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Constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan

Tokyo 7th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five, later four representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of mainland Western Tokyo as a whole, namely the cities of Hachiōji and Tachikawa and the Nishitama, Minamitama and Kitatama districts of Tokyo.

For the election of 1976, Western parts were split off to form the new 11th district. As of 1993, the 7th district consisted of the cities of Tachikawa, Musashino, Mitaka, Akishima, Koganei, Kodaira, Higashimurayama, Kokubunji, Kunitachi, Tanashi, Hōya, Higashiyamato, Kiyose, Higashikurume and Musashimurayama. Following the redistricting, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) never managed to have more than one of their candidates elected as center-left to left parties dominated the vote. In the 1986 election, the LDP stopped nominating two candidates and Kiyoshi Ozawa (later minister during the coalition with the Socialist Party) became the party's only candidate in Tokyo 7th district.

Since the electoral reform of 1994 the area is distributed over several single-member districts. The four last representatives for Tokyo 7 all ran again in the election of 1996, the first under the new system: Naoto Kan won the 18th district, Yuriko Ōno the 20th district; Kiyoshi Ozawa ran, but lost the 21st district to Democrat Jōji Yamamoto, and Kōichirō Watanabe failed to win the 19th district against Democratic newcomer Yoshinori Suematsu.

Summary of results during the 1955 party system

General election 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993
LDP & conservative independents 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Opposition center-left 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3
JSP 3 2 3 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
JCP 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0
Seats up 5 4

Elected Representatives

election
year 		highest vote
(top tōsen) 		2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1947 Tenkōkō Sonoda (JSP) Chōjirō Kurihara (JLP) Yoshio Namiki (DP) Hideo Yamahana (JSP) Tatsuo Yatsunami (DP)
1949 Chōjirō Kurihara (DLP) Kazuyoshi Dobashi (JCP) Tokuyasu Fukuda (DLP) Tenkōkō Sonoda
(Workers and Farmers Party) 		Yoshio Namiki (DP)
1952 Kōichi Nakamura (JSP, right) Yoshio Namiki
(Progressive Party) 		Hideo Yamahana (JSP, left) Tomejirō Ōkubo (LP) Chōjirō Kuriyama (LP)
1953 Tokuyasu Fukuda (Yoshida LP) Kunitoshi Tsukumo (Yoshida LP)
1955 Yoshio Namiki (JDP) Kōichi Nakamura (JSP, right) Shigeo Kizaki (JDP) Tokuyasu Fukuda (LP)
1958 Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP) Kōichi Nakamura (JSP) Shūichi Hōjō (JSP) Hideo Yamahana (JSP) Yoshiyasu Hosoda (LDP)
1960 Hideo Yamahana (JSP) Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP) Kunitoshi Tsukumo (LDP)
1963 Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP) Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP) Kōichi Nakamura (JSP) Shōji Koyama (LDP) Hideo Yamahana (JSP)
1967 Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō) Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)
1969 Kazuyoshi Dobashi (JCP) Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō) Haruo Wada (DSP)
1972 Kazuyoshi Dobashi (JCP) Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP) Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP) Shōji Koyama (LDP)
1976 Tokuyasu Fukuda (LDP) Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP) Akira Kudō (JCP) –
1979 Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō) Akira Kudō (JCP) Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP) Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)
1980 Naoto Kan (SDF) Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP) Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō) Shōzō Hasegawa (JSP)
1983 Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō) Akira Kudō (JCP) Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)
1986 Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP) Naoto Kan (SDF) Kiyoshi Ōno (Kōmeitō) Akira Kudō (JCP)
1990 Hiroshi Tsunematsu (JSP) Naoto Kan (SDF) Yuriko Ōno (Kōmeitō)
1993 Naoto Kan (SDF) Kōichirō Watanabe (JNP) Kiyoshi Ozawa (LDP)

Last election result 1993

1993
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SDF Naoto Kan 154,827
JNP Kōichirō Watanabe 144,230
LDP Kiyoshi Ozawa 133,937
Kōmeitō Yuriko Ōno 109,725
JSP Hiroshi Tsunematsu 95,254
JCP Kenshō Sasaki 79,924
Sagawa kyūmei! Gakusei, shimin giin no kai Atsushi Yamamoto 24,294
Independent Kazuhiro Araki 6,586
Independent Shinkō Maehata 5,036
Kokumintō Reiko Yasuda 739
Kokumintō Ryō Hirata 520
Zatsumintō Teruhiko Sagara 468
Turnout 763,567 60.15

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Japanese Medium-Sized House of Representatives Districts, 1947-1993
Hokkaidō
Hokkaidō
1
2
3
4
5
Tōhoku
Aomori
1
2
Iwate
1
2
Miyagi
1
2
Akita
1
2
Yamagata
1
2
Fukushima
1
2
3
Kantō
Ibaraki
1
2
3
Tochigi
1
2
Gunma
1
2
3
Saitama
1
2
3
4
5
Chiba
1
2
3
4
Kanagawa
1
2
3
4
5
Yamanashi
AL
Tokyo
Tokyo
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu
Niigata
1
2
3
4
Toyama
1
2
Ishikawa
1
2
Fukui
AL
Nagano
1
2
3
4
Tōkai
Gifu
1
2
Shizuoka
1
2
3
Aichi
1
2
3
4
5
6
Mie
1
2
Kinki
Shiga
AL
Kyoto
1
2
Osaka
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Hyōgo
1
2
3
4
5
Nara
AL
Wakyama
1
2
Chūgoku
Tottori
AL
Shimane
AL
Okayama
1
2
Hiroshima
1
2
3
Yamaguchi
1
2
Shikoku
Tokushima
AL
Kagawa
AL
Ehime
1
2
3
Kōchi
AL
Kyūshū
Fukuoka
1
2
3
4
Saga
AL
Nagasaki
1
2
Kumamoto
1
2
Ōita
1
2
Miyazaki
1
2
Kagoshima
1
2
3
Amami*
Okinawa
AL
Asterisk - The Amami Islands district was added when the islands were returned to Japanese sovereignty in 1953; in 1992, they were absorbed into Kagoshima 1st district.
Electoral districts of Tokyo for the National Diet of Japan
House of Representatives
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present)
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30 (25→30 majoritarian Representatives)
PR regional "block" districts (1996–present)Tokyo PR block (19→17→19 proportional Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993)
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3
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5
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7
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11 (43 Representatives)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946)
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2 (22 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942)
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7 (31 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924)
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11
12
13
14
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16 (25 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917)
Tokyo city
counties (gunbu) (16 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898)
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3
4
5
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7
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9
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12 (12 Representatives)
House of Councillors (1947–)At-large (8→10→12 Councillors)
House of Peers (1890–1947)At-large (1→2 elected top taxpayer Peers)

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