Tokyo 7th district

Tokyo 7th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is encompasses the Shinagawa, Meguro, Shibuya, Nakano and Suginami wards of Tokyo.

Tokyo 7th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts
PrefectureTokyo
Proportional DistrictTokyo
Electorate468,928 (2016)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyConstitutional Democratic Party
RepresentativeAkira Nagatsuma
Created fromTokyo's 2nd, 3rd and 4th "medium-sized" district
WardsShinagawa, Meguro, Shibuya, Nakano and Suginami

Deputy leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and former Health Minister Akira Nagatsuma is the current representative of the district.

Background

The district is considered a stronghold for former Health Minister Akira Nagatsuma, who grew into prominence from investigating the 2007 pensions mishandling scandal and wider misuse of public funds.[1] Nagatsuma has been elected almost continuously since 2000, save for the 2005 Koizumi landslide where he was only returned through the proportional representation block. Nagatsuma regained the district in the 2009 landslide that brought the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) into power. Despite facing strong headwinds in the 2012 and 2014 LDP landslide, he managed to hold on to his seat. He was the only opposition lawmaker winning a single-seat constituency in Tokyo in the 2014 election.

Nagatsuma retained his seat in the 2017 election that was preceded by a split in the Democratic Party (DP). Nagatsuma along with liberal-leaning members of the DP like Yukio Edano and Hirotaka Akamatsu founded the CDP. He was challenged in the election by his regular LDP rival Fumiaki Matsumoto. The party housing conservative former DP members, Kibō no Tō also fielded a candidate. Akihiro Araki, the husband of Tomin First no Kai leader Chiharu Araki, was chosen to contest the seat for Kibō. Nagatsuma comfortably won his seat and increased his majority amidst a CDP surge that also resulted in gains by the party across Tokyo.[2]

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Shigeru Kasuya LDP 1996 – 2000
Akira Nagatsuma DPJ 2000 – 2005
Fumiaki Matsumoto LDP 2005 – 2009
Akira Nagatsuma DPJ 2009 – 2016 Incumbent
DP 2016 – 2017
CDP 2017 –

Election results
2017[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Constitutional Democratic Akira Nagatsuma 117,118 50.52 5.91
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 85,305 36.80 1.14
Kibō Akihiro Araki 25,531 11.01 N/A
Independent Ikuma Inoue 3,850 1.66 N/A
Majority 32.813 13.72
Turnout 52.86 0.27
Constitutional Democratic hold Swing 2.39
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma (endorsed by JIP) 104,422 44.61 6.16
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 83,476 35.66 5.69
Communist Noriaki Ōta 27,866 11.90 4.51
Future Generations Kōichirō Yoshida 18,332 7.83 9.44
Majority 20,946 8.95
Turnout 53.13 7.95
Democratic hold Swing 0.24
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma (endorsed by PNP) 100,872 38.25 23.01
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP) 79,048 29.97 0.90
Restoration Kōichirō Yoshida 45,556 17.27 N/A
Communist Noriaki Ōta 19,495 7.39 1.40
Tomorrow Kōzō Okamoto (endorsed by NPD) 17,437 6.61 N/A
Independent Teikichi Nishino 1,315 0.50 N/A
Majority 21,824 8.28
Turnout 61.08 2.23
Democratic hold Swing 11.96
2009[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma 167,905 61.26 19.14
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (endorsed by NKP) 79,686 29.07 19.84
Communist Noriaki Ōta 24,103 8.79 0.18
Happiness Realization Kazuya Daimon 2,401 0.88 N/A
Majority 88,219 32.19
Turnout 63.31 0.23
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing 19.49
2005[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto 131,464 48.91
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma (elected by PR) 113,221 42.12
Communist Noriaki Ōta 17,140 8.97
Majority 63.08
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing
2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma 99,891 43.1
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto 83,588 36.0
Communist Tetsuo Ozawa 21,982 9.5
Independent Hajime Yabe 14,743 6.4
Club of Independents Takashi Fube 11,778 5.1
2000
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma 82,502 35.7
Liberal Democratic Shigeru Kasuya 77,407 35.5
Communist Isamu Ozeki 37,380 16.2
Liberal Seiichi Suetsugu 25,910 11.2
Tokyo New Taizō Shibano 7,830 3.4
1996
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Shigeru Kasuya 65,332 30.2
Democratic Tatsu Miki 57,220 26.4
New Frontier Toshikazu Higuchi 47,241 21.8
Communist Kiyoshi Kamei 39,049 18.0
New Socialist Hideaki Ebara 7,557 3.5

References
  1. Onishi, Norimitsu (19 July 2008). "No Longer a Reporter, but a Muckraker Within Japan's Parliament". New York Times. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. Martin, Alex; Kikuchi, Daisuke (22 October 2017). "Top opposition forces see contrasting fates after poll". Japan Times. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  3. 小選挙区開票速報：東京都（定数25） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  4. 小選挙区：東京都 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  5. 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：東京都 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  6. 小選挙区開票結果ー東京都７区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
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