The Shikoku proportional representation block was one of 11 multi-member districts (and 306 districts overall) that were contested at the general election for the House of Representatives in the Japanese National Diet on 14 December 2014. Six seats were available for election via open party lists. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained their dominance in the predominantly rural area, claiming three of the seats.
Voters who participated in the election cast one ballot for the proportional block and a separate ballot for one of the 11 smaller single-member districts that are located within Shikoku. The number of single-member districts within Shikoku was reduced from the 13 districts that were contested at the previous election in 2012.
Results
Following on from the LDP landslide win at the 2012 general election, in which the party won 12 of the 13 electorates in Shikoku plus two of the six seats from the PR list, the LDP maintained their dominant position in the region by retaining all 10 of their electorates (two electorates were abolished to address voter malapportionment) and gaining a seat on the PR list from the dissolved Japan Restoration Party (JRP).
The JRP, which won 2 seats with 21.3% of the vote at the 2012 general election, had split in May 2014, with former members subsequently forming the Japan Innovation Party and Party for Future Generations. Of the two JRP members previously elected from the Shikoku PR list, joined the Party for Future Generations and contested the PR block in 2014, while contested the Ehime 2nd district as an independent; both candidates lost.
Former member the Japan Innovation Party's unsuccessful candidate in Ehime 2nd district, gained a seat for the new party, while the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and Komeito representatives were able to retain their seats.
Elected candidates Party Representative PartyrankTerm # LDP Teru Fukui 1 6th DPJ Junya Ogawa 1 4th LDP Mamoru Fukuyama 2 2nd Komeito Noritoshi Ishida 1 7th Innovation 1 1st LDP Takakazu Seto 3 2nd
Party lists Liberal Democratic Party Liberal Democratic Party Number of votes: 547,185 Percentage of votes: 34.9% Number of seats won: 3Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Teru Fukui Kochi 1st district Elected to block 2 Mamoru Fukuyama Tokushima 1st district Elected to block 3 Takakazu Seto Shikoku proportional representation block Kagawa 2nd district72.7 Elected to block 3 Masazumi Gotoda Tokushima 3rd district Tokushima 1st district Won Tokushima 1st district 3 Shunichi Yamaguchi Tokushima 2nd district Tokushima 2nd district Won Tokushima 2nd district 3 Takuya Hirai Kagawa 1st district Kagawa 1st district Won Kagawa 1st district 3 Kagawa 3rd district Kagawa 3rd district Won Kagawa 3rd district 3 Yasuhisa Shiozaki Ehime 1st district Ehime 1st district Won Ehime 1st district 3 Seiichiro Murakami Ehime 2nd district Ehime 2nd district Won Ehime 2nd district 3 Ehime 3rd district Ehime 3rd district Won Ehime 3rd district 3 Koichi Yamamoto Ehime 4th district Ehime 4th district Won Ehime 4th district 3 Gen Nakatani Kochi 2nd district Kochi 1st district Won Kochi 1st district 3 Yuji Yamamoto Kochi 3rd district Kochi 2nd district Won Kochi 2nd district 14 Ichiro Nagai 15 Masae Izumi 16 Mitsuru Yuasa
Democratic Party of Japan Democratic Party of Japan Number of votes: 326,803 Percentage of votes: 20.8% Number of seats won: 1Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Junya Ogawa Shikoku proportional representation block Kagawa 1st district88.7 Elected to block 1 Yoichi Shiraishi (Former member) Ehime 3rd district81.0 1 Hirobumi Niki (Former member) Tokushima 1st district75.0 1 Takako Nagae (Former member) Ehime 1st district74.5 1 Norio Takeuchi Kochi 2nd district50.8 Former House of Councillors member1 Shu Oishi Kochi 1st district48.8 1 Yuichiro Tamaki Kagawa 2nd district Kagawa 2nd district Won Kagawa 2nd district 8 Hajime Tsuzugi
Komeito Komeito Number of votes: 247,776 Percentage of votes: 15.8% Number of seats won: 1Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Noritoshi Ishida Shikoku proportional representation block Elected to block 2 Hideo Nakano
Japan Innovation Party Japan Innovation Party Number of votes: 200,882 Percentage of votes: 12.8% Number of seats won: 1Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Ehime 2nd district39.6 Elected to block 1 Natsue Mori Ehime 4th district30.2 3 Yoshinori Kita
Japanese Communist Party Japanese Communist Party Number of votes: 158,848 Percentage of votes: 10.1% Number of seats won: 0Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Yuriko Hamaka 2 (Former member) Kochi 1st district
Party for Future Generations Party for Future Generations Number of votes: 44,515 Percentage of votes: 2.8% Number of seats won: 0Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Shikoku proportional representation block Ehime 4th district Lost seat Elected as a Japan Restoration Party candidate in 20122 Mitsuya Sugiyama
Social Democratic Party Social Democratic Party Number of votes: 33,257 Percentage of votes: 2.1% Number of seats won: 0Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Yoshinori Takata Kagawa 3rd district
Happiness Realization Party Happiness Realization Party Number of votes: 10,762 Percentage of votes: 0.7% Number of seats won: 0Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Yuka Komatsu 2 Koji Morita
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