Fukushima 4th district

Fukushima 4th district
Fukushima 4th district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of the Fukushima Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Fukushima
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	397,698
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Ryūtarō Sakamoto [ja]
Municipalities	Iwaki, Minamisōma, Sōma, Futaba District and Sōma District.

PrefectureFukushima

Proportional DistrictTohoku

Electorate397,698^[1]

Created1994

Fukushima 4th district (福島県第4区, Fukushima-ken dai-yonku or simply 福島4区, Fukushima-yonku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Election	Representative
1996^[8]	Kōzō Watanabe	New Frontier
1996^[8]		Independent
2000^[9]		AoI
2003^[10]		AoI
2005^[11]		Democratic
2009^[12]		Democratic
2012^[13]	Ichiro Kanke	LDP
2014^[14]	Shinji Oguma	Innovation
		Independent
		Reform
		Democratic
		Kibō
2017^[15]	Ichiro Kanke	LDP
2021^[16]	Shinji Oguma	CDP
2024^[17]	Ryūtarō Sakamoto [ja]	LDP
2026	Ryūtarō Sakamoto [ja]	LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ryutaro Sakamoto	100,795	49.3	2.78
	Centrist Reform	Yūki Saito	54,672	26.8	15.9
	DPP	Yota Yamaguchi	38,539	18.9	N/A
	JCP	Satoshi Kumagai	10,254	5	5.78
Majority			46,123	22.5	18.68
Registered electors			389,236
Turnout			204,260	53.44	5.34
	LDP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ryutaro Sakamoto	85,751	46.52
	CDP	Yūki Saito (Won PR seat)	78,708	42.70
	JCP	Tomo Kumagai	19,879	10.78	N/A
Majority			7,043	3.82
Registered electors			396,483
Turnout				48.10	16.58
	LDP gain from CDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Shinji Oguma	76,683	50.96	*New*
	LDP	Ichiro Kanke (Won PR seat)	73,784	49.04
Majority			2,899	1.92
Registered electors			237,353
Turnout				64.68	1.56
	CDP gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ichiro Kanke	68,282	44.66
	Kibō no Tō	Shinji Oguma (Won PR seat)	67,073	43.86	New
	JCP	Yoshinori Furukawa	9,492	6.21
	Social Democratic	Toshio Watanabe	8,063	5.27
Majority			1,209	0.80
Registered electors			247,621
Turnout				63.12	5.52
	LDP gain from Kibō no Tō

Fukushima 4th district

Since 2022

2017 - 2022

2013 - 2017

1994 - 2013

List of representatives

Election results

2026

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996

References

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Fukushima 4th district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of the Fukushima Prefecture single seats
Prefecture	Fukushima
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	397,698^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Ryūtarō Sakamoto [ja]
Municipalities	Iwaki, Minamisōma, Sōma, Futaba District and Sōma District.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Innovation	Shinji Oguma	56,856	42.80	*New*
	LDP	Ichiro Kanke (Won PR seat)	56,440	42.48
	Social Democratic	Uzen Ogawa	10,139	7.63
	JCP	Wakako Tanaka	9,413	7.09
Majority			416	0.32
Registered electors			233,320
Turnout				58.10	5.89
	Innovation gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Ichiro Kanke	71,751	49.01
	Your	Shinji Oguma (Won PR seat)	50,036	34.18
	Social Democratic	Uzen Ogawa	15,718	10.74	New
	JCP	Toshihiro Harada	8,903	6.08	N/A
Majority			21,715	14.83
Registered electors			237,918
Turnout				63.99	13.43
	LDP gain from Democratic

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kōzō Watanabe	91,695	49.40
	LDP	Atsushi Watanabe	49,349	26.59
	Your	Shinji Oguma	42,824	23.07	New
	Happiness Realization	Norio Suzuki	1,735	0.93	New
Majority			42,346	22.81
Registered electors			244,469
Turnout				77.42	1.27
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kōzō Watanabe	91,440	48.48	*New*
	LDP	Atsushi Watanabe (Won PR seat)	84,803	44.96
	JCP	Toshihiro Harada	12,356	6.55
Majority			6,637	3.52
Registered electors			252,177
Turnout				76.15	1.86
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independents	Kōzō Watanabe	97,014	52.26
	LDP	Hideo Yamauchi	78,059	42.05
	JCP	Toshihiro Harada	10,581	5.70
Majority			18,955	10.21
Turnout				74.29
	Independents hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independents	Kōzō Watanabe	102,631	50.70	*New*
	LDP	Hideo Yamauchi	88,501	43.72
	JCP	Toshihiro Harada	11,312	5.59
Majority			14,130	6.98
Turnout
	Independents hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Kōzō Watanabe	93,960	48.73	*New*
	LDP	Fumiaki Saito	87,643	45.45	New
	JCP	Toshihiro Harada	11,226	5.82	New
Majority			6,317	3.28
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)