Results of the 2014 Japanese general election (Shikoku proportional representation block)

The Shikoku proportional representation block was one of 11 multi-member districts (and 306 districts overall) that were contested at the general election for the House of Representatives in the Japanese National Diet on 14 December 2014. Six seats were available for election via open party lists. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained their dominance in the predominantly rural area, claiming three of the seats.

Voters who participated in the election cast one ballot for the proportional block and a separate ballot for one of the 11 smaller single-member districts that are located within Shikoku. The number of single-member districts within Shikoku was reduced from the 13 districts that were contested at the previous election in 2012.

Results

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Following on from the LDP landslide win at the 2012 general election, in which the party won 12 of the 13 electorates in Shikoku plus two of the six seats from the PR list,[1] the LDP maintained their dominant position in the region by retaining all 10 of their electorates[2] (two electorates were abolished to address voter malapportionment) and gaining a seat on the PR list from the dissolved Japan Restoration Party (JRP).

The JRP, which won 2 seats with 21.3% of the vote at the 2012 general election,[1] had split in May 2014, with former members subsequently forming the Japan Innovation Party and Party for Future Generations. Of the two JRP members previously elected from the Shikoku PR list, Fumiki Sakurauchi [ja] joined the Party for Future Generations and contested the PR block in 2014, while Arata Nishioka [ja] contested the Ehime 2nd district [ja] as an independent; both candidates lost.

Former Ehime Prefectural Assembly [ja] member Hiroyuki Yokoyama [ja][3] the Japan Innovation Party's unsuccessful candidate in Ehime 2nd district, gained a seat for the new party, while the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Komeito representatives were able to retain their seats.[2]

Elected candidates
Party Representative Party
rank
Term #
LDP Teru Fukui 1 6th
DPJ Junya Ogawa 1 4th
LDP Mamoru Fukuyama [ja] 2 2nd
Komeito Noritoshi Ishida 1 7th
Innovation Hiroyuki Yokoyama [ja] 1 1st
LDP Takakazu Seto [ja] 3 2nd
PartyVotes%+/–Seats+/–
Liberal Democratic Party547,18534.85+4.193+1
Democratic Party of Japan326,80320.82+4.7710
Komeito247,77615.78+0.8110
Japan Innovation Party200,88212.79New1New
Japanese Communist Party158,84810.12+4.3400
Party for Future Generations44,5152.84New0New
Social Democratic Party33,2572.12–0.1900
Happiness Realization Party10,7620.69+0.2500
Total1,570,028100.0060
Valid votes1,570,02896.92
Invalid/blank votes49,8343.08
Total votes1,619,862100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,259,28449.70
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications[4][5]

Party lists

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Liberal Democratic Party

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Liberal Democratic Party Number of votes: 547,185 Percentage of votes: 34.9% Number of seats won: 3
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Teru Fukui Kochi 1st district  Y Elected to block
2 Mamoru Fukuyama [ja] Tokushima 1st district  Y Elected to block
3 Takakazu Seto [ja] Shikoku proportional representation block Kagawa 2nd district 72.7  Y Elected to block
3 Masazumi Gotoda Tokushima 3rd district Tokushima 1st district  Y Won Tokushima 1st district
3 Shunichi Yamaguchi Tokushima 2nd district Tokushima 2nd district  Y Won Tokushima 2nd district
3 Takuya Hirai Kagawa 1st district Kagawa 1st district  Y Won Kagawa 1st district
3 Keitaro Ono [ja] Kagawa 3rd district Kagawa 3rd district  Y Won Kagawa 3rd district
3 Yasuhisa Shiozaki Ehime 1st district Ehime 1st district  Y Won Ehime 1st district
3 Seiichiro Murakami Ehime 2nd district Ehime 2nd district  Y Won Ehime 2nd district
3 Toru Shiraishi [ja] Ehime 3rd district Ehime 3rd district  Y Won Ehime 3rd district
3 Koichi Yamamoto Ehime 4th district Ehime 4th district  Y Won Ehime 4th district
3 Gen Nakatani Kochi 2nd district Kochi 1st district  Y Won Kochi 1st district
3 Yuji Yamamoto Kochi 3rd district Kochi 2nd district  Y Won Kochi 2nd district
14 Ichiro Nagai
15 Masae Izumi
16 Mitsuru Yuasa

Democratic Party of Japan

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Democratic Party of Japan Number of votes: 326,803 Percentage of votes: 20.8% Number of seats won: 1
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Junya Ogawa Shikoku proportional representation block Kagawa 1st district 88.7  Y Elected to block
1 Yoichi Shiraishi (Former member) Ehime 3rd district 81.0
1 Hirobumi Niki [ja] (Former member) Tokushima 1st district 75.0
1 Takako Nagae (Former member) Ehime 1st district 74.5
1 Norio Takeuchi Kochi 2nd district 50.8 Former House of Councillors member
1 Shu Oishi Kochi 1st district 48.8
1 Yuichiro Tamaki Kagawa 2nd district Kagawa 2nd district  Y Won Kagawa 2nd district
8 Hajime Tsuzugi

Komeito

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Komeito Number of votes: 247,776 Percentage of votes: 15.8% Number of seats won: 1
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Noritoshi Ishida Shikoku proportional representation block  Y Elected to block
2 Hideo Nakano

Japan Innovation Party

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Japan Innovation Party Number of votes: 200,882 Percentage of votes: 12.8% Number of seats won: 1
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Hiroyuki Yokoyama [ja] Ehime 2nd district 39.6  Y Elected to block
1 Natsue Mori Ehime 4th district 30.2
3 Yoshinori Kita

Japanese Communist Party

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Japanese Communist Party Number of votes: 158,848 Percentage of votes: 10.1% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Yuriko Hamaka
2 Naoaki Haruna [ja] (Former member) Kochi 1st district

Party for Future Generations

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Party for Future Generations Number of votes: 44,515 Percentage of votes: 2.8% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Fumiki Sakurauchi [ja] Shikoku proportional representation block Ehime 4th district  N Lost seat Elected as a Japan Restoration Party candidate in 2012
2 Mitsuya Sugiyama

Social Democratic Party

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Social Democratic Party Number of votes: 33,257 Percentage of votes: 2.1% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Yoshinori Takata Kagawa 3rd district

Happiness Realization Party

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Happiness Realization Party Number of votes: 10,762 Percentage of votes: 0.7% Number of seats won: 0
Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio
(Sekihairitsu)
Result Notes
99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA
000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ
1 Yuka Komatsu
2 Koji Morita

References

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  1. ^ a b "四国 【比例代表】 開票結果 総選挙2012 衆院選" [Shikoku (PR List) election results, 2012 general election, House of Reps election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b "開票結果・速報(比例・四国) 衆院選2014(衆議院選挙)" [Election results: Shikoku PR List, 2014 House of Reps election] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  3. ^ "横山博幸(比例・四国・維新) 衆院選2014(衆議院選挙)" [Hiroyuki Yokoyama (PR list, Shikoku, Innovation) House of Reps election 2014 (House of Representatives election)] (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  4. ^ "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率(比例代表)" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  5. ^ "都道府県別有権者数、投票者数、投票率(比例代表)" [Registered voters, number of voters and turnout by prefecture (PR blocks)]. Retrieved 4 March 2016.