Niigata 6th district
Legislative district of Japan
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Niigata 6th district (新潟県第6区, Niigata-ken dai-rokku or simply 新潟6区, Niigata-rokku) was a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Niigata Prefecture.
| Niigata 6th District | |
|---|---|
| Former Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
| Prefecture | Niigata |
| Proportional District | Hokuriku-Shinetsu |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Abolished | 2022 |
| Seats | One |
| Replaced by | Niigata 5th (merged into) |
Areas covered
It was abolished by the revision of the Public Offices Election Act 2022,[1] and the entire area has been changed to 5th district.[2]
- 1994-2013[5]
- Itoigawa
- Jōetsu
- Arai（merged into Myoko）
- Tōkamachi
- Nakauonuma District
- Higashikubiki District
- Nakakubiki District
- Nishikubiki District
List of representatives
| Election | Representative | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 [6] | Osamu Takatori | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2000[7] | Nobutaka Tsutsui | Democratic | ||
| 2003[8] | ||||
| 2005[9] | ||||
| 2009[10] | ||||
| 2012[11] | Shuichi Takatori | Liberal Democratic | ||
| 2014[12] | ||||
| 2017[13] | ||||
| 2021[14] | Mamoru Umetani | CDP | ||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Mamoru Umetani | 90,679 | 49.57 | N/A | ||
| Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito) |
Shuichi Takatori (incumbent) (won PR seat) |
90,549 | 49.50 | |||
| Independent | Kosan Kandori | 1,711 | 0.94 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 272,966 | |||||
| Turnout | 67.79 |  1.58 | ||||
| CDP gain from LDP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito) |
Shuichi Takatori (incumbent) |
94,292 | 50.59 | ||
| Independent | Mamoru Umetani | 92,080 | 49.41 | N/A | |
| Registered electors | 285,999 | ||||
| Turnout | 66.21 | 9.93 | |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito) |
Shuichi Takatori (incumbent) |
83,638 | 52.70 | ||
| Democratic | Mamoru Umetani | 62,766 | 39.55 | ||
| Communist | Mikiko Takahashi | 12,315 | 7.76 | ||
| Registered electors | 288,032 | ||||
| Turnout | 56.28 |  7.13 | |||
| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito) |
Shuichi Takatori | 98,676 | 55.08 | |||
| Democratic (endorsed by PNP) |
Nobutaka Tsutsui (incumbent) |
66,564 | 37.15 | |||
| Communist | Mikiko Takahashi | 13,914 | 7.77 | |||
| Registered electors | 292,581 | |||||
| Turnout | 63.41 | 13.37 | ||||
| LDP gain from Democratic | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Nobutaka Tsutsui (incumbent) |
124,894 | 55.35 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Shuichi Takatori (PR seat incumbent) |
89,672 | 39.74 | ||
| Communist | Masayuki Hashimoto | 9,222 | 4.09 | ||
| Happiness Realization | Daisei Kokuryo | 1,836 | 0.81 | ||
| Registered electors | 298,729 | ||||
| Turnout | 76.78 | 1.08 | |||
| Democratic hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Nobutaka Tsutsui (incumbent) |
114,081 | 50.17 | ||
| Liberal Democratic | Shuichi Takatori (won PR seat) |
102,187 | 44.94 | ||
| Communist | Shori Takeda | 11,138 | 4.90 | ||
| Registered electors | 304,495 | ||||
| Turnout | 75.70 | 2.25 | |||
| Democratic hold | |||||