Ibaraki 5th district

Ibaraki 5th district
Ibaraki 5th district
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Ibaraki Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Ibaraki
Proportional District	Northern Kanto
Electorate	237,265
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	DPP
Representative	Satoshi Asano
Municipalities	Cities of Hitachi, Kitaibaraki, and Takahagi District of Naka.

PrefectureIbaraki

Proportional DistrictNorthern Kanto

Electorate237,265^[1]

Created1994

Ibaraki 5th district (茨城県第5区, Ibaraki-ken dai-goku or simply 茨城5区, Ibaraki-goku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Election	Representative
1996^[4]	Shunpei Tsukahara [ja]	LDP
1998 by-el^[5]	Hideo Okabe [ja]	LDP
2000^[6]	Akihiro Ohata	Democratic
2003^[7]
2005^[8]
2009^[9]
2012^[10]
2014^[11]
2014^[11]		Democratic
2017^[12]	Akimasa Ishikawa	LDP
2021^[13]	Satoshi Asano	DPP
2024^[14]
2026^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPP	Satoshi Asano (Incumbent)	70,438	60.4	6.71
	LDP	Takumi Suzuki (Won a Seat in the PR Block)	46,141	39.6	0.62
Majority			24,297	20.8	6.09
Registered electors			229,095
Turnout			116,579	52.56 52.96	0.40
	DPP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPP	Satoshi Asano (Incumbent)	64,351	53.69	5.20
	LDP	Akimasa Ishikawa	46,717	38.98	3.59
	JCP	Tatsuo Chiba	8,781	7.33	0.96
Majority			17,634	14.71
Registered electors			232,960
Turnout				52.56	0.74
	DPP hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPP	Satoshi Asano	61,373	48.49	*New*
	LDP	Akimasa Ishikawa (Incumbent) (Won PR seat)	53,878	42.57	5.60
	JCP	Miyako Iida	8,061	6.37	1.49
	Independent	Hiroshi Tamura	3,248	2.57	New
Majority			7,495	5.92
Registered electors			241,755
Turnout				53.30	1.19
	DPP gain from LDP

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Akimasa Ishikawa	61,450	48.17	5.41
	Kibō no Tō	Satoshi Asano (Won PR seat)	56,098	43.97	New
	JCP	Atsuko Kawasaki	10,027	7.86	1.08
Majority			5,352	4.20
Registered electors			249,839
Turnout				52.11	0.23
	LDP gain from Democratic

Ibaraki 5th district

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Ibaraki 5th district
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Ibaraki Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Ibaraki
Proportional District	Northern Kanto
Electorate	237,265^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	DPP
Representative	Satoshi Asano
Municipalities	Cities of Hitachi, Kitaibaraki, and Takahagi District of Naka.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Akihiro Ohata (Incumbent)	60,688	48.30	1.00
	LDP	Akimasa Ishikawa (Won PR seat)	53,732	42.76	0.96
	JCP	Akira Fukuda	11,239	8.94	0.04
Majority			6,956	5.54
Registered electors			249,720
Turnout				51.88
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Akihiro Ohata (Incumbent)	61,142	49.30	11.97
	LDP	Akimasa Ishikawa (Won PR seat)	51,841	41.80	5.42
	JCP	Akira Fukuda	11,043	8.90	N/A
Majority			9,301	7.50
Registered electors
Turnout
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Akihiro Ohata (Incumbent)	91,855	61.27	11.88
	LDP	Hideaki Okabe	54,541	36.38	9.93
	Happiness Realization	Kōta Noguchi	3,513	2.35	New
Majority			37,314	24.89
Registered electors
Turnout
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Akihiro Ohata (Incumbent)	74,753	49.39
	LDP	Hideaki Okabe (Won PR seat)	70,098	46.31
	JCP	Kuniyoshi Fujita	6,511	4.30
Majority			4,655	3.08
Registered electors
Turnout
	Democratic hold

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