Aichi 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Aichi Prefecture and consists of Nagoya's Nakamura and Nakagawa wards and the city of Kiyosu. As of 2016, 428,423 eligible voters were registered in the district.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC):
Nagoya is considered a "Democratic kingdom" (minshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). But Aichi's 5th district is the only electoral district in Nagoya (Aichi 1 to 5) that also contains areas outside Nagoya. In the landslide "postal privatization" election of 2005, it became the first district in Nagoya that the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could win since the introduction of single-member districts in 1996: Liberal Democrat Takahide Kimura won narrowly against the Democratic incumbent Hirotaka Akamatsu who was then only reelected in the Tōkai proportional representation block. Akamatsu had represented Aichi's 5th district since 1996 and regained the seat in the 2009 general election. He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Hatoyama Cabinet. In 2012, he lost the district by less than 2,000 votes to Liberal Democrat Kenji Kanda. Akamatsu regained the district in 2014 and held it until 2021.
In 2023, Kenji Kanda had to resign from his position as a vice finance minister after admitting his company had failed to pay taxes. Subsequently he lost his seat in the 2024 election.
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 1996 – 2005 Won in the PR block Takahide Kimura LDP 2005 – 2009 Retired Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 2009 – 2012 Won in the PR block Kenji Kanda LDP 2012 – 2014 Won in the PR block Hirotaka Akamatsu DPJ 2014 – 2016 DP 2016 – 2017 CDP 2017 – 2021 Kenji Kanda LDP 2021 – 2024 CDP 2024 – 2026 LDP 2026 –
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