Chiba 4th district

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Chiba 4th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Chiba Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Chiba
Proportional District Minami-Kantō
Electorate463,083 (2021)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party Constitutional Democratic Party
Representative Hideyuki Mazunuma
Created from Chiba's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities Parts of Funabashi and Ichikawa cities

Chiba 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Western Chiba. As of 2016, 459,431 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1] In the 2009 and 2012 general elections, the district had the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan at more than two times as many voters as the district with the highest electoral weight, Kōchi-3rd. [2]

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Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda represented Chiba 4th district from 2000 until 2024 when he transferred to the newly established Chiba 14th district. Noda initially lost as a candidate for the New Frontier Party by 105 votes to Liberal Democrat Shōichi Tanaka in 1996. Amid the LDP landslide in 2012 that returned them into power, then-PM Noda became a rare DPJ politician who actually increased his share of vote in his constituency.

Before resdistricting, the electoral district covered the city of Funabashi. After 2022 it comprises a part of Funabashi and a part of Ichikawa. Areas of Funabashi that had previously belonged to the 4th were moved to the new 14th district.

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Funabashi was part of Chiba 1st district where four Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Shōichi Tanaka LDP 1996 – 2000
Yoshihiko Noda DPJ 2000 – 2016
DP 2016 – 2017
Ind 2017 – 2021
CDP 2021 – 2024
Hideyuki Mazunuma 2024 –

Election results

2024 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Hideyuki Mazunuma 90,011 43.33 Decrease2.svg21.22
LDP Tetsuya Kimura66,62932.07Decrease2.svg3.38
JCP Kenta Yakama26,22212.62Increase2.svg5.82
Ishin Kyōko Amemiya13,7366.61Increase2.svg1.11
Sanseitō Seiko Kudō11,1315.36New
Turnout 52.58Decrease2.svg0.11
Registered electors 406,084
CDP hold
2021 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Yoshihiko Noda 154,41264.55Increase2.svg4.56
LDP Tetsuya Kimura84,81335.45Increase2.svg7.34
Majority70.39929.10Decrease2.svg2.38
Turnout 52.69Increase2.svg3.28
CDP hold Swing Decrease2.svg1.19
2017 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Yoshihiko Noda 131,02459.59Increase2.svg8.90
LDP Tetsuya Kimura (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)61,80428.11Decrease2.svg1.21
JCP Toshirō Fukatsu14,9556.80Decrease2.svg3.73
Ishin Hiroshi Satō12,1045.50N/A
Majority69,22031.48
Turnout 49.41Decrease2.svg3.75
Independent hold Swing Increase2.svg5.06
2014 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 119,19351.69Decrease2.svg5.59
LDP Tetsuya Kimura (endorsed by Kōmeitō)67,60029.32Increase2.svg4.01
JCP Kazuko Saitō (elected by PR)24,27510.53Increase2.svg3.00
Independent Ken'ichi Nishio (endorsed by the Greens)19,5108.46N/A
Majority51,59322.37
Turnout 53.16Decrease2.svg6.30
Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg4.80
2012 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda (endorsed by PNP)163,33457.28Increase2.svg3.64
LDP Mikio Fujita (endorsed by NKP)72,18725.31Decrease2.svg2.95
Tomorrow Yukiko Miyake (endorsed by NPD)28,1879.88N/A
JCP Kazuko Saitō21,4597.53Decrease2.svg0.09
Majority91,14731.97
Turnout 307,95459.46Decrease2.svg3.67
Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg3.30

In 2009, Yoshihiko Noda's candidacy was formally supported by the People's New Party, Mikio Fujita by New Komeito. [8]

2009 [8] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda (endorsed by PNP)162,15353.64Increase2.svg8.75
LDP Mikio Fujita (endorsed by NKP)85,42528.26Decrease2.svg16.32
Your Itoko Noyashiki28,2809.35N/A
JCP Kazuko Saitō23,0507.62Decrease2.svg0.73
Happiness Realization Kōichirō Yamanaka3,4031.13N/A
Majority76,72825.38
Turnout 307,95463.13Decrease2.svg0.24
Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg12.52
2005 [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 129,83444.89Decrease2.svg10.9
LDP Mikio Fujita (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)128,89044.58Increase2.svg11.7
JCP Toshinori Niki24,1388.35Decrease2.svg2.9
Independent Kōji Nagano6,3112.18N/A
Majority9560.31
Turnout 294,77763.37Increase2.svg9.08
Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg11.3
2003 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 135,52255.8Increase2.svg8.5
LDP Masaru Hasegawa (endorsed by NKP)80,05132.9Decrease2.svg1.9
JCP Yukiko Tsuga27,44111.3Decrease2.svg6.9
Turnout 249,44654.29Increase2.svg9.08
Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg5.2
2000 [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 116,15647.3Increase2.svg15.4
LDP Ken'ichi Nishio (endorsed by NKP)76,06731.0Decrease2.svg1.0
JCP Shōji Ishii44,58618.2Increase2.svg2.0
Liberal League Yutaka Akimoto8,8993.5N/A
Democratic gain from LDP Swing Increase2.svg8.2
1996 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Shōichi Tanaka 73,79232.0
New Frontier Yoshihiko Noda 73,68731.9
Democratic Takayuki Kojima 45,92419.9
JCP Shin'ichi Maruyama37,30016.2
Turnout 235,65355.07
LDP win (new seat)

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References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
  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)
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