Tokyo 10th District | |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Constituency Link: | Tokyo 10th district |
Parl Name: | Japanese House of Representatives |
Map Size: | 450px |
District Label: | Prefecture |
District: | Tokyo |
Region Label: | Proportional District |
Region: | Tokyo |
Electorate: | 351,821 (2012) |
Year: | 1994 |
Members Label: | Representative |
Members: | Hayato Suzuki |
Seats: | One |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Party Label: | Party |
Party: | LDP |
Previous: | Tokyo 5th district |
Blank1 Name: | Wards |
Blank1 Info: | Parts of Toshima, Nerima, Nakano and Shinjuku |
Tokyo 10th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). As of 2012, 351,821 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It covers northwestern parts of the former city of Tokyo. Originally it consisted of the ward of Toshima and parts of Nerima, but after redistricting in 2017 it comprises parts of four wards, Toshima, Nerima, Nakano and Shinjuku.
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Tokyo 5th district where three Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote. Until her successful gubernatorial bid in 2016, Liberal Democrat Yuriko Koike had represented the district. Koike, formerly a representative for Hyōgo 6th district, had taken over Tokyo 10th district in 2005 as one of Jun’ichirō Koizumi's "female assassins" to take out postal privatization rebel Kōki Kobayashi. In the landslide election of 2009, she lost the district to Takako Ebata (DPJ, Ozawa group), one of the so-called "Ozawa girls" (小沢ガールズ, Ozawa gāruzu), a group of female first-time candidates handpicked by DPJ ex-chairman Ichirō Ozawa.
The current representative, elected in the 2017 general election, is Hayato Suzuki.
Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |||
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Kōki Kobayashi | bgcolor= | LDP | 1996–2005 | postal privatization rebel in 2005, joined New Party Nippon | ||
Yuriko Koike | bgcolor= | LDP | 2005–2009 | Re-elected in the Tokyo PR block, minister of state in the 2nd and 3rd Koizumi Cabinets and the 1st Abe Cabinet | ||
Takako Ebata | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2009–2012 | Failed re-election in the Tokyo block | ||
Yuriko Koike | bgcolor= | LDP | 2012–2016 | Forfeited seat on July 14, 2016 when she became a candidate in the gubernatorial election[2] | ||
Vacant (July – October 2016) | ||||||
Masaru Wakasa | bgcolor= | LDP | 2016–2017 | Submitted his resignation from the LDP ahead of the 2017 Tokyo prefectural election to support Koike's new party. The LDP accepted his exit on July 3, 2017.[3] | ||
bgcolor= | Kibō | 2017 | ||||
Hayato Suzuki | bgcolor= | LDP | 2017- |