Nagano 4th district

Nagano 4th District
Nagano 4th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Nagano Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Nagano
Proportional District	Hokurikushin'etsu
Electorate	239,642
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Shigeyuki Goto
Municipalities	Chino, Okaya, Shiojiri, Suwa, Kiso District and Suwa District

Nagano 4th district (長野県第4区, Nagano-ken dai-yonku or simply 長野4区, Nagano-yonku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Nagano Prefecture.

List of representatives[edit]

Election	Representative		Notes
1996	Hajime Ogawa [ja]	Liberal Democratic
2000	Shigeyuki Goto	Democratic	Goto left the Democratic Party in 2003 and joined the LDP.
2003		Liberal Democratic
2005		Liberal Democratic
2009	Kōji Yazaki [ja]	Democratic
2012	Shigeyuki Goto	Liberal Democratic
2014
2017
2021

Election Results[edit]

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto (Incumbent)	86,962	62.61	16.96
	Communist	Yukiko Nagase	51,922	37.39	10.20
Registered electors			240,401
Turnout				59.37	3.17
	Liberal Democratic hold

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto (Incumbent)	68,673	45.65	0.42
	Communist	Eiko Mōri	40,898	27.19	11.08
	Kibō no Tō	Yoshiyuki Terashima [ja]	40,863	27.16	New
Registered electors			246,516
Turnout				62.54	4.84
	Liberal Democratic hold

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto (Incumbent)	63,121	46.07	2.20
	Democratic	Kōji Yazaki [ja]	51,816	37.82	7.48
	Communist	Hideaki Ueda	22,068	16.11	3.51
Registered electors			244,255
Turnout				57.70	7.72
	Liberal Democratic hold

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto	68,083	43.87	10.44
	Democratic	Kōji Yazaki [ja] (Incumbent)	47,089	30.34	25.93
	Tomorrow	Shigeki Miura	20,462	13.19	New
	Communist	Hideaki Ueda	19,552	12.60	3.82
Registered electors			246,633
Turnout				65.42	11.59
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kōji Yazaki [ja]	106,262	56.27	18.64
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto (Incumbent)	63,118	33.43	16.29
	Communist	Hideaki Ueda	16,575	8.78	3.87
	Happiness Realization	Hiroaki Masuzawa	2,878	1.52	New
Registered electors			249,373
Turnout				77.01	4.96
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto (Incumbent)	87,859	49.72	6.33
	Democratic	Ikuo Horigome [ja] (Incumbent-Hokurikushin'etsu PR block)	66,503	37.63	6.51
	Communist	Hideaki Ueda	22,349	12.65	3.26
Registered electors			251,779
Turnout				72.05	6.15
	Liberal Democratic hold

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto (Incumbent)	70,618	43.39	2.70
	Democratic	Ikuo Horigome [ja] (elected by Hokurikushin'etsu PR block)	50,651	31.12	12.72
	Social Democratic	Makihiko Hama	26,211	16.10	New
	Communist	Hideaki Ueda	15,286	9.39	6.08
Registered electors			253,374
Turnout				65.90	6.84
	Liberal Democratic hold

2000^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Shigeyuki Goto	78,397	43.84	New
	Liberal Democratic	Hajime Ogawa [ja] (Incumbent)	72,772	40.69	2.61
	Communist	Hideo Kijima [ja] (Incumbent-Hokurikushin'etsu PR block) (reelected by Hokurikushin'etsu PR block)	27,661	15.47	2.57
Turnout				72.74
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

1996^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Hajime Ogawa [ja]	72,810	43.30	New
	New Frontier	Shigeyuki Goto	65,009	38.66	New
	Communist	Hideo Kijima [ja] (elected by Hokurikushin'etsu PR block)	30,327	18.04	New
Turnout

References[edit]

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
^ "2021年衆議院総選挙長野4区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
^ "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHk (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.
^ "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ "開票結果小選挙区長野". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ "第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ "第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ "第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ "第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
^ "第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)

[2] "2021年衆議院総選挙長野4区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[3] "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHk (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[4] "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[5] "開票結果小選挙区長野". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[6] "第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[7] "第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[8] "第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[9] "第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[10] "第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 長野4区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

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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: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
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Tōhoku (12 block seats, 23 district 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 (19 block seats, 32 district 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
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Tokyo (19 block seats, 25 district 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 (10 block seats, 19 district 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 (21 block seats, 32 district 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 (28 block seats, 47 district 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 (10 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district 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
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4