Hyogo 8th district

Hyogo 8th district (兵庫県第8区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-hachiku), also referred to as Hyōgo hachi-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyōgo and consists of the city of Amagasaki. As of September 2015, 379,207 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 2nd district that elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, it has been represented by three people: former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former governor of Nagano Prefecture Yasuo Tanaka, and the current representative Hiromasa Nakano, who worked under Fuyushiba in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba New Frontier Party(1996–98) 1996 – 2009
Komeito(1998-2009)
Yasuo Tanaka New Party Nippon 2009 – 2012
Hiromasa Nakano Komeito 2012–present

Election results
2017[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Komeito Hiromasa Nakano 94,116 63.6 2.7
Communist Terufumi Horiuchi 53,964 36.4 -2.7
Turnout
2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Komeito Hiromasa Nakano 94,687 60.9 14.3
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 60,849 39.1 28.3
Turnout
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Komeito Hiromasa Nakano 97,562 46.6 5.3
New Party Nippon Yasuo Tanaka 62,697 30.0 -12.2
Democratic Hideko Muroi 26,246 12.6 12.6
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 22,645 10.8 2.7
Turnout
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Party Nippon Yasuo Tanaka 106,225 42.2 42.2
Komeito Tstsuzo Fuyushiba 103,918 41.3 -5.0
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 20,327 8.1 -4.5
Social Democratic Banko Ichiki 18,770 7.5 1.6
Happiness Realization Tomokazu Sumide 2,532 1.0 1.0
Turnout
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Komeito Tstsuzo Fuyushiba 109,957 46.3
Democratic Kunihiko Muroi 83,288 35.1
Communist Etsuko Shōmoto 29,986 12.6
Social Democratic Munenori Ueda 14,019 5.9
Turnout

References
  1. "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  2. "総選挙2017>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2017 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  3. "総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  4. "総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  5. "総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
  6. "総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.

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