2001 Japanese House of Councillors election explained

Election Name:	2001 Japanese House of Councillors election
Country:	Japan
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1998 Japanese House of Councillors election
Previous Year:	1998
Next Election:	2004 Japanese House of Councillors election
Next Year:	2004
Seats For Election:	121 (of the 247) seats in the House of Councillors
Majority Seats:	124
Election Date:	29 July 2001
Image1:	Koizumi Junichiro 200104.jpg
Leader1:	Junichiro Koizumi
Party1:	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Last Election1:	102 seats, 25.2%
Seats After1:	110
Seat Change1:	8
Popular Vote1:	21,114,727
Percentage1:	38.6%
Swing1:	13.4pp
Leader2:	Yukio Hatoyama
Party2:	Democratic Party of Japan
Last Election2:	47 seats, 21.8%
Seats After2:	59
Seat Change2:	12
Popular Vote2:	8,990,524
Percentage2:	16.4%
Swing2:	5.4pp
Leader3:	Takenori Kanzaki
Party3:	Komeito
Last Election3:	22 seats, 13.8%
Seats After3:	23
Seat Change3:	1
Popular Vote3:	8,187,804
Percentage3:	15.0%
Swing3:	1.2pp
Image4:	File:Fuwa Tetsuzo.png
Leader4:	Tetsuzo Fuwa
Party4:	Japanese Communist Party
Last Election4:	23 seats, 14.6%
Seats After4:	20
Seat Change4:	3
Popular Vote4:	4,329,210
Percentage4:	7.9%
Swing4:	6.7pp
Image5:	Ichiro Ozawa cropped 3 Yoshitaka Kimoto and Ichiro Ozawa 20010718.jpg
Leader5:	Ichirō Ozawa
Party5:	Liberal Party (Japan, 1998)
Last Election5:	12 seats, 9.3%
Seats After5:	8
Seat Change5:	4
Popular Vote5:	4,227,148
Percentage5:	7.7%
Swing5:	1.6pp
Image6:	Takako Doi in Tokyo congressist election 2.jpg
Leader6:	Takako Doi
Party6:	Social Democratic Party (Japan)
Last Election6:	13 seats, 7.8%
Seats After6:	8
Seat Change6:	5
Popular Vote6:	3,628,635
Percentage6:	6.6%
Swing6:	1.2%
Image7:	Chikage Ogi 2006.png
Leader7:	Chikage Oogi
Party7:	New Conservative Party (Japan)
Last Election7:	–
Seats After7:	5
Seat Change7:	New
Popular Vote7:	1,275,002
Percentage7:	2.3%
Swing7:	New
Map Size:	400px
President of the House of Councillors
Before Election:	Yutaka Inoue
Before Party:	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
After Election:	Yutaka Inoue
After Party:	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 29 July 2001. They were the first national elections since Junichiro Koizumi became Prime Minister after Yoshiro Mori resigned in April 2001. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its election allies, were the major winner, provided Koizumi a strong mandates to move forward with his reform policies. The ruling coalition performed well, and regain their majority in the House of Councillors.

Background

The electoral reform enacted in 2000 became effective for the first time. The number of Councillors per election was reduced by five, by two in the nationwide proportional representation and by one each in Okayama, Kumamoto and Miyazaki. In addition, preference voting was introduced. Instead of a party name, voters could now write the name of a single PR candidate on the ballot. The vote then counts for the party as well as the candidate; the total number of votes for a party list or its candidates determines the number of PR seats a party receives while the candidate votes determine who takes those seats for the party.

As a result of the party realignments of the 1990s, several two-member districts were represented by two Councillors from the same party before the 2001 election. Some of these Councillors lost the official nomination of their party (e.g. in Niigata), others retired (Hokkaidō, Tochigi). Most of these district split seats between ruling coalition and opposition again, in the case of both incumbents seeking re-election resulting in one of the two losing their seat (Nagano, Shizuoka).

Results

Proportional representation results

The 2001 election was the first to use an open list system (非拘束名簿式) to elect proportional representation seats in the House. Under this system, voters may vote for either a political party or a specific candidate. The proportional seats are distributed among the parties by D'Hondt method according to their overall proportional votes, including candidate votes. The ranking of candidates on each party list is then determined by the candidate votes.

The results for the major parties were as follows (decimals omitted):^[1] ^[2]

Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) (LDP): 21,114,727 (party: 14,925,437, candidates: 6,189,290), 38.6%, 20 seats
Democratic Party (DPJ): 8,990,524 (party: 6,082,694, candidates: 2,907,830), 16.4%, 8 seats
New Komeito (NK): 8,187,804 (party: 1,865,797, candidates: 6,322,007), 15.0%, 8 seats
Japan Communist Party (JCP): 4,329,210 (party: 4,065,047, candidates: 264,163), 7.9%, 4 seats
Liberal Party (LP): 4,227,148 (party: 3,642,884, candidates: 584,264), 7.7%, 4 seats
Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDP): 3,628,635 (party: 2,298,104, candidates: 1,330,531), 6.6%, 3 seats
Conservative Party of Japan (CP): 1,275,002 (party: 609,382, candidates: 665,620), 2.3%, 1 seat
Other parties (aggregate): 2.988.442, 5.5%, no seat

The final ranking of PR candidates and their individual vote counts were as follows:

1. Yoichi Masuzoe (LDP) 1,588,262

2. Kenji Koso (LDP) 478,985

3. Kyosen Ohashi (DPJ) 412,087

4. Kanae Yamamoto (NK) 1,287,549

5. Atsushi Onita (LDP) 460,421

6. Kiyoko Ono (LDP) 295,613

7. Masashi Fujiwara (DPJ) 259,576

8. Tomoko Kami (JCP) 56,999

9. Takeo Nishioka (LP) 121,617

10. Kuniomi Iwai (LDP) 278,521

11. Kentaro Koba (NK)

12. Yoko Tajima (SDP)

13. Seiko Hashimoto (LDP)

14. Hidemasa Otsuji (LDP)

15. Shuji Ikeguchi (DPJ)

16. Kiyohiko Toyama (NK)

17. Keizo Takemi (LDP)

18. Shin Sakurai (LDP)

19. Toshihiro Asahi (DPJ)

20. Hideyo Fudesaka (JCP)

21. Hideaki Tamura (LP)

22. Yukio Danmoto (LDP)

23. Shozo Kusakawa (NK)

24. Hirohide Uozumi (LDP)

25. Masahide Ota (SDP)

26. Hideki Wakabayashi (DPJ)

27. Kayoko Shimizu (LDP)

28. Takao Watanabe (NK)

29. Keishiro Fukushima (LDP)

30. Takeshi Kondo (LDP)

31. Mototaka Ito (DPJ)

32. Satoshi Inoue (JCP)

33. Tadashi Hirono (LP)

34. Tsuneo Morimoto (LDP)

35. Yuichiro Uozumi (NK)

36. Motoyuki Fujii (LDP)

37. Michio Sato (DPJ)

38. Chikage Ogi (CP)

39. Akiko Santo (LDP)

40. Seiji Mataichi (SDP)

41. Akio Koizumi (LDP)

42. Junichi Fukumoto (NK)

43. Mieko Kamimoto (DPJ)

44. Haruko Arimura (LDP)

45. Haruko Yoshikawa (JCP)

46. Yasuhiro Oe (LP)

47. So Nakahara (LDP)

48. Shuichi Kato (NK)

Prefectural races

Elected candidates in bold

Compiled from JANJAN's "The Senkyo"^[3] and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications official election results.^[4]

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 (1995).
In the results column, independents are counted towards the party they joined in the first Diet session after the election.

Party abbreviations used:

Ruling coalition
- LDP Liberal Democratic Party
- Kōmeitō "Justice Party"
- CP Conservative Party
Opposition
- DPJ Democratic Party
- JCP Japanese Communist Party
- SDP Social Democratic Party
- LP Liberal Party
I Independent
Minor parties: IA "Independent Assembly", Dainiin Dainiin Club, LL Liberal League, Ishin Ishin Seitō Shinpū, WP Women's Party, NSP New Socialist Party, Kibō "New Party Freedom and Hope"

Northern Japan
Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates (Party) Vote share
Hokkaidō	2	Hisamitsu Kanno	DPJ	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent retired LDP pickup LDP gains top tōsen	Chūichi Date (LDP) 39.3% Katsuya Ogawa (DPJ) 27.2% Satoshi Miyauchi (JCP) 11.3% Masahito Nishikawa (LP) 7.8% Yoshiko Sugiyama (SDP) 6.6% Tamiko Matsumura (WP) 3.5% Mitsuhiro Yokoyama (I) 1.4% Akifumi Kumagai (LL) 1.3% Nobuyuki Saitō (NSP) 1.0% Nobuhito Sendai (Ishin) 0.5%
Hokkaidō	2	Katsuya Ogawa	DPJ
Aomori	1	Tsutomu Yamazaki	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Tsutomu Yamazaki (LDP) 53.7% Hideshige Sasaki (I) 18.9% Isamu Moriuchi (I) 18.8% Hiroaki Takayanagi (JCP) 6.0% Kyōko Murata (LL) 2.6%
Iwate	1	Yoshinori Takahashi	LP	Incumbent retired LP hold	Tatsuo Hirano (LP) 41.9% Tokuichirō Tamazawa (LDP) 41.1% Kazue Yabuki (SDP) 8.8% Norikatsu Sugawara (JCP) 6.1% Riki Ishiwatari (LL) 2.2%
Miyagi	2	Tomiko Okazaki	DPJ	DPJ incumbent re-elected LDP incumbent lost re-election LDP hold	Tomiko Okazaki (DPJ) 32.2% Jirō Aichi (I – LDP, Kōmeitō, CP) 27.5% Hiroaki Kameya (LDP) 25.9% Masatoshi Yoshida (SDP) 6.1% Toshirō Ono (JCP) 5.9% Kiyoharu Satō (LL) 2.3%
Miyagi	2	Hiroaki Kameya	LDP
Akita	1	Katsutoshi Kaneda	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Katsutoshi Kaneda (LDP) 54.2% Kazuo Takamatsu (DPJ) 17.9% Nagahide Sasaki (SDP) 14.6% Toshio Suzuki (JCP) 8.0% Sachiko Saitō (LL) 5.2%
Yamagata	1	Masatoshi Abe	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Masatoshi Abe (LDP) 51.5% Kanji Kimura (I) 36.1% Toshio Ōta (JCP) 6.4% Fumiyuki Monma (LL) 3.6% Tsuneyoshi Chiba (NSP) 2.4%
Fukushima	2	Toyoaki Ōta	LDP	Incumbents re-elected	Toyoaki Ōta (LDP) 40.5% Hiroko Wada (DPJ) 22.7% Kaori Kanda (I) 11.7% Keiichi Miho (I) 9.8% Masanari Kawada (LP) 7.3% Masayo Niimi (JCP) 6.2% Takao Suzuki (LL) 1.8%
Fukushima	2	Hiroko Wada	DPJ	Incumbents re-elected
Eastern and Central Japan
Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share
Ibaraki	2	Yasu Kanō	LDP	Incumbents re-elected	Yasu Kanō (LDP) 49.3% Moto Kobayashi (DPJ) 23.3% Masako Katō (LP) 10.4% Toyomasa Komatsu (JCP) 6.1% Mariko Yoshioka (WP) 5.7% Hiromitsu Mutō (LL) 2.8% Hiroyuki Sugimori (NSP) 2.4%
Ibaraki	2	Moto Kobayashi	DPJ	Incumbents re-elected
Tochigi	2	Junzō Iwasaki	LDP	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent retired DPJ pickup	Masayuki Kunii (LDP) 38.6% Hiroyuki Tani (DPJ) 28.0% Toshikazu Masabuchi (I) 24.3% Setsuko Nomura (JCP) 5.5% Mayumi Yotsumoto (LL) 2.2% Morio Asai (NSP) 1.3%
Tochigi	2	Masayuki Kunii	LDP	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent retired DPJ pickup
Gunma	2	Ichita Yamamoto	LDP	Incumbents re-elected	Ichita Yamamoto (LDP) 40.4% Giichi Tsunoda (DPJ) 27.8% Mayumi Yoshikawa (LDP) 24.7% Shinmei Ogasawara (JCP) 5.1% Haruyo Tsuchiya (LL) 2.1%
Gunma	2	Giichi Tsunoda	DPJ	Incumbents re-elected
Saitama	3	Hiroshi Takano	Kōmeitō	Kōmeitō and LDP incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen JCP incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup	Taizō Satō (LDP) 25.3% Hiroshi Takano (Kōmeitō) 20.2% Ryūji Yamane (DPJ) 15.1% Sachiko Abe (JCP) 13.5% Yasuko Komiyama (LP) 12.4% Chūkō Hayakawa (I) 4.5% Takeo Amatatsu (SDP) 3.9% Hiroko Hayashi (LL) 2.4% Takuya Ogawa (I) 0.9% Morio Katō (I) 0.7% Setsuo Yamaguchi (I) 0.5% Fumikazu Murata (NSP) 0.4% Masakazu Imazawa (Ishin) 0.2%
		Taizō Satō	LDP
		Sachiko Abe	JCP
Chiba	2	Akira Imaizumi	DPJ	Incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen	Hiroyuki Kurata (LDP) 43.8% Akira Imaizumi (DPJ) 16.3% Kazumasa Okajima (LP) 15.9% Tomoko Hoshino (I) 10.1% Makoto Nakajima (JCP) 9.0% Yumiko Nakaue (LL) 3.3% Hirokuni Osanami (NSP) 1.5%
Chiba	2	Hiroyuki Kurata	LDP	Incumbents re-elected LDP gains top tōsen
Tokyo	4	Yūichirō Uozumi	Kōmeitō	LDP and JCP incumbents re-elected Kōmeitō and SDP incumbent retired Kōmeitō hold LDP gains top tōsen DPJ pickup	Sanzō Hosaka (LDP) 27.9% Natsuo Yamaguchi (Kōmeitō) 17.5% Kan Suzuki (DPJ) 15.1% Yasuo Ogata (JCP) 12.5% Nobuhiko Endō (LP) 7.2% Kei Hata (I) 4.2% Tetsu Ueda (I) 4.2% Chizuko Koroiwa (I) 3.3% Sadaharu Hirota (SDP) 3.2% Itaru Kobayashi (LL) 2.1% Hanako Igarashi (WP) 1.8% Shigeo Arakaki (I) 0.6% Chōzō Nakagawa (I) 0.3 % Hisatoshi Hashimoto (Ishin) 0.2% Toshirō Saitō (I) 0.2%
		Sanzō Hosaka	LDP
		Yasuo Ogata	JCP
		Hideo Den	SDP
Kanagawa	3	Akira Matsu	Kōmeitō	DPJ and Kōmeitō incumbents re-elected LDP incumbent retires LDP hold LDP gains top tōsen	Yutaka Kobayashi (LDP) 35.4% Akira Matsu (Kōmeitō) 18.0% Tsuyoshi Saitō (DPJ) 16.3% Keiko Ueda (SDP) 8.4% Masataka Ōta (LP) 8.4% Hiroyuki Muneta (JCP) 8.2% Eriko Kurata (WP) 2.2% Hirohisa Miwa (LL) 1.5% Ranko Kawamura (I) 0.8% Yoshiko Bannai (NSP) 0.4% Takeshi Miwa (Ishin) 0.4%
		Kiyoharu Ishiawata	LDP
		Tsuyoshi Saitō	DPJ
Niigata	2	Yoshio Yoshikawa	LDP	Incumbent retired Incumbent lost re-election LDP hold LP pickup	Kazuo Majima (LDP) 35.7% Yūko Mori (LP) 14.9% Junko Uchida (SDP) 14.2% Nobuyuki Sekiyama (DPJ) 14.2% Michio Hasegawa (I) 13.8% Kayoko Kuwahara (JCP) 6.2% Nobuaki Shinozaki (LL) 0.8%
Niigata	2	Michio Hasegawa	LDP
Toyama	1	Yasumasa Kakuma	LDP	Incumbent retired LDP hold	Kōtarō Nogami (LDP) 65.8% Yasuharu Kusajima (I) 24.3% Hiroshi Sakamoto (JCP) 7.1% Kazue Kubokawa (LL) 2.8%
Ishikawa	1	Tetsuo Kutsukake	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Tetsuo Kutsukake (LDP) 57.0% Chieko Morioka (I) 33.3% Yōko Onishi (JCP) 6.7% Hideyuki Tanabe (LL) 2.9%
Fukui	1	Ryūji Matsumura	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Ryūji Matsumura (LDP) 63.0% Kikuko Ozawa (DPJ) 27.2% Kunihiro Uno (JCP) 7.2% Tōru Yamaguchi (LL) 2.6%
Yamanashi	1	Mahito Nakajima	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Mahito Nakajima (LDP) 48.6% Yūichi Higuchi (DPJ) 33.5% Akiko Endō (JCP) 8.0% Hiroshi Shōji (LP) 7.6% Chihoko Katō (LL) 2.3%
Nagano	2	Mineo Koyama	DPJ	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup LDP gains top tōsen	Hiromi Yoshida (LDP) 32.9% Yūichirō Hata (DPJ) 27.8% Mineo Koyama (DPJ) 16.8% Norihisa Yamaguchi (JCP) 11.1% Setsuko Satō (SDP) 9.0% Nobuyuki Watanabe (LL) 2.4%
Nagano	2	Yūichirō Hata	DPJ
Gifu	2	Tsuyako Ōno	LDP	Incumbents re-elected	Tsuyako Ōno (LDP) 55.4% Kenji Hirata (DPJ) 30.4% Takao Katō (JCP) 10.4% Michiko Higuchi (LL) 3.8%
Gifu	2	Kenji Hirata	DPJ	Incumbents re-elected
Shizuoka	2	Masataka Suzuki	LDP	Incumbent re-elected Incumbent lost re-election DPJ pickup	Yutaka Takeyama (LDP) 31.7% Kazuya Shinba (DPJ) 27.5% Masataka Suzuki (LDP) 22.1% Yukihiro Shimazu (JCP) 8.3% Hiroko Suzuki (WP) 5.5% Naoko Hara (LL) 4.8%
Shizuoka	2	Yutaka Takeyama	LDP
Aichi	3	Tamotsu Yamamoto	Kōmeitō	LDP and Kōmeitō incumbents re-elected LDP incumbent retired LDP gains top tōsen DPJ pickup	Seiji Suzuki (LDP) 34.6% Kōhei Ōtsuka (DPJ) 23.5% Tamotsu Yamamoto (Kōmeitō) 17.8% Aiko Saitō (JCP) 9.9% Masayuki Miyata (LP) 4.7% Hiroaki Sago (SDP) 2.9% Fusarō Sekiguchi (I) 1.5% Kiyoko Osada (LL) 1.0% Hachirō Ishikawa (LP) 0.7% Tsutomu Suzuki (I) 0.6% Reiko Yasuda (I) 0.5% Kenji Sasaki (I) 0.4% Akihiko Ishikawa (I) 0.3% Yoshiaki Yamazaki (I) 0.3% Yasuo Okayasu (NLP) 0.3% 7 other candidates 1.0%
		Seiji Suzuki	LDP
		Makiko Suehiro	LDP
Mie	1	Chiaki Takahashi	Independent	Incumbent re-elected	Chiaki Takahashi (I) 46.5% Kazumi Fujioka (LDP) 43.5% Miyoshi Taninaka (JCP) 7.0% Tōru Ishitani (LL) 3.1%
Western Japan
Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share
Shiga	1	Hidetoshi Yamashita	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Hidetoshi Yamashita (LDP) 55.0% Shun'yū Norikumo (DPJ) 27.9% Takaishi Kawauchi (JCP) 11.3% Midori Kitada (LL) 5.8%
Kyōto	2	Yoshihiro Nishida	LDP	LDP incumbent re-elected Independent incumbent lost re-election Democratic hold	Yoshihiro Nishida (LDP) 38.5% Kōji Matsui (DPJ) 23.5% Yōko Kawakami (JCP) 22.1% Teiko Sasano (I) 12.6% Kaori Endō (LL) 3.3%
Kyōto	2	Teiko Sasano	Independent
Ōsaka	3	Kazuyoshi Shirahama	Kōmeitō	LDP and Kōmeitō incumbents re-elected JCP incumbent lost re-election LDP gains top tōsen DPJ pickup	Shūzen Tanigawa (LDP) 26.6% Kazuyoshi Shirahama (Kōmeitō) 24.7% Takashi Yamamoto (DPJ) 17.2% Yoshiki Yamashita (JCP) 17.0% Yoshihiko Watanabe (LP) 5.6% Takahiro Kitaoka (Koizumi no Kai) 3.3% Kazuko Doi (WP) 2.9% Tomohiko Ōkawa (LL) 1.0% Keiji Kashimoto (NSP) 0.7% Kyōsuke Morimoto (I) 0.7% Ryūichi Nakatani (Ishin) 0.3%
		Yoshiki Yamashita	JCP
		Shūzen Tanigawa	LDP
Hyōgo	2	Ichiji Ishii	LL	LL incumbent retired LDP incumbent re-elected LDP gains top tōsen DPJ pickup	Yoshitada Kōnoike (LDP) 39.3% Yasuhiro Tsuji (DPJ) 23.7% Junko Hiramatsu (JCP) 14.3% Kunihiko Muroi (LP) 9.3% Aiko Takada (WP) 6.1% Keiji Ueno (NSP) 3.1% Toyoaki Tagawa (LL) 2.3% Shōhei Fujiki (I) 1.9%
Hyōgo	2	Yoshitada Kōnoike	LDP
Nara	1	Yukihisa Yoshida	DPJ	Incumbent retired LDP pickup	Shōgo Arai (LDP) 43.9% Takeshi Maeda (DPJ) 39.2% Shōji Kamano (JCP) 8.2% Yukiko Sugita (SDP) 6.6% Yasuhiro Okai (LL) 2.2%
Wakayama	1	Hiroshige Sekō	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Hiroshige Sekō (LDP) 67.7% Fuminori Kimura (DPJ) 14.7% Yasuhisa Hara (JCP) 13.7% Toyoko Nishioka (LL) 3.9%
Tottori	1	Takayoshi Tsuneda	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Takayoshi Tsuneda (LDP) 56.5% Makoto Satō (DPJ) 22.4% Tomoko Ichitani (JCP) 10.9% Satomi Yamamoto (SDP) 7.0% Masashi Yamaguchi (LL) 3.2%
Shimane	1	Shuntarō Kageyama	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Shuntarō Kageyama (LDP) 68.1% Kazuhisa Hamaguchi (DPJ) 18.7% Katsuhiko Gotō (JCP) 9.1% Junko Nakashima (LL) 4.0%
Okayama	1	Toranosuke Katayama	LDP	1 seat lost by reapportionment LDP incumbent re-elected DPJ incumbent lost re-election	Toranosuke Katayama (LDP) 61.0% Mie Ishida (DPJ) 28.8% Hisaki Moriwaki (JCP) 8.2% Keiko Asawa (LL) 2.0%
Okayama	1	Yukihisa Yoshida	DPJ
Hiroshima	2	Kensei Mizote	LDP	LDP incumbent re-elected DPJ incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup	Takeaki Kashimura (I) 36.4% Kensei Mizote (LDP) 31.9% Kenji Sugekawa (DPJ) 17.0% Kimiko Kurihara (NSP) 6.5% Satoshi Fujimoto (JCP) 6.1% Hidemi Yamada (LL) 2.0%
Hiroshima	2	Kenji Sugekawa	DPJ
Yamaguchi	1	Yoshimasa Hayashi	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Yoshimasa Hayashi (LDP) 61.4% Susumu Iwamoto (DPJ) 25.5% Tomoyuki Uonaga (JCP) 9.3% Tadao Sasaki (LL) 2.2% Tsuyoshi Nakashima (Ishin) 1.5%
Tokushima	1	Shūji Kitaoka	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Shūji Kitaoka (LDP) 54.3% Kiyoshi Kimura (DPJ) 31.8% Hitoshi Fujita (JCP) 7.2% Chiyoko Takagai (NSP) 5.4% Kōichi Maekawa (LL) 1.3%
Kagawa	1	Kenji Manabe	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Kenji Manabe (LDP) 62.1% Midori Nagura (I) 18.9% Yōko Shirakawa (JCP) 14.2% Mie Tanaka (LL) 4.9%
Ehime	1	Katsutsugu Sekiya	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Katsutsugu Sekiya (LDP) 61.0% Takashi Shimakawa (I) 25.8% Hisao Yamamoto (JCP) 8.4% Yoshiko Oguri (LL) 4.8%
Kōchi	1	Kōhei Tamura	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Kōhei Tamura (LDP) 40.0% Hajime Hirota (I) 30.3% Kumi Nakamura (DPJ) 16.6% Sachi Nakane (JCP) 12.1% Kiyotaka Maeda (LL) 0.9%
Southern Japan
Prefecture	Seats up	Incumbents	Party	Result	Candidates (Party – endorsements) Vote share
Fukuoka	2	Kentarō Koba	Kōmeitō	Kōmeitō incumbent retired SDP incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup	Masaji Matsuyama (LDP) 30.6% Tsukasa Iwamoto (DPJ) 16.7% Chū Furukawa (I) 16.3% Shigeko Mieno (SDP) 12.7% Jun'ichirō Koga (LP) 10.3% Toyoomi Tsuno (JCP) 7.9% Yukimi Kamemoto (WP) 3.9% Miyoko Jōno (LL) 1.6%
Fukuoka	2	Shigeko Mieno	SDP	LDP gains top tōsen DPJ pickup
Saga	1	Takao Jinnouchi	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Takao Jinnouchi (LDP) 65.0% Yasuhiro Fujino (DPJ) 23.2% Yasutoshi Kamimura (JCP) 7.3% Yasuhiro Fukagawa (LL) 4.5%
Nagasaki	1	Tadashi Taura	LDP	Incumbent re-elected	Tadashi Taura (LDP) 53.4% Yūji Mitsuno (I) 29.3% Kōtarō Tanaka (I) 6.9% Kimiko Ogawa (JCP) 6.6% Sachiko Matsumoto (LL) 3.8%
Kumamoto	1	Hirohide Uozumi	Independent	1 seat lost by reapportionment Independent incumbent retired LDP incumbent re-elected	Issei Miura (LDP) 55.5% Mariko Kōyama (DPJ) 34.8% Etsuko Nishikawa (JCP) 5.4% Kazuo Misumi (LL) 2.5% Hirofumi Ishida (NSP) 1.8%
Kumamoto	1	Issei Miura	LDP
Ōita	1	Keigi Kajiwara	SDP	Incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup	Hiroko Gotō (LDP) 49.4% Keigi Kajiwara (SDP) 43.4% Masami Doi (JCP) 5.2% Kayoko Kōno (LL) 2.1%
Miyazaki	1	Motoi Nagamine	LDP	Incumbent lost re-election LDP hold	Toshifumi Kosehira (LDP) 35.3% Haruo Higashi (I) 30.5% Motoi Nagamine (I) 27.5% Hiromitsu Baba (JCP) 4.1% Yutaka Kohata (LL) 2.6%
Kagoshima	1	Kaname Kamada	LDP	1 seat lost by reapportionment Incumbents retired LDP hold	Yoshito Kajiya (LDP) 55.7% Masahiro Futamure (I) 27.9% Mitsuhiro Yanagida (I) 7.4% Haruki Yamaguchi (JCP) 4.7% Kyōko Hata (NSP) 4.2%
Kagoshima	1	Wataru Kubo	DPJ	1 seat lost by reapportionment Incumbents retired LDP hold
Okinawa	1	Teruya Kantoku	Independent	Incumbent lost re-election LDP pickup	Junshirō Nishime (LDP – Kōmeitō, CP) 47.7% Teruya Kantoku (I – DPJ, LP, SDP, OSMP, LL) 44.0% Sōgi Kayō (JCP) 8.3%

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