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	64,970
	JCP	Asako Kodama	21,516
	LL	Takayoshi Itō	2,274

1996^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)	48,648
	LDP	Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)	46,485
	NFP	Yutaka Banno	43,028
	JCP	Tadahiro Nagatomo	17,670
	Independent	Tsutomu Suzuki	768
	Japan Nation Party	Minoru Ichikawa	470
	Culture forum (Bunka fōramu)	Takao Uchiyama	335