2004 Japanese House of Councillors election
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House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 11 July 2004. The House of Councillors consists of 242 members who serve six-year terms. Approximately half the members are elected every three years. At these elections 121 members were elected. Of these 73 were elected from the 47 prefectural districts and 48 were elected from a nationwide list by proportional representation.
Contesting parties[]
- Government
- Liberal Democratic Party (conservative)
- New Komeito (theocratic Buddhist, conservative)
- Opposition
- Democratic Party (social-democratic/liberal)
- Japanese Communist Party (communist)
- Social Democratic Party (social-democratic)
Results[]
The opposition Democratic Party won a plurality of the popular vote and seats contested in the election, sweeping the liberal urban areas. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to win in its strongholds but once more received most of its support from the agrarian areas. New Komeito did well, reaching its goals, as did the Social Democratic Party. The Japanese Communist Party did not reach its goals, while independents won the rest of the seats. The Liberal League and Green Political Assembly failed to win any seats.
Party | National | Constituency | Seats | |||||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– | |||
Democratic Party of Japan | 21,137,457 | 37.79 | 19 | 21,931,985 | 39.09 | 31 | 32 | 50 | 82 | +23 | ||
Liberal Democratic Party | 16,797,686 | 30.03 | 15 | 19,687,954 | 35.09 | 34 | 66 | 49 | 115 | +5 | ||
New Komeito Party | 8,621,265 | 15.41 | 8 | 2,161,764 | 3.85 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 24 | +1 | ||
Japanese Communist Party | 4,362,574 | 7.80 | 4 | 5,520,141 | 9.84 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | –11 | ||
Social Democratic Party | 2,990,666 | 5.35 | 2 | 984,340 | 1.75 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | –3 | ||
Women's Party | 989,882 | 1.77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Green Political Assembly | 903,776 | 1.62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||||
Ishin Seito Shimpu | 128,478 | 0.23 | 0 | 117,780 | 0.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Other parties | 8,382 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||||
Independents | 5,696,505 | 10.15 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | –1 | |||||
Total | 55,931,784 | 100.00 | 48 | 56,108,851 | 100.00 | 73 | 121 | 121 | 242 | –5 | ||
Valid votes | 55,931,785 | 96.42 | 56,108,852 | 96.75 | ||||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,074,327 | 3.58 | 1,881,905 | 3.25 | ||||||||
Total votes | 58,006,112 | 100.00 | 57,990,757 | 100.00 | ||||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 102,588,411 | 56.54 | 102,507,526 | 56.57 | ||||||||
Source: MIC, National Diet |
By prefecture[]
Elected candidates in bold
Compiled from JANJAN's "The Senkyo"[1] and MIC official results.[2]
Notes:
- All incumbents not running for re-election in their prefectural electoral district are counted as retirements even if they ran in the nationwide proportional representation.
- In a multi-member district, there is no difference between Councillors elected with the highest and lower vote shares. Yet, "top tōsen", i.e. being elected with the highest vote, is considered a special achievement and thus noted where changed from the previous election for the same class of Councillors (1998).
- Niigata is counted as an SDP hold because the elected Councillor joined the SDP parliamentary group.
Northern Japan | ||||||
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Prefecture | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party) Vote share | |
Hokkaido | 2 | Naoki Minezaki | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen |
Yoshio Nakagawa (LDP) 26.7% Naoki Minezaki (DPJ) 22.3% Masahito Nishikawa (DPJ) 19.9% Muneo Suzuki (I) 17.5% Chiharu Oka (JCP) 9.2% Keiko Yamauchi (SDP) 3.8% Nobuhito Sendai (Ishin) 0.7% | |
Yoshio Nakagawa | LDP | |||||
Aomori | 1 | Masami Tanabu | DPJ | Incumbent re-elected | Masami Tanabu (DPJ) 47.5% Hidenori Nara (LDP – Komeito) 40.4% Hiroaki Takayanagi (JCP) 6.2% Hiroshi Inoue (SDP) 5.9% | |
Iwate | 1 | Incumbent retired DPJ pickup |
Ryo Shuhama (DPJ) 48.5% (I – LDP, Ind. Ass.) 39.6% Kunihiko Takehana (SDP) 6.7% Akio Wakayama (JCP) 5.2% | |||
Miyagi | 2 | Mitsuru Sakurai | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen |
Ichiro Ichikawa (LDP) 38.4% Mitsuru Sakurai (DPJ) 37.8% Ikuko Endo (JCP) 9.8% Toshiaki Sugawara (I) 8.6% Katsuo Okita (SDP) 5.4% | |
Ichiro Ichikawa | LDP | |||||
Akita | 1 | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election Independent pickup |
Yoetsu Suzuki (I) 50.2% (LDP) 42.9% Kazunobu Imagawa (JCP) 7.0% | ||
Yamagata | 1 | Koichi Kishi | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Koichi Kishi (LDP) 46.8% Yasue Funayama (DPJ) 36.8% Masahiro Kimura (SDP) 7.1% Masayuki Sato (JCP) 5.4% | |
Fukushima | 2 | Yūhei Satō | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected | Yūhei Satō (DPJ) 45.4% Mitsuhide Iwaki (LDP) 41.5% Yumiko Abe (JCP) 13.1% | |
Mitsuhide Iwaki | LDP | |||||
Eastern and Central Japan | ||||||
Prefecture | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share | |
Ibaraki | 2 | Akira Gunji | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen |
Hiroshi Okada (LDP) 50.5% Akira Gunji (LDP) 41.3% Takeo Taya (JCP) 8.2% | |
Hiroshi Okada | LDP | |||||
Tochigi | 2 | Susumu Yanase | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected | Susumu Yanase (DPJ) 49.2% Tetsuro Yano (LDP) 42.1% Setsuko Nomura (JCP) 8.7% | |
Tetsuro Yano | LDP | |||||
Gunma | 2 | Hirofumi Nakasone | LDP | LDP incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup DPJ gains top tōsen |
Yukio Tomioka (DPJ) 34.5% Hirofumi Nakasone (LDP) 30.3% (LDP) 29.4% Shinmei Ogasawara (JCP) 5.8% | |
LDP | ||||||
Saitama | 3 | Masakazu Sekiguchi | LDP | LDP incumbent re-elected DPJ and JCP incumbents retired DPJ hold Komeito pickup DPJ gains top tōsen |
Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) 28.4% Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) 24.8% Makoto Nishida (Komeito) 18.6% Hayato Yuge (DPJ) 12.8% Sachiyo Abe (JCP) 11.9% Fumihiro Himori (SDP) 3.4% | |
JCP | ||||||
DPJ | ||||||
Chiba | 2 | Wakako Hironaka | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected | Wakako Hironaka (DPJ) 49.1% Kazuyasu Shiina (LDP) 39.0% Fumiko Asano (JCP) 11.9% | |
Kazuyasu Shiina | LDP | |||||
Tokyo | 4 | Toshio Ogawa | DPJ | Komeito, JCP and Green incumbents retired LDP pickup LDP gains top tōsen |
Masaharu Nakagawa (LDP) 18.3% Toshio Ogawa (DPJ) 17.9% Renhō (DPJ) 16.7% Yūji Sawa (Komeito) 14.9% Yukio Aoshima (I) 10.7% Junichiro Imamura (JCP) 8.2% Teruaki Masumoto (I) 6.9% Naoto Nakagawa (SDP) 3.2% Tetsu Ueda (I) 3.0% Hisayoshi Matsumura (Ishin) 0.2% Mitsuo Matayoshi (WECP) 0.2% | |
Toshiko Hamayotsu | Komeito | |||||
JCP | DPJ incumbent re-elected Komeito hold DPJ pickup |
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Atsuo Nakamura | ||||||
Kanagawa | 3 | Keiichirō Asao | DPJ | DPJ incumbents re-elected JCP incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup LDP gains top tōsen |
Akio Koizumi (LDP) 33.2% Keiichirō Asao (DPJ) 23.4% Keiko Chiba (DPJ) 23.0% Kimie Hatano (JCP) 10.9% Keiko Ueda (SDP) 7.0% Hajime Manabe (I) 1.9% Isao Kawakubo (Ishin) 0.6% | |
Kimie Hatano | JCP | |||||
Keiko Chiba | DPJ | |||||
Niigata | 2 | Naoki Tanaka | LDP | LDP incumbent re-elected SDP incumbent retired SDP hold SDP gains top tōsen |
Masamichi Kondō (I – DPJ, SDP) 34.9% Naoki Tanaka (LDP) 29.9% Ichirō Tsukada (LDP) 26.1% Kayoko Kuwahara (JCP) 9.1% | |
SDP | ||||||
Toyama | 1 | DPJ | Incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup |
Tsunenori Kawai (LDP) 46.3% (DPJ) 37.2% Akira Ogawa (SDP) 11.3% Toshihiko Ueda (JCP) 5.2% | ||
Ishikawa | 1 | Incumbent retired LDP pickup |
Naoki Okada (LDP) 56.1% Takashi Katō (DPJ) 36.6% Masayuki Satō (JCP) 7.3% | |||
Fukui | 1 | Masaaki Yamazaki | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Masaaki Yamazaki (LDP) 56.0% Makiko Isokawa (DPJ) 37.7% Kunihiro Uno (JCP) 6.2% | |
Yamanashi | 1 | Azuma Koshiishi | DPJ | Incumbent re-elected | Azuma Koshiishi (DPJ) 55.1% Kenshi Ōshiba (I) 37.1% Hitoshi Hanada (JCP) 7.8% | |
Nagano | 2 | Toshimi Kitazawa | DPJ | Incumbents re-elected | Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ) 40.9% Masatoshi Wakabayashi (LDP) 27.2% Norihisa Yamaguchi (JCP) 11.5% Wakako Yamaguchi (SDP) 10.4% Roppei Hori (I) 9.9% | |
Masatoshi Wakabayashi | LDP | |||||
Gifu | 2 | Iwao Matsuda | LDP | Incumbents re-elected | Iwao Matsuda (LDP) 44.5% Yasuo Yamashita (DPJ) 43.8% Takao Katō (JCP) 11.7% | |
Yasuo Yamashita | DPJ | |||||
Shizuoka | 2 | DPJ | Incumbents lost re-election LDP and DPJ hold LDP gains top tōsen |
Yukiko Sakamoto (LDP) 29.3% Yūji Fujimoto (DPJ) 21.6% (DPJ) 21.2% (LDP) 20.1% Yukihiro Shimazu (JCP) 7.8% | ||
LDP | ||||||
Aichi | 3 | Yoshitake Kimata | DPJ | DPJ incumbents re-elected JCP incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup LDP gains top tōsen |
Katsuhito Asano (LDP) 28.2% Taisuke Satō (DPJ) 25.4% Yoshitake Kimata (DPJ) 23.0% (JCP) 14.3% Yasuo Koida (I) 6.1% Kenji Sasaki (I) 2.4% Yoshifumi Hayashida (Ishin) 0.7% | |
Taisuke Satō | DPJ | |||||
JCP | ||||||
Mie | 1 | LDP | Incumbent retired DPJ pickup |
Hirokazu Shiba (DPJ) 52.1% Kenji Tsuda (LDP) 41.0% Takeshi Nakano (JCP) 6.8% | ||
Western Japan | ||||||
Prefecture | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share | |
Shiga | 1 | LDP | Incumbent retired DPJ pickup |
Kumiko Hayashi (DPJ) 48.0% Kenichiro Ueno (LDP) 41.5% Toshirō Hayashi (JCP) 10.5% | ||
Kyoto | 2 | Tetsurō Fukuyama | DPJ | DPJ incumbent re-elected JCP incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup |
Tetsurō Fukuyama (DPJ) 43.8% Satoshi Ninoyu (LDP) 32.4% (JCP) 23.8% | |
JCP | ||||||
Ōsaka | 3 | Kiyoshi Nishikawa | Dainiin Club | Komeito incumbent re-elected Dainiin incumbent retired JCP incumbent lost reelection DPJ pickup |
Motoyuki Odachi (DPJ) 24.9% Eiichi Yamashita (Komeito) 21.8% Issei Kitagawa (LDP) 20.1% Kiyomi Tsujimoto (I) 19.7% Takeshi Miyamoto (JCP) 12.1% Yoshio Masuda (I) 1.0% Toyokazu Ōkido (Ishin) 0.4% | |
Eiichi Yamashita | Komeito | |||||
Takeshi Miyamoto | JCP | LDP pickup DPJ gains top tōsen | ||||
Hyogo | 2 | DPJ | DPJ incumbent retired JCP incumbent lost re-election DPJ hold LDP pickup |
Shunichi Mizuoka (DPJ) 38.6% Shinsuke Suematsu (LDP) 33.5% (JCP) 14.0% Kazumi Hara (I) 7.3% Ichizō Miyamoto (I) 4.7% Kōjin Katakami (I) 1.9% | ||
JCP | ||||||
Nara | 1 | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup |
Kiyoshige Maekawa (DPJ) 48.9% (LDP) 41.1% Yoshinori Mameda (JCP) 10.0% | ||
Wakayama | 1 | Yōsuke Tsuruho | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Yōsuke Tsuruho (LDP) 53.8% Shika Kawajō (DPJ) 35.1% Hideaki Kunishige (JCP) 9.9% Yoshiya Seki (Ishin) 1.2% | |
Tottori | 1 | Kōtarō Tamura | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Kōtarō Tamura (LDP) 49.7% Masahide Tsuchiya (DPJ) 37.6% Tomoko Ichitani (JCP) 12.7% | |
Shimane | 1 | Mikio Aoki | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Mikio Aoki (LDP) 62.1% Itaru Gōdo (DPJ) 30.3% Katsuhiko Gotō (JCP) 7.5% | |
Okayama | 1 | Satsuki Eda | DPJ | 1 seat lost by reapportionment DPJ incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election |
Satsuki Eda (DPJ) 55.7% (LDP) 39.0% Kanji Uemoto (JCP) 5.3% | |
LDP | ||||||
Hiroshima | 2 | Ikuo Kamei | LDP | Incumbents re-elected DPJ gains top tōsen |
Minoru Yanagida (DPJ) 42.6% Ikuo Kamei (LDP) 41.3% Mitsuo Okamoto (I) 9.1% Satoshi Fujimoto (JCP) 7.1% | |
Minoru Yanagida | DPJ | |||||
Yamaguchi | 1 | DPJ | Incumbent retired LDP pickup |
Nobuo Kishi (LDP) 49.1% Hiroko Ōizumi (DPJ) 41.9% Sadayoshi Yoshida (JCP) 6.0% Shigeo Hiramatsu (I) 1.8% Seiichirō Hirata (Ishin) 1.1% | ||
Tokushima | 1 | Incumbent retired LDP pickup |
Masakatsu Koike (LDP) 47.1% Kyōko Tōjō (DPJ) 43.3% Takayuki Kubo (JCP) 9.6% | |||
Kagawa | 1 | Toshio Yamauchi | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Toshio Yamauchi (LDP) 46.6% Emiko Uematsu (DPJ) 45.0% Michiko Chikaishi (JCP) 8.3% | |
Ehime | 1 | LDP | Incumbent retired LDP hold |
Junzō Yamamoto (LDP) 49.4% Masamitsu Saitō (DPJ) 42.0% Masahiro Sakane (JCP) 8.6% | ||
Kōchi | 1 | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election Independent pickup |
Hajime Hirota (I) 43.6% (LDP) 35.7% Sachi Nakane (JCP) 14.3% Yumiko Matsuoka (I) 6.4% | ||
Southern Japan | ||||||
Prefecture | Seats up | Incumbents | Party | Result | Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share | |
Fukuoka | 2 | Kazuo Hirotomo | Komeito | Komeito incumbent retired LDP incumbent re-elected DPJ pickup DPJ gains top tōsen |
Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ) 40.6% Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP) 30.7% Chū Furukawa (I) 12.5% Toyoomi Tsuno (JCP) 8.8% Kunihiro Etō (I) 4.7% Yutaka Fujimoto (I) 1.8% Tomotada Ishihara (Ishin) 0.9% | |
Gōtarō Yoshimura | LDP | |||||
Saga | 1 | Hiromi Iwanaga | LDP | Incumbent re-elected | Hiromi Iwanaga (LDP) 47.7% Minoru Kawasaki (DPJ) 42.9% Akemi Mutō (JCP) 9.5% | |
Nagasaki | 1 | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup |
Tadashi Inuzuka (DPJ) 49.5% (LDP) 43.6% Toshihiro Haraguchi (JCP) 6.8% | ||
Kumamoto | 1 | DPJ | 1 seat lost by reapportionment LDP incumbent re-elected DPJ incumbent lost re-election |
Hitoshi Kimura (LDP) 48.9% (DPJ) 44.3% Nobuhiro Yamamoto (JCP) 6.8% | ||
Hitoshi Kimura | LDP | |||||
Oita | 1 | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup |
Shinya Adachi (DPJ) 54.8% (LDP) 38.7% Masaru Ono (JCP) 4.6% Kunio Fujiki 1.9% | ||
Miyazaki | 1 | LDP | Incumbent lost re-election Independent pickup |
Shinpei Matsushita (I) 48.5% (LDP) 45.6% Hiromitsu Baba (JCP) 5.9% | ||
Kagoshima | 1 | Hiroshi Moriyama | LDP | 1 seat lost by reapportionment Incumbent retired LDP hold |
Tetsurō Nomura (LDP) 53.2% Inao Minayoshi (DPJ) 36.9% Katsuko Iwaizako (JCP) 9.9% | |
vacant (last held by , LDP) | ||||||
Okinawa | 1 | Incumbent retired Independent (OSMP) pickup |
Keiko Itokazu (I) 58.9% Masatoshi Onaga (LDP) 41.1% |
References[]
- ^ "U I @-JANJAN S ƃf [ ^ x [ X-". Archived from the original on 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
- ^ "Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications".
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