Gunma 4th district

Gunma 4th District
Gunma 4th District
群馬県第4区
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
Prefecture	Gunma
Proportional Block	Northern Kanto
Electorate	295,213 (as of 1 September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Tatsuo Fukuda

Gunma 4th district (群馬県第4区, Gunma-ken dai-yon-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Gunma and consists of the city of Fujioka, the Southern part of Takasaki city (without the former municipalities of Gunma, Misato, Haruna and Kurabuchi) as well as Kanna town and Ueno village in Tano county. As of 2009, 292,356 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[2]

Before the electoral reform that took effect in 1996, the area was part of the multi-member Gunma 3rd district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Gunma is a "conservative kingdom" (hoshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party, and the pre-1996 multi-seat 3rd district had been home to the families of LDP presidents and Prime Ministers of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone, Takeo Fukuda and Keizō Obuchi. The new 4th district's first representative was Fukuda's son Yasuo Fukuda (Machimura faction) who was elected LDP president and Prime Minister himself in 2007 over Tarō Asō (Asō faction). In the LDP's landslide defeat in 2009, Fukuda held his seat over Yukiko Miyake, one of the "Ozawa girls", a group of first-time female candidates handpicked by former Democratic Party president Ichirō Ozawa. Miyake easily won a seat in the Northern Kantō proportional representation block. She followed Ozawa out of the party in 2012 and ran for his Tomorrow Party of Japan in Democratic Party president Yoshihiko Noda's Chiba 4th district where she failed to win even a tenth of the vote, disqualifying her also for potential re-election in the proportional representation bloc.

In Gunma 4th district, Yasuo Fukuda retired in 2012 and was safely succeeded by his son Tatsuo.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Yasuo Fukuda		LDP	1996–2012	Prime Minister of Japan (2007-2008), retired in 2012
Tatsuo Fukuda		LDP	2012–	Son of Yasuo Fukuda

Election results

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Tatsuo Fukuda	105,359	65.02
	CDP (SDP)	Kuniyoshi Suminokura	56,682	34.98

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Tatsuo Fukuda	93,262	60.78
	Kibō no Tō (DPJ)	Hiroki Fuwa	36,167	23.57

2012^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (Kōmeitō, NRP)	Tatsuo Fukuda	93,220	55.7
JRP	Ayaka Miyaharada	42,536	25.4
DPJ	Kazuya Aoki	17,336	10.4
JCP	Sadao Hagiwara	14,174	8.5

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Yasuo Fukuda	103,852	51.9
	DPJ (PNP support)	Yukiko Miyake (elected by PR)	91,904	45.9
	HRP	Takayuki Morita	4,315	2.2
Turnout			205,416	70.72

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yasuo Fukuda	118,517	62.8
	DPJ	Masaki Nakajima	56,364	29.9
	JCP	Etsuo Sakai	13,809	7.3
Turnout			192,933	67.03

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yasuo Fukuda	98,903	62.1
	DPJ	Yukio Tomioka	48,427	30.4
	JCP	Shinmei Ogasawara	11,815	7.4
Turnout			164,403	57.5

2000^[9]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Yasuo Fukuda	94,517	57.7
DPJ	Masaki Nakajima	49,063	29.9
JCP	Kiyoko Nomura	20,284	12.4

1996^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yasuo Fukuda	73,674	46.0
	NFP	Minoru Komai	45,134	28.2
	DPJ	Masaki Nakajima	24,977	15.6
	JCP	Toshihiko Iizuka	16,425	10.3
Turnout			166,505	60.47

References

^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of September 1, 2020]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-24.
^ 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)
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
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House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by Yamaguchi 4th district	Constituency represented by the prime minister 2007–2008	Succeeded by Fukuoka 8th district

[1] "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of September 1, 2020]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-24.

[2] 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)

[3] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[4] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[5] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[6] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.

[7] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.

[8] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.

[9] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.

[10] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-04-14.

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v t e Gunma's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 PR part of the Northern Kantō PR block (20 seats) House of Councillors At-large (5 Representatives, 4→2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (10 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (9 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (8 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Maebashi city Takasaki city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4