Kanagawa 18th district
Kanagawa 18th district | |
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Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives | |
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Prefecture | Kanagawa |
Proportional District | Southern Kanto |
Electorate | 449,625 (2020)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2002 |
Seats | One |
Party | Liberal Democratic |
Representative | Daishirō Yamagiwa |
Created from | Kanagawa 8th, 9th, 10th district |
Municipalities | Takatsu-ku, parts of Miyamae-ku and Nakahara-ku in Kawasaki |
Kanagawa 18th district (神奈川県第18区, Kanagawa-ken dai-jyūhakku or 神奈川18区, Kanagawa jyūhakku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in western Kawasaki. The district consists of the wards of Takatsu, Miyamae and Nakahara. As of December 1, 2020, 449,625 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]
In 2003, the first election since the establishment of this electoral district, Takkeshi Hidaka of the Democratic Party was elected, and Daishirō Yamagiwa of the Liberal Democratic Party was proportionally restored. Since then, he has alternated between Yamagiwa in 2005 and Hidaka in 2009, but since 2012, Yamagiwa has continued to be elected.
List of members representing the district[]
Member | Party | Dates | Electoral history | Notes |
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Takeshi Hidaka | Democratic | November 10, 2003 – August 8, 2005 |
Redistricted from the 7th district and Re-elected in 2003. Lost re-election. |
Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block. |
![]() Daishirō Yamagiwa |
Liberal Democratic | September 12, 2005 – July 21, 2009 |
Re-elected in 2005. Lost re-election. |
Elected in 2003 by the Southern Kanto PR block. Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block. |
Takeshi Hidaka | Democratic | August 31, 2009 – July 11, 2012 |
Elected in 2009. Lost re-election. |
Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block. |
Tomorrow | July 11, 2012 – November 16, 2012 | |||
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Liberal Democratic | December 17, 2012 – present |
Elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2017. Re-elected in 2021. |
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy (2021-present) |
Election results[]
2021[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa | 120,365 | 47.7 | ![]() | |
Constitutional Democratic | Kazuya Mimura | 90,390 | 35.8 | New | |
Innovation | Mitsuhiro Yokota | 41,562 | 16.5 | New | |
Turnout | 252,317 | 57.2 | ![]() | ||
Registered electors | 451,301 | ||||
Liberal Democratic hold |
2017[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa | 111,285 | 51.1 | |
Kibō no Tō | Kazuya Mimura | 66,057 | 30.4 | |
Communist | Yasuhisa Wakabayashi | 40,252 | 18.5 | |
Total votes | 217,594 | 100.0 | ||
Liberal Democratic hold |
2014[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa | 86,869 | 40.0 | |
Future Generations | Hiroshi Nakada | 59,138 | 27.2 | |
Innovation | Itaru Kitamura | 26,691 | 12.3 | |
Communist | Yoshio Shioda | 24,616 | 11.3 | |
People's Life | Takeshi Hidaka | 20,105 | 9.2 | |
Total votes | 217,419 | 100.0 | ||
Liberal Democratic hold |
2012[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa | 82,333 | 40.9 | |||
Your | Jirō Funakawa | 43,873 | 21.8 | |||
Democratic | Shinsuke Amiya | 34,205 | 17.0 | |||
Tomorrow | Takeshi Hidaka | 25,279 | 12.5 | |||
Communist | Masako Yamazaki | 15,514 | 7.7 | |||
Total votes | 201,204 | 100.0 | ||||
Liberal Democratic gain from Tomorrow |
2009[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Takeshi Hidaka | 110,239 | 48.8 | |||
Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa | 82,221 | 36.4 | |||
Communist | Hiroyuki Muneta | 15,832 | 7.0 | |||
Your | Kōtarō Fujisaki | 14,325 | 6.3 | |||
Minor party | Hiroko Tōyama | 3,209 | 1.4 | |||
Total votes | 225,826 | 100.0 | ||||
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic |
2005[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa | 111,787 | 53.7 | |||
Democratic | Takeshi Hidaka | 77,877 | 37.4 | |||
Communist | Hiroyuki Muneta | 18,345 | 8.8 | |||
Total votes | 208,009 | 100.0 | ||||
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic |
2003[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Takeshi Hidaka | 64,879 | 38.0 | |
Liberal Democratic | Daishirō Yamagiwa (elected by PR) |
58,001 | 33.9 | |
Independent | Eiichi Ogawa | 15,136 | 8.9 | |
Independent | Keiko Hirata | 13,267 | 7.8 | |
Communist | Hiroyuki Muneta | 13,084 | 7.7 | |
Social Democratic | Hideaki Takemura | 5,610 | 3.3 | |
Independent | Yukio Anzai | 875 | 0.5 | |
Total votes | 170,852 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic win (new seat) |
References[]
- ^ a b "選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registered voters]. Kanagawa Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2020.
- ^ "2021年衆議院総選挙 神奈川18区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-11-01.
- ^ 神奈川18区. NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ 神奈川18区. NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ 神奈川18区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ 神奈川18区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ 神奈川18区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ 神奈川18区
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