Kanagawa 8th district

Kanagawa 8th district (Kanagawa 8-ku, 神奈川8区) or more formally the "8th district of Kanagawa Prefecture" (Kanagawa-ken dai-8-ku, 神奈川県第8区) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the Northeast of the prefecture (-ken) of Kanagawa and consists of two wards (-ku) of the prefectural capital, the city (-shi) of Yokohama: Midori and Aoba. As of 2013, 385,415 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Before the 2002 redistricting, i.e. until the 2003 general House of Representatives election, the 8th district consisted of Aoba-ku and the Miyamae-ku of Kawasaki-shi, the second major city in Kanagawa-ken. Midori had previously been part of the 7th district, Miyamae was transferred to the newly created 18th district.

After the introduction of single-member districts with the electoral reform of 1994, effective in the 1996 Representatives election, the district was initially won by pre-reform 1st district incumbent Hiroshi Nakada (New Frontier Party→Independents (political party)) who resigned for his (successful) campaign in the 2002 mayoral election in Yokohama city and later returned to the House of Representatives, but this time from Hokuriku-Shin'etsu. The resulting special election in Kanagawa 8th district was won by independent Kenji Eda. Eda lost the district in the 2003 Representatives election to Democrat Tetsundo Iwakuni, but won it back in 2005 and has held onto the seat since.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Hiroshi Nakada NFP 1996–2000 Previously member from the four-member 1st district for Japan New Party→New Frontier Party, joined "Independents" (Mushozoku no kai) after the NFP dissolution
Independents 2000–2002 Resigned to stand in a municipal election
Kenji Eda Independent 2002–2003 Special election October 28, 2002
Tetsundo Iwakuni DPJ 2003–2005
Kenji Eda Independent 2005–2009 Formed YP in 2009
Your Party 2009–2014 Incumbent, led breakaway Unity Party in 2013, merged into Japan Innovation Party in 2014

Recent results
2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
YP Kenji Eda 127,294 54.1 +5.0
LDP (NK) Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 60,643 25.8 +5.0
DPJ (PNP) Kumiko Itō 33,769 19.7 new
JCP Susumu Kugimaru 13,526 5.8 new
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
YP Kenji Eda 128,753 49.1 +14.2
DPJ Makoto Yamazaki (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 74,544 28.4 new
LDP (NK) Mineyuki Fukuda 54,480 20.8 -8.6
HRP Hiroyuki Kojima 4,246 1.6 new
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
I Kenji Eda 88,098 34.9 -2.9
DPJ Tetsundo Iwakuni (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 78,860 31.2 -7.5
LDP Mineyuki Fukuda (won seat in Minami-Kantō) 74,399 29.4 new
JCP Eiji Yamanaka 11,578 4.6 -0.1
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References
  1. MIC: 平成25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. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  3. 総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  4. 総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-11-22.

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