Chiba 8th district

Chiba 8th district
Chiba 8th district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of the Chiba Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Chiba
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	360,783
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Izumi Matsumoto [ja]
Municipalities	Kashiwa

PrefectureChiba

Proportional DistrictSouthern Kanto

Electorate360,783^[1]

Created1994

Chiba 8th district (千葉県第8区, Chiba-ken dai-hakku or simply 千葉8区, Chiba-hakku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Chiba Prefecture.

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Election	Representative
1996^[8]	Yoshitaka Sakurada	LDP
2000^[9]	Hiroyuki Nagahama	Democratic
2003^[10]	Kimiaki Matsuzaki [ja]	Democratic
2005^[11]	Yoshitaka Sakurada	LDP
2009^[12]	Kimiaki Matsuzaki [ja]	Democratic
2012^[13]	Yoshitaka Sakurada	LDP
2014^[14]
2017^[15]
2021^[16]	Satoshi Honjo [ja]	CDP
2024^[17]	Satoshi Honjo [ja]	CDP
2026	Izumi Matsumoto [ja]	LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Izumi Matsumoto	95.279	49.1	16.8
	Centrist Reform	Satoshi Honjō	62.784	32.3	10.6
	Sanseitō	Hiroyuki Miyamoto	21,138	10.9	3.3
	Ishin	Sadamichi Ishizuka	15,021	7.7	3.4
Registered electors			360,923
Turnout				55.04	2.68
	LDP gain from Centrist Reform

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Satoshi Honjo [ja] (Incumbent)	78,678	42.93	16.72
	LDP	Izumi Matsumoto	59,070	32.23	3.77
	Ishin	Sadamichi Ishizuka	20,338	11.10	New
	Sanseitō	Hiroyuki Miyamoto	13,872	7.57	New
	JCP	Satoshi Takahashi	11,296	6.17	N/A
Majority			19,608	10.70
Registered electors			360,412
Turnout				52.36	3.80
	CDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Satoshi Honjo [ja]	135,125	59.65	*New*
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada (Incumbent) (Won PR seat)	81,556	36.00	12.76
	Independent	Shinichiro Miyaoka	9,845	4.35	New
Majority			53,569	23.65
Registered electors			423,866
Turnout				56.16	4.48
	CDP gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada (Incumbent)	100,115	48.76	0.44
	Kibō no Tō	Kazumi Ota	71,468	34.81	New
	JCP	Teiryo Onozato	33,752	16.43	0.40
Majority			28,647	13.95
Registered electors			411,572
Turnout				51.68	1.17
	LDP hold

Chiba 8th district

Since 2022

2013 - 2022

2002 - 2013

1994 - 2002

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

References

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Chiba 8th district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of the Chiba Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Chiba
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	360,783^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Izumi Matsumoto [ja]
Municipalities	Kashiwa

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada (Incumbent)	98,569	49.20	8.20
	Innovation	Kazumi Ota (Won PR seat)	69,667	34.77	New
	JCP	Teiryo Onozato	32,118	16.03	9.52
Majority			28,902	14.43
Registered electors			396,160
Turnout				52.85	7.41
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada	93,882	41.00	3.60
	Democratic	Kimiaki Matsuzaki [ja] (Incumbent)	56,831	24.82	28.74
	Your	Koji Yamamoto	44,532	19.45	New
	Tomorrow	Yumiko Himei	18,846	8.23	New
	JCP	Hidenori Takeishi	14,914	6.50	0.97
Majority			37,051	16.18
Registered electors			393,127
Turnout				60.26	7.42
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kimiaki Matsuzaki [ja]	138,923	53.56	13.57
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada (Incumbent)	97,007	37.40	14.47
	JCP	Hideo Kato	19,378	7.47	0.78
	Happiness Realization	Yasuko Mori	4,052	1.57	New
Majority			41,916	16.16
Registered electors			391,010
Turnout				67.68	0.73
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada	128,659	51.87	7.50
	Democratic	Kimiaki Matsuzaki [ja] (Incumbent)	99,204	39.99	6.77
	JCP	Satoshi Takahashi	16,588	6.69	2.18
	Independent	Yoichi Imai	3,614	1.45	New
Majority			29,455	11.88
Registered electors			377,404
Turnout				66.95	7.16
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kimiaki Matsuzaki [ja]	100,794	46.76	7.14
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada (Won PR seat)	95,627	44.37	6.12
	JCP	Hideo Kato	19,117	8.87	1.22
Majority			5,167	2.39
Registered electors			373,015
Turnout				59.79	0.03
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hiroyuki Nagahama	91,220	39.62	*New*
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada (Incumbent) (Won PR seat)	88,065	38.25	4.25
	JCP	Yasunori Takada	23,235	10.09	4.52
	Social Democratic	Toshio Sasaki	21,429	9.31	New
	Liberal League	Hidekazu Hayashi	6,294	2.73	1.62
Majority			3,155	1.37
Registered electors			396,931
Turnout				59.76
	Democratic gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshitaka Sakurada	69,539	34.00	*New*
	New Frontier	Hiroyuki Nagahama	62,740	30.67	New
	Democratic	Yukihiko Hayakawa	40,103	19.61	New
	JCP	Hideo Kato	29,884	14.61	New
	Liberal League	Hideyuki Matsumoto	2,284	1.11	New
Majority			6,799	3.33
Registered electors
Turnout
	LDP win (new seat)

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: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto PR
Hokkaidō	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 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	Block 19 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	Block 23 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	Block 19 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	Block 10 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	Block 21 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	Block 28 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	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 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
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4