Hyōgo 8th district
Legislative district of Japan
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Hyogo 8th district (兵庫県第8区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-hachiku), also referred to as Hyōgo hachi-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyōgo and consists of the city of Amagasaki. As of September 2015, 379,207 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.
The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 2nd district that elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.
Since the district's creation, it has been represented by: former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former governor of Nagano Prefecture Yasuo Tanaka, and Hiromasa Nakano, who worked under Fuyushiba in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
List of representatives
| Representative | Party | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | New Frontier Party(1996–98) | 1996 – 2009 | ||
| Komeito(1998-2009) | ||||
| Yasuo Tanaka | New Party Nippon | 2009 – 2012 | ||
| Hiromasa Nakano | Komeito | 2012 – 2026 | ||
| Shigeharu Aoyama | LDP | 2026 – | Former member of the House of Councillors | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Shigeharu Aoyama | 85,970 | 43.3 | |||
| Ishin | Junko Tokuyasu | 48,094 | 24.2 |  7.9 | ||
| Centrist Reform | Yoshie Hirokawa | 42,989 | 21.7 | |||
| JCP | Masae Bandō | 11,252 | 5.7 | 8.6 | ||
| Reiwa | Uiko Hasegawa | 10,210 | 5.1 | 1.8 | ||
| Registered electors | 382,841 | |||||
| Turnout | 52.93 |  2.18 | ||||
| LDP gain from Komeito | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 71,784 | 38.30 | 20.5 | |
| Ishin | Junko Tokuyasu | 60,150 | 32.09 | New | |
| JCP | Jun Komura | 26,873 | 14.34 | 12.27 | |
| Reiwa | Okan Yahata | 12,920 | 6.89 | 7.71 | |
| Collaborative Party | Maria Yuki Hayashi | 2,555 | 1.36 | New | |
| Sanseitō | Seiichirō Aburatani | 13,155 | 7.02 | New | |
| Turnout | 50.75 | 1.52 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 94,116 | 63.6 | 2.7 | |
| JCP | Terufumi Horiuchi | 53,964 | 36.4 | 2.7 | |
| Turnout | 42.09 | 3.78 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 97,562 | 46.6 | 5.3 | |
| NP-Nippon | Yasuo Tanaka | 62,697 | 30.0 | 12.2 | |
| Democratic | Hideko Muroi | 26,246 | 12.6 | 12.6 | |
| JCP | Etsuko Shōmoto | 22,645 | 10.8 | 2.7 | |
| Turnout | 57.51 | 9.76 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP-Nippon | Yasuo Tanaka | 106,225 | 42.2 | ||
| Komeito | Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | 103,918 | 41.3 | 5.0 | |
| JCP | Etsuko Shōmoto | 20,327 | 8.1 | 4.5 | |
| Social Democratic | Banko Ichiki | 18,770 | 7.5 | 1.6 | |
| Happiness Realization | Tomokazu Sumide | 2,532 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Turnout | 67.27 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Komeito | Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | 109,957 | 46.3 | ||
| Democratic | Kunihiko Muroi | 83,288 | 35.1 | ||
| JCP | Etsuko Shōmoto | 29,986 | 12.6 | ||
| Social Democratic | Munenori Ueda | 14,019 | 5.9 | ||
| Turnout | |||||