Map of the House of Representatives constituencies in Yokohama

Kanagawa 8th district (Kanagawa 8-ku, 神奈川8区) or more formally the "8th district of Kanagawa Prefecture" (Kanagawa-ken dai-8-ku, 神奈川県第8区) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in northwestern Yokohama the capital of Kanagawa prefecture. The district covers the wards of Midori and Aoba and after redistricting in 2017, parts of the neighborhoods of Eda and Oomaru in Tsuzuki ward. As of 2021, the district had 427,843 eligible voters.[1]

Before the 2002 redistricting, i.e. until the 2003 general House of Representatives election, the 8th district consisted of Aoba ward and the Miyamae ward of Kawasaki City, the second major city in Kanagawa. Midori had previously been part of the 7th district, Miyamae was transferred to the newly created 18th district.

After the introduction of single-member districts with the 1994 Japanese electoral reform, effective in the 1996 Representatives election, the district was initially won by pre-reform 1st district incumbent Hiroshi Nakada (New Frontier Party later independent), who resigned for his successful campaign in the 2002 mayoral election in Yokohama city and later returned to the House of Representatives, but this time from Hokuriku-Shin'etsu. The resulting special election in Kanagawa 8th district was won by independent Kenji Eda. Eda lost the district in the 2003 Representatives election to Democrat Tetsundo Iwakuni, but won it back in 2005 and has held onto the seat since.

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Hiroshi Nakada NFP 1996–2000 Previously member from the four-member 1st district for Japan New Party→New Frontier Party, joined "Independents" (Mushozoku no kai) after the NFP dissolution
Independent 2000–2002 Resigned to stand in a municipal election
Kenji Eda Independent 2002–2003 Special election October 28, 2002
Tetsundo Iwakuni DPJ 2003–2005
Kenji Eda Independent 2005–2009 Formed YP in 2009
Your Party 2009–2014 Led breakaway Unity Party in 2013, merged into Japan Innovation Party in 2014
Innovation 2014–2017
Independent 2017–2021
CDP 2021–

Election results

2021[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kenji Eda 130,925 52.6 Decrease1.6
Liberal Democratic Hidehiro Mitani (won seat in Southern Kantō PR block) 117,963 47.4 Increase13.7
Turnout 59.37 Increase5.78
2017[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Kenji Eda 119,280 54.2 Decrease0.3
Liberal Democratic Hidehiro Mitani (won seat in Southern Kantō PR block) 74,119 33.7 Decrease0.5
Communist Rika Katō 21,241 9.6 Decrease1.7
Fair Party Tsuneki Ōnishi 5,518 2,5
Turnout 53.59 Decrease3.00
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Innovation Kenji Eda 116,189 54.5 Increase0.4
Liberal Democratic Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Southern Kantō PR block) 73,032 34.2 Increase8.4
Communist Yasuhisa Wakabayashi 24,024 11.3 Increase10.5
Turnout 56.59 Decrease6.41
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
YP Kenji Eda 127,294 54.1 Increase5.0
LDP (NK) Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 60,643 25.8 Increase5.0
DPJ (PNP) Kumiko Itō 33,769 19.7 new
JCP Susumu Kugimaru 13,526 5.8 new
2009[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
YP Kenji Eda 128,753 49.1 Increase14.2
DPJ Makoto Yamazaki (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 74,544 28.4 new
LDP (NK) Mineyuki Fukuda 54,480 20.8 Decrease8.6
HRP Hiroyuki Kojima 4,246 1.6 new
2005[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
I Kenji Eda 88,098 34.9 Decrease2.9
DPJ Tetsundo Iwakuni (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 78,860 31.2 Decrease7.5
LDP Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 74,399 29.4 new
JCP Eiji Yamanaka 11,578 4.6 Decrease0.1

References

  1. ↑ "選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registered voters]. Kanagawa Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2021.
  2. ↑ "2021年衆議院総選挙 神奈川８区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  3. ↑ 小選挙区 神奈川８区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  4. ↑ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票 小選挙区 神奈川８区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  5. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  6. ↑ 総選挙2009>開票結果 小選挙区 神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  7. ↑ 総選挙2005>開票結果 小選挙区 神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.

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