Gunma 5th district

Gunma 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Gunma Prefecture and consists of the cities of Tomioka, Annaka, parts of Takasaki and Shibukawa as well as the Kitagunma, Kanra and Agatsuma districts. As of 2012, 315,747 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Gunma, home to the families of former prime ministers Takeo Fukuda (and his son Yasuo Fukuda), Nakasone and Obuchi, is considered a "conservative kingdom" (hoshu-ōkoku), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The 5th district has been represented by Keizō Obuchi and his daughter Yūko Obuchi since its creation in 1996. Previously Keizō Obuchi and his father Mitsuhei (first elected in 1949) had represented the four-member 3rd district of Gunma.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Keizō Obuchi		LDP	1996 – 2000
Yūko Obuchi		LDP	2000 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (Komeito)	Yūko Obuchi	134,685	77.3
Social Democratic	Hitoshi Kobayashi	22,603	13.0
JCP	Hiroshi Itoi	17,036	9.8

2009^[3]
	Candidate	Votes
LDP	Yūko Obuchi	152,708
Social Democratic	Tomihisa Tsuchiya	53,048
Happiness Realization	Hideyuki Ubukata	9,406

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Yūko Obuchi	144,782
	Democratic	Kunihiko Tajima	52,394
	JCP	Aiko Fukuda	16,234
Turnout			219,918	68.94

2003^[5]
	Candidate	Votes
LDP	Yūko Obuchi	144,848
Social Democratic	Masao Asagai	27,693
JCP	Kimiko Yanagita	15,674

2000^[6]
	Candidate	Votes
LDP	Yūko Obuchi	163,991
Social Democratic	Tsuruo Yamaguchi	35,769
JCP	Tadashi Handa	11,674
Liberal League	Hiroyuki Andō	3,259

1996^[7]
	Candidate	Votes
LDP	Keizō Obuchi	127,052
Democratic	Miyuki Shibayama^[8]	33,218
JCP	Teruhiko Sumitani^[9]	19,438

References

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (in Japanese)
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ 衆議院議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
^ 衆議院議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
^ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
^ 衆議院議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
^ 柴山美雪
^ 住谷輝彦

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (in Japanese)

[2] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[3] 衆議院議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.

[4] 衆議院議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.

[5] 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.

[6] 衆議院議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30.

[7] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県>群馬5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.

[8] 柴山美雪

[9] 住谷輝彦

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v t e Gunma's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 PR part of the Northern Kantō PR block (20 seats) House of Councillors At-large (5 Representatives, 4→2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (10 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (9 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (8 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Maebashi city Takasaki city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4