was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It was located in Hiroshima and consisted of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012, 377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 The district was eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments and became the Hiroshima 6th district.
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Hiroshima 3rd district where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
The first representative for the single-member 7th district was former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa for the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2000, he was followed by Yōichi Miyazawa (LDP), son of former Hiroshima governor Hiroshi Miyazawa, nephew of Kiichi Miyazawa, grandson of Representatives Yutaka Miyazawa and Masaki Kishida and great-grandson of Representative Heikichi Ogawa. In the landslide election of 2009 when the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition lost its majority, Takashi Wada, husband of former Finance minister Tatsuo Murayama's granddaughter, won the district against Miyazawa for the Democratic Party. In the landslide election of 2012 when the DPJ-PNP coalition lost more than two-thirds of its seats, Liberal Democrat Fumiaki Kobayashi won the district.
List of representatives Party Representative Dates Notes LDP Kiichi Miyazawa 1996–2000 LDP Yōichi Miyazawa 2000–2009 Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block DPJ Takashi Wada 2009–2012 Failed reelection in the Chūgoku PR block LDP Fumiaki Kobayashi 2012–2024 Constituency abolished
Election results
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