Tokyo 7th district

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Tokyo 7th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Prefecture Tokyo
Proportional District Tokyo
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Akira Nagatsuma
Wards Shibuya, Minato

Tokyo 7th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. The district is in central Tokyo and encompasses the entire wards of Shibuya and Minato.

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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] Following the 2022 appaportionment, the district now covers all of Shibuya and Minato, with the former portions of the district covering Shinagawa, Meguro and Nakano being moved into other districts.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Shigeru Kasuya LDP 1996 – 2000
Akira Nagatsuma DPJ 2000 – 2005
Fumiaki Matsumoto LDP 2005 – 2009
Akira Nagatsuma DPJ 2009 – 2016Incumbent
DP 2016 – 2017
CDP 2017 –

Election results

2021 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Constitutional Democratic Akira Nagatsuma 124,54149.25Decrease2.svg1.27
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto ( endorsed by Kōmeitō)81,08732.06Decrease2.svg4.74
Ishin Kentarō Tsuji37,78114.94
Independent Hiroshi Komiyama5,6652.24
The Party to Protect the People from NHK Keiji Ino3,8221.51
Majority17.19Increase2.svg5.47
Turnout 56.47Increase2.svg3.61
Constitutional Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg1.80
2017 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Constitutional Democratic Akira Nagatsuma 117,11850.52Increase2.svg5.91
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)85,30536.80Increase2.svg1.14
Kibō no Tō Akihiro Araki25,53111.01N/A
Independent Ikuma Inoue3,8501.66N/A
Majority32.81313.72
Turnout 52.86Decrease2.svg0.27
Constitutional Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg2.39
2014 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma (endorsed by JIP)104,42244.61Increase2.svg6.16
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)83,47635.66Increase2.svg5.69
Communist Noriaki Ōta27,86611.90Increase2.svg4.51
Future Generations Kōichirō Yoshida18,3327.83Decrease2.svg9.44
Majority20,9468.95
Turnout 53.13Decrease2.svg7.95
Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg0.24
2012 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma (endorsed by PNP)100,87238.25Decrease2.svg23.01
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)79,04829.97Increase2.svg0.90
Restoration Kōichirō Yoshida45,55617.27N/A
Communist Noriaki Ōta19,4957.39Decrease2.svg1.40
Tomorrow Kōzō Okamoto (endorsed by NPD)17,4376.61N/A
Independent Teikichi Nishino1,3150.50N/A
Majority21,8248.28
Turnout 61.08Decrease2.svg2.23
Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg11.96
2009 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma167,90561.26Increase2.svg19.14
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto (endorsed by NKP)79,68629.07Decrease2.svg19.84
Communist Noriaki Ōta24,1038.79Decrease2.svg0.18
Happiness Realization Kazuya Daimon2,4010.88N/A
Majority88,21932.19
Turnout 63.31Increase2.svg0.23
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing Increase2.svg19.49
2005 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto131,46448.91
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma (elected by PR)113,22142.12
Communist Noriaki Ōta17,1408.97
Majority63.08
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic Swing
2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma99,89143.1
Liberal Democratic Fumiaki Matsumoto83,58836.0
Communist Tetsuo Ozawa21,9829.5
Independent Hajime Yabe14,7436.4
Club of IndependentsTakashi Fube11,7785.1
2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Akira Nagatsuma82,50235.7
Liberal Democratic Shigeru Kasuya 77,40735.5
Communist Isamu Ozeki37,38016.2
Liberal Seiichi Suetsugu25,91011.2
Tokyo NewTaizō Shibano7,8303.4
1996
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Shigeru Kasuya65,33230.2
Democratic Tatsu Miki57,22026.4
New Frontier Toshikazu Higuchi47,24121.8
Communist Kiyoshi Kamei39,04918.0
New Socialist Hideaki Ebara7,5573.5

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