Hyōgo 8th district

Hyogo 8th district (兵庫県第8区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-hachiku), also referred to as Hyōgo hachi-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyōgo and consists of the city of Amagasaki. As of September 2015, 379,207 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 2nd district that elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, it has been represented by three people: former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former governor of Nagano Prefecture Yasuo Tanaka, and the current representative Hiromasa Nakano, who worked under Fuyushiba in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba	New Frontier Party(1996–98)	1996 – 2009
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba	Komeito(1998-2009)	1996 – 2009
Yasuo Tanaka	New Party Nippon	2009 – 2012
Hiromasa Nakano	Komeito	2012–present

Election results

2024
Party		Candidate	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano
	Ishin	Junko Tokuyasu	New
	Communist	Jun Komura
	Reiwa	Okan Yahata
	Your	Maria Yuki Hayashi	New
	Sanseitō	Seiichirō Aburatani	New
Turnout

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	100,313	58.80	4.76
	Communist	Jun Komura	45,403	26.61	9.83
	Reiwa	Megumi Tsuji	24,880	14.6
Turnout				48.83	6.74

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	94,116	63.6	2.7
	Communist	Terufumi Horiuchi	53,964	36.4	2.7
Turnout				42.09	3.78

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	94,687	60.9	14.3
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	60,849	39.1	28.3
Turnout				45.87	11.64

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Komeito	Hiromasa Nakano	97,562	46.6	5.3
	NP-Nippon	Yasuo Tanaka	62,697	30.0	12.2
	Democratic	Hideko Muroi	26,246	12.6	12.6
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	22,645	10.8	2.7
Turnout				57.51	9.76

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NP-Nippon	Yasuo Tanaka	106,225	42.2
	Komeito	Tetsuzo Fuyushiba	103,918	41.3	5.0
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	20,327	8.1	4.5
	Social Democratic	Banko Ichiki	18,770	7.5	1.6
	Happiness Realization	Tomokazu Sumide	2,532	1.0	1.0
Turnout				67.27

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Komeito	Tetsuzo Fuyushiba	109,957	46.3
	Democratic	Kunihiko Muroi	83,288	35.1
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	29,986	12.6
	Social Democratic	Munenori Ueda	14,019	5.9
Turnout

References

^ "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：兵庫 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^ "総選挙2017>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2017 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ "総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
^ "総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
^ "総選挙2009>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
^ "総選挙2005>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.

[1] "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.

[2] 開票速報小選挙区：兵庫 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

[3] "総選挙2017>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2017 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

[4] "総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.

[5] "総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 February 2016.

[6] "総選挙2009>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.

[7] "総選挙2005>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.

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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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Kinki (28 block seats, 45 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, 17 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, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 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