Hiroshima 7th district

Hiroshima 7th District (広島県第7区, Hiroshima-ken dai-nana-ku, or simply Hiroshima nana-ku (広島7区)) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Hiroshima and consists of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012, 377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Hiroshima 3rd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

The first representative for the single-member 7th district was former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa for the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2000, he was followed by Yōichi Miyazawa (LDP), son of former Hiroshima governor Hiroshi Miyazawa, nephew of Kiichi Miyazawa, grandson of Representatives Yutaka Miyazawa and Masaki Kishida and great-grandson of Representative Heikichi Ogawa. In the landslide election of 2009 when the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition lost its majority, Takashi Wada, husband of former Finance minister Tatsuo Murayama's granddaughter, won the district against Miyazawa for the Democratic Party. In the landslide election of 2012 when the DPJ-PNP coalition lost more than two-thirds of its seats, Liberal Democrat Fumiaki Kobayashi won the district.

List of representatives

Party		Representative	Dates	Notes
	LDP	Kiichi Miyazawa	1996–2000
	LDP	Yōichi Miyazawa	2000–2009	Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block^[2]
	DPJ	Takashi Wada	2009–2012	Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block
	LDP	Fumiaki Kobayashi	2012–Present	Incumbent

Election results

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Fumiaki Kobayashi(Endorsed by Komeito)	123,396	66.45
	CDP	Hironori Sato	45,520	24.51
	Communist	Akemi Murai	11,580	6.24
	Independent	Kayo Hashimoto	5207	2.80

2012^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Fumiaki Kobayashi (Endorsed by Komeito)	93,491	47.5
	DPJ	Takashi Wada (Endorsed by the PNP)	52,543	26.7
	Restoration	Daisuke Sakamoto (won PR seat)(Endorsed by Your Party)	38,919	19.8
	Communist	Takushi Kanbara	11,777	6.0

2009^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Takashi Wada {{small(Endorsed by the PNP)}}	133,871
	Liberal Democratic	Yōichi Miyazawa (Endorsed by Komeito)	111,321
	Happiness Realization	Mitsuo Uematsu	3,879
Turnout			254,275	67.86

2005^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yōichi Miyazawa	122,465
	DPJ	Takashi Wada	104,009
	Communist	Mikie Morikawa	14,444
Turnout			245,522	66.28

2003^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yōichi Miyazawa	90,487
	DPJ	Takashi Wada (elected by PR)	73,252
	Independent	Toshimasa Yamada	23,185
	Communist	Mikie Morikawa	11,100
Turnout			203,782	55.46

2000^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Yōichi Miyazawa	112,145
	DPJ	Toshimasa Yamada (elected by PR)	68,500
	Communist	Mikie Morikawa	20,765

1996^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kiichi Miyazawa	95,045
	Democratic	Minoru Yanagida	69,603
	New Socialist Party (Japan)	Shinsaku Takahashi	21,240
	Communist	Matsutarō Shimizu	14,915
Turnout			204,490	58.64

References

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7. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>広島県>広島7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
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