Northern Kanto proportional representation block

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Northern Kanto Proportional Representation Block
Parliamentary Constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Kita-Kantō Proportional Block.svg
Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Northern Kanto block highlighted
PrefecturesGunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Ibaraki
Electorate11,834,554[1]
Current constituency
Number of members19
RepresentativesLDP-7, CDP-5, Komeito-3, Ishin-2, JCP-1,DPFP-1[2]

The Northern Kanto proportional representation block (北関東比例ブロック, Kantō hokubu hirei burokku) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan.[3][4] It consists of the northern part of the Kanto region, and consists of the prefectures of Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama and Ibaraki.[5] Proportional voting blocks were first introduced in the 1996 General Election.[6] The block elects 19 members to the House of Representatives.

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  1. ^ "Number of registered electoral rolls and overseas electoral rolls for each constituency, etc". soumu.go.jp. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Results of the 2021 Japanese General Election". nhk.or.jp. NHK. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Changes to Voting Age? 20 or 18?". www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp. Retrieved 2021-08-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Berman, Daniel (2010-07-21). "In Recent Japanese Elections An Unequal Electoral System Explains the Government's Defeat". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  5. ^ "Northern Kantō | region, Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  6. ^ Christensen, Raymond V. “Electoral Reform in Japan: How It Was Enacted and Changes It May Bring.” Asian Survey, vol. 34, no. 7, 1994, pp. 589–605. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2645370. Accessed 6 Aug. 2021.

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