2004 Japanese House of Councillors election explained

Election Name:2004 Japanese House of Councillors election
Country:Japan
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:2001 Japanese House of Councillors election
Previous Year:2001
Next Election:2007 Japanese House of Councillors election
Next Year:2007
Seats For Election:121 of the 242 seats in the House of Councillors
Majority Seats:122
Election Date:11 July 2004
Image1:Koizumi Junichiro 200104.jpg
Leader1:Junichiro Koizumi
Party1:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Last Election1:110 seats, 38.6%
Seats After1:115
Seat Change1:5
Popular Vote1:16,797,686
Percentage1:30.0%
Swing1:8.6%
Leader2:Katsuya Okada
Party2:Democratic Party of Japan
Last Election2:59 seats, 16.4%
Seats After2:82
Seat Change2:23
Popular Vote2:21,138,032
Percentage2:37.8%
Swing2:21.4%
Image3:3x4.svg
Party3:Komeito
Last Election3:23 seats, 15.0%
Seats After3:24
Seat Change3:1
Popular Vote3:8,621,265
Percentage3:15.4%
Swing3:0.4%
Image4:File:Fuwa Tetsuzo.png
Leader4:Tetsuzo Fuwa
Party4:Japanese Communist Party
Last Election4:20 seats, 7.9%
Seats After4:9
Seat Change4:11
Popular Vote4:4,362,574
Percentage4:7.8%
Swing4:0.1%
Image5:Mizuho Fukushima cropped.jpg
Leader5:Mizuho Fukushima
Party5:Social Democratic Party (Japan)
Last Election5:8 seats, 6.6%
Seats After5:5
Seat Change5:3
Popular Vote5:2,990,665
Percentage5:5.4%
Swing5:1.2%
President of the House of Councillors
Before Election:Hiroyuki Kurata
Before Party:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
After Election:Chikage Oogi
After Party:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Map Size:400px

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 11 July 2004. The House of Councillors consists of 242 members who serve six-year terms. Approximately half the members are elected every three years. At these elections 121 members were elected. Of these 73 were elected from the 47 prefectural districts and 48 were elected from a nationwide list by proportional representation.

Contesting parties

Government
Opposition

Results

The opposition Democratic Party won a plurality of the popular vote and seats contested in the election, sweeping the liberal urban areas. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to win in its strongholds but once more received most of its support from the agrarian areas. New Komeito did well, reaching its goals, as did the Social Democratic Party. The Japanese Communist Party did not reach its goals, while independents won the rest of the seats. The Liberal League and Green Political Assembly failed to win any seats.

By prefecture

Elected candidates in bold

Compiled from JANJAN's "The Senkyo"[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
  2. Web site: U I @-JANJAN S ƃf [^ x [ X- |access-date=2011-03-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525073135/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2004/99/00002006.html |archive-date=2010-05-25 }}</ref> and [[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications|MIC]] official results.[1]

    Notes:

    • All incumbents not running for re-election in their prefectural electoral district are counted as retirements even if they ran in the nationwide proportional representation.
    • In a multi-member district, there is no difference between Councillors elected with the highest and lower vote shares. Yet, "top tōsen", i.e. being elected with the highest vote, is considered a special achievement and thus noted where changed from the previous election for the same class of Councillors (1998).
    • Niigata is counted as an SDP hold because the elected Councillor joined the SDP parliamentary group.
    Northern Japan
    PrefectureSeats upIncumbentsPartyResultCandidates
    (Party)
    Vote share
    Hokkaido2Naoki MinezakiDPJIncumbents re-elected
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Yoshio Nakagawa (LDP) 26.7%
    Naoki Minezaki (DPJ) 22.3%
    Masahito Nishikawa (DPJ) 19.9%
    Muneo Suzuki (I) 17.5%
    Chiharu Oka (JCP) 9.2%
    Keiko Yamauchi (SDP) 3.8%
    Nobuhito Sendai (Ishin) 0.7%
    Yoshio NakagawaLDP
    Aomori1Masami TanabuDPJIncumbent re-electedMasami Tanabu (DPJ) 47.5%
    Hidenori Nara (LDP – Komeito) 40.4%
    Hiroaki Takayanagi (JCP) 6.2%
    Hiroshi Inoue (SDP) 5.9%
    Iwate1Motoo Shiina"Independent Assembly"Incumbent retired
    DPJ pickup    		Ryo Shuhama (DPJ) 48.5%
    Yosuke Takahashi (I – LDP, Ind. Ass.) 39.6%
    Kunihiko Takehana (SDP) 6.7%
    Akio Wakayama (JCP) 5.2%
    Miyagi2Mitsuru SakuraiDPJIncumbents re-elected
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Ichiro Ichikawa (LDP) 38.4%
    Mitsuru Sakurai (DPJ) 37.8%
    Ikuko Endo (JCP) 9.8%
    Toshiaki Sugawara (I) 8.6%
    Katsuo Okita (SDP) 5.4%
    Ichiro IchikawaLDP
    Akita1Shigenobu SaitoLDPIncumbent lost re-election
    Independent pickup    		Yoetsu Suzuki (I) 50.2%
    Shigenobu Saito (LDP) 42.9%
    Kazunobu Imagawa (JCP) 7.0%
    Yamagata1Koichi KishiLDPIncumbent re-electedKoichi Kishi (LDP) 46.8%
    Yasue Funayama (DPJ) 36.8%
    Masahiro Kimura (SDP) 7.1%
    Masayuki Sato (JCP) 5.4%
    Fukushima2Yūhei SatōDPJIncumbents re-electedYūhei Satō (DPJ) 45.4%
    Mitsuhide Iwaki (LDP) 41.5%
    Yumiko Abe (JCP) 13.1%
    Mitsuhide IwakiLDP
    Eastern and Central Japan
    PrefectureSeats upIncumbentsPartyResultCandidates
    (Party – endorsements)
    Vote share
    Ibaraki2Akira GunjiDPJIncumbents re-elected
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Hiroshi Okada (LDP) 50.5%
    Akira Gunji (LDP) 41.3%
    Takeo Taya (JCP) 8.2%
    Hiroshi OkadaLDP
    Tochigi2Susumu YanaseDPJIncumbents re-electedSusumu Yanase (DPJ) 49.2%
    Tetsuro Yano (LDP) 42.1%
    Setsuko Nomura (JCP) 8.7%
    Tetsuro YanoLDP
    Gunma2Hirofumi NakasoneLDPLDP incumbent re-elected
    LDP incumbent lost re-election
    DPJ pickup
    DPJ gains top tōsen    		Yukio Tomioka (DPJ) 34.5%
    Hirofumi Nakasone (LDP) 30.3%
    Kosei Ueno (LDP) 29.4%
    Shinmei Ogasawara (JCP) 5.8%
    Kosei UenoLDP
    Saitama3Masakazu SekiguchiLDPLDP incumbent re-elected
    DPJ and JCP incumbents retired
    DPJ hold
    Komeito pickup
    DPJ gains top tōsen    		Chiyako Shimada (DPJ) 28.4%
    Masakazu Sekiguchi (LDP) 24.8%
    Makoto Nishida (Komeito) 18.6%
    Hayato Yuge (DPJ) 12.8%
    Sachiyo Abe (JCP) 11.9%
    Fumihiro Himori (SDP) 3.4%
    Renzō TogashiJCP
    Toshio FujiiDPJ
    Chiba2Wakako HironakaDPJIncumbents re-electedWakako Hironaka (DPJ) 49.1%
    Kazuyasu Shiina (LDP) 39.0%
    Fumiko Asano (JCP) 11.9%
    Kazuyasu ShiinaLDP
    Tokyo4Toshio OgawaDPJKomeito, JCP and Green incumbents retired
    LDP pickup
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Masaharu Nakagawa (LDP) 18.3%
    Toshio Ogawa (DPJ) 17.9%
    Renhō (DPJ) 16.7%
    Yūji Sawa (Komeito) 14.9%
    Yukio Aoshima (I) 10.7%
    Junichiro Imamura (JCP) 8.2%
    Teruaki Masumoto (I) 6.9%
    Naoto Nakagawa (SDP) 3.2%
    Tetsu Ueda (I) 3.0%
    Hisayoshi Matsumura (Ishin) 0.2%
    Mitsuo Matayoshi (WECP) 0.2%
    Toshiko HamayotsuKomeito
    Miyo InoueJCPDPJ incumbent re-elected
    Komeito hold
    DPJ pickup
    Atsuo Nakamura"Green Conference"
    Kanagawa3Keiichirō AsaoDPJDPJ incumbents re-elected
    JCP incumbent lost re-election
    LDP pickup
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Akio Koizumi (LDP) 33.2%
    Keiichirō Asao (DPJ) 23.4%
    Keiko Chiba (DPJ) 23.0%
    Kimie Hatano (JCP) 10.9%
    Keiko Ueda (SDP) 7.0%
    Hajime Manabe (I) 1.9%
    Isao Kawakubo (Ishin) 0.6%
    Kimie HatanoJCP
    Keiko ChibaDPJ
    Niigata2Naoki TanakaLDPLDP incumbent re-elected
    SDP incumbent retired
    SDP hold
    SDP gains top tōsen    		Masamichi Kondō (I – DPJ, SDP) 34.9%
    Naoki Tanaka (LDP) 29.9%
    Ichirō Tsukada (LDP) 26.1%
    Kayoko Kuwahara (JCP) 9.1%
    Kinuko ŌbuchiSDP
    Toyama1Masaaki TanibayashiDPJIncumbent lost re-election
    LDP pickup    		Tsunenori Kawai (LDP) 46.3%
    Masaaki Tanibayashi (DPJ) 37.2%
    Akira Ogawa (SDP) 11.3%
    Toshihiko Ueda (JCP) 5.2%
    Ishikawa1Sōta Iwamoto"Independent Assembly"Incumbent retired
    LDP pickup    		Naoki Okada (LDP) 56.1%
    Takashi Katō (DPJ) 36.6%
    Masayuki Satō (JCP) 7.3%
    Fukui1Masaaki YamazakiLDPIncumbent re-electedMasaaki Yamazaki (LDP) 56.0%
    Makiko Isokawa (DPJ) 37.7%
    Kunihiro Uno (JCP) 6.2%
    Yamanashi1Azuma KoshiishiDPJIncumbent re-electedAzuma Koshiishi (DPJ) 55.1%
    Kenshi Ōshiba (I) 37.1%
    Hitoshi Hanada (JCP) 7.8%
    Nagano2Toshimi KitazawaDPJIncumbents re-electedToshimi Kitazawa (DPJ) 40.9%
    Masatoshi Wakabayashi (LDP) 27.2%
    Norihisa Yamaguchi (JCP) 11.5%
    Wakako Yamaguchi (SDP) 10.4%
    Roppei Hori (I) 9.9%
    Masatoshi WakabayashiLDP
    Gifu2Iwao MatsudaLDPIncumbents re-electedIwao Matsuda (LDP) 44.5%
    Yasuo Yamashita (DPJ) 43.8%
    Takao Katō (JCP) 11.7%
    Yasuo YamashitaDPJ
    Shizuoka2Tōru UenoDPJIncumbents lost re-election
    LDP and DPJ hold
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Yukiko Sakamoto (LDP) 29.3%
    Yūji Fujimoto (DPJ) 21.6%
    Tōru Ueno (DPJ) 21.2%
    Yoshihiko Yamashita (LDP) 20.1%
    Yukihiro Shimazu (JCP) 7.8%
    Yoshihiko YamashitaLDP
    Aichi3Yoshitake KimataDPJDPJ incumbents re-elected
    JCP incumbent lost re-election
    LDP pickup
    LDP gains top tōsen    		Katsuhito Asano (LDP) 28.2%
    Taisuke Satō (DPJ) 25.4%
    Yoshitake Kimata (DPJ) 23.0%
    Hiroko Hatta (JCP) 14.3%
    Yasuo Koida (I) 6.1%
    Kenji Sasaki (I) 2.4%
    Yoshifumi Hayashida (Ishin) 0.7%
    Taisuke SatōDPJ
    Hiroko HattaJCP
    Mie1Jūrō SaitōLDPIncumbent retired
    DPJ pickup    		Hirokazu Shiba (DPJ) 52.1%
    Kenji Tsuda (LDP) 41.0%
    Takeshi Nakano (JCP) 6.8%
    Western Japan
    PrefectureSeats upIncumbentsPartyResultCandidates
    (Party – endorsements)
    Vote share
    Shiga1Eisuke KawamotoLDPIncumbent retired
    DPJ pickup    		Kumiko Hayashi (DPJ) 48.0%
    Kenichiro Ueno (LDP) 41.5%
    Toshirō Hayashi (JCP) 10.5%
    Kyoto2Tetsurō FukuyamaDPJDPJ incumbent re-elected
    JCP incumbent lost re-election
    LDP pickup    		Tetsurō Fukuyama (DPJ) 43.8%
    Satoshi Ninoyu (LDP) 32.4%
    Tokiko Nishiyama (JCP) 23.8%
    Tokiko NishiyamaJCP
    Ōsaka3Kiyoshi NishikawaDainiin ClubKomeito incumbent re-elected
    Dainiin incumbent retired
    JCP incumbent lost reelection
    DPJ pickup    		Motoyuki Odachi (DPJ) 24.9%
    Eiichi Yamashita (Komeito) 21.8%
    Issei Kitagawa (LDP) 20.1%
    Kiyomi Tsujimoto (I) 19.7%
    Takeshi Miyamoto (JCP) 12.1%
    Yoshio Masuda (I) 1.0%
    Toyokazu Ōkido (Ishin) 0.4%
    Eiichi YamashitaKomeito
    Takeshi MiyamotoJCPLDP pickup
    DPJ gains top tōsen
    Hyogo2Shōji MotookaDPJDPJ incumbent retired
    JCP incumbent lost re-election
    DPJ hold
    LDP pickup    		Shunichi Mizuoka (DPJ) 38.6%
    Shinsuke Suematsu (LDP) 33.5%
    Tatsumi Ōsawa (JCP) 14.0%
    Kazumi Hara (I) 7.3%
    Ichizō Miyamoto (I) 4.7%
    Kōjin Katakami (I) 1.9%
    Tatsumi ŌsawaJCP
    Nara1Minao HattoriLDPIncumbent lost re-election
    DPJ pickup    		Kiyoshige Maekawa (DPJ) 48.9%
    Minao Hattori (LDP) 41.1%
    Yoshinori Mameda (JCP) 10.0%
    Wakayama1Yōsuke TsuruhoLDPIncumbent re-electedYōsuke Tsuruho (LDP) 53.8%
    Shika Kawajō (DPJ) 35.1%
    Hideaki Kunishige (JCP) 9.9%
    Yoshiya Seki (Ishin) 1.2%
    Tottori1Kōtarō TamuraLDPIncumbent re-electedKōtarō Tamura (LDP) 49.7%
    Masahide Tsuchiya (DPJ) 37.6%
    Tomoko Ichitani (JCP) 12.7%
    Shimane1Mikio AokiLDPIncumbent re-electedMikio Aoki (LDP) 62.1%
    Itaru Gōdo (DPJ) 30.3%
    Katsuhiko Gotō (JCP) 7.5%
    Okayama1Satsuki EdaDPJ1 seat lost by reapportionment
    DPJ incumbent re-elected
    LDP incumbent lost re-election    		Satsuki Eda (DPJ) 55.7%
    Norifumi Katō (LDP) 39.0%
    Kanji Uemoto (JCP) 5.3%
    Norifumi KatōLDP
    Hiroshima2Ikuo KameiLDPIncumbents re-elected
    DPJ gains top tōsen    		Minoru Yanagida (DPJ) 42.6%
    Ikuo Kamei (LDP) 41.3%
    Mitsuo Okamoto (I) 9.1%
    Satoshi Fujimoto (JCP) 7.1%
    Minoru YanagidaDPJ
    Yamaguchi1Masuo MatsuokaDPJIncumbent retired
    LDP pickup    		Nobuo Kishi (LDP) 49.1%
    Hiroko Ōizumi (DPJ) 41.9%
    Sadayoshi Yoshida (JCP) 6.0%
    Shigeo Hiramatsu (I) 1.8%
    Seiichirō Hirata (Ishin) 1.1%
    Tokushima1Sekiko Takahashi"Green Conference"Incumbent retired
    LDP pickup    		Masakatsu Koike (LDP) 47.1%
    Kyōko Tōjō (DPJ) 43.3%
    Takayuki Kubo (JCP) 9.6%
    Kagawa1Toshio YamauchiLDPIncumbent re-electedToshio Yamauchi (LDP) 46.6%
    Emiko Uematsu (DPJ) 45.0%
    Michiko Chikaishi (JCP) 8.3%
    Ehime1Takeshi NomaLDPIncumbent retired
    LDP hold    		Junzō Yamamoto (LDP) 49.4%
    Masamitsu Saitō (DPJ) 42.0%
    Masahiro Sakane (JCP) 8.6%
    Kōchi1Hiroyuki MorishitaLDPIncumbent lost re-election
    Independent pickup    		Hajime Hirota (I) 43.6%
    Hiroyuki Morishita (LDP) 35.7%
    Sachi Nakane (JCP) 14.3%
    Yumiko Matsuoka (I) 6.4%
    Southern Japan
    PrefectureSeats upIncumbentsPartyResultCandidates
    (Party – endorsements)
    Vote share
    Fukuoka2Kazuo HirotomoKomeitoKomeito incumbent retired
    LDP incumbent re-elected
    DPJ pickup
    DPJ gains top tōsen    		Tsutomu Ōkubo (DPJ) 40.6%
    Gōtarō Yoshimura (LDP) 30.7%
    Chū Furukawa (I) 12.5%
    Toyoomi Tsuno (JCP) 8.8%
    Kunihiro Etō (I) 4.7%
    Yutaka Fujimoto (I) 1.8%
    Tomotada Ishihara (Ishin) 0.9%
    Gōtarō YoshimuraLDP
    Saga1Hiromi IwanagaLDPIncumbent re-electedHiromi Iwanaga (LDP) 47.7%
    Minoru Kawasaki (DPJ) 42.9%
    Akemi Mutō (JCP) 9.5%
    Nagasaki1Sōichirō MatsutaniLDPIncumbent lost re-election
    DPJ pickup    		Tadashi Inuzuka (DPJ) 49.5%
    Sōichirō Matsutani (LDP) 43.6%
    Toshihiro Haraguchi (JCP) 6.8%
    Kumamoto1Ryōichi HondaDPJ1 seat lost by reapportionment
    LDP incumbent re-elected
    DPJ incumbent lost re-election    		Hitoshi Kimura (LDP) 48.9%
    Ryōichi Honda (DPJ) 44.3%
    Nobuhiro Yamamoto (JCP) 6.8%
    Hitoshi KimuraLDP
    Oita1Toshiya NakamichiLDPIncumbent lost re-election
    DPJ pickup    		Shinya Adachi (DPJ) 54.8%
    Toshiya Nakamichi (LDP) 38.7%
    Masaru Ono (JCP) 4.6%
    Kunio Fujiki 1.9%
    Miyazaki1Mitsuhiro UesugiLDPIncumbent lost re-election
    Independent pickup    		Shinpei Matsushita (I) 48.5%
    Mitsuhiro Uesugi (LDP) 45.6%
    Hiromitsu Baba (JCP) 5.9%
    Kagoshima1Hiroshi MoriyamaLDP1 seat lost by reapportionment
    Incumbent retired
    LDP hold    		Tetsurō Nomura (LDP) 53.2%
    Inao Minayoshi (DPJ) 36.9%
    Katsuko Iwaizako (JCP) 9.9%
    vacant
    (last held by Kichio Inoue, LDP)
    Okinawa1Sōkō Shimabuku"Independent Assembly"Incumbent retired
    Independent (OSMP) pickup    		Keiko Itokazu (I) 58.9%
    Masatoshi Onaga (LDP) 41.1%

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