Kanagawa 8th district

Kanagawa 8th district (Kanagawa 8-ku, 神奈川8区) or more formally the "8th district of Kanagawa Prefecture" (Kanagawa-ken dai-8-ku, 神奈川県第8区) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the Northeast of the prefecture (-ken) of Kanagawa and consists of two wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Yokohama: Midori and Aoba. As of 2013, 385,415 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Before the 2002 redistricting, i.e. until the 2003 general House of Representatives election, the 8th district consisted of Aoba-ku and the Miyamae-ku of Kawasaki-shi, the second major city in Kanagawa-ken. Midori had previously been part of the 7th district, Miyamae was transferred to the newly created 18th district.

After the introduction of single-member districts with the electoral reform of 1994, effective in the 1996 Representatives election, the district was initially won by pre-reform 1st district incumbent Hiroshi Nakada (New Frontier Party→Independents (political party)) who resigned for his (successful) campaign in the 2002 mayoral election in Yokohama city and later returned to the House of Representatives, but this time from Hokuriku-Shin'etsu. The resulting special election in Kanagawa 8th district was won by independent Kenji Eda. Eda lost the district in the 2003 Representatives election to Democrat Tetsundo Iwakuni, but won it back in 2005 and has held onto the seat since.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Hiroshi Nakada	NFP	1996–2000	Previously member from the four-member 1st district for Japan New Party→New Frontier Party, joined "Independents" (Mushozoku no kai) after the NFP dissolution
Hiroshi Nakada	Independents	2000–2002	Resigned to stand in a municipal election
Kenji Eda	Independent	2002–2003	Special election October 28, 2002
Tetsundo Iwakuni	DPJ	2003–2005
Kenji Eda	Independent	2005–2009	Formed YP in 2009
Kenji Eda	Your Party	2009–2014	Incumbent, led breakaway Unity Party in 2013, merged into Japan Innovation Party in 2014

Recent results

2012[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
YP	Kenji Eda	127,294	54.1	+5.0
LDP (NK)	Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Minami-Kantō)	60,643	25.8	+5.0
DPJ (PNP)	Kumiko Itō	33,769	19.7	new
JCP	Susumu Kugimaru	13,526	5.8	new

2009[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
YP	Kenji Eda	128,753	49.1	+14.2
DPJ	Makoto Yamazaki (won seat in Minami-Kantō)	74,544	28.4	new
LDP (NK)	Mineyuki Fukuda	54,480	20.8	-8.6
HRP	Hiroyuki Kojima	4,246	1.6	new

2005[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
I	Kenji Eda	88,098	34.9	-2.9
DPJ	Tetsundo Iwakuni (won seat in Minami-Kantō)	78,860	31.2	-7.5
LDP	Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Minami-Kantō)	74,399	29.4	new
JCP	Eiji Yamanaka	11,578	4.6	-0.1

References

MIC: 平成25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
総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.
総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.
総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.

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[1] MIC: 平成25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] 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.

[3] 総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.

[4] 総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.

Kanagawa's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 PR part of the Southern Kantō PR block House of Councillors At-large (17→18 Representatives, 6 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 (13→22 Representatives, 4→6 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (12 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 (11 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (10 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Yokohama city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 Representatives)

First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 (4) Iwate 1 2 3 (4) Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 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
Minami- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)
Tokyo (17 block seats, 25 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
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (11 block seats, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 (5)
Kinki (28 block seats, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 (4) Wakayama 1 2 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 (5) Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 (5) Okinawa 1 2 3 4
(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002, 2013 and 2017 reapportionments