Tokyo 7th district (1947–1993)

Tokyo 7th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five, later four representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of mainland Western Tokyo as a whole, namely the cities of Hachiōji and Tachikawa and the Nishitama, Minamitama and Kitatama districts of Tokyo.

For the election of 1976, Western parts were split off to form the new 11th district. As of 1993, the 7th district consisted of the cities of Tachikawa, Musashino, Mitaka, Akishima, Koganei, Kodaira, Higashimurayama, Kokubunji, Kunitachi, Tanashi, Hōya, Higashiyamato, Kiyose, Higashikurume and Musashimurayama. Following the redistricting, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) never managed to have more than one of their candidates elected as center-left to left parties dominated the vote. In the 1986 election, the LDP stopped nominating two candidates and Kiyoshi Ozawa (later minister during the coalition with the Socialist Party) became the party's only candidate in Tokyo 7th district.

Since the electoral reform of 1994 the area is distributed over several single-member districts. The four last representatives for Tokyo 7 all ran again in the election of 1996, the first under the new system: Naoto Kan won the 18th district, Yuriko Ōno the 20th district; Kiyoshi Ozawa ran, but lost the 21st district to Democrat Jōji Yamamoto, and Kōichirō Watanabe failed to win the 19th district against Democratic newcomer Yoshinori Suematsu.

Summary of results during the 1955 party system[edit]

General election			1958	1960	1963	1967	1969	1972	1976	1979	1980	1983	1986	1990	1993
	LDP & conservative independents		2	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Opposition	center-left	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	3
		JSP	3	2	3	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
		JCP	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0
Seats up			5						4

Elected Representatives[edit]

election year	highest vote (top tōsen)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1947^[1]	Tenkōkō Sonoda (JSP)	Chōjirō Kurihara (JLP)	Yoshio Namiki (DP)	Hideo Yamahana (JSP)	Tatsuo Yatsunami (DP)
1949^[2]	Chōjirō Kurihara (DLP)	Kazuyoshi Dobashi (JCP)	Tokuyasu Fukuda (DLP)	Tenkōkō Sonoda (Workers and Farmers Party)	Yoshio Namiki (DP)
1952^[3]	Kōichi Nakamura (JSP, right)	Yoshio Namiki (Progressive Party)	Hideo Yamahana (JSP, left)	Tomejirō Ōkubo (LP)	Chōjirō Kuriyama (LP)
1953^[4]	Kōichi Nakamura (JSP, right)	Yoshio Namiki (Progressive Party)		Tokuyasu Fukuda (Yoshida LP)	Kunitoshi Tsukumo (Yoshida LP)
1955^[5]	Yoshio Namiki (JDP)	Kōichi Nakamura (JSP, right)		Shigeo Kizaki^[6] (JDP)	Tokuyasu Fukuda (LP)
1958^[7]	Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP)	Kōichi Nakamura (JSP)	Shūichi Hōjō (JSP)	Hideo Yamahana (JSP)	Yoshiyasu Hosoda (LDP)
1960^[8]	Hideo Yamahana (JSP)	Kōichi Nakamura (JSP)	Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP)	Kunitoshi Tsukumo (LDP)	Yoshiyasu Hosoda (LDP)
1963^[9]	Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP)	Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)	Kōichi Nakamura (JSP)	Shōji Koyama (LDP)	Hideo Yamahana (JSP)
1967^[10]		Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō)	Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)		Hideo Yamahana (JSP)
1969^[11]		Kazuyoshi Dobashi (JCP)	Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō)		Haruo Wada (DSP)
1972^[12]	Kazuyoshi Dobashi (JCP)	Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP)		Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)	Shōji Koyama (LDP)
1976^[13]	Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP)	Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)		Akira Kudō (JCP)	–
1979^[14]	Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō)	Akira Kudō (JCP)	Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)	Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)
1980^[15]	Naoto Kan (SDF)	Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)	Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō)	Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)
1983^[16]	Naoto Kan (SDF)	Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō)	Akira Kudō (JCP)	Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)
1986^[17]	Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)	Naoto Kan (SDF)	Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō)	Akira Kudō (JCP)
1990^[18]	Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)	Hiroshi Tsunematsu (JSP)	Naoto Kan (SDF)	Yuriko Ōno (Kōmeitō)
1993^[19]	Naoto Kan (SDF)	Kōichirō Watanabe (JNP)	Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)	Yuriko Ōno (Kōmeitō)

Last election result 1993[edit]

1993^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SDF	Naoto Kan	154,827
	JNP	Kōichirō Watanabe	144,230
	LDP	Kiyoshi Ozawa	133,937
	Kōmeitō	Yuriko Ōno	109,725
	JSP	Hiroshi Tsunematsu	95,254
	JCP	Kenshō Sasaki	79,924
	Sagawa kyūmei! Gakusei, shimin giin no kai	Atsushi Yamamoto	24,294
	Independent	Kazuhiro Araki	6,586
	Independent	Shinkō Maehata	5,036
	Kokumintō	Reiko Yasuda	739
	Kokumintō	Ryō Hirata	520
	Zatsumintō	Teruhiko Sagara	468
Turnout			763,567	60.15

References[edit]

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[4] 衆議院>第26回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京7区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-12. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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v t e Japanese Medium-Sized House of Representatives Districts, 1947-1993
Hokkaidō	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5
Tōhoku	Aomori 1 2 Iwate 1 2 Miyagi 1 2 Akita 1 2 Yamagata 1 2 Fukushima 1 2 3
Kantō	Ibaraki 1 2 3 Tochigi 1 2 Gunma 1 2 3 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 Chiba 1 2 3 4 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 Yamanashi AL
Tokyo	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu	Niigata 1 2 3 4 Toyama 1 2 Ishikawa 1 2 Fukui AL Nagano 1 2 3 4
Tōkai	Gifu 1 2 Shizuoka 1 2 3 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mie 1 2
Kinki	Shiga AL Kyoto 1 2 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 Nara AL Wakyama 1 2
Chūgoku	Tottori AL Shimane AL Okayama 1 2 Hiroshima 1 2 3 Yamaguchi 1 2
Shikoku	Tokushima AL Kagawa AL Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi AL
Kyūshū	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 Saga AL Nagasaki 1 2 Kumamoto 1 2 Ōita 1 2 Miyazaki 1 2 Kagoshima 1 2 3 Amami* Okinawa AL
Asterisk - The Amami Islands district was added when the islands were returned to Japanese sovereignty in 1953; in 1992, they were absorbed into Kagoshima 1st district.