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, and to 13 in the 2017 election.[1]
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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 along 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.
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| General election |
LDP | DPJ |
Kōmeitō | JCP |
SDP | NFP ('96)/
LP ('00)/
TPJ ('12)/
PLP ('14) |
JRP ('12)/
JIP ('14) | YP |
Others |
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats |
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats |
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats |
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats |
Votes | % | Seats |
| 1996 |
1,630,777 | 35.3 | 6 | 513,410 | 11.1 | 2 |
– | 442,790 | 9.6 | 1 |
382,271 | 8.3 | 1 | 1,532,987 | 33.2 | 6 |
– |
121,828 | 2.6 | 0 |
| 2000 |
1,545,028 | 32.0 | 5 | 1,024,253 | 21.2 | 3 |
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 |
1,794,284 | 37.6 | 6 | 1,784,768 | 37.4 | 5 |
565,179 | 11.9 | 1 | 313,290 | 6.6 | 1 |
310,187 | 6.5 | 1 | – |
– |
– |
| 2005 |
1,901,595 | 36.5 | 6 | 1,748,165 | 33.6 | 5 |
620,638 | 11.9 | 1 | 325,176 | 6.2 | 1 |
362,523 | 7.0 | 1 | – |
– |
244,933 | 4.7 | 0 |
| 2009 |
1,491,761 | 27.9 | 4 | 2,433,836 | 45.5 | 7 |
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 |
1,238,716 | 28.6 | 5 | 805,709 | 18.6 | 3 |
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 |
1,265,372 | 32.9 | 5 | 863,539 | 22.5 | 4 |
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 |
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- #: List rank assigned by the party
- District column: For double candidates who concurrently ran in a single-member electoral district, the district column contains the electoral district where they stood and the sekihairitsu (lit. "narrow defeat ratio"), the ratio of margin of defeat. It determines the ranking of candidates who are put on the same list rank by their party.
- (in parentheses): Double candidates who are not eligible for election in the proportional block either because they won their district races or were disqualified for having received less than 10% of the vote in the district race (also the threshold for losing the deposit)
2014
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Tōhoku block results in the 2014 general House of Representatives election[2]
| # | Candidate | District | Status |
# | Candidate | District | Status |
# | Candidate | District | Status |
|---|
| LDP: 1,265,372 votes (32.9%), 5 seats |
DPJ: 863,539 votes (22.5%), 4 seats |
JIP: 499,437 votes (13.0%), 2 seats |
| 1 | (Jun Tsushima) | Aomori 1 (won) |
1 | (Takeshi Shina) | Iwate 1 (won) |
1 | (Shinji Oguma) | Fukushima 4 (won) |
| (Akinori Eto) | Aomori 2 (won) |
(Tōru Kikawada) | Iwate 3 (won) |
Sekio Masuta | Aomori 1 (94.2%) | Elected |
| (Tadamori Ōshima) | Aomori 3 (won) |
(Jun Azumi) | Miyagi 5 (won) |
Toshihide Muraoka | Akita 3 (94.0%) | Elected |
| (Tarō Kumura) | Aomori 4 (won) |
(Kōichirō Genba) | Fukushima 3 (won) |
Hiroki Hayashi | Miyagi 2 (66.4%) | – |
| (Shun'ichi Suzuki) | Iwate 2 (won) |
Emi Kaneko | Fukushima 1 (94.8%) | Elected |
Noriko Nakanowatari | Aomori 2 (34.8%) | – |
| (Tōru Doi) | Miyagi 1 (won) |
Yōsuke Kondō | Yamagata 2 (92.3%) | Elected |
Kōmeitō: 431,169 votes (11.2%), 2 seats |
| (Ken'ya Akiba) | Miyagi 2 (won) |
Manabu Terata | Akita 1 (87.0%) | Elected |
1 | Yoshihisa Inoue | – | Elected |
| (Akihiro Nishimura) | Miyagi 3 (won) |
Kazuko Kōri | Miyagi 1 (86.8%) | Elected |
2 | Yūichi Mayama | – | Elected |
| (Shintarō Itō) | Miyagi 4 (won) |
Izumi Yoshida | Fukushima 5 (84.4%) | – |
JCP: 379,811 votes (9.9%), 1 seat |
| (Itsunori Onodera) | Miyagi 6 (won) |
Masayo Tanabu | Aomori 3 (82.8%) | – |
1 | Chizuko Takahashi | – | Elected |
| (Hiroyuki Togashi) | Akita 1 (won) |
Takashi Midorikawa | Akita 2 (69.1%) | – |
2 | Tomo Iwabuchi | – | – |
| (Katsutoshi Kaneda) | Akita 2 (won) |
Kiyohito Hashimoto | Miyagi 3 (64.2%) | – |
PLP: 181,487 votes (4.7%), no seat |
| (Nobuhide Minorikawa) | Akita 3 (won) |
Mitsunori Akabe | Fukushima 2 (63.6%) | – |
1 | (Ichirō Ozawa) | Iwate 4 (won) |
| (Toshiaki Endō) | Yamagata 1 (won) |
Masae Ido | Miyagi 4 (51.2%) | – |
Kōji Hata | Iwate 2 (84.1%) | - |
| (Norikazu Suzuki) | Yamagata 2 (won) |
Takashi Yamauchi | Aomori 4 (48.1%) | – |
3 | Sadao Hirano | – | – |
| (Ayuko Katō) | Yamagata 3 (won) |
Masahiro Harada | Yamagata 1 (46.7%) | – |
PFG: 71,026 votes (1.8%), no seat |
| (Yoshitami Kameoka) | Fukushima 1 (won) |
Sayuri Kamata | Miyagi 6 (32.4%) | – |
1 | (Teruaki Masumoto) | Miyagi 2 (16.7%) | DQ |
| (Takumi Nemoto) | Fukushima 2 (won) |
(Taisei Yoshida) | Yamagata 3 (20.0%) | DQ |
2 | Nakako Uda | – | – |
| (Masayoshi Yoshino) | Fukushima 5 (won) |
19 | Yoshiaki Kobayashi | – | – |
HRP: 18,201 votes (0.5%), no seat |
| Ichirō Kanke | Fukushima 4 (99.2%) | Elected |
SDP: 131,857 votes (3.4%), no seat |
1 | Hisshō Yanai | – | – |
| Takashi Fujiwara | Iwate 4 (76.7%) | Elected |
1 | (Uzen Ogawa) | Fukushima 4 (17.8%) | DQ |
2 | Ryōta Shirotori | – | – |
| Hinako Takahashi | Iwate 1 (60.4%) | Elected |
(Takashi Kuwajima) | Miyagi 2 (12.8%) | DQ |
3 | Tetsushi Yui | – | – |
| Hidenori Hashimoto | Iwate 3 (57.4%) | Elected |
(Mitsumasa Hosokawa) | Iwate 1 (11.7%) | DQ |
| Shigeaki Katsunuma | Miyagi 5 (52.9%) | Elected |
(Masamichi Itō) | Akita 1 (8.1%) | DQ |
| Kentarō Uesugi | Fukushima 3 (52.0%) | |
5 | Masahiro Kimura | – | – |
| 26 | Sachiko Kanno | – | – |
| 27 | Osamu Yoshida | – | – |
| 28 | Fumito Murakami | – | – |
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2012
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Tōhoku block results in the 2012 general House of Representatives election[3]
| # | Candidate | District | Status |
# | Candidate | District | Status |
# | Candidate | District | Status |
|---|
| LDP: 1,238,716 votes (28.6%), 5 seats |
DPJ: 805,709 votes (18.6%), 3 seats |
JRP: 725,006 votes (16.7%), 2 seats |
| 1 | (Jun Tsushima) | Aomori 1 (won) |
1 | (Takeshi Shina) | Iwate 1 (won) |
1 | Shinji Oguma | Fukushima 4 (69.7%) | Elected |
| (Akinori Eto) | Aomori 2 (won) |
(Tōru Kikawada) | Iwate 3 (won) |
2 | Toshihide Muraoka | Akita 3 (76.5%) | Elected |
| (Tadamori Ōshima) | Aomori 3 (won) |
(Jun Azumi) | Miyagi 5 (won) |
Sekio Masuta | Aomori 1 (64.7%) | – |
| (Tarō Kimura) | Aomori 4 (won) |
(Kōichirō Genba) | Fukushima 3 (won) |
4 | Masashi Nakano | Miyagi 2 (59.1%) | – |
| (Shun'ichi Suzuki) | Iwate 2 (won) |
Izumi Yoshida | Fukushima 5 (88.7%) | Elected |
Noboru Usami | Fukushima 5 (42.8%) | – |
| (Tōru Doi) | Miyagi 1 (won) |
Yōsuke Kondō | Yamagata 2 (81.2%) | Elected |
Masaki Hatakeyama | Miyagi 4 (38.2%) | – |
| (Ken'ya Akiba) | Miyagi 2 (won) |
Kazuko Kōri | Miyagi 1 (69.6%) | Elected |
Takeaharu Satō | Yamagata 3 (35.2%) | – |
| (Akihiro Nishimura) | Miyagi 3 (won) |
Michihiko Kano | Yamagata 1 (68.9%) | – |
Kazunori Midorikawa | Fukushima 2 (27.9%) | – |
| (Shintarō Itō) | Miyagi 4 (won) |
Keiki Ishiyama | Miyagi 4 (67.6%) | – |
Hiroaki Kawano | Yamagata 2 (26.1%) | – |
| (Itsunori Onodera) | Miyagi 6 (won) |
Manabu Terata | Akita 1 (67.1%) | – |
(Nobuhiro Ōmiya) | Akita 1 (20.9%) | DQ |
| (Hiroyuki Togashi) | Akita 1 (won) |
Hiroshi Kawaguchi | Akita 2 (62.5%) | – |
Kōmeitō: 398,131 votes (9.2%), 1 seat |
| (Katsutoshi Kaneda) | Akita 2 (won) |
Masayo Tanabu | Aomori 3 (61.6%) | – |
1 | Yoshihisa Inoue | – | Elected |
| (Nobuhide Minorikawa) | Akita 3 (won) |
Kiyohito Hashimoto | Miyagi 3 (53.2%) | – |
2 | Yūichi Mayama | – | – |
| (Toshiaki Endō) | Yamagata 1 (won) |
Azuma Konno | Miyagi 2 (45.8%) | – |
TPJ: 391,216 votes (9.0%), 1 seat |
| (Norikazu Suzuki) | Yamagata 2 (won) |
Hideki Ōba | Fukushima 1 (36.7%) | – |
1 | Kōji Hata | Iwate 2 (65.9%) | Elected |
| (Yoshitami Kameoka) | Fukushima 1 (won) |
Toshiaki Oikawa | Iwate 4 (36.6%) | – |
Yasunori Saitō | Miyagi 2 (44.8%) | – |
| (Takumi Nemoto) | Fukushima 2 (won) |
Kyōichi Tsushima | Aomori 4 (33.6%) | – |
Hokuto Yokoyama | Aomori 1 (43.7%) | – |
| (Ichirō Kanke) | Fukushima 4 (won) |
Yasuo Saitō | Fukushima 2 (26.4%) | – |
Yōzaburō Ishihara | Fukushima 1 (41.3%) | – |
| (Gōji Sakamoto) | Fukushima 5 (won) |
Mariko Mitsui | Akita 3 (24.3%) | – |
Kazumi Ōta | Fukushima 2 (27.1%) | – |
| Hinako Takahashi | Iwate 1 (78.7%) | Elected |
Tomonobu Nakamura | Aomori 2 (22.9%) | – |
Kimiko Kyōno | Akita 3 (25.9%) | – |
| Takashi Fujiwara | Iwate 4 (61.3%) | Elected |
Sayuri Kamata | Miyagi 6 (21.5%) | – |
(Kazuo Takamatsu) | Akita 1 (13.2%) | DQ |
| Hidenori Hashimoto | Iwate 3 (57.8%) | Elected |
(Rina Hatano) | Aomori 1 (23.3%) | DQ |
8 | Chōuemon Kikuchi | – | – |
| Miyo Ōkubo | Miyagi 5 (47.8%) | Elected |
YP: 306,102 votes (7.1%), 1 seat |
9 | Yōko Tasso | Iwate 1 (74.5%) | – |
| Sachiko Kanno | Fukushima 3 (45.2%) | Elected |
1 | Hiroki Hayashi | Miyagi 1 (43.7%) | Elected |
Naomi Satō | Iwate 3 (69.4%) | – |
| 25 | Osamu Yoshida | – | – |
Fumihiro Kikuchi | Miyagi 2 (30.2%) | – |
Noriko Nakanowatari | Aomori 2 (22.1%) | – |
| 26 | Fumito Murakami | – | – |
(Kazumasa Sugamoto) | Fukushima 5 (16.5%) | DQ |
(Masato Yokota) | Miyagi 1 (18.9%) | DQ |
| JCP: 256,838 votes (5.9%), 1 seat |
SDP: 160,367 votes (3.7%), no seat |
(Takashi Yamanouchi) | Aomori 3 (17.1%) | DQ |
| 1 | Chizuko Takahashi | – | Elected |
1 | Hideo Yoshiizumi | Yamagata 3 (31.9%) | – |
(Nobuko Abe) | Miyagi 5 (12.7%) | DQ |
| 2 | Tomo Iwabuchi | – | – |
Hiroshi Ishida | Akita 2 (23.4%) | – |
(Kiichi Matsumoto) | Fukushima 5 (11.2%) | DQ |
| NRP: 41,587 votes (1.0%), no seat |
Uzen Ogawa | Fukushima 4 (21.9%) | – |
16 | Tamikazu Kawaguchi | – | – |
| 1 | Kentarō Uesugi | – | – |
(Masahiro Isawa) | Iwate 1 (17.7%) | DQ |
HRP: 14,825 votes (0.3%), no seat |
| – |
(Takashi Kuwajima) | Miyagi 1 (7.4%) | DQ |
1 | Hironori Matsushima | – | – |
| 6 | Fumiyo Yamana | – | – |
2 | Shūji Nakanishi | – | – |
| 7 | Tetsuo Kanno | – | – |
3 | Hidemitsu Sakai | – | – |
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2009
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Tōhoku block results in the 2009 general election[4][5]
| LDP: 1,491,761 votes (27.9%), 4 seats |
DPJ: 2,433,836 votes (45.5%), 7 seats |
Kōmeitō: 516,688 votes (9.7%), 1 seat |
| # | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio"
(sekihairitsu) | Elected |
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
| 1 | Masayoshi Yoshino | Fukushima 3 | (35.5%) | Elected |
1 | Masayo Tanabu | Aomori 3 | 99.5% | Elected |
1 | Yoshihisa Inoue | PR only | Elected |
| 2 | Ken'ya Akiba | PR only | Elected |
Kyōichi Tsushima | Aomori 4 | 86.8% | Elected |
2 | Kaneshige Wakamatsu | – |
| 3 | Toshiaki Endō | Yamagata 1 | 98.7% | Elected |
Noriko Nakanowatari | Aomori 2 | 74.2% | Elected |
3 | Tetsuya Kawamata | – |
| Katsutoshi Kaneda | Akita 2 | 98.5% | Elected |
Hokuto Yokoyama | Aomori 1 | Won district |
JCP: 315,201 votes (5.9%), 1 seat |
| Akinori Eto | Aomori 2 | Won district |
Takeshi Shina | Iwate 1 | Won district |
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
| Tadamori Ōshima | Aomori 3 | Won district |
Kōji Hata | Iwate 2 | Won district |
1 | Chizuko Takahashi | PR only | Elected |
| Tarō Kimura | Aomori 4 | Won district |
Tōru Kikawada | Iwate 3 | Won district |
2 | Shizue Miyamoto | – |
| Itsunori Onodera | Miyagi 6 | Won district |
Kazuko Kōri | Miyagi 1 | Won district |
3 | Satoshi Suzuki | Akita 1 | 17.0% | – |
| Kōichi Katō | Yamagata 3 | Won district |
Yasunori Saitō | Miyagi 2 | Won district |
Mikio Katō | Miyagi 4 | 9.9% | – |
| Nobuhide Minorikawa | Akita 3 | 88.9% | – |
Kiyohito Hashimoto | Miyagi 3 | Won district |
Yō Yoshimata | Aomori 1 | 7.8% | – |
| Yoshitaka Kameoka | Fukushima 1 | 87.4% | – |
Keiki Ishiyama | Miyagi 4 | Won district |
Sadakiyo Segawa | Iwate 4 | 6.1% | – |
| Takumi Nemoto | Fukushima 2 | 84.9% | – |
Jun Azumi | Miyagi 5 | Won district |
Masayuki Satō | Yamagata 1 | 5.6% | – |
| Shun'ichi Suzuki | Iwate 2 | 82.1% | – |
Manabu Terata | Akita 1 | Won district |
SDP: 316,635 votes (5.9%), 1 seat |
| Akihiro Nishimura | Miyagi 3 | 79.0% | – |
Mikiko Kyōno | Akita 3 | Won district |
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
| Shintarō Itō | Miyagi 4 | 77.2% | – |
Michihiko Kano | Yamagata 1 | Won district |
1 | Hideo Yoshiizumi | Yamagata 3 | 61.5% | Elected |
| Masami Saitō | Miyagi 5 | 70.7% | – |
Yōsuke Kondō | Yamagata 2 | Won district |
Tetsuo Kanno | Miyagi 6 | 53.6% | – |
| Kōji Futada | Akita 1 | 66.3% | – |
Yōsaburō Ishihara | Fukushima 1 | Won district |
Kiyohiro Yamamoto | Akita 2 | 25.2% | – |
| Kōji Sakamoto | Fukushima 5 | 65.5% | – |
Kazumi Ōta | Fukushima 2 | Won district |
Senryō Obara | Iwate 4 | 21.5% | – |
| Masashi Nakano | Miyagi 2 | 62.3% | – |
Kōichirō Genba | Fukushima 3 | Won district |
Hidehiko Watanabe | Aomori 1 | 12.6% | – |
| Tōru Doi | Miyagi 1 | 58.2% | – |
Kōzō Watanabe | Fukushima 4 | Won district |
Masahiro Isawa | Iwate 1 | 11.2% | – |
| Atsushi Watanabe | Fukushima 4 | 53.8% | – |
Izumi Yoshida | Fukushima 5 | Won district |
YP: 241,445 votes (4.5%), no seat |
| Hironori Suzuki | Yamagata 2 | 48.7% | – |
22 | Miki Wajima | PR only | Elected |
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
| Hidenori Hashimoto | Iwate 3 | 46.9% | – |
23 | Kazuo Takamatsu | Elected |
1 | Shinji Oguma | Fukushima 4 | 46.7% | – |
| Hinako Takahashi | Iwate 1 | 43.4% | – |
24 | Chōuemon Kikuchi | Elected |
Shigehito Sasaki | Akita 2 | 9.2% | – |
| Yoshinobu Takahashi | Iwate 4 | 31.1% | – |
25 | Kazuyuki Yamaguchi | Elected |
HRP: 36,295 votes (0.7%), no seat |
| 26 | Nobuhiro Ōmiya | PR only | – |
26 | Tamikazu Kawaguchi | – (removed) |
# | Candidate | District | "Loss ratio" | Elected |
| 27 | Shigeyo Nagaoka | – |
27 | Ippu Watanabe | – (in 2012) |
1 | Hironori Matsushima | PR only | – |
| 28 | Hisataka Satō | – |
28 | Hisashi Suzuki | – |
2 | Yukiya Uejō | – |
| – |
3 | Maki Akimoto | – |
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