The Shikoku proportional representation block was one of 11 multi-member districts (and 311 districts overall) that were contested at the general election for the House of Representatives in the Japanese National Diet on 16 December 2012. Six seats were available for election via open party lists. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won the election in a landslide, which returned former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to power. In the Shikoku PR block, the LDP won two of the six seats with 30.7% of the vote.
Voters who participated in the election cast one ballot for the proportional block and a separate ballot for one of the 13 smaller single-member districts that are located within Shikoku.
Results
Prior to the election, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) held three of the six PR block seats as well as 5 of the 13 small electorates that make up the block. The opposition LDP held 2 of the PR seats and the 8 remaining electorates, while their traditional junior coalition partner Komeito held the final PR seat.
The 2012 general election delivered a landslide victory to the LDP, with 294 of the 480 seats won at the national level. The election decimated the DPJ from a pre-election position of 230 to just 57 seats. In the Shikoku PR block, the DPJ lost 2 of their seats as their vote was reduced to 16.0%, down from 43.2% in the 2009 election. Junya Ogawa lost his seat in Kagawa 1st district but was the DPJ candidate to suffer the narrowest defeat, so he was able to retain a seta in the house. The newly-formed Japan Restoration Party gained the two seats lost by the DPJ. In the 13 single-member electorates, the LDP gained 4 seats, with Yuichiro Tamaki being the only DPJ member to retain his seat in the Kagawa 2nd district.
Elected candidates Party Representative PartyrankTerm # LDP Takakazu Seto 1 1st Restoration Fumiki Sakurauchi 1 1st DPJ Junya Ogawa 1 3rd LDP Yasuji Izuhara 14 2nd Komeito Noritoshi Ishida 1 6th Restoration Arata Nishioka 1 1st
Party lists Liberal Democratic Party Liberal Democratic Party Number of votes: 567,193 Percentage of votes: 30.7% Number of seats won: 2Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Takakazu Seto Kagawa 2nd district91.0 Elected to block 1 Mamoru Fukuyama Tokushima 1st district Won Tokushima 1st district 1 Shunichi Yamaguchi Shikoku proportional representation block Tokushima 2nd district Won Tokushima 2nd district 1 Masazumi Gotoda Tokushima 3rd district Tokushima 3rd district Won Tokushima 3rd district 1 Takuya Hirai Shikoku proportional representation block Kagawa 1st district Won Kagawa 1st district 1 Keitaro Ono Kagawa 3rd district Won Kagawa 3rd district 1 Yasuhisa Shiozaki Ehime 1st district Ehime 1st district Won Ehime 1st district 1 Seiichiro Murakami Ehime 2nd district Ehime 2nd district Won Ehime 2nd district 1 Toru Shiraishi Ehime 3rd district Won Ehime 3rd district 1 Koichi Yamamoto Ehime 4th district Ehime 4th district Won Ehime 4th district 1 Teru Fukui Kochi 1st district Kochi 1st district Won Kochi 1st district 1 Gen Nakatani Kochi 2nd district Kochi 2nd district Won Kochi 2nd district 1 Yuji Yamamoto Kochi 3rd district Kochi 3rd district Won Kochi 3rd district 14 Yasuji Izuhara Elected to block Former Kinki PR block representative15 Ichiro Nagai 16 Naka Takahashi 17 Toshinori Matsuzaki 18 Reiko Shinozaki
Democratic Party of Japan Democratic Party of Japan Number of votes: 296,914 Percentage of votes: 16.0% 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 Kagawa 1st district Kagawa 1st district75.0 Elected to block 1 Hirobumi Niki Shikoku proportional representation block Tokushima 3rd district72.3 Lost seat 1 Yoshito Sengoku Tokushima 1st district Tokushima 1st district66.5 Lost seat 1 Miho Takai Tokushima 2nd district Tokushima 2nd district65.6 Lost seat 1 Yoichi Shiraishi Ehime 3rd district Ehime 3rd district60.1 Lost seat 1 Shu Oishi Kochi 1st district58.9 1 Hideyuki Takahashi Shikoku proportional representation block Ehime 4th district46.1 Lost seat 1 Takako Nagae Shikoku proportional representation block Ehime 1st district42.6 Lost seat 1 Yuichiro Tamaki Kagawa 2nd district Kagawa 2nd district Won Kagawa 2nd district
Japan Restoration Party Japan Restoration Party Number of votes: 394,393 Percentage of votes: 21.3% Number of seats won: 2Rank Name Incumbency District contested Loss ratio(Sekihairitsu) Result Notes 99999 AAA AAA AAA 99999 AAA 000 ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ 000 ZZZ1 Fumiki Sakurauchi Ehime 4th district78.2 Elected to block Former House of Councillors member1 Arata Nishioka Ehime 2nd district63.2 Elected to block 1 Natsue Mori Ehime 3rd district41.8 1 Toshihide Ikemoto Ehime 1st district41.5 5 Shinya Fujimura Kochi 1st district37.0 5 Eiji Imanishi Kagawa 1st district23.9 Former Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member7 Junji Ouchi
Komeito Komeito Number of votes: 276,907 Percentage of votes: 15.0% 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 Shinichi Tsukiyama
Japanese Communist Party Japanese Communist Party Number of votes: 106,976 Percentage of votes: 5.8% 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 Masaru Sasaoka 2 Naoaki Haruna (Former member) Kochi 1st district
Your Party Your Party Number of votes: 93,090 Percentage of votes: 5.0% 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 Teruaki Nakayama
Tomorrow Party of Japan Tomorrow Party Number of votes: 63,830 Percentage of votes: 3.4% 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 Toshiro Tomochika Ehime 2nd district Former House of Councillors member2 Yoko Washino
Social Democratic Party Social Democratic Party Number of votes: 42,762 Percentage of votes: 2.3% 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 Haruhiko Maida Kagawa 3rd district
Happiness Realization Party Happiness Realization Party Number of votes: 8,171 Percentage of votes: 0.4% 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 Jikido Aeba 2 Akemi Takeo
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