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Tokyo 8th district

Japan House of Representatives constituency


Summary

Japan House of Representatives constituency

FieldValue
nameTokyo 8th District
typeParliamentary
constituency_linkTokyo 8th district
parl_nameJapanese House of Representatives
map_size450px
image衆議院小選挙区_東京都23区.svg
captionNumbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts
district_labelPrefecture
districtTokyo
region_labelProportional District
regionTokyo
year1994
members_labelRepresentative
membersHarumi Yoshida
seatsOne
elects_howmanyOne
party_labelParty
partyCDP
previousTokyo 4th district
blank1_nameWards
blank1_infoMost of Suginami

Tokyo 8th district (東京都第8区, Tōkyō-to dai-hachiku or simply 東京8区, Tōkyō-hachiku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in western part of former Tokyo City and is almost coterminous with Suginami Ward (a small area in the east is part of the Tokyo 27th district). The district was created in 1994 as part of an electoral reform effort in the Japanese House of Representatives, and was first implemented in the 1996 general election.

As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.

Before a series of electoral reforms in 1994, Suginami Ward had been part of Tokyo 4th district, where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

From the creation of the district until 2021, the only representative for the district was Nobuteru Ishihara, a former LDP secretary-general and Minister of the Environment who headed his own faction and is the son of Shintarō Ishihara former Governor of Tōkyō. Ishihara lost the seat to Harumi Yoshida, a university professor, in the 2021 elections. Tarō Yamamoto, leader of the Reiwa Shinsengumi, had announced he would run in the district, but he bowed out and endorsed Yoshida.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Nobuteru IshiharaLiberal Democratic Party (Japan)}}LDP1996–2021
Harumi YoshidaConstitutional Democratic Party of Japan}}CDP2021–present

Election results

References

References

  1. [[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications]] (MIC): [http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_h27.html] {{in lang. ja
  2. "山本太郎氏 衆院選、東京8区で出馬へ 石原伸晃元自民幹事長と対決 野党共闘の象徴目指す".
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