Tokyo 8th district

Tōkyō 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 the most populous part of Tōkyō Metropolis, and covers the metropolis's Suginami Ward. 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.

Tōkyō 8th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of single-member districts located in Tōkyō Metropolis's 23 wards
PrefectureTōkyō Metropolis
Proportional DistrictTōkyō
Electorate469,285 (2015)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyLDP
RepresentativeNobuteru Ishihara
Created fromTōkyō's 4th "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesTōkyō's Suginami Ward

As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.[2]

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

The only representative for the 8th district since its creation has been Nobuteru Ishihara (LDP, currently Ishihara faction), the son of former environment minister and Governor of Tōkyō Shintarō Ishihara (JRP, formerly LDP, Ishihara, then Fukuda faction).

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Nobuteru Ishihara LDP 1996–present

Election results
2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 116,193 47.56
Democratic Yoriko Madoka (endorsed by PLP) 73,348 30.02
Communist Shingo Sawada 37,788 15.47
Independent Tatsuo Suzuki 16,981 6.95
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 132,521 46.9
Independent Tarō Yamamoto (endorsed by SDP, TPJ) 71,028 25.2
Democratic Yoriko Madoka 54,881 19.4
Communist Masatake Jōho 23,961 8.5
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 147,514 49.9
Social Democratic Nobuto Hosaka (endorsed by DPJ, PNP) 116,723 39.5
Communist Shunji Sawada 24,965 8.5
Happiness Realization Seiichi Ueta 6,132 2.1
Turnout 301,928 65.5
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara 161,966 57.3
Democratic Morio Suzuki 94,074 33.3
Communist Shunji Sawada 26,819 9.5
Turnout 288,840 64.61
2003[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP) 136,429 55.0
Democratic Morio Suzuki 78,007 31.4
Communist Shunji Sawada 17,572 7.1
Social Democratic Akiko Sugiyama 16,156 6.5
Turnout 254,314 57.39
2000[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP) 105,779 43.7
Democratic Mitsuyo Katayama 77,132 31.8
Communist Kazuko Yamazaki 36,546 15.1
Independent Hidenori Hasegawa 22,799 9.4
1996[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Nobuteru Ishihara 74,856 32.7
New Frontier Hiroshi Yamada 67,670 29.5
Communist Kazuyoshi Hatta 40,677 17.8
Democratic Seijun Murata 37,598 16.4
Independent Takeshi Tsuji 8,324 3.6
Turnout 234,869 55.64

References
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
  2. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
  3. "Data Sets". Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  4. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  5. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  6. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  7. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  8. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  9. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 September 2009.

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