Gunma 4th district
{{short description|Legislative district of Japan}}
{{Infobox constituency|name=Gunma 4th District|nativename={{nobold|群馬県第4区}}|type=Parliamentary|parl_name=Japanese House of Representatives|map1=|image=衆議院小選挙区 群馬県.svg|district_label=Prefecture|district=Gunma|region_label=Proportional Block|region=Northern Kanto|electorate=295,213 (as of 1 September 2022){{cite web|url=https://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_R04.html|access-date=2023-01-24|title=総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数|trans-title=Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of September 1, 2020|language=ja|website=Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications}}|year=1994|seats=One|party_label=Party|party=LDP|member_label=Representative|member=Tatsuo Fukuda}}
{{Nihongo|Gunma 4th district|群馬県第4区|Gunma-ken dai-yon-ku}} is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Gunma and consists of the city of Fujioka, the Southern part of Takasaki city (without the former municipalities of Gunma, Misato, Haruna and Kurabuchi) as well as Kanna town and Ueno village in Tano county. As of 2009, 292,356 eligible voters were registered in the district.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_h24.html 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] {{in lang|ja}}
Before the electoral reform that took effect in 1996, the area was part of the multi-member Gunma 3rd district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.
Gunma is a "conservative kingdom" (hoshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party, and the pre-1996 multi-seat 3rd district had been home to the families of LDP presidents and Prime Ministers of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone, Takeo Fukuda and Keizō Obuchi. The new 4th district's first representative was Fukuda's son Yasuo Fukuda (Machimura faction) who was elected LDP president and Prime Minister himself in 2007 over Tarō Asō (Asō faction). In the LDP's landslide defeat in 2009, Fukuda held his seat over Yukiko Miyake, one of the "Ozawa girls", a group of first-time female candidates handpicked by former Democratic Party president Ichirō Ozawa. Miyake easily won a seat in the Northern Kantō proportional representation block. She followed Ozawa out of the party in 2012 and ran for his Tomorrow Party of Japan in Democratic Party president Yoshihiko Noda's Chiba 4th district where she failed to win even a tenth of the vote, disqualifying her also for potential re-election in the proportional representation bloc.
In Gunma 4th district, Yasuo Fukuda retired in 2012 and was safely succeeded by his son Tatsuo.
List of representatives
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! Representative ! colspan="2" | Party ! Dates ! Notes | |
| Yasuo Fukuda
| bgcolor=green | | LDP
| 1996–2012 | Prime Minister of Japan (2007-2008), retired in 2012 |
| Tatsuo Fukuda
| bgcolor=green | | LDP
| 2012– | Son of Yasuo Fukuda |
Election results
{{Election box begin|title=2024{{cite web|url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/shugiin/03/|script-title=ja: 小選挙区 岩手1区|access-date=17 January 2025|publisher=NHK|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
|candidate = Tatsuo Fukuda (Endorsed by Kōmeitō)
|votes = 80,130
|percentage = 56.04
|change = {{decrease}}8.98
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan
|candidate = Hiroki Yamada
|votes = 46,740
|percentage = 32.69
|change = {{decrease}}2.20
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Japanese Communist Party
|candidate = Sadao Hagiwara
|votes = 16,128
|percentage = 11.28
|change = new
}}
{{Election box registered electors|reg. electors=291,220}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes=142,998
|percentage = 51.46
|change= {{decrease}}4.93
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing
|winner= Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2021{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya10.htm|script-title=ja:総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2013-02-08|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate = Tatsuo Fukuda
|votes = 105,359
|percentage = 65.02
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate = Kuniyoshi Suminokura
|votes = 56,682
|percentage = 34.98
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2017{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya10.htm|script-title=ja:総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2013-02-08|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate = Tatsuo Fukuda
|votes = 93,262
|percentage = 60.78
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = Kibō no Tō (DPJ)
|candidate = Hiroki Fuwa
|votes = 36,167
|percentage = 23.57
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2012{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya10.htm|script-title=ja:総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=2013-02-08|language=ja}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate = Tatsuo Fukuda
|votes = 93,220
|percentage = 55.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = JRP
|candidate = Ayaka Miyaharada
|votes = 42,536
|percentage = 25.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Kazuya Aoki
|votes = 17,336
|percentage = 10.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = JCP
|candidate = Sadao Hagiwara
|votes = 14,174
|percentage = 8.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2009{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23761.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区|work=ザ･選挙|access-date=2011-04-14|publisher=VoiceJapan|language=ja|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235413/http://go2senkyo.com/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23761.html|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = LDP (Kōmeitō support)
|candidate = Yasuo Fukuda
|votes = 103,852
|percentage = 51.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|candidate = Yukiko Miyake (elected by PR)
|votes = 91,904
|percentage = 45.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = HRP
|candidate = Takayuki Morita
|votes = 4,315
|percentage = 2.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 205,416
|percentage = 70.72
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2005{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_469.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区|work=ザ･選挙|access-date=2011-04-14|publisher=VoiceJapan|language=ja|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181735/http://go2senkyo.com/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_469.html|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yasuo Fukuda
|votes = 118,517
|percentage = 62.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Masaki Nakajima
|votes = 56,364
|percentage = 29.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = JCP
|candidate = Etsuo Sakai
|votes = 13,809
|percentage = 7.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 192,933
|percentage = 67.03
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2003{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_5829.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区|work=ザ･選挙|access-date=2011-04-14|publisher=VoiceJapan|language=ja|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230417/http://go2senkyo.com/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_5829.html|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yasuo Fukuda
|votes = 98,903
|percentage = 62.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Yukio Tomioka
|votes = 48,427
|percentage = 30.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = JCP
|candidate = Shinmei Ogasawara
|votes = 11,815
|percentage = 7.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 164,403
|percentage = 57.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=2000{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/election/2000/99/001580/00001580_5530.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区|work=ザ･選挙|access-date=2011-04-14|publisher=VoiceJapan|language=ja|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174937/http://go2senkyo.com/election/2000/99/001580/00001580_5530.html|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yasuo Fukuda
|votes = 94,517
|percentage = 57.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Masaki Nakajima
|votes = 49,063
|percentage = 29.9
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = JCP
|candidate = Kiyoko Nomura
|votes = 20,284
|percentage = 12.4
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=1996{{cite web|url=http://go2senkyo.com/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5079.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>群馬県>群馬4区|work=ザ･選挙|access-date=2011-04-14|publisher=VoiceJapan|language=ja|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232013/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5079.html|url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = LDP
|candidate = Yasuo Fukuda
|votes = 73,674
|percentage = 46.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = NFP
|candidate = Minoru Komai
|votes = 45,134
|percentage = 28.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = DPJ
|candidate = Masaki Nakajima
|votes = 24,977
|percentage = 15.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate|
|party = JCP
|candidate = Toshihiko Iizuka
|votes = 16,425
|percentage = 10.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 166,505
|percentage = 60.47
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
References
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{{Diet of Japan Gunma electoral districts}}
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Category:House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Gunma Prefecture