Shikoku proportional representation block

The Shikoku proportional representation block is one of eleven proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

(PR) "blocks", multi-member constituencies for the House of Representatives

House of Representatives of Japan

The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

in the Diet of Japan

Diet of Japan

The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...

. It consists of Shikoku region covering Tokushima

Tokushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island. The capital is the city of Tokushima.- Tokushima Prefecture and Myodo Prefecture :Long ago, Tokushima City belonged to a region known as Myōdō-gun...

, Kagawa

Kagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Shikoku island. The capital is Takamatsu.- History :Kagawa was formerly known as Sanuki Province.For a brief period between August 1876 and December 1888, Kagawa was made a part of Ehime Prefecture.-Battle of Yashima:...

, Ehime

Ehime Prefecture

is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime prefecture was known as Iyo Province...

and Kōchi prefecture

Kochi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the south coast of Shikoku. The capital is the city of Kōchi.- History :Prior to the Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as Tosa Province and was controlled by the Chosokabe clan in the Sengoku period and the Yamauchi family during the Edo period.- Geography...

s. Following the introduction of proportional voting it elected seven representatives in the 1996 general election. When the total number of PR seats was reduced from 200 to 180, the Shikoku PR block shrunk to six seats.

Summary of results

With a district magnitude of six, Shikoku is the smallest PR block. The vote share necessary to obtain a seat is usually well above ten percent. Since the consolidation of the LDP-DPJ-party system by the merger of the LP into the DPJ in 2001, only the top three parties have been able to win seats in Shikoku.

general election	DPJ			LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...			Kōmeitō			JCP Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism...			SDP Social Democratic Party (Japan) The Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party (社会民主党 Shakai Minshu-tō, often abbreviated to 社民党 Shamin-tō; also known as the Social Democratic Party of Japan (abbreviated to SDPJ or SDP in English) is a political party that advocates for the establishment of a...			NFP New Frontier Party The was a Japanese political party that existed during the mid-1990s. As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate socialists to neoliberals and conservatives... ('96)/LP Liberal Party (Japan, 1998) The was a Japanese liberal party formed in 1998 by Ichirō Ozawa and Hirohisa Fujii. It is now defunct, having joined the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003.... ('00)			Others
general election	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
1996	245,323	13.8	1	785,589	41.6	3	–			227,014	12.1	1	132,868	7.1	0	455,269	24.2	2	39,067	2.1	0
2000	402,457	20.7	1	700,719	36.0	3	266,791	13.7	1	213,729	11.0	1	196,277	10.1	0	162,700	8.4	0	5,316	0.3	0
2003	587,828	31.7	2	708,051	38.2	3	309,160	16.7	1	148,953	8.0	0	98,243	5.3	0	–			–
2005	711,927	33.2	2	821,746	38.3	3	317,575	14.8	1	175,994	8.2	0	119,089	5.5	0	–			–
2009 Japanese general election, 2009 A general election in Japan was held on August 30, 2009, for all 480 seats of the House of Representatives of Japan, the lower house of the Diet of Japan....	973,038	43.2	3	719,594	32.0	2	293,204	13.0	1	150,171	6.7	0	94,558	4.2	0	–			19,507	0.9	0

Party names are abbreviated as follows (format: abbreviation, translated name, Japanese name, Engrish name):

DPJ "Democratic Party", Minshutō, Democratic Party of Japan
Democratic Party of Japan
The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum...
LDP Liberal Democratic Party
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...

, Jiyūminshutō
Kōmeitō "Justice Party", Kōmeitō, New Justice Party Party
New Komeito Party
The , New Kōmei Party, or NKP is a centre-right political party in Japan founded by members of the Nichiren Buddhist organization Sōka Gakkai. The leadership and financing of the two groups are currently independent...
JCP Japanese Communist Party
Japanese Communist Party
The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism...

, Nihon Kyōsantō
SDP Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party (Japan)
The Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party (社会民主党 Shakai Minshu-tō, often abbreviated to 社民党 Shamin-tō; also known as the Social Democratic Party of Japan (abbreviated to SDPJ or SDP in English) is a political party that advocates for the establishment of a...

, Shakaiminshutō
NFP New Frontier Party
New Frontier Party
The was a Japanese political party that existed during the mid-1990s. As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate socialists to neoliberals and conservatives...

, Shinshintō
LP Liberal Party
Liberal Party (Japan, 1998)
The was a Japanese liberal party formed in 1998 by Ichirō Ozawa and Hirohisa Fujii. It is now defunct, having joined the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003....

, Jiyūtō
NSP New Socialist Party
New Socialist Party (Japan)
The was a left-wing party created in Japan on March 3, 1996, by a group of left wingers who left the Social Democratic Party.The party has some similarities to the Japanese Communist Party. It is able to assert its left-wing views democratically, unlike other hard-line atheist-orientated,...

, Shin-shakaitō
LL Liberal League, Jiyū-rengō
HRP Happiness Realization Party
Happiness Realization Party
, abbreviated as 幸福, is a Japanese political party founded by Ryuho Okawa on 23 May 2009 "in order to offer the Japanese people a third option" for the upcoming elections in August 2009. The HRP is the political wing of the Happy Science religious movement....

, Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō

List of Representatives

Note: Party affiliations as of election day.

Years	\| Elected Representatives
1996–	Naoaki Haruna	Masanori Gotō	Kazuyoshi Endō	Shōzō Nishimura	Ihei Ochi died 2000, replaced by Akira Shichijō Akira Shichijo is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kamiita, Tokushima and graduate of Tokyo University of Agriculture, he had served in the assembly of Tokushima Prefecture for four terms since 1981...	Mamoru Nishida	Hajime Morita
2000–	Naoaki Haruna	Masanori Gotō	Kazuyoshi Endō	Mamoru Nishida	Hajime Morita	Akira Shichijō	–
2003–	Miho Takai Miho Takai is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Miyoshi District, Tokushima and graduate of Waseda University she was elected for the first time in 2003 after an unsuccessful run in 2000...	Masanori Gotō	Noritoshi Ishida Noritoshi Ishida is a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kōchi, he attended the University of Electro-Communications as undergraduate and received a master's degree from Soka University. After that, he worked at the government of Tokyo...	Hajime Morita	Yoshirō Okamoto Yoshiro Okamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Tokushima, Tokushima, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in March 1967. Upon graduate, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which is now part of...	Akira Shichijō
2005–	Masanori Gotō resigned 2005, replaced by Miho Takai	Jun'ya Ogawa	Noritoshi Ishida	Akira Shichijō	Yoshirō Okamoto	Katsuko Nishimoto Katsuko Nishimoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Takaoka District, Kōchi and graduate of Dokkyo University she was elected to the village council of Hidaka, Kōchi for the first time in 1995 and to the Diet for the first...
2009–	Hirobumi Niki	Takako Nagae	Hideyuki Takahashi	Noritoshi Ishida	Takuya Hirai Takuya Hirai is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Takamatsu, Kagawa and graduate of Sophia University he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 as a member of the New Frontier Party after...	Shun'ichi Yamaguchi

Election result 2009

Shikoku block results in the 2009 general election
Japanese general election, 2009
A general election in Japan was held on August 30, 2009, for all 480 seats of the House of Representatives of Japan, the lower house of the Diet of Japan....
#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio" (sekihairitsu) Sekihairitsu The is a method used in the proportional representation constituencies for the Japanese House of Representatives to determine the order of candidates placed on the same list position by their party....	Elected	#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected	#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected
LDP: 719,594 votes (32.0%), 2 seats					DPJ: 973,038 votes (43.2%), 3 seats					Kōmeitō: 293,204 votes (13.0%), 1 seat
1	Takuya Hirai Takuya Hirai is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Takamatsu, Kagawa and graduate of Sophia University he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000 as a member of the New Frontier Party after...	Kagawa 1	83.3%	Elected	1	Hirobumi Niki	Tokushima 3	98.5%	Elected	1	Noritoshi Ishida Noritoshi Ishida is a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kōchi, he attended the University of Electro-Communications as undergraduate and received a master's degree from Soka University. After that, he worked at the government of Tokyo...	PR only		Elected
	Shun'ichi Yamaguchi	Tokushima 2	80.2%	Elected		Takako Nagae	Ehime 1	97.8%	Elected	2	Hidehisa Ochiai	PR only		–
	Masazumi Gotōda Masazumi Gotoda is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Oe District, Tokushima and graduate of Keio University, he worked at Mitsubishi Corporation from 1993 to 1998. He was elected for the first time in 2000.- External links :* ...	Tokushima 3	Won district			Hideyuki Takahashi	Ehime 4	89.7%	Elected	JCP: 150,171 votes (6.7%), no seat
	Yasuhisa Shiozaki Yasuhisa Shiozaki is a Japanese politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzō Abe until August 2007.Born in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, he was an AFS exchange student in high school, graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of Tokyo and attended the John F. Kennedy School...	Ehime 1	Won district			Yoshito Sengoku Yoshito Sengoku is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was born in Tokushima, Tokushima prefecture. While studying in the University of Tokyo, he passed the bar exam and therefore dropped out of the university...	Tokushima 1	Won district		#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected
	Seiichirō Murakami Seiichiro Murakami was the Minister of State for Regulatory Reform,the Minister of State for Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, the Minister of State for Administrative Reform, the Minister of State for Special Zones for Structural Reform and the Minister of State for Regional Revitalization in Japanese...	Ehime 2	Won district			Miho Takai Miho Takai is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Miyoshi District, Tokushima and graduate of Waseda University she was elected for the first time in 2003 after an unsuccessful run in 2000...	Tokushima 2	Won district		1	Masaru Sasaoka	PR only		–
	Kōichi Yamamoto Koichi Yamamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Uwajima, Ehime and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to his one term in the assembly of Aichi Prefecture in 1991 and to the House of Representatives for the first...	Ehime 4	Won district			Jun'ya Ogawa	Kagawa 1	Won district		2	Motonori Furuta	Tokushima 1	10.8%	–
	Teru Fukui Teru Fukui is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Osaka, Osaka and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Construction in 1976. Leaving the ministry in 1999, he was elected to the House of...	Kōchi 1	Won district			Yūichirō Tamaki	Kagawa 2	Won district			Michiko Chikaishi	Kagawa 3	9.9%	–
	Gen Nakatani Gen Nakatani Gen Nakatani is a Japanese politician who served as head of the Japan Defense Agency in the first cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi....	Kōchi 2	Won district			Yōichi Shiraishi	Ehime 3	Won district			Katsuhiko Tanaka	Ehime 1	6.1%	–
	Yūji Yamamoto Yuji Yamamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kochi Prefecture and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the assembly of Kōchi Prefecture in 1985 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in...	Kōchi 3	Won district			Tomoi Nakayama	Kōchi 3	86.9%	–	SDP: 94,558 votes (4.2%), no seat
	Tōru Shirai	Ehime 3	77.2%	–		Kumiko Tamura	Kōchi 1	86.4%	–	#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected
	Yoshio Kimura Yoshio Kimura is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Sanuki, Kagawa and graduate of Chuo University, he worked at Sumitomo Bank from 1972 to 1975...	Kagawa 2	72.3%	–		Kiyo Kusumoto	Kōchi 2	65.9%	–	1	Tomoko Okahira	Ehime 2	89.9%	–
	Yoshirō Okamoto Yoshiro Okamoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Tokushima, Tokushima, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in March 1967. Upon graduate, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which is now part of...	Tokushima 1	51.8%	–	12	Kenshi Uno	PR only		–	1	Haruhiko Maida	Kagawa 3	73.3%	–
13	Akira Shichijō Akira Shichijo is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kamiita, Tokushima and graduate of Tokyo University of Agriculture, he had served in the assembly of Tokushima Prefecture for four terms since 1981...	PR only		–	13	Masuko Yoshida	PR only		–	HRP: 19,507 votes (0.9%), no seat
14	Katsuko Nishimoto Katsuko Nishimoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Takaoka District, Kōchi and graduate of Dokkyo University she was elected to the village council of Hidaka, Kōchi for the first time in 1995 and to the Diet for the first...			–	–					#	Candidate	District	"Loss ratio"	Elected
15	Masaharu Sasanuma			–						1	Akemi Takeo	PR only		–
16	Toshiyuki Minakuchi			–						2	Keiko Kushihata			–
–										3	Yukinori Tōjō			–
–										4	Shūhei Oka			–

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