Miyagi 6th district

Miyagi 6th District
宮城県第6区
Former Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Miyagi Prefecture single-member district (2022 onwards)
PrefectureMiyagi
Proportional DistrictTohoku
Electorate253,730[1]
Former constituency
Created1994
Abolished2022
SeatsOne
Created fromMiyagi 2nd
Replaced byMiyagi 5th
(Merged into)

Miyagi Prefecture 6th district (宮城県第6区, Miyagi-ken Dai-rokku) was an electoral district for the Japanese House of Representatives. The district was established In 1994 as a single member district from most of Miyagi 2nd district (excluding the city of Ishinomaki and the districts of Monou and Oshika).

Between 2003 and 2024, the seat was held by the Liberal Democratic Party member Itsunori Onodera.

Areas covered

The district was abolished during the 2022 revisions to the seat apportionment for each prefecture. All of the territory that was under the 6th district was merged into the 5th district.[2]

Areas 2017–2022

After the 2017 re-zoning, the areas covered by the district were as follows:[3]

As a result of the rezoning, the town of Minamisanriku and the district of Motoyoshi were transferred from the 6th district to the 5th district.

Areas 2013–2017

After the 2013 re-zoning, the areas covered by the district were as follows:[4]

After this zoning, the 6th ward gained the area covered by the former city of Furukawa and the former towns of Iwadeyama and Naruko from the 4th district.

Areas pre-2013

From 1994 until the first rezoning in 2013, the areas covered by the district were as follows:

Elected representatives

Representative Party Years served Notes
Fukujiro Kikuchi LDP 1996-1997 Resigned due to a violation of the public election law
Itsunori Onodera LDP 1997-2000 Resigned due to a violation of the public election law
Masamitsu Oishi DPJ 2000-2003
Itsunori Onodera LDP 2003-2024 Constituency abolished

Election results

‡ Also ran in the Tohoku PR district

‡‡ Ran and won in the Tohoku PR district

2021[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ (incumbent)
(endorsed by Komeito) 		119,555 83.2
JCP Takashi Naito 24,072 16.8
Turnout 145,590 57.4
LDP hold
2017[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ (incumbent)
(endorsed by Komeito and the Party for Japanese Kokoro) 		123,871 85.7
JCP Yuji Yokota 20,638 14.3
Turnout 146,867 55.3
LDP hold
2014[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ (incumbent)
(endorsed by Komeito 		101,223 70.6
Democratic Sayuri Kamata‡ 32,797 22.9
JCP Takashi Naito 9,351 6.5
Turnout 145,340 52.2
LDP hold
2012[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ (incumbent)
(endorsed by Komeito) 		97,405 78.1
Democratic Sayuri Kamata‡ 20,961 16.8
JCP Naoya Takamura 6,349 5.1
Turnout 127,165 57.4
LDP hold
2009[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ (incumbent) 100,832 63.7
Social Democratic Tetsuo Kanno‡ (incumbent - Tohoku PR) 54,133 34.2
Happiness Realization Tsugio Ujiie 3,346 2.1
Turnout 161,273 69.2
LDP hold
2005[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ (incumbent) 100,359 63.5
Social Democratic Tetsuo Kanno‡‡ 49,263 31.2
JCP Hisashi Omi 8,354 5.3
Turnout 160,924 66.5
LDP hold
2003[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera‡ 82,750 50.7
Democratic Masamitsu Oishi‡ (incumbent) 58,420 35.8
Social Democratic Tetsuo Kanno‡ (incumbent - Tohoku PR) 17,772 10.9
JCP Hisashi Omi 4,256 2.6
Turnout 165,392 67.7
LDP gain from Democratic
2000[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Masamitsu Oishi‡ (incumbent) 59,588 37.7
LDP Kyuichiro Sato‡ 44,629 28.2
Social Democratic Tetsuo Kanno‡‡ 41,470 26.0
JCP Yoshiaki Haga 7,427 4.7
Independent Tomomi Ito 5,448 3.4
Turnout
Democratic hold
2000 by-election[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Masamitsu Oishi 54,735 47.5
Social Democratic Tetsuo Kanno 40,097 34.8
Independent Tomomi Ito 11,076 9.6
JCP Yoshiaki Haga 9,324 8.1
Turnout
Democratic gain from LDP
1997 by-election[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Itsunori Onodera 73,881 49.4
Independent Masamitsu Oishi 66,955 44.8
JCP Yoshiaki Haga 8,660 5.8
Turnout
LDP hold
1996[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Fukujiro Kikuchi 70,765 45.0
New Frontier Masamitsu Oishi (incumbent - Miyagi 2nd) 70,114 44.6
JCP Yoshiaki Haga 8,171 5.2
Democratic Yoshiaki Mikami 7,566 4.8
Liberal League Yoshio Chiba 757 0.5
Turnout 65.3
LDP win (new seat)

References

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