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Yamaguchi 4th district

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Yamaguchi 4th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Yamaguchi Prefecture
single-member districts
PrefectureYamaguchi
Proportional DistrictChūgoku
Electorate256,464 (2017)[1]
Major settlementsShimonoseki and Nagato
Current constituency
Created1996
PartyLDP
RepresentativeShinji Yoshida

Yamaguchi 4th district (山口県第4区 Yamaguchi-ken dai-yon-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Western Yamaguchi and consists of the cities of Shimonoseki and Nagato. The seat was held by former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe until his assassination in July 2022. As of September 2011, 266,456 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters well above average (347,878 voters per district) vote weight.[2] Unlike many prefectures where the capital is also the most populous city, Yamaguchi's major city is Shimonoseki, located at the western tip of Honshū and adjacent to Kyushu island's Fukuoka-Kitakyūshū metropolitan area which lies just south across the Kanmon Straits.

Yamaguchi is home to the Kan Abe - Nobusuke Kishi-Shintarō Abe (non-prime minister, father of Shinzo Abe)-Eisaku Satō prime ministerial family whose members have represented the prefecture in the Diet for much of the postwar era and the Giichi Tanaka prime ministerial family that produced its first two elected governors. Western Yamaguchi formed the four-member 1st district until the electoral reform of the 1990s, its representatives included Shintarō Abe, Shinzō Abe (former Prime Minister of Japan) and Tatsuo Tanaka, but also other prominent conservatives such as finance minister Yoshirō Hayashi or Takeo Kawamura who went on to become Chief Cabinet Secretary in the 2000s.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) usually won the district three seats to one. In the electoral reform, the 1st district was split up into the single-member 3rd and 4th districts. In the first post-reform election of 1996, the 4th district was contested by Shinzō Abe and Takaaki Koga, himself a former Liberal Democrat who in 1993 took the opposition seat in the 1st district from the Socialists for the Renewal Party. But Abe won, and easily held onto the seat from then on. He was elected LDP president and Prime Minister in 2006 against Tarō Asō and Sadakazu Tanigaki in succession to Junichiro Koizumi (Kanagawa 11th district), but resigned after one year.

In 2012, the party – in opposition since 2009 – once more elected Shinzo Abe as the third LDP president not to become prime minister immediately after his election. Abe then subsequently won the 2012 general election in a landslide victory against the DPJ of Yoshihiko Noda (Chiba 4th district), returning the LDP to power (with coalition partner New Komeito, the LDP have a two-thirds majority and can break a deadlock in the National Diet) and became prime minister again.

List of representatives

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Member Party Dates Electoral history Notes

Shinzo Abe 		Liberal Democratic 20 October 1996 –
8 July 2022 		Elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2003.
Re-elected in 2005.
Re-elected in 2009.
Re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2017.
Re-elected in 2021.
Assassinated.
Chief Cabinet Secretary
(2005–2006)
Prime Minister of Japan
(2006–2007; 2012–2020)
Vacant 8 July 2022 – 24 April 2023
Shinji Yoshida Liberal Democratic 25 April 2023 – present Elected to finish Abe's term.

Election results

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2023[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinji Yoshida 51,961 63.5 Decrease6.2
CDP Yoshifu Arita 25,595 31.3
Independent Yoriko Ohno 2,381 2.9 Decrease10.8
Seijika Joshi Ai Watanabe 1,186 1.4
Independent Hideyuki Takemoto 734 0.9
Turnout 81857 34.71 Decrease13.93
LDP hold
2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 80,448 69.7 Decrease2.9
Reiwa Katsushi Takemura 19,096 16.6 New
Independent Yoriko Ohno 15,836 13.7 New
Margin of victory 61,352 53.17 Decrease5.23
Turnout 115,380 48.64 Decrease8.95
LDP hold Swing Decrease2.9
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 104,825 72.6 Decrease3.7
Kibo Fujita Tokioo 18,567 12.9 New
JCP Hiroaki Nishioka 13,721 9.5 Decrease3.6
Independent Kurotawa Atsuhiko 6,687 4.6 New
Independent Akihiro County 645 0.4 New
Margin of victory 86,258 58.40 Decrease4.74
Turnout 147,702 57.59 Increase5.03
LDP hold Swing Decrease3.7
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 100,829 76.3 Decrease1.9
JCP Sadayoshi Yoshida 17,358 13.1 Increase4.0
Independent - PLP Toshie Watanabe 14,018 10.6 New
Margin of victory 83,471 63.14 Decrease2.29
Turnout 132,205 52.56 Decrease6.89
LDP hold Swing Decrease1.9
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP[6] Shinzō Abe 118,696 78.2 Increase13.9
DPJ Shintarō Zaima 19,336 12.7 Decrease18.4
JCP Norio Higaki 13,815 9.1 Increase4.5
Margin of victory 99,360 65.43 Increase31.7
Turnout 151,847 59.45 Decrease11.6
LDP hold Swing Increase13.9
2009[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 121,365 64.3 Decrease9.3
DPJ – PNP Takako Tokura 58,795 31.1 Increase11.4
JCP Daisuke Kisaki 8,725 4.6 Decrease2.1
Margin of victory 62,570 32.73 Decrease20.34
Turnout 191,199 71.05 Increase2.11
LDP hold Swing Decrease9.3
2005[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 137,701 73.6 Decrease6.1
DPJ Takashi Katō 36,847 19.7 Increase19.9
JCP Daisuke Kisaki 12,499 6.7 Decrease1.5
Margin of victory 100,854 53.07 Decrease13.11
Turnout 190,032 68.94 Increase3.93
LDP hold Swing Decrease6.1
2003[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 140,347 79.7 Increase8.0
SDP Jun'ichirō Kojima 21,202 12.0 Increase12.0
JCP Hiroshi Ikenoue 14,438 8.2 Decrease20.1
Margin of victory 119,145 66.18 Increase22.76
Turnout 180,044 65.01 Decrease0.03
LDP hold Swing Increase8.0
2000[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 121,835 71.7 Increase17.4
JCP Hiroshi Ikenoue 48,068 28.3 Increase17.3
Margin of victory 73,767 43.42 Increase24.23
Turnout 169,903 65.04 Increase1.72
LDP hold Swing Increase17.4
1996[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shinzō Abe 93,459 54.3 New
NFP Takaaki Koga 59,676 34.7 New
JCP Hiroshi Ikenoue 18,853 11.0 New
Margin of victory 33,783 19.19 −
Turnout 176,042 63.32 −

References

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  1. ^ "衆議院小選挙区 - 確定投票状況" [House of Representatives election district - Fixed Vote Status]. Yamaguchi Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2017.
  2. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Sōmu-shō, lit. "Ministry of general affairs"): 平成２３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
  3. ^ <衆院補選 山口４区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b Asahai Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts
  5. ^ 第46回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (The Senkyo, lit. "The Election[s]", a website about elections in Japan with an election results database covering all national elections since 1890 and recent prefectural and municipal elections; originally created by citizen online newspaper JANJAN and resold twice) (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-12-19. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  6. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun: election results in Yamaguchi's single-member districts Archived 2016-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-11-19. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  8. ^ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-11-19. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  9. ^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-11-19. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  10. ^ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-11-19. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  11. ^ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 山口4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-11-19. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by Constituency represented by the prime minister
2006–2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Constituency represented by the prime minister
2012 – 2020 		Succeeded by

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