Kumamoto 4th district

Kumamoto 4th district (Kumamoto yon-ku 熊本4区) is a current single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kumamoto and covers a small section of the prefectural capital Kumamoto (the former towns of Tomiai and Jōnan in today's Minami-ku), the cities of Amakusa, Uto, Kami-Amakusa and Uki and the remaining towns and villages of the former Amakusa, Upper (Kami-Mashiki) and Lower Mashiki (Shimo-Mashiki) counties. As of September 2012, 294,547 eligible voters were resident in the district.^[1]

Before 1996, the area had been part of the four-member Kumamoto 2nd district. Representatives had included Sunao Sonoda (DPJ→PDP→Progressive→JDP→LDP, 1947–1984) and his son Hiroyuki (LDP→NPH, 1986–1996). Hiroyuki Sonoda, deputy chief cabinet secretary during the LDP-JSP-NPH coalition, won the new single-member 4th district six times in a row after the electoral reform. In several elections, he was not even challenged by a candidate from the major party of the opposing bloc, exceptions were the initial election of 1996 and the "postal election" of 2005. In 2012, neither of the two established major parties contested the seat. Sonoda's main challenger in 2012, Masayoshi Yagami, had become a Liberal Democrat (JNP→NFP→LDP) when he represented the neighbouring 5th district in the 1990s, but became an independent for his two terms as mayor of Sagara and his failed run for governor of Kumamoto in 2008.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Hiroyuki Sonoda	NPH	1996–2000	Became independent in 1998, returned to the LDP in 1999
	LDP	2000–2012	Joined SPJ in 2010, merged into SP, then JRP in 2012
	JRP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
JRP	Hiroyuki Sonoda	102,975	65.9	+6.7
Independent	Masayoshi Yagami	36,652	23.5	new
JCP	Yōko Minoda	16,585	10.6	new

2009^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
LDP	Hiroyuki Sonoda	123,900	59.2	-9.1
PNP (DPJ, SDP)	Shin'ichi Matsunaga	78,811	37.6	new
HRP	Ichirō Kōno	6,668	3.2	new

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	LDP	Hiroyuki Sonoda	136,380	68.3	-5.3
	DPJ	Motosuke Matsumoto	63,169	31.7	new

2003^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
LDP	Hiroyuki Sonoda	137,428	73.6	-5.6
SDP	Ikuo Morikawa	36,977	19.8	new
JCP	Shimako Iseri	12,262	6.6	new

2000^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
LDP	Hiroyuki Sonoda	149,156	79.2	+20.2
LL	Kōji Wakaki (? 若城浩史)	21,028	11.2	new
JCP	Keiichi Fukuda	18,188	9.7	new

1996^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
NPH	Hiroyuki Sonoda	117,441	59.0	N/A
NFP	Kimihiro Yasuda	73,231	36.8	N/A
JCP	Nobuhiro Yamamoto	8,511	4.3	N/A

References

↑ MIC: 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
↑ ２００９総選挙開票結果小選挙区・熊本４区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
↑ 総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ 総選挙2003>小選挙区　熊本. Mainichi Broadcasting System (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 熊本4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-06-05. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 熊本4区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2013-06-05. External link in |work= (help)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tōhoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakantō proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikantō proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushin'etsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tōkai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chūgoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyūshū proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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