Tokyo 6th district

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Tokyo 6th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts
Prefecture Tokyo
Proportional District Tokyo
Electorate486,353 (2012)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Takayuki Ochiai
Created from Tokyo 3rd district
Wards Parts of Setagaya

Tokyo 6th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Tokyo, and consists of a part of Setagaya, one of Tokyo's 23 special wards. With 2.18 times as many voters as Tokushima's 1st district, it had the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan in the election of 2005. [1] In 2007 the Supreme Court dismissed a claim that the election in this and other Tokyo districts was unconstitutional and thus invalid. [2] As of September 2012, 486,353 eligible voters were registered in the district, giving them the third lowest electoral weight in the country. [3]

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Before the electoral reform of 1994, Setagaya was part of Tokyo 3rd district, a three-member single non-transferable vote (SNTV) constituency. The post-reform single-member constituencies were used in the 1996 election for the first time.

Since its creation, the urban district had been dominated by opposition candidates until the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005 when Liberal Democratic candidate Takao Ochi was able to defeat Democratic incumbent Yōko Komiyama by a slim margin. Komiyama was reelected via the Tokyo proportional representation block and ran again in Tokyo 6th district in the election of 2009. In 2012, Ochi received only less than a third of the vote but retook the district as the opposition to the LDP splintered. After Democratic representative Kōki Ishii had been stabbed to death in 2002 by a rightwing activist, [4] [5] a by-election was held on April 27, 2003.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Tetsundo Iwakuni NFP 1996–2000
Kōki Ishii DPJ 2000–2002
Yōko Komiyama DPJ2003–2005Re-elected in the Tokyo PR block
Takao Ochi LDP 2005–2009Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Yōko KomiyamaDPJ2009–2012Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Takao OchiLDP2012–2017Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Takayuki Ochiai CDP 2017-Incumbent

Election results

2024
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Takayuki Ochiai 107,22247.40%Increase2.svg 7.30
LDP Miwa Tsuchiya63,89928.25%Decrease2.svg 10.05
Ishin Kenichi Kawamura32,88714,54%Decrease2.svg 7.06
Sanseitō Masanori Mochizuki22,1799.81New
Turnout 226,18758.82%Decrease2.svg 1.54
2021 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Takayuki Ochiai 110,169 40.1 Decrease2.svg0.7
LDP Takao Ochi (elected by PR)105,18638.3Decrease2.svg1.7
Ishin Rie Usui59,49021.6New
Turnout 274,84560.36Increase2.svg4.9
CDP hold
2017 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Takayuki Ochiai 100,400 40.8
LDP Takao Ochi (elected by PR)98,42240.0Decrease2.svg4.1
Kibō no Tō Emiko Uematsu42,86217.4
Happiness Realization Maki Nakaoka4,3071.8
Turnout 55.4Decrease2.svg0.0
CDP gain from LDP
2014 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takao Ochi 110,872 44.1 Increase2.svg11.2
Ishin Takayuki Ochiai (elected by PR)88,91535.4
JCP Takeshi Kishi51,59520.5Increase2.svg12.2
Turnout 55.4Decrease2.svg7.9
LDP hold
2012 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP (Kōmeitō) Takao Ochi 98,11232.9
DPJ (PNP) Yōko Komiyama 70,12623.5
JRP Tomofumi Hanawa52,73417.7
YP Takayuki Ochiai52,32517.6
JCP Naoki Satō24,7258.3
2009 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yōko Komiyama 174,367.916
LDP Takao Ochi 102,944.000
JCP Naoki Satō 27,105.000
Happiness Realization Party Yōko Nakaoka4,986.083
Turnout 316,41265.67
2005 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takao Ochi 136,75045.21
DPJ Yōko Komiyama 130,28343.07
JCP Miyoko Tanaka 28,2529.34
Turnout 302,48465.03
2003 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yōko Komiyama 131,71550.71
LDP Takao Ochi 78,65030.28
SDP Nobuto Hosaka 23,3208.98
JCP Miyoko Tanaka 18,6257.17
Turnout 259,72756.54
2003 by-election [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yōko Komiyama 99,60053.59
LDP Michio Ochi 57,78331.09
JCP Miyoko Tanaka 20,48611.02
Turnout 185,84240.63
2000 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Kōki Ishii 93,91936.16
LDP Michio Ochi 55,82121.49
SDP Nobuto Hosaka 38,16714.70
Liberal Party Yoshio Suzuki 30,91412.28
JCP Osamu Minase [15] 26,13010.38
Liberal League Rieko Saitō 6,7652,69
Turnout 251,71658.26
1996 [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
NFP Tetsundo Iwakuni 82,10634.46
LDP Michio Ochi 62,51826.24
DPJ Kōki Ishii 52,01421.83
JCP Osamu Minase [17] 29,63612.39
SDP Hiroshi Ōmura [18] 10,3844.36
Independent Masaharu Kitazato [19] 1,5900.67
Turnout 238,248

References

  1. Yomiuri Shimbun, August 31, 2005: 1票の格差2.18倍 衆院選有権者数 (in Japanese)
  2. Supreme Court: decision of June 13, 2007
  3. 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)
  4. The Japan Times, October 26, 2002: Opposition lawmaker assassinated. Outspoken DPJ member stabbed in front of his house; attacker flees.
  5. The Japan Times, July 1, 2005: Rightist's life term upheld for DPJ lawmaker's slaying
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  18. 大村博
  19. 北里正治