Ibaraki 4th district

Ibaraki 4th district (茨城県第4区 Ibaraki-ken dai-yon-ku or 茨城4区 Ibaraki 4-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Ibaraki and consists of the cities of Hitachinaka, Hitachiōta, Hitachiōmiya (without the former village of Gozenyama), Naka and the Naka and Kuji counties. As of 2012, 303,835 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area was part of the multi-member Ibaraki 2nd district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

Ibaraki 4th district is a "conservative kingdom" (hoshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It wasn't even contested by the main opposition Democratic Party in the 2000 and 2003 general elections and withstood the Democratic landslide victory in the election of 2009. Since its creation the district has been represented by the Kajiyama family for the LDP: former Trade, Home, Justice Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama (Obuchi faction) and his son Hiroshi (no faction).

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Seiroku Kajiyama		LDP	1996–2000	Died in June 2000
Hiroshi Kajiyama		LDP	2000–present	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (NK)	Hiroshi Kajiyama	113,718	65.1
DPJ (PNP support)	Mamoru Takano	48,395	27.7
JCP	Shūji Uno	12,555	7.2

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Hiroshi Kajiyama	104,236	50.7
	DPJ (PNP support)	Mamoru Takano (elected by PR)	97,256	47.3
	HRP	Nobutake Nakamura	3,968	1.9
Turnout			210,007	69.16

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Hiroshi Kajiyama	122,200	63.2
	DPJ	Mamoru Takano	59,941	31.0
	JCP	Atsuko Kawasaki	11,212	5.8
Turnout			198,451	65.77

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Hiroshi Kajiyama	119,047	74.1
	SDP	Shūichi Ōshima	28,660	17.8
	JCP	Atsuko Kawasaki	11,212	8.1
Turnout			165,512	55.24

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Kajiyama	139,817	83.4
	JCP	Kiichi Ōwada	27,927	16.6

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Seiroku Kajiyama	112,977	68.3
	NFP	Shūichi Ōshima	38,028	23.0
	JCP	Michinao Nemoto	14,325	8.7
Turnout			170,802	59.58

References

^ 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 Template:Ja icon
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　茨城. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[1] 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 Template:Ja icon

[2] 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　茨城. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[3] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[4] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[5] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[6] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[7] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>茨城県>茨城4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Voice Japan. Retrieved 2011-04-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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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
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 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, 33 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
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 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, 18 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, 33 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, 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