Tokyo 6th district

Tokyo 6th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Tokyo, and consists of major parts of the City of Setagaya, one of Tokyo's 23 special wards. With 2.18 times as many voters as Tokushima's 1st district, it had the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan in the election of 2005.^[1] In 2007 the Supreme Court dismissed a claim that the election in this and other Tokyo districts was unconstitutional and thus invalid.^[2] As of September 2012, 486,353 eligible voters were registered in the district, giving them the third lowest electoral weight in the country.^[3]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Setagaya was part of Tokyo 3rd district, a three-member single non-transferable vote (SNTV) constituency. The post-reform single-member constituencies were used in the 1996 election for the first time.

Since its creation, the urban district had been dominated by opposition candidates until the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005 when Liberal Democratic candidate Takao Ochi was able to defeat Democratic incumbent Yōko Komiyama by a slim margin. Komiyama was reelected via the Tokyo proportional representation block and ran again in Tokyo 6th district in the election of 2009. In 2012, Ochi received only less than a third of the vote but retook the district as the opposition to the LDP splintered. After Democratic representative Kōki Ishii had been stabbed to death in 2002 by a rightwing activist,^[4]^[5] a by-election was held on April 27, 2003.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Tetsundo Iwakuni	NFP	1996–2000
Kōki Ishii	DPJ	2000–2002
Yōko Komiyama	DPJ	2003–2005	Re-elected in the Tokyo PR block
Takao Ochi	LDP	2005–2009	Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Yōko Komiyama	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Takao Ochi	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (Kōmeitō)	Takao Ochi	98,112	32.9
DPJ (PNP)	Yōko Komiyama	70,126	23.5
JRP	Tomofumi Hanawa	52,734	17.7
YP	Takayuki Ochiai	52,325	17.6
JCP	Naoki Satō	24,725	8.3

2009^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Yōko Komiyama	174,367.916
	LDP	Takao Ochi	102,944.000
	JCP	Naoki Satō	27,105.000
	Happiness Realization Party	Yōko Nakaoka	4,986.083
Turnout			316,412	65.67

2005^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Takao Ochi	136,750	45.21
	DPJ	Yōko Komiyama	130,283	43.07
	JCP	Miyoko Tanaka	28,252	9.34
Turnout			302,484	65.03

2003^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Yōko Komiyama	131,715	50.71
	LDP	Takao Ochi	78,650	30.28
	SDP	Nobuto Hosaka	23,320	8.98
	JCP	Miyoko Tanaka	18,625	7.17
Turnout			259,727	56.54

2003 by-election^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Yōko Komiyama	99,600	53.59
	LDP	Takao Ochi	57,783	31.09
	JCP	Miyoko Tanaka	20,486	11.02
Turnout			185,842	40.63

2000^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Kōki Ishii	93,919	36.16
	LDP	Takao Ochi	55,821	21.49
	SDP	Nobuto Hosaka	38,167	14.70
	Liberal Party	Yoshio Suzuki	30,914	12.28
	JCP	Osamu Minase^[12]	26,130	10.38
	Liberal League	Rieko Saitō	6,765	2,69
Turnout			251,716	58.26

1996^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	NFP	Tetsundo Iwakuni	82,106	34.46
	LDP	Takao Ochi	62,518	26.24
	DPJ	Kōki Ishii	52,014	21.83
	JCP	Osamu Minase^[14]	29,636	12.39
	SDP	Hiroshi Ōmura^[15]	10,384	4.36
	Independent	Masaharu Kitazato^[16]	1,590	0.67
Turnout			238,248

References

↑ Yomiuri Shimbun, August 31, 2005: １票の格差２．１８倍　衆院選有権者数 (Japanese)
↑ Supreme Court: decision of June 13, 2007
↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (Japanese)
↑ The Japan Times, October 26, 2002: Opposition lawmaker assassinated. Outspoken DPJ member stabbed in front of his house; attacker flees.
↑ The Japan Times, July 1, 2005: Rightist's life term upheld for DPJ lawmaker's slaying
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　東京. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-27.
↑ 衆議院 >第45回衆議院議員選挙 >東京都 >東京6区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第44回衆議院議員選挙 >東京都 >東京6区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >東京都 >東京6区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第42回衆議院議員選挙 >東京都 >東京6区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 水無瀬攻
↑ 衆議院 >第41回衆議院議員選挙 >東京都 >東京6区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-01. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 水無瀬攻
↑ 大村博
↑ 北里正治

Tokyo's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 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 PR Tokyo PR block House of Councillors At-large (25 Representatives (PR block: 19→17), 8→10 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (43 Representatives, 8 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) 1 2 (22 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (31 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (25 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Tokyo city counties (gunbu) (16 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (12 Representatives)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tōhoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakantō proportional representation block - 20 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

Minamikantō proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 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

Hokurikushin'etsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tōkai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 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 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chūgoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyūshū proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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