Niigata 5th District
National Diet constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Niigata Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureNiigata
Proportional DistrictHokuriku-Shinetsu Block
Electorate275,224 (2021)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyIndependent
RepresentativeRyuichi Yoneyama
Created fromNiigata 3rd SNTV "medium-sized" district

Niigata 5th district (新潟[県第]5区 Niigata[-ken dai-]go-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in the central, Chūetsu region of Niigata and covers parts of Nagaoka City (those parts that do not belong to the 2nd and 4th districts), the cities of Ojiya, Uonuma, Minami-Uonuma ("South Uonuma") as well as the former Minami-Uonuma County that, as of 2012, only has one remaining municipality: Yuzawa Town. As of September 2012, 282,904 voters were registered in Niigata 5th district, giving its voters above average vote weight.[1]

Before the electoral reform, the area had formed part of the five-member Niigata 3rd district of former Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president-prime minister, faction leader and "shadow shōgun" Kakuei Tanaka and his daughter Makiko Tanaka who became science and technology minister in the Murayama Cabinet in 1994. The second ranking representative from the 3rd district in the last pre-reform election of 1993 had been former Takeshita faction Liberal Democrat Yukio Hoshino who joined the defecting Japan Renewal Party in the 1993 no-confidence vote against LDP president-prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa. After the reform, Hoshino contested the new single-member 5th district against Tanaka for the New Frontier Party, but lost to Tanaka. Tanaka became foreign minister in the Koizumi Cabinet, but was dismissed in 2002; in the same year, a scandal over (state-funded) salaries for Representative's secretaries who had allegedly been employed (and already paid) by Echigo Kōtsū ("Echigo Transportation", a Tanaka family company) led eventually to her resignation.[2][3][4][5][6] Hoshino won the resulting by-election as an independent and joined the LDP afterwards. But in the 2003 general election, Tanaka took the 5th district back by a clear margin. She joined the Democratic Party (DPJ) parliamentary group in 2003 and the Democratic Party before the 2009 House of Representatives election. Tanaka was appointed a minister for the third time in the DPJ-led Noda Cabinet in 2012.

In the 2012 House of Representatives election, Tanaka lost the district to LDP candidate Tadayoshi Nagashima. This was 65 years after her father was first elected to represent Niigata in the lower house. Only her husband Naoki (maiden name: Suzuki) continued the Tanaka tradition in the Diet as member of the House of Councillors from Niigata until 2016.

In 2017, Nagashima died in office. The next representative was former Governor of Niigata Prefecture Hirohiko Izumida. In 2021, Izumida was challenged by two independent candidates, Tamio Mori, former Mayor of Nagaoka, and another former Niigata Governor Ryuichi Yoneyama. Yoneyama, who was endorsed by the CDP and other opposition parties, managed to win the seat.[7] After the elections, Izumida, who managed to get a seat in the PR block, claimed he was asked to pay kickback money if he wanted to win.[8]

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Makiko Tanaka LDP 1996–2002 LDP membership suspended in June 2002, resigned in August 2002
Vacant (August–October 2002)
Yukio Hoshino Independent 2002–2003 Re-joined the LDP in 2002
Makiko Tanaka Independent 2003–2009 Joined the DPJ parliamentary group in 2003, the DPJ in 2009
DPJ 2009–2012 Not re-elected in the Hokuriku-Shin'etsu block
Tadayoshi Nagashima LDP 2012–2017 Died August 18, 2017
Hirohiko Izumida LDP 2017–2021
Ryuichi Yoneyama Independent 2021–

Election results

2021[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ryuichi Yoneyama 79,447 44.96
LDP – Kōmeitō Hirohiko Izumida 60,837 34.43
Independent Tamio Mori 36,422 20.6
2017[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP – Kōmeitō Hirohiko Izumida 91,855 51.8
Independent Etsuko Ohirairi 79,655 44.7
HRP Reiko Kasahara 5,735 3.2
2014[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP – Kōmeitō Tadayoshi Nagashima 81,176 57.3 +11.6
PLP Yūko Mori 47,420 33.5 new
JCP Kōichi Hattori 12,993 9.2 +4.5
2012[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP – Kōmeitō Tadayoshi Nagashima 80,488 45.7 new
DPJ – PNP Makiko Tanaka 51,503 29.3 -19.8
JRP – YP Ryūichi Yoneyama 35,720 20.3 -20.8
JCP Kōichi Hattori 8,296 4.7 new
2009[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Makiko Tanaka 103,202 49.1
LDP – Kōmeitō, JRP Ryūichi Yoneyama 86,453 41.1
SDP Shōichi Ibe 17,698 8.4
Independent Yoshitaka Yamada 1,458 0.7
HRP Ken'ya Kasamaki 1,323 0.6
Turnout 215,195 42.52
2005[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Makiko Tanaka 105,484 51.2
LDP Ryūichi Yoneyama 82,993 40.3
JCP Minoru Saitō 17,693 8.6
Turnout 211,532 73.72
2003[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Makiko Tanaka 98,112 49.1
LDP Yukio Hoshino 61,937 31.0
Independent Katsuhiko Shirakawa 30,086 15.1
JCP Minoru Saitō 9,506 4.8
Turnout 203,623 70.93
October 27, 2002 by-election[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Yukio Hoshino 69,146 47.9
Independent Katsu Ishizumi 60,045 41.6
JCP Kayoko Kuwahara 15,298 10.6
Turnout 148,650 51.86
2000[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Makiko Tanaka 137,866 68.6
SDP Kichinosuke Meguro 50,208 25.0
JCP Eiji Katō 12,827 6.4
1996[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Makiko Tanaka 96,759 48.9
NFP Yukio Hoshino 75,524 38.1
SDP Masahide Kataoka 15,823 8.0
JCP Masayuki Kondō 9,961 5.0
Turnout 202,899 72.64

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of general affairs: 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
  2. ↑ The Japan Times, April 8, 2002: Both camps pursue Tanaka over salaries
  3. ↑ The Japan Times, August 10, 2002: Former Foreign Minister Tanaka tenders Diet resignation. Questions remain over role in salary scandal
  4. ↑ The Japan Times, August 11, 2002: Tanaka bombshell leaves LDP in by-election crisis
  5. ↑ The Japan Times, October 3, 2003: Tanaka staging return to politics
  6. ↑ The Japan Times, October 23, 2003: Tanaka submits resignation to LDP; party demurs
  7. ↑ "Newcomer Ryuichi Yoneyama scores Japan election victory over LDP ex-lawmaker in Niigata". Mainichi Shimbun. 31 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Japan lawmaker claims he was asked to pay kickback money during recent general election". Mainichi Shimbun. 30 November 2021.
  9. ↑ 【衆院選2021】開票結果 小選挙区 新潟. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 18 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
  10. ↑ 総選挙2017>開票結果 小選挙区 新潟. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  11. ↑ 総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 新潟. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  12. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 新潟. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
  13. ↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 新潟5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  14. ↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 新潟5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  15. ↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 新潟5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  16. ↑ 第42回衆議院議員補欠選挙 - 新潟5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  17. ↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 新潟5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  18. ↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 新潟5区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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