List of members of the House of Representatives of Japan, 2009–2012
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This is a list of Representatives elected to the House of Representatives at the 2009 general election, held on 30 August 2009, for the Forty-Fifth election period of the House of Representatives beginning with the 172nd session of the National Diet of Japan.
Composition[]
Changes since the opening session[]
(as of September 12, 2012)
Note: This list includes not only the net result, but all gains and losses by parliamentary group except for very short transitional periods as an independent. Example: Kaoru Yosano who was a Liberal Democrat in the opening session and is an independent as of April 2012 shows up eight times: he (1.) left the LDP, (2.) co-founded the SPJ, (3.) left the SPJ, (4.) became an independent, (5.) stopped being an independent, (6.) joined the DPJ group, (7.) left the DPJ group and (8.) became an independent.
- Democratic Party – Independent Club (election result by party: DPJ 308, NPN 1, NPD 1; strength in the opening session of the 172nd Diet: 312)
- left: Yokomichi (elected Speaker), Ishikawa, Y. Tanaka, Kawakami (resigned), C. Kobayashi (resigned), Hide. Gotō (resigned), Masazumi Nakajima, M. Suzuki (election invalid), Y. Ishida (resigned), Y. Satō, Matsuki, Yokokume, Yosano, Masaki Nakajima, Chūgo, Ishida, M. Kobayashi, Miwa, Y. Saitō, Toyoda, Uchiyama, K. Watanabe, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Asano, Hirayama, T. Kiuchi, T. Taira, Takamura, I. Ozawa, Aihara, Aoki, Azuma, A. Ishii, Y. Ishihara, K. Ōtani, Ōyama, Ōta, Okajima, E. Okamoto, Kasahara, Ken. Kaneko, Kawashima, Take. Kimura, Kikuchi, Kyōno, Kumagai, Kuroda, Ya. Komiyama, T. Koga, Zukeran, Sugekawa, K. Suzuki, K. Takamatsu, D. Tamaki, Nakanowatari, Hagihara, K. Hata, Hidaka, K. Fukushima, Maki, T. Matsuzaki, Miyake, F. Murakami, K. Yamaoka, Yokoyama, G. Katō, Nakatsugawa, K. Kobayashi, T. Koizumi
- joined: Nakaya (proportional replacement), Tsujimoto, Asano (PR replacement), Yosano, Miura (PR replacement)
- Liberal Democratic Party – Assembly of Independents (election result: LDP 119; strength in opening session: 119)
- left: S. Etō (elected Vice-Speaker), K. Hatoyama, Yosano, H. Sonoda, Machimura (resigned), Ōmura, Matsunami
- joined: Nakamura, Imazu (PR replacement), Machimura (by-election), Mochizuki (PR replacement), Niwa (by-election), M. Kiuchi, R. Koizumi
- People's Life first – Kizuna (Founded as Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi – Mushozoku no Ayumi, "People's Life First – Path of Independents", until merger with Kizuna group)
- founding members: I. Ozawa, Aihara, Aoki, Azuma, A. Ishii, Y. Ishihara, K. Ōtani, Ōyama, Ōta, Okajima, E. Okamoto, Kasahara, Ken. Kaneko, Kawashima, Take. Kimura, Kikuchi, Kyōno, Kumagai, Kuroda, Ya. Komiyama, T. Koga, Zukeran, Sugekawa, K. Suzuki, K. Takamatsu, D. Tamaki, Nakanowatari, Hagihara, K. Hata, Hidaka, K. Fukushima, Maki, T. Matsuzaki, Miyake, F. Murakami, K. Yamaoka, Yokoyama
- joined: G. Katō
- Kizuna Party (joint parliamentary group since July 2012)
- founding members: Uchiyama, Chūgo, Ishida, M. Kobayashi, Miwa, Y. Saitō, Toyoda, K. Watanabe, Yoshihiko Watanabe
- Kōmeitō (election result: Kōmeitō 21; strength in opening session: 21)
- left: Kanzaki (resigned)
- joined: Tōyama (PR replacement)
- Japanese Communist Party (election result: JCP 9; strength in opening session: 9)
- no changes
- Social Democratic Party – Citizen's Alliance (election result: SDP 7; strength in opening session: 7)
- left: Tsujimoto
- Your Party (election result: YP 5; strength in opening session: 5)
- no changes
- Tax Cuts Japan – Peace
- founding members: T. Koizumi, K. Kobayashi, Y. Satō, T. Taira
- Reform Group of Independents
- founding members: T. Kiuchi, Masaki Nakajima, Yokokume
- joined: Nakatsugawa
- People's New Party – Group of Independents (election result: PNP 3; strength in opening session: 3; joint "People's New Party – New Party Nippon" group from 2010 to 2012)
- joined: Y. Tanaka, Masazumi Nakajima, Hirayama
- left: Y. Tanaka, Kamei, Matsushita (died)
- New Party Daichi – True Democrats
- founding members: Asano, Matsuki, Ishikawa
- Sunrise Party of Japan
- founding members: Hiranuma, H. Sonoda, Yosano
- left: Yosano
- Kokueki to Kokumin no Seikatsu o mamoru Kai ("Hiranuma group"; strength in opening session: 3)
- left: Hiranuma
- remaining at time of merger into LDP group: M. Kiuchi, R. Koizumi
- Independents (election result: I 6; strength in opening session: 1)
- became independents: Yokomichi (Speaker), S. Etō (Vice-Speaker), Ishikawa, K. Hatoyama, Tsujimoto, Masazumi Nakajima, Ōmura, Yosano, Doi, Y. Satō, Matsuki, Yokokume, Yosano, Masaki Nakajima, Kamei, Y. Tanaka, Hirayama, T. Kiuchi, T. Taira, Takamura, Matsunami
- stopped being independents: Nakamura, Tsujimoto, Yosano, Ōmura (resigned), Masazumi Nakajima, Matsuki, Ishikawa, Hirayama, Takamura (resigned), T. Kiuchi, Masaki Nakajima, Yokokume, Y. Satō, T. Taira
List of representatives elected in the general election[]
As of 16 September 2009 (opening session of the 172nd (special) Diet after election of House of Representatives Speaker, Vice-Speaker and Prime Minister)
Note: Affiliation among Representatives elected may change at any given time.
The Government[]
Democratic Party (311 members)[]
People's New Party (4 Members)[]
- Shizuka Kamei
- Tadahiro Matsushita
- Mikio Shimoji
- Yasuo Tanaka
The Opposition[]
Liberal Democratic Party (118 members)[]
Komeito Party (21 Members)[]
- Masao Akamatsu
- Yoshihisa Inoue
- Yasuko Ikenobo
- Keiichi Ishii
- Noritoshi Ishida
- Yoshio Urushibara
- Yasuyuki Eda
- Otohiko Endo
- Takenori Kanzaki
- Shigeki Sato
- Tetsuo Saito
- Chikara Sakaguchi
- Michiyo Takagi
- Yosuke Takagi
- Shigeyuki Tomita
- Hiroyoshi Nishi
- Junji Higashi
- Noriko Furuya
Japan Communist Party (9 Members)[]
- Seiken Akamine
- Akira Kasai
- Keiji Kokuta
- Kensho Sasaki
- Kazuo Shii
- Tetsuya Shiokawa
- Chizuko Takahashi
- Takeshi Miyamoto
- Hidekatsu Yoshii
Social Democratic Party / Citizen's Alliance (7 Members)[]
- Tomoko Abe
- Kiyomi Tsujimoto
- Kantoku Teruya
- Ryoichi Hattori
Your Party (5 Members)[]
- Keiichiro Asao
- Kenji Eda
- Mito Kakizawa
- Koichi Yamauchi
- Yoshimi Watanabe
Group for upholding national interest and citizens' livelihoods (3 Members)[]
- Minoru Kiuchi
- Takeo Hiranuma
Independents (3 Members)[]
- Takahiro Yokomichi, President (gichō) or Speaker (previously DPJ)
- Seishiro Eto, Vice President (fuku-gichō) or vice-speaker (previously LDP)
- Kishiro Nakamura
List of representatives elected in the general election as proportional replacements[]
- Kiyohiko Tōyama (2010 replacement for Takenori Kanzaki from the Kōmeitō list)
- (2010 Kyūshū block replacement for Hidetomo Gotō from the DPJ list)
- (2010 Hokkaidō PR block replacement for Muneo Suzuki from the New Party Daichi list)
- Hiroshi Imazu (2010 Hokkaidō block replacement for Nobutaka Machimura from the LDP list)
- Yoshio Mochizuki (2011 replacement for Hideaki Ōmura from the LDP list)
- (2012 replacement for Tsutomu Takamura from the DPJ list)
List of representatives elected in by-elections[]
- Nobutaka Machimura (October 2010, Hokkaidō 5, vacated by Chiyomi Kobayashi)
- Hideki Niwa (April 2011, Aichi 6, vacated by Yoshihiro Ishida)
References[]
See also[]
- Results of the Japanese general election, 2009 (lists Representatives elected by constituency)
- Politics of Japan
- Japan politics-related lists
- 21st-century Japanese politicians