Tokyo Tokyo city district (東京府東京市区, Tōkyō-fu-Tōkyō-shi-ku) was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1902 and 1917 it elected eleven representatives by single non-transferable vote (SNTV). It was located in Tokyo and consisted of Tokyo City. Tokyo city often elected (anti-mainstream) Kenseitō, Kokumintō, Dōshikai and independent politicians while few Seiyūkai politicians (compared to the party's nationwide position) managed to be elected among the top five. Exceptions were Hatoyama Kazuo and his son Ichirō who in 1917 managed to achieve top tōsen, i.e. be elected with the highest vote. Other prominent representatives from the city of Tokyo include economist Taguchi Ukichi, Bukichi Miki, Kenseikai secretary-general in the 1920s and co-founder of Hatoyama's postwar Japan Democratic Party in 1954, and Tanomogi Keikichi, Minister of Communication in the 1930s and mayor of Tokyo.
In 1900 a change of the electoral law brought the transition to SNTV multi-member districts, the introduction of secret balloting and a reduction of the census requirement for suffrage. With the return to single-member districts in the election of 1920, Tokyo's wards were split up into 11 electoral districts.
Tokyo 6th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Tokyo, and consists of major parts of the City 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. In 2007 the Supreme Court dismissed a claim that the election in this and other Tokyo districts was unconstitutional and thus invalid. As of September 2012, 486,353 eligible voters were registered in the district, giving them the third lowest electoral weight in the country.
Tokyo 18th District is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Western Tokyo and consists of the cities of Musashino, Koganei and Fuchū. Until 2002, it included Mitaka instead of Fuchū. As of 2016, 436,338 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Hokkaidō 9th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Hokkaido's Hidaka and Iburi Subprefectures. As of 2009, 414,438 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Yamaguchi's 2nd district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan. Between 1928 and 1942 it elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote (SNTV). It consisted of Yamaguchi Prefecture's Ōshima, Kuga, Kumage, Tsuno, Saba, and Yoshiki districts.
Tokyo 9th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan between 1890 and 1898. It was located in Tokyo and consisted of Tokyo City's Koishikawa, Ushigome and Yotsuya wards.
Tokyo 2nd district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan. Between 1928 and 1942 it elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote (SNTV). It was located in Tokyo Prefecture and consisted of Tokyo City's Kanda, Koishikawa, Hongō and Shitaya wards. It was most notably represented by Christian socialist leader Isoo Abe, between 1926 and 1931 chairman of the Socialist Mass Party, and post-war prime minister Ichirō Hatoyama who founded the Liberal Party in 1945, the Japan Democratic Party in 1954 and chaired the Liberal Democratic Party after the "conservative merger" of the two parties in 1955.
Tokyo 10th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan between 1920 and 1924. It was located in Tokyo prefecture and consisted of Tokyo City's Koishikawa ward. Its only representative was Hatoyama Ichirō, the son of former speaker of the House Hatoyama Kazuo.
Tokyo's 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected four, later three representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of Tokyo's Chiyoda, Chūō, Minato, Shinjuku, Bunkyō and Taitō special wards. In the 1964 redistricting Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō were split off to form the new 8th district.
The Tokyo 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Tokyo and covers parts of the former city of Tokyo and Tokyo's outlying islands. The district consists of the wards of Shinagawa and parts of Ōta, the towns of Ōshima and Hachijō and the villages of Toshima, Niijima, Kōzushima, Miyake, Mikurajima, Aogashima and Ogasawara. As of 2012, 482,494 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Tokyo 10th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. As of 2012, 351,821 eligible voters were registered in the district. It covers northwestern parts of the former city of Tokyo. Originally it consisted of the ward of Toshima and parts of Nerima, but after redistricting in 2017 it comprises parts of four wards, Toshima, Nerima, Nakano and Shinjuku.
Tokyo 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers central parts of the former city of Tokyo. The district consists of the wards of Chiyoda, Minato and Shinjuku. As of 2016, 514,974 eligible voters were registered in the district. After redistricting in 2017, a part of Shinjuku was moved to the Tokyo 10th district and a part of Minato was moved to the Tokyo 2nd district.
Tokyo 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers central parts of the former Tokyo City. The district consists of the wards of Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō. As of 2012, 424,273 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Tokyo 2nd district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected three, later five representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of Shinagawa and Ōta in Eastern mainland Tokyo and, following their return from US military administration, Tokyo's Izu and Ogasawara islands. Since the election of 1996, the area forms the new single-member 3rd district.
Tokyo 17th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers northeastern parts of the former city of Tokyo. The district consists of Katsushika and parts of Edogawa ward. As of 2012, 440,965 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Tokyo 7th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five, later four representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of mainland Western Tokyo as a whole, namely the cities of Hachiōji and Tachikawa and the Nishitama, Minamitama and Kitatama districts of Tokyo.
Tokyo 8th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1967 and 1993 it elected three, later two representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was created in a 1964 redistricting form areas that had previously formed part of the 1st district: It consisted of Eastern Tokyo's Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō special wards, central parts of the former city of Tokyo. In a reapportionment for the 1993 election the number of representatives for Tokyo 8th district was reduced from three to two. Following the 1994 electoral reform, the area now forms the single-member Tokyo 2nd district.
Kyōto 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Kyoto and consists of the Kyoto city wards of Sakyō, Higashiyama and Yamashina. As of 2012, 267,926 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Kyōto 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in South central Kyoto and consists of Kyoto city's Fushimi ward, the cities of Mukō and Nagaokakyō and the town of Ōyamazaki. As of 2012, 345,260 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Kyōto 3rd district was a multi-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan. Between 1928 and 1942 it elected three representatives by single non-transferable vote (SNTV). It covered Northwestern parts of Kyōto, namely the Amata, Ikaruga, Kaya, Yosa, Naka, Takeno and Kumano counties. The district was then predominantly rural; but the Minseitō could win the district by two seats to one in the election of 1930 and in the immediate prewar elections of 1936 and 1937 when the Diet had already lost most of its influence to the military- and aristocracy-led "national unity" cabinets. In the wartime election of 1942, non-Yokusankai candidate Hitoshi Ashida received more than 15,000 votes and defended his seat by a 1,500 vote margin against fourth-ranking Yokusankai candidate San'ichirō Mizushima.
The Tokyo counties district was an electoral district for the House of Representatives in the Imperial Diet of Japan. Between 1902 and 1917, it eletected five representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Tokyo and consisted of all counties (gun) of the prefecture and the Izu and Ogasawara islands, in other words all parts of Tokyo that did not belong to Tokyo city. The counties were: Ebara County, Toyotama County, Kita-Toshima County, Minami-Adachi County, Minami-Katsushika County, Kita-Tama County, Minami-Tama County and Nishi-Tama County; the island communities hadn't yet been organized into modern municipalities.