Chiba 4th district

Chiba 4th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Chiba Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureChiba
Proportional DistrictMinami-Kantō
Electorate463,083 (2021)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyConstitutional Democratic Party
RepresentativeYoshihiko Noda
Created fromChiba's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesParts of Funabashi and Ichikawa cities

Chiba 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Western Chiba. As of 2016, 459,431 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] In the 2009 and 2012 general elections, the district had the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan at more than two times as many voters as the district with the highest electoral weight, Kōchi-3rd.[2]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Funabashi was part of Chiba 1st district where four Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has represented Chiba 4th district since 2000 after initially losing it as a candidate for the New Frontier Party by 105 votes to Liberal Democrat Shōichi Tanaka in 1996. Amid the LDP landslide in 2012 that returned them into power, then-PM Noda became a rare DPJ politician who actually increased his share of vote in his constituency.

Before resdistricting, the electoral district covered the city of Funabashi. After 2022 it comprises a part of Funabashi and a part of Ichikawa. Areas of Funabashi that had previously belonged to the 4th were transferred to the newly established Chiba 14th district.


List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Shōichi Tanaka LDP 1996 – 2000
Yoshihiko Noda DPJ 2000 – 2016 Incumbent
DP 2016 – 2017
Ind 2017 – 2021
CDP 2021 –

Election results

2024
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Hideyuki Mazunuma
LDP Tetsuya Kimura
JCP Kenta Yakama
Ishin Kyōko Amemiya
Sanseitō Seiko Kudō New
Turnout
2021[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Yoshihiko Noda 154,412 64.55 Increase4.56
LDP Tetsuya Kimura 84,813 35.45 Increase7.34
Majority 70.399 29.10 Decrease2.38
Turnout 52.69 Increase3.28
CDP hold Swing Decrease1.19
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Yoshihiko Noda 131,024 59.59 Increase8.90
LDP Tetsuya Kimura (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō) 61,804 28.11 Decrease1.21
JCP Toshirō Fukatsu 14,955 6.80 Decrease3.73
Ishin Hiroshi Satō 12,104 5.50 N/A
Majority 69,220 31.48
Turnout 49.41 Decrease3.75
Independent hold Swing Increase5.06
2014[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 119,193 51.69 Decrease5.59
LDP Tetsuya Kimura (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 67,600 29.32 Increase4.01
JCP Kazuko Saitō (elected by PR) 24,275 10.53 Increase3.00
Independent Ken'ichi Nishio (endorsed by the Greens) 19,510 8.46 N/A
Majority 51,593 22.37
Turnout 53.16 Decrease6.30
Democratic hold Swing Decrease4.80
2012[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda (endorsed by PNP) 163,334 57.28 Increase3.64
LDP Mikio Fujita (endorsed by NKP) 72,187 25.31 Decrease2.95
Tomorrow Yukiko Miyake (endorsed by NPD) 28,187 9.88 N/A
JCP Kazuko Saitō 21,459 7.53 Decrease0.09
Majority 91,147 31.97
Turnout 307,954 59.46 Decrease3.67
Democratic hold Swing Increase3.30

In 2009, Yoshihiko Noda's candidacy was formally supported by the People's New Party, Mikio Fujita by New Komeito.[7]

2009[7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda (endorsed by PNP) 162,153 53.64 Increase8.75
LDP Mikio Fujita (endorsed by NKP) 85,425 28.26 Decrease16.32
Your Itoko Noyashiki 28,280 9.35 N/A
JCP Kazuko Saitō 23,050 7.62 Decrease0.73
Happiness Realization Kōichirō Yamanaka 3,403 1.13 N/A
Majority 76,728 25.38
Turnout 307,954 63.13 Decrease0.24
Democratic hold Swing Increase12.52
2005[9][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 129,834 44.89 Decrease10.9
LDP Mikio Fujita (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP) 128,890 44.58 Increase11.7
JCP Toshinori Niki 24,138 8.35 Decrease2.9
Independent Kōji Nagano 6,311 2.18 N/A
Majority 956 0.31
Turnout 294,777 63.37 Increase9.08
Democratic hold Swing Decrease11.3
2003[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 135,522 55.8 Increase8.5
LDP Masaru Hasegawa (endorsed by NKP) 80,051 32.9 Decrease1.9
JCP Yukiko Tsuga 27,441 11.3 Decrease6.9
Turnout 249,446 54.29 Increase9.08
Democratic hold Swing Increase5.2
2000[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Yoshihiko Noda 116,156 47.3 Increase15.4
LDP Ken'ichi Nishio (endorsed by NKP) 76,067 31.0 Decrease1.0
JCP Shōji Ishii 44,586 18.2 Increase2.0
Liberal League Yutaka Akimoto 8,899 3.5 N/A
Democratic gain from LDP Swing Increase8.2
1996[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Shōichi Tanaka 73,792 32.0
New Frontier Yoshihiko Noda 73,687 31.9
Democratic Takayuki Kojima 45,924 19.9
JCP Shin'ichi Maruyama 37,300 16.2
Turnout 235,653 55.07
LDP win (new seat)

References

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