Aichi 5th district

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Aichi 5th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Aichi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Aichi
Proportional District Tōkai
Electorate350,279 (2022)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party Liberal Democratic Party
Representative Kenji Kanda
Created from Aichi's 1st, 2nd and 6th "medium-sized" district
Municipalities Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards
City of Kiyosu

Aichi 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Aichi Prefecture and consists of Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards and the city of Kiyosu. As of 2016, 428,423 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]

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Nagoya is considered a "Democratic kingdom" (minshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). But Aichi's 5th district is the only electoral district in Nagoya (Aichi 1 to 5) that also contains areas outside Nagoya. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005, it became the first district in Nagoya that the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could win since the introduction of single-member districts in 1996: Liberal Democrat Takahide Kimura won narrowly against the Democratic incumbent Hirotaka Akamatsu who was then only reelected in the Tōkai proportional representation block. Akamatsu had represented Aichi's 5th district since 1996 and regained the seat in the 2009 general election. He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Hatoyama Cabinet. In 2012, he lost the district by less than 2,000 votes to Liberal Democrat Kenji Kanda. Akamatsu regained the district in 2014 and held it until 2021.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 1996 – 2005Won in the PR block
Takahide Kimura LDP 2005 – 2009Retired
Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 2009 – 2012Won in the PR block
Kenji Kanda LDP 2012 – 2014Won in the PR block
Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 2014 – 2016
DP 2016 – 2017
CDP 2017 – 2021
Kenji Kanda LDP 2021 –

Election results

2021 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda (endorsed by Kōmeitō)84,32041.2Increase2.svg4.1
CDP Hirotaka Akamatsu 74,99536.6Decrease2.svg9.9
Innovation Maki Misaki (elected by PR)45,54022,2
Turnout 48.63Increase2.svg1.75
Liberal Democratic gain from CDP
2017 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Hirotaka Akamatsu 91,08146.49Increase2.svg1.96
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)72,65137.08Decrease2.svg0.78
Kibō no Tō Naoaki Nonobe (endorsed by Genzei Nippon)32,17916.43N/A
Majority18,4309.41
Turnout 46.88Decrease2.svg0.60
CDP hold Swing Increase2.svg1.37
2014 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (endorsed by the Greens)84,22644.53Increase2.svg13.42
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda (elected by PR)71,61637.86Increase2.svg5.89
Communist Hiroki Fujii23,06912.20Increase2.svg4.49
Future Generations Shōichi Yasuda10,2315.41N/A
Majority12,6106.57
Turnout 47.28Decrease2.svg5.41
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing Increase2.svg3.77
2012 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenji Kanda 67,21831.97Decrease2.svg2.88
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (elected by PR, endorsed by PNP)65,42331.11Decrease2.svg29.88
Restoration Ken'ichi Koyama (endorsed by YP)37,80617.98N/A
Tomorrow Yūkichi Maeda (endorsed by NPD)23,60911.23N/A
Communist Hiroki Fujii16,2067.71N/A
Majority1,7950.86
Turnout 52.69Decrease2.svg10.9
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing Increase2.svg13.50
2009 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (endorsed by PNP)158,23561.99Increase2.svg17.54
Liberal Democratic Mutsumi Teranishi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)88,96434.85Decrease2.svg13.47
Happiness Realization Tomoko Yoshida8,0423.15N/A
Majority69,27127.14
Turnout 261,91763.6Increase2.svg2.0
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing Increase2.svg15.51
2005 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Takahide Kimura 117,01748.32
Democratic Hirotaka Akamatsu (elected by PR)107,60544.45
Communist Akemi Kawae17,5237.23
Turnout 246,84261.6
2003 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)104,346
LDP Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)90,668
JCP Hiroyuki Egami16,255
Turnout 217,10954.7
2000 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)82,943
LDP Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)64,970
JCP Asako Kodama21,516
LL Takayoshi Itō2,274
1996 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Hirotaka Akamatsu (PR candidate)48,648
LDP Takahide Kimura (PR candidate)46,485
NFP Yutaka Banno 43,028
JCP Tadahiro Nagatomo17,670
IndependentTsutomu Suzuki768
Japan Nation Party Minoru Ichikawa470
Culture forum (Bunka fōramu)Takao Uchiyama335

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