Okayama 4th district

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Okayama 4th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Okayama Prefecture
single-member districts
Prefecture Okayama
Proportional District Chūgoku
Electorate405,558 (2022)
Current constituency
Created1996
Party CDP
Representative Michiyoshi Yunoki

Okayama 4th district is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in central coastal Okayama and covers the city of Kurashiki and the town of Hayashima. As of September 2012, 367,702 eligible voters were registered in the district, giving it slightly below average vote weight. [1]

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The first representative for Okayama 4th district was Liberal Democrat Ryūtarō Hashimoto who had represented the five-member 2nd district before the electoral reform, as had his father Ryōgo before him. Hashimoto, hit by a scandal over political donations from the Japanese Dentists' Federation in 2004, retired from politics in the 2005 general election. His son Gaku tried to "inherit" the seat, but lost to Democrat Michiyoshi Yunoki by a margin of about 6,000 votes. Hashimoto won a seat in the Chūgoku proportional representation block. In his second attempt in the 2009 general election, he lost to Yunoki by an even wider margin ( sekihairitsu 72.4) and also failed to win a proportional seat. In his third attempt in the landslide election of 2012, Hashimoto won the district.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Ryūtarō Hashimoto LDP 1996 – 2005 Prime Minister of Japan (1996 – 1998)
Retired in 2005
Michiyoshi Yunoki Democratic 2005 – 2012Re-elected to a proportional seat in the Chūgoku block
Gaku Hashimoto LDP 2012 – 2024
Michiyoshi Yunoki CDP 2024 –

Recent election results

2024 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Michiyoshi Yunoki 89,149 50.3 Increase2.svg3.5
LDP Gaku Hashimoto 75,40042.6Decrease2.svg7.1
JCP Yūichi Kakiuchi12,6487.1
Registered electors 401,198
Turnout 46.39Decrease2.svg1.65
CDP gain from LDP
2021 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Gaku Hashimoto 89,052 49.7 Decrease2.svg2.3
CDP Michiyoshi Yunoki (won PR seat)83,85946.8Increase2.svg5.0
IndependentTomoharu Nakagawa6,1463.4
Turnout 48.04Decrease2.svg0.07
LDP hold
2017 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Gaku Hashimoto 93,172 51.95 Increase2.svg0.33
Kibō no Tō Michiyoshi Yunoki (won PR seat)72,28040.30Decrease2.svg1.52
JCP Akinari Hirabayashi13,9077.75Increase2.svg0.18
Turnout 48.11Increase2.svg1.80
LDP hold Swing Increase2.svg0.9
2014 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Gaku Hashimoto91,18950.62Increase2.svg4.20
Democratic Michiyoshi Yunoki (won PR seat)75,33841.82Increase2.svg9.80
JCP Yūichi Kakiuchi13,6297.57Increase2.svg1.90
LDP hold Swing Decrease2.svg2.8
2012 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP (Komeito)Gaku Hashimoto91,15546.4
Democratic (People's New)Michiyoshi Yunoki (won PR seat)64,29332.7
Restoration Masaharu Akazawa29,79815.2
JCP Nobuko Sumasu11,1255.7
2009 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic (People's New) Michiyoshi Yunoki 134,31957.0
LDP (Komeito) Gaku Hashimoto 97,28441.3
Happiness Realization Miyuka Koiwai3,9291.7
Turnout 240,71366.1
2005 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Michiyoshi Yunoki102,37047.4
LDP Gaku Hashimoto (elected by PR)96,35644.6
JCP Tsuyoshi Azuma17,0947.9
Turnout 223,51462.4
2003 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Ryūtarō Hashimoto 104,65356.5
Democratic Michiyoshi Yunoki66,19935.7
JCP Tsuyoshi Azuma14,3677.8
Turnout 192,29354.3

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References

  1. ↑ 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 [September 2, 2012 Current number of registrants on the electoral list and overseas electoral list] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
  2. ↑ 開票速報 小選挙区：岡山 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  3. ↑ 小選挙区 岡山 4区 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  4. ↑ 2017年10月、開票速報終了時点のデータ 岡山４区 [October 2017, data as of the end of preliminary election counting Okayama 4 wards] (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  5. ↑ 2014衆院選 2014年12月14日(日) 投票 岡山４区 [2014 House of Representatives Election December 14, 2014 (Sunday) Okayama 4th Ward] (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  6. ↑ 開票結果 小選挙区 岡山 [Election Results Single-seat constituency Okayama]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  7. ↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 岡山4区 [45th House of Representatives Election - Okayama District 4]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
  8. ↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 岡山4区 [44th House of Representatives Election - Okayama District 4]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
  9. ↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 岡山4区 [43rd House of Representatives Election - Okayama District 4]. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-02-08.

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