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Niigata 1st District
Niigata 1st District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of single-member districts located in Niigata Prefecture
Prefecture	Niigata
Proportional District	Hokurikushin'etsu
Electorate	430,335 (2015)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Tōru Ishizaki
Created from	Niigata's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Niigata City's Central Ward, Eastern Ward, Western Ward (including only the historical boundaries of Niigata City and the former village of Kurosaki), Kōnan Ward (only to the historical boundaries of Niigata City), and Northern Ward (only to the historical boundaries of Niigata City)

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.

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 Tokyo 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 Tokyo 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]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Komeito)	116,193	47.56
Democratic	Yoriko Madoka (endorsed by PLP)	73,348	30.02
JCP	Shingo Sawada	37,788	15.47
Independent	Tatsuo Suzuki	16,981	6.95

2012^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	132,521	46.9
Independent	Tarō Yamamoto (endorsed by SDP)	71,028	25.2
Democratic	Yoriko Madoka	54,881	19.4
JCP	Masatake Jōho	23,961	8.5

2009^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	147,514	49.9
	Social Democratic	Nobuto Hosaka (endorsed by DPJ, PNP)	116,723	39.5
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	24,965	8.5
	Happiness Realization	Seiichi Ueta	6,132	2.1
Turnout			301,928	65.5

2005^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	161,966	57.3
	Democratic	Morio Suzuki	94,074	33.3
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	26,819	9.5
Turnout			288,840	64.61

2003^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	136,429	55.0
	Democratic	Morio Suzuki	78,007	31.4
	JCP	Shunji Sawada	17,572	7.1
	Social Democratic	Akiko Sugiyama	16,156	6.5
Turnout			254,314	57.39

2000^[8]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	105,779	43.7
Democratic	Mitsuyo Katayama	77,132	31.8
JCP	Kazuko Yamazaki	36,546	15.1
Independent	Hidenori Hasegawa	22,799	9.4

1996^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Nobuteru Ishihara	74,856	32.7
	New Frontier	Hiroshi Yamada	67,670	29.5
	JCP	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

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [2] (in Japanese)
^ Data Sets (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2016. {{cite web}}: Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help)
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 February 2013.
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)

[2] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [2] (in Japanese)

[3] Data Sets (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2016. {{cite web}}: Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help)

[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 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[6] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[7] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[8] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[9] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 9 September 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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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