Saitama 5th district

Saitama 5th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Saitama Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureSaitama
Proportional DistrictKita-Kantō
Electorate371,683 (2016)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyConstitutional Democratic Party
RepresentativeYukio Edano
Created fromSaitama's 5th "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesSaitama's Nishi, Kita, Minuma, Ōmiya and Chūō wards

Saitama 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Saitama Prefecture and covers Nishi, Kita, Minuma, Ōmiya and Chūō wards of the city of Saitama.

Yukio Edano of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) has held the district since the 2000 general election. After the Democratic Party dissolved and split in 2017, Edano ascended to leadership of the centre-left CDP, which became the second-largest party in the House of Representatives in the 2017 general election.

Edano along with other DPJ candidates won all but one district in Saitama in the 2009 DPJ landslide, wiping out the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from the prefecture. Their fortunes were reversed in the 2012 general election. Edano was the only member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in Saitama prefecture to retain his seat, as the party lost two-thirds of its seats nationwide amid a poor economy and relative geopolitical decline. While losing the race, Edano's resurgent LDP opponent Hideki Makihara managed to gain a proportional block seat. The margin closed down further in the 2014 election and Makihara was only within 3,300 votes from unseating Edano. Makihara was unable to overcome the margin in the 2017 election following the nationwide surge of the Edano-led CDP.[1] Edano was re-elected with a comfortable 20.28% majority.

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Nobuhiko Fukunaga LDP 1996 – 2000
Yukio Edano DPJ 2000 – 2016 Incumbent
DP 2016 – 2017
CDP 2017 –

Election results

2021[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Yukio Edano 113,615 51.38% Decrease6.02
LDP Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 107,532 48.62% Increase11.50
Majority 6,083 1.38 Decrease18.90
CDP hold Swing Decrease6.02
2017[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Yukio Edano 119,091 57.40 Increase11.31
LDP Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 77,023 37.12 Decrease7.24
Kibō no Tō Hidefumi Takagi (endorsed by Ishin) 11,379 5.48 N/A
Majority 42,068 20.28
Turnout 54.76 Decrease0.78
CDP hold Swing Increase9.28
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yukio Edano 90,030 46.09 Increase0.72
LDP Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 86,636 44.36 Increase3.57
JCP Yūko Yamamoto 18,654 9.55 Increase3.19
Majority 3,394 1.73
Turnout 55.54
Democratic hold Swing Decrease1.43
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yukio Edano (endorsed by PNP) 93,585 45.37 Decrease13.68
LDP Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 84,120 40.79 Increase2.31
Tomorrow Toshihisa Fujishima (endorsed by NPD) 15,434 7.48 N/A
JCP Yutaka Ōishi 13,109 6.36 N/A
Majority 9,465 4.58
Turnout
Democratic hold Swing Decrease8.00
2009[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yukio Edano 130,920 59.15 Increase10.47
LDP Hideki Makihara 85,139 38.48 Decrease4.75
Happiness Realization Masako Sasaki 5,274 2.38 N/A
Majority 45,781 20.67
Democratic hold Swing Increase7.61
2005[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yukio Edano 103,014 48.68
LDP Hideki Makihara (elected by PR) 91,472 43.22
JCP Yutaka Matsushita 17,140 8.10
2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yukio Edano 95,626 56.4
LDP Hideaki Takahashi 60,410 35.6
JCP Yutaka Matsushita 13,493 8.0
2000
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yukio Edano 106,711 45.5
LDP Nobuhiko Fukunaga 86,179 36.8
JCP Yukio Fujiwara 34,192 14.6
Liberal League Chiwa Aida 7,369 3.1
1996
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Nobuhiko Fukunaga 63,120 30.9
New Frontier Zenjirō Kaneko 54,032 26.4
Democratic Yukio Edano (elected by PR) 51,425 25.2
JCP Yukio Fujiwara 33,643 16.5
Liberal League Masayuki Abe 2,127 1.0

References

  1. ^ Osaki, Tomohiro (20 October 2017). "Anchored by Edano's underdog charm, CDP turning into formidable force ahead of election". Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  2. ^ "House of Representatives Election Saitama List of Candidates" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  3. ^ 小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県（定数15） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. ^ 小選挙区：埼玉県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. ^ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  6. ^ 小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  7. ^ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.