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2004 Japanese House of Councillors election

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Field	Value
country	Japan
type	parliamentary
previous_election	2001 Japanese House of Councillors election
previous_year	2001
next_election	2007 Japanese House of Councillors election
next_year	2007
seats_for_election	121 of the 242 seats in the House of Councillors
majority_seats	122
image_size	150x150px
election_date	11 July 2004
1blank	Constituency vote
2blank	% and swing
3blank	National vote
4blank	% and swing
image1	Koizumi Junichiro 200104.jpg
leader1	Junichiro Koizumi
party1	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
last_election1	110 seats
seats1	49
seats_after1	115
seat_change1	5
1data1	19,687,954
2data1	35.09% (5.95pp)
3data1	16,797,686
4data1	30.03% (8.54pp)
image2	Katsuya Okada-Public speaking-2-20050409.jpg
leader2	Katsuya Okada
party2	Democratic Party of Japan
last_election2	67 seats
seats2	50
seats_after2	82
seat_change2	15
1data2	21,931,985
2data2	39.09% (15.02pp)
3data2	21,137,457
4data2	37.79% (13.65pp)
image3	Takenori_Kanzaki_20060926_(cropped).jpg
leader3	Takenori Kanzaki
party3	Komeito
last_election3	23 seats
seats3	11
seats_after3	24
seat_change3	1
1data3	2,161,764
2data3	3.85% (2.53pp)
3data3	8,621,265
4data3	15.41% (0.45pp)
image4	File:Fuwa Tetsuzo.png
leader4	Tetsuzo Fuwa
party4	Japanese Communist Party
last_election4	20 seats
seats4	4
seats_after4	9
seat_change4	11
1data4	5,520,141
2data4	9.84% (0.03pp)
3data4	4,362,574
4data4	7.80% (0.11pp)
image5	Mizuho Fukushima cropped.jpg
leader5	Mizuho Fukushima
party5	Social Democratic Party (Japan)
last_election5	8 seats
seats5	2
seats_after5	5
seat_change5	3
1data5	984,340
2data5	1.75% (1.70pp)
3data5	2,990,666
4data5	5.35% (1.28pp)
map_image	2004 Japanese House of Councillors election.svg
map_size	400px
map_caption	Constituency and proportional representation (bottom right) election result
title	President of the House of Councillors
before_election	Hiroyuki Kurata
before_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
after_election	Chikage Oogi
after_party	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 11 July 2004. The House of Councillors consisted of 242 members who served 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.

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By prefecture

Elected candidates in bold

Compiled from JANJAN's "The Senkyo" and MIC official results.

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	Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates
(Party)
Vote share	Eastern and Central Japan	Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates
(Party – endorsements)
Vote share	Western Japan	Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates
(Party – endorsements)
Vote share	Southern Japan	Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates
(Party – endorsements)
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	Motoo Shiina	"Independent Assembly"	Incumbent retired
DPJ pickup	Ryo Shuhama (DPJ) 48.5%
Yosuke Takahashi (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	Shigenobu Saito	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election
Independent pickup	Yoetsu Suzuki (I) 50.2%
Shigenobu Saito (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
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%
Kosei Ueno (LDP) 29.4%
Shinmei Ogasawara (JCP) 5.8%
Kosei Ueno	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%
Renzō Togashi	JCP
Toshio Fujii	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
Miyo Inoue	JCP	DPJ incumbent re-elected
Komeito hold
DPJ pickup
Atsuo Nakamura	"Green Conference"
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%
Kinuko Ōbuchi	SDP
Toyama	1	Masaaki Tanibayashi	DPJ	Incumbent lost re-election
LDP pickup	Tsunenori Kawai (LDP) 46.3%
Masaaki Tanibayashi (DPJ) 37.2%
Akira Ogawa (SDP) 11.3%
Toshihiko Ueda (JCP) 5.2%
Ishikawa	1	Sōta Iwamoto	"Independent Assembly"	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	Tōru Ueno	DPJ	Incumbents lost re-election
LDP and DPJ hold
LDP gains top tōsen		Yukiko Sakamoto (LDP) 29.3%
Yūji Fujimoto (DPJ) 21.6%
Tōru Ueno (DPJ) 21.2%
Yoshihiko Yamashita (LDP) 20.1%
Yukihiro Shimazu (JCP) 7.8%
Yoshihiko Yamashita	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%
Hiroko Hatta (JCP) 14.3%
Yasuo Koida (I) 6.1%
Kenji Sasaki (I) 2.4%
Yoshifumi Hayashida (Ishin) 0.7%
Taisuke Satō	DPJ
Hiroko Hatta	JCP
Mie	1	Jūrō Saitō	LDP	Incumbent retired
DPJ pickup	Hirokazu Shiba (DPJ) 52.1%
Kenji Tsuda (LDP) 41.0%
Takeshi Nakano (JCP) 6.8%
Shiga	1	Eisuke Kawamoto	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%
Tokiko Nishiyama (JCP) 23.8%
Tokiko Nishiyama	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	Shōji Motooka	DPJ	DPJ incumbent retired
JCP incumbent lost re-election
DPJ hold
LDP pickup		Shunichi Mizuoka (DPJ) 38.6%
Shinsuke Suematsu (LDP) 33.5%
Tatsumi Ōsawa (JCP) 14.0%
Kazumi Hara (I) 7.3%
Ichizō Miyamoto (I) 4.7%
Kōjin Katakami (I) 1.9%
Tatsumi Ōsawa	JCP
Nara	1	Minao Hattori	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election
DPJ pickup	Kiyoshige Maekawa (DPJ) 48.9%
Minao Hattori (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%
Norifumi Katō (LDP) 39.0%
Kanji Uemoto (JCP) 5.3%
Norifumi Katō	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	Masuo Matsuoka	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	Sekiko Takahashi	"Green Conference"	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	Takeshi Noma	LDP	Incumbent retired
LDP hold		Junzō Yamamoto (LDP) 49.4%
Masamitsu Saitō (DPJ) 42.0%
Masahiro Sakane (JCP) 8.6%
Kōchi	1	Hiroyuki Morishita	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election
Independent pickup	Hajime Hirota (I) 43.6%
Hiroyuki Morishita (LDP) 35.7%
Sachi Nakane (JCP) 14.3%
Yumiko Matsuoka (I) 6.4%
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	Sōichirō Matsutani	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election
DPJ pickup	Tadashi Inuzuka (DPJ) 49.5%
Sōichirō Matsutani (LDP) 43.6%
Toshihiro Haraguchi (JCP) 6.8%
Kumamoto	1	Ryōichi Honda	DPJ	1 seat lost by reapportionment
LDP incumbent re-elected
DPJ incumbent lost re-election		Hitoshi Kimura (LDP) 48.9%
Ryōichi Honda (DPJ) 44.3%
Nobuhiro Yamamoto (JCP) 6.8%
Hitoshi Kimura	LDP
Oita	1	Toshiya Nakamichi	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election
DPJ pickup	Shinya Adachi (DPJ) 54.8%
Toshiya Nakamichi (LDP) 38.7%
Masaru Ono (JCP) 4.6%
Kunio Fujiki 1.9%
Miyazaki	1	Mitsuhiro Uesugi	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election
Independent pickup	Shinpei Matsushita (I) 48.5%
Mitsuhiro Uesugi (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 Kichio Inoue, LDP)
Okinawa	1	Sōkō Shimabuku	"Independent Assembly"	Incumbent retired
Independent (OSMP) pickup	Keiko Itokazu (I) 58.9%
Masatoshi Onaga (LDP) 41.1%

Notes

References

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