Tokyo 8th district

Tokyo 8th district (東京都第8区, Tōkyō-to dai-hachiku or simply 東京8区, Tōkyō-hachiku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in western part of former Tokyo City and is almost coterminous with Suginami Ward (a small area in the east is part of the Tokyo 27th district). The district was created in 1994 as part of an electoral reform effort in the Japanese House of Representatives, and was first implemented in the 1996 general election.

Tokyo 8th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts
Prefecture	Tokyo
Proportional District	Tokyo
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	CDP
Representative	Harumi Yoshida
Created from	Tokyo 4th district
Wards	Most of Suginami

As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.^[1]

Before a series of electoral reforms in 1994, Suginami Ward had been part of Tokyo 4th district, where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

From the creation of the district until 2021, the only representative for the district was Nobuteru Ishihara, a former LDP secretary-general and Minister of the Environment who headed his own faction and is the son of Shintarō Ishihara former Governor of Tōkyō. Ishihara lost the seat to Harumi Yoshida, a university professor, in the 2021 elections. Tarō Yamamoto, leader of the Reiwa Shinsengumi, had announced he'd run in the district, but he bowed out and endorsed Yoshida.^[2]

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Nobuteru Ishihara		LDP	1996–2021
Harumi Yoshida		CDP	2021–present

Election results

2024

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Harumi Yoshida
	LDP	Hiroko Kado
	Ishin	Chitose Nanboku
	Sanseitō	Noriaki Oomori
Turnout

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Harumi Yoshida (endorsed by Reiwa and SDP)	137,341	48.45	18.49
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	105,381	37,17	2.05
	Ishin	Keiji Kasatani	40,763	14.38
Majority				11.28
Turnout				61.03	5.61
	CDP gain from LDP		Swing	10.27

2017^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	99,863	39.22	8.34
	CDP	Harumi Yoshida	76,283	29.96
	Kibō no Tō	Takatane Kiuchi	41,175	16.17
	JCP	Fumiko Osanai	22,399	8.80
	Independent	Yoriko Madoka	11,997	4.71

2014^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	116,193	47.56
	Democratic	Yoriko Madoka (endorsed by PLP)	73,348	30.02
	JCP	Shingo Sawada	37,788	15.47
	Independent	Tatsuo Suzuki	16,981	6.95

2012^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	132,521	46.9
	Independent	Tarō Yamamoto (endorsed by SDP, TPJ)	71,028	25.2
	Democratic	Yoriko Madoka	54,881	19.4
	JCP	Masatake Jōho	23,961	8.5

2009^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	147,514	49.9
	Social Democratic	Nobuto Hosaka (endorsed by DPJ, PNP)	116,723	39.5
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	24,965	8.5
	Happiness Realization	Seiichi Ueta	6,132	2.1
Turnout			301,928	65.5

2005^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	161,966	57.3
	Democratic	Morio Suzuki	94,074	33.3
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	26,819	9.5
Turnout			288,840	64.61

2003^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP)	136,429	55.0
	Democratic	Morio Suzuki	78,007	31.4
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	17,572	7.1
	Social Democratic	Akiko Sugiyama	16,156	6.5
Turnout			254,314	57.39

2000^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP)	105,779	43.7
	Democratic	Mitsuyo Katayama	77,132	31.8
	JCP	Kazuko Yamazaki	36,546	15.1
	Independent	Hidenori Hasegawa	22,799	9.4

1996^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	74,856	32.7
	New Frontier	Hiroshi Yamada	67,670	29.5
	JCP	Kazuyoshi Hatta	40,677	17.8
	Democratic	Seijun Murata	37,598	16.4
	Independent	Takeshi Tsuji	8,324	3.6
Turnout			234,869	55.64

In popular culture

The 8th district is featured in the fifth season of the anime Aggretsuko, with the main character Retsuko running for election to the district for the Rage Party against her boyfriend Haida's brother Jiro to succeed his father Juzo.

References

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3. 開票速報 小選挙区：東京 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
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5. "Data Sets". Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2016.
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