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Shizuoka 6th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Shizuoka Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Shizuoka
Proportional District	Tōkai
Electorate	434,785
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Takaaki Katsumata
Municipalities	Numazu, Atami, Itō, Shimoda, Izu, Izunokuni, Kamo District and Shimizu and Nagaizumi in Suntō District

Shizuoka 6th district (静岡県第6区, Shizuoka-ken dai-rokku or simply 静岡6区, Shizuoka-rokku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Shizuoka Prefecture.

List of Representatives

Election	Representative		Dates
1996	Shu Watanabe	DPJ	1996 – 1998
1996		DPJ	1998 - 2016
2000
2003
2005
2009
2012
2014
		DP	2016 – 2017
		Kibō	2017 - 2018
2017		Kibō	2017 - 2018
		DPP	2018 – 2020
		CDP	2020 – 2021
2021	Takaaki Katsumata〔ja〕	LDP	2021–present

Election Results

2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takaaki Katsumata [ja] (Incumbent-Tōkai-PR)	104,178	46.09	0.34
	CDP	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent) (elected by Tōkai-PR)	99,758	44.14	New
	Ishin	Kōki Yamashita	22,086	9.77	New
Registered electors			425,131
Turnout				53.77	1.12

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kibō	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent)	108,788	46.02	New
	LDP	Takaaki Katsumata (Incumbent-Tōkai-PR) (reelected by Tōkai-PR)	108,157	45.75	2.07
	JCP	Yutaka Uchida	19,455	8.23	0.46
Registered electors			438,156
Turnout				54.89	0.01

2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent)	114,161	48.55	2.96
	LDP	Takaaki Katsumata (Incumbent-Tōkai-PR) (reelected by Tōkai-PR)	102,714	43.68	2.85
	JCP	Tatsuhiko Sato	18,276	7.77	2.11
Registered electors			437,772
Turnout				54.88	4.29

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent)	116,084	45.59	20.94
	LDP	Takaaki Katsumata (elected by Tōkai-PR)	103,967	40.83	9.32
	TP	Yūta Hiyoshi［ja〕	20,169	7.92	New
	JCP	Masahiko Iguchi	14,423	5.66	0.58
Registered electors			443,795
Turnout				59.17	8.26

2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent)	197,688	66.53	13.96
	LDP	Masatoshi Kurata (Incumbent-Tōkai PR)	93,644	31.51	9.68
	HRP	Keizō Kato	5,831	1.96	New
Registered electors			450,065
Turnout				67.43	1.26

2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent)	154,542	52.57	2.65
	LDP	Masatoshi Kurata (Incumbent-Tōkai-PR) (reelected by Tōkai-PR)	121,089	41.19	4.15
	JCP	Kazuhiko Suzuki	18,346	6.24	0.79
Registered electors			453,424
Turnout				66.17	4.49

2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe (Incumbent)	136,066	49.92	3.43
	LDP	Hiroyasu Kurihara [ja] (Incumbent-Tōkai-PR)	100,955	37.04	2.53
	Indep.	Junichi Hirata	20,675	7.59	New
	JCP	Kazuhiko Suzuki	14,867	5.45	2.14
Registered electors			453,690
Turnout				61.68	3.21

2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe	115,223	53.35	New
	LDP	Mitsuo Sakurada	85,458	39.57	10.74
	JCP	Masahiko Iguchi	13,428	7.59	0.55
	LL	Yoshihisa Ōhira	1,864	0.86	1.54
Registered electors			339,947
Turnout				64.89	5.08

1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Shu Watanabe	60,609	31.56	New
	Indep.	Mitsuo Sakurada	55,840	29.07	New
	LDP	Hiroyasu Kurihara	55,374	28.83	New
	JCP	Takayuki Nakata	15,626	8.14	New
	LL	Kazumi Kondo	4,615	2.40	New
Registered electors			331,509
Turnout				59.81

References

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
"2021年衆議院総選挙静岡6区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
"2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
"2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
"開票結果小選挙区静岡". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
"第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 静岡6区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
"第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 静岡6区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-07.
"第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 静岡6区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-07.
"第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 静岡6区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-07.
"第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 静岡6区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-07.

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 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 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

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List of Representatives

Election Results

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References