Southern Kanto proportional representation block
Proportional representation block in Southern Kanto, Japan
Southern Kanto Proportional Representation Block Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Northern Kanto block highlighted
Prefectures Chiba , Kanagawa , Yamanashi Population 16,228,000 (October 2019 estimate)[ 1] Electorate 13,657,015[ 2] Representatives 22 (LDP -9, CDP -5, Japan Innovation Party -3, Komeito -2,JCP -1,DPFP -1,Reiwa -1, ) [ 3]
The Southern Kantō proportional representation block (Hirei [daihyō] Minami-Kantō burokku (比例[代表]南関東ブロック ) ) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) "blocks", multi-member constituencies for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan . It consists of Southern parts of the Kantō region covering Chiba , Kanagawa and Yamanashi prefectures . Following the introduction of proportional voting it initially elected 23 representatives in the 1996 general election, then 21 after the total number of PR seats had been reduced from 200 to 180, and 22 representatives since the reapportionment of 2002.
Summary of results
With a district magnitude of 22, Southern Kantō is the second largest PR block behind Kinki and gives smaller parties an opportunity to pick up seats.
general election
DPJ
LDP
Kōmeitō
JCP
SDP
NFP ('96)/LP ('00)/TPJ ('12)/PLP ('14)
JRP ('12)/JIP ('14)
YP
Others
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Seats
1996
1,331,850
23.5
5
1,820,846
32.1
7
–
403,875
7.1
3
280,391
4.9
1
1,667,552
29.4
7
–
–
174,662
3.1
0
2000
1,940,792
27.7
6
1,734,297
24.7
6
871,150
12.4
3
808,453
11.5
2
670,141
9.6
2
839,845
12.0
2
–
–
145,858
2.1
0
2003
2,819,165
40.0
9
2,441,590
34.6
8
969,464
13.7
3
521,309
7.4
1
300,599
4.3
1
–
–
–
–
2005
2,439,549
29.5
7
3,510,617
42.4
10
1,007,504
12.2
3
566,945
6.8
1
444,753
5.4
1
–
–
–
309,851
3.7
0
2009
3,695,159
43.0
11
2,233,560
26.0
6
862,427
10.0
2
601,259
7.0
1
369,754
4.3
1
–
–
605,358
7.0
1
226,946
2.6
0
2012
1,323,048
17.3
4
2,020,043
26.4
6
810,936
10.6
2
447,890
5.9
1
147,191
1.9
0
477,309
6.2
1
1,443,270
18.9
5
951,294
12.4
3
20,987
0.3
0
2014 [ 4]
1,203,572
17.6
4
2,321,609
34.0
8
875,712
12.8
3
813,634
11.9
3
132,542
1.9
0
175,431
2.6
0
1,053,221
15.4
4
–
260,648
3.9
0
2017
2,356,614
787,461
2021
2,590,787
850,667
Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, English name):
DPJ "Democratic Party", Minshutō , Democratic of Japan
LDP Liberal Democratic Party , Jiyūminshutō
Kōmeitō "Justice Party", Kōmeitō , New Justice Party Party
JCP Japanese Communist Party , Nihon Kyōsantō
SDP Social Democratic Party , Shakaiminshutō
NFP New Frontier Party , Shinshintō
LP Liberal Party , Jiyūtō
NSP New Socialist Party , Shin-shakaitō
LL Liberal League , Jiyū-rengō
HRP Happiness Realization Party , Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō
List of representatives
Note: Party affiliations as of election day.
Election result 2009
Tokyo block results in the 2009 general election [ 5] [ 6]
LDP: 2,233,560 votes (26.0%), 6 seats
DPJ: 3,695,159 votes (43.0%), 11 seats
Kōmeitō: 862,427 votes (10.0%), 2 seats
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"(sekihairitsu)
Elected
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
1
Akira Amari
Kanagawa 13
97.3%
Elected
1
Kazuya Mimura
Kanagawa 2
99.5%
Elected
1
Shigeyuki Tomita
PR only
Elected
Motoo Hayashi
Chiba 10
90.8%
Elected
Ken'ichi Kaneko
Chiba 11
96.3%
Elected
2
Noriko Furuya
Elected
Jun Matsumoto
Kanagawa 1
87.1%
Elected
Atsushi Chūgo
Chiba 12
85.5%
Elected
3
Kazufumi Taniguchi
–
Ken Saitō
Chiba 7
82.9%
Elected
Kōichirō Katsumata
Kanagawa 15
76.1%
Elected
4
Takashi Kawanami
–
Kazunori Tanaka
Kanagawa 10
77.5%
Elected
Katsuhito Yokokume
Kanagawa 11
64.0%
Elected
5
Masaaki Kubota
–
Hirokazu Matsuno
Chiba 3
76.5%
Elected
Makoto Yamazaki
Kanagawa 8
57.8%
Elected
YP: 605,358 votes (7.0%), 1 seat
Eisuke Mori
Chiba 11
Won district
Kaname Tajima
Chiba 1
Won district
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
Yasukazu Hamada
Chiba 12
Won district
Yū Kuroda
Chiba d
Won district
1
Keiichirō Asao
Kanagawa 4
79.3%
Elected
Yoshihide Suga
Kanagawa 2
Won district
Kazumasa Okajima
Chiba 3
Won district
Kenji Eda
Kanagawa 8
Won district
Tarō Kōno
Kanagawa 15
Won district
Yoshihiko Noda
Chiba 4
Won district
3
Kō Tanaka
Chiba 5
33.2%
–
Karen Makishima
Kanagawa 17
75.7%
–
Hirotaka Murakoshi
Chiba 5
Won district
Itoko Noyashiki
Chiba 4
17.4%
–
Daishirō Yamagiwa
Kanagawa 18
74.5%
–
Yukio Ubukata
Chiba 6
Won district
Masanori Katō
Kanagawa 3
16.2%
–
Manabu Sakai
Kanagawa 5
74.5%
–
Akira Uchiyama
Chiba 7
Won district
Yuki Kohira
Chiba 6
13.9%
–
Ken'ichi Mizuno
Chiba 9
74.2%
–
Kimiaki Matsuzaka
Chiba 8
Won district
JCP: 601,299 votes (7.0%), 1 seat
Jun Hayashi
Kanagawa 4
71.8%
–
Sōichirō Okuno
Chiba 9
Won district
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
Hachirō Okonogi
Kanagawa 3
71.1%
–
Hajime Yatagawa
Chiba 10
Won district
1
Kazuo Shii
PR only
Elected
Keisuke Suzuki
Kanagawa 7
69.9%
–
Yasuhiko Wakai
Chiba 13
Won district
2
Kimie Hatano
–
Yoshitaka Sakurada
Chiba 8
69.8%
–
Mieko Nakabayashi
Kanagawa 1
Won district
3
Takashi Kasaki
Kanagawa 10
21.6%
–
Yukio Jitsukawa
Chiba 13
68.2%
–
Eiko OKamoto
Kanagawa 3
Won district
Midori Fujii
Kanagawa 6
16.9%
–
Zentarō Kamei
Kanagawa 16
67.5%
–
Kazuyoshi Nagashima
Kanagawa 4
Won district
Yasuhiko Furuya
Kanagawa 3
15.4%
–
Hiromichi Watanabe
Chiba 6
66.8%
–
Keishū Tanaka
Kanagawa 5
Won district
Hiroyuki Muneta
Kanagawa 18
14.3%
–
Shōichi Usui
Chiba 1
66.4%
–
Motohisa Ikeda
Kanagawa 6
Won district
Chūhei Ogura
Chiba 2
14.3%
–
Jirō Akama
Kanagawa 14
66.3%
–
Nobuhiko Sutō
Kanagawa 7
Won district
Kazuko Saitō
Chiba 4
14.2%
–
Kentarō Sonoura
Chiba 5
65.3%
–
Hirofumi Ryū
Kanagawa 9
Won district
Hideo Katō
Chiba 8
13.9%
–
Ikuzō Sakurai
Kanagawa 12
62.8%
–
Kōriki Jōjima
Kanagawa 10
Won district
Akiko Endō
Yamanashi 1
13.0%
–
Akiko Yamanaka
Chiba 2
58.0%
–
Ikkō Nakatsuka
Kanagawa 12
Won district
SDP: 369,751 votes (4.3%), 1 seat
Jirō Ono
Yamanashi 3
56.3%
–
Hidnori Tachibana
Kanagawa 13
Won district
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
Mikio Fujita
Chiba 4
52.6%
–
Kentarō Motomura
Kanagawa 14
Won district
1
Tomoko Abe
Kanagawa 12
43.0%
Elected
Masaaki Akaike
Yamanashi 1
51.2%
–
Yūichi Gotō
Kanagawa 16
Won district
Keiko Ueda
Chiba 7
18.3%
–
Mineyuki Fukuda
Kanagawa 8
42.3%
–
Yōsuke Kamiyama
Kanagawa 17
Won district
3
Katsuko Murakami
PR only
–
Norihiro Nakayama
Kanagawa 9
38.7%
–
Takeshi Hidaka
Kanagawa 18
Won district
PNP: 102,992 votes (1.2%), no seat
32
Yōichirō Esaki
PR only
–
Sakihito Ozawa
Yamanashi 1
Won district
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
33
Toshio Ukishima
–
Takehiro Sakaguchi
Yamanashi 2
Won district
1
Satoshi Ichikawa
PR only
–
34
Seiichi Sasaki
–
Hitoshi Gotō
Yamanashi 3
Won district
NPN: 79,792 votes (0.9%), no seat
35
Kazuhiro Honma
–
35
Hirohisa Fujii
PR only
Elected
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
–
36
Tomohiko Mizuno
Elected
1
Toshihisa Kawano
PR only
–
37
Mitsuji Ishii
Elected
HRP: 44,162 votes (0.5%), no seat
38
Tsuyoshi Saitō
Elected
#
Candidate
District
"Loss ratio"
Elected
39
Shino Aihara
Elected
1
Hakuun Kurokawa
PR only
–
40
Kenji Hamaguchi
–
2
Mitsuharu Shiwa
–
41
Kazutaka Enomoto
–
3
Shigehiro Ichikawa
–
42
Akio Sonoda
–
4
Takashi Yamamoto
–
–
5
Shinji Chiba
–
References
Hokkaidō (8 block seats , 12 district seats)Tōhoku (12 block seats , 23 district seats)Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats , 32 district seats) Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats , 33 district seats) Tokyo (19 block seats , 25 district seats)Hokuriku -Shin'etsu (10 block seats , 19 district seats)Tōkai (21 block seats , 32 district seats)Kinki (28 block seats , 47 district seats)Chūgoku (10 block seats , 20 district seats)Shikoku (6 block seats , 11 district seats)Kyūshū (20 block seats , 35 district seats)Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments