Tochigi 4th district


Tochigi 4th District is an constituency of the Japanese House of Representatives in the National Diet of Japan.

Area

Current district

As of 12 December 2024, the areas covered by this district are as follows:
As a result of the 2022 reapportionments, the district lost the remaining areas of Tochigi city to Tochigi's 5th district, while gain the rest of Shimotsuke from Tochigi's 1st district

Areas from 2017 to 2022

Between the second redistricting in 2017 and the third redistricting in 2022, the areas covered by this district were as follows:
Between the first redistricting in 2013 and the second redistricting in 2017, the areas covered by this district were as follows:
  • Tochigi
  • * Ohira
  • * Fujioka
  • * Tsuga
  • Oyama
  • Moka
  • Shimotsuke
  • * Ishibashi
  • * Kokubunji
  • Haga District
  • Shimotsuga District

    Areas from before 2013

From the creation of the district in 1994 until the first redistricting in 2013, the areas covered by this district were as follows:
  • Oyama
  • Moka
  • Haga District
  • Shimotsuga District

    History

From the creation of the district until 2012, every election was a fierce competition between Tsutomu Sato, who served as the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's General Affairs Committee and as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, and Kenji Yamaoka, who served as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Japan's Diet Affairs Committee and as the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission.
For the first four elections, Tsutomu beat Kenji every time by tens of thousands of votes. However, carried by the surge of the Democratic Party of Japan in the 2009 Japanese general election, Kenji was able to win the seat from Tsutomu and become a representative for the first time.
This victory was short-lived however, as in the 2012 Japanese general election, Tsutomu won back his seat with a large margin of over 80,000 votes, putting Kenji into 3rd place.
Tsutomu was able to secure major victories in the next 2 general elections, effectively denying the other candidates a seat on the Northern Kanto proportional representation block. This started to change in 2021 when Takao Fujioka was able to secure a seat on the proportional district, closing the gap to just 4,820 votes. He then went on to win the seat outright in the 2024 Japanese general election, unseating Tsutomu who was relegated to the proportional block seat.

Elected representatives

Election results

- indicates an incumbent primary candidate
- indicates an incumbent proportional district candidate
- indicates candidate was elected to a proportional representation district
- Indicates an incumbent candidate that lost the primary seat but won a seat in the proportional district

2024

2021

2017

2014

2012

2009

2005

2003

2000

1996