Tokyo 8th district (1967–93)

Tokyo 8th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1967 and 1993 it elected three, later two representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was created in a 1964 redistricting form areas that had previously formed part of the 1st district: It consisted of Eastern Tokyo's Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō special wards, central parts of the former city of Tokyo. In a reapportionment for the 1993 election the number of representatives for Tokyo 8th district was reduced from three to two. Following the 1994 electoral reform, the area now forms the single-member Tokyo 2nd district.

Summary of results

Tokyo 8th district usually went to the LDP with two to one seats while the opposition parties competed for the third seat. Exceptions were the elections of 1979 when the conservative vote was split between three LDP candidates (Takashi Fukaya, Nakasone faction, Kunio Hatoyama, Tanaka faction and Hisanari Yamada, without faction) and 1993 when Kunio Hatoyama had left the LDP to side with the opposition demanding political reform from the LDP. Hatoyama joined Takeo Nishioka's Kaikaku no Kai ("reform assembly") in 1994 that eventually became part of the Liberal Reform League (Jiyū Kaikaku Rengō) later that year.

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

Elected representatives

election year	highest vote (top tōsen)	2nd	3rd
1967[1]	Hisanori Yamada (LDP)	Keigo Ida[2] (JSP)	Kyūkichi Shinomiya[3] (LDP)
1969[4]		Kei Ishii (LDP)	Yoshimi Nakagawa (Kōmeitō)
1972[5]	Mitsuhiro Kaneko (JCP)	Hisanori Yamada (LDP)	Takashi Fukaya (Indep.[6])
1976[7]	Kunio Hatoyama (Indep.)		Yoshimi Nakagawa (Kōmeitō)
1979[8]	Takashi Fukaya (LDP)	Mitsuhiro Kaneko (JCP)
1980[9]			Kunio Hatoyama (LDP)
1983[10]	Kunio Hatoyama (LDP)	Yoshimi Nakagawa (Kōmeitō)	Takashi Fukaya (LDP)
1986[11]		Takashi Fukaya (LDP)	Mitsuhiro Kaneko (JCP)
1990[12]
1993[13]	Kunio Hatoyama (Indep.)		–

Last election result 1993

1993^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Kunio Hatoyama	89,800
	LDP	Takashi Fukaya	57,809
	JCP	Mitsuhiro Kaneko	57,395
	Kokumintō (lit. "People's Party")	Yoshiaki Yamazaki	873
	Zatsumintō (lit. "Crude People's Party")	Tamotsu Yoshizawa	751
Turnout			209,643	63.08

References

1. 衆議院>第31回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
2. ?, 依田圭五
3. ?, 四宮久吉
4. 衆議院>第32回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
5. 衆議院>第33回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
6. elected with LDP support
7. 衆議院>第34回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
8. 衆議院>第35回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
9. 衆議院>第36回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
10. 衆議院>第37回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
11. 衆議院>第38回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
12. 衆議院>第39回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)
13. 衆議院>第40回衆議院議員選挙>東京都>東京8区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-12-18. External link in |work= (help)