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Tōhoku Proportional Representation Block
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Tōhoku block highlighted
PrefecturesAomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, and Fukushima
Electorate7,538,808
Current constituency
Created1994
Number of members13

The Tōhoku proportional representation block (比例[代表]東北ブロック, Hirei [daihyō] Tōhoku burokku) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) blocks for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of the Tōhoku region, namely the prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima. Upon the introduction of proportional voting at the 1996 general election, the block elected 16 Representatives to the House. The block's representation was reduced to 14 Representatives at the 2000 general election, and to 13 in the 2017 election.[1]

Summary of results

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All major national parties have managed to obtain at least one of the PR seats in Tōhoku since the introduction of proportional voting in 1996. The region also contains several strongholds: Aomori in particular is a typical "conservative kingdom" and leans towards the LDP along with the Western prefectures along the Sea of Japan coast; Iwate is the home of Ichirō Ozawa, former NFP, LP and DPJ president and a "Democratic kingdom" having also the first prefectural parliament in Japan where the Democrats managed to obtain the status of strongest party in 2007.

General election LDP DPJ Kōmeitō JCP SDP NFP ('96)/
LP ('00)/
TPJ ('12)/
PLP ('14) 		JRP ('12)/
JIP ('14)		 YP Others
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
1996 1,630,777 35.3 6 513,410 11.1 2 – 442,790 9.6 1 382,271 8.3 1 1,532,987 33.2 6 – 121,828 2.6 0
2000 1,545,028 32.0 5 1,024,253 21.2 3 474,238 9.8 1 391,055 8.1 1 517,267 10.7 1 786,751 16.3 3 – 96,174 2.0 0
2003 1,794,284 37.6 6 1,784,768 37.4 5 565,179 11.9 1 313,290 6.6 1 310,187 6.5 1 – – –
2005 1,901,595 36.5 6 1,748,165 33.6 5 620,638 11.9 1 325,176 6.2 1 362,523 7.0 1 – – 244,933 4.7 0
2009 1,491,761 27.9 4 2,433,836 45.5 7 516,688 9.7 1 315,201 5.9 1 316,635 5.9 1 – – 241,445 4.5 0 36,295 0.7 0
2012 1,238,716 28.6 5 805,709 18.6 3 398,131 9.2 1 256,838 5.9 1 160,367 3.7 0 391,216 9.0 1 725,006 16.7 2 306,102 7.1 1 56,412 1.3 0
2014 1,265,372 32.9 5 863,539 22.5 4 431,169 11.2 2 379,811 9.9 1 131,857 3.4 0 181,487 4.7 0 499,437 13.0 2 – 89,227 2.3 0

List of representatives

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Elected Representatives
Tenure 1996-2000 2000-03 2003-05 2005-09 2009-12 2012-14 2014-17 2017-21 2021-24 2024-pres.
Rep.
Party 		Zenmei Matsumoto
JCP 		Chizuko Takahashi
JCP 		Akinori Eto
LDP 		Jun Tsushima
LDP 		Akinori Eto
LDP
Rep.
Party 		Kenjirō Hatakeyama
SDP 		Tetsuo Kanno
SDP 		Kiyohiro Yamamoto
SDP 		Tetsuo Kanno
SDP 		Hideo Yoshiizumi
SDP 		Kōji Hata
TPJ -> PLP 		Emi Kaneko
DPJ -> DP 		Manabu Terata
KnT -> Ind. -> CDP 		Akiko Okamoto
CDP 		Yuki Baba
CDP
Rep.
Party 		Ichirō Hino (died 2003)
DPJ 		Masayo Tanabu
DPJ 		Kiyohito Hashimoto
DPJ 		Masayo Tanabu
DPJ 		Kazuko Kōri
DPJ -> DP 		Akiko Okamoto
CDP 		Kenya Akiba
LDP 		Chisato Morishita
LDP
Rep.
Party 		Kenji Kodama
DPJ 		Takao Satō
DPJ 		Yōsuke Kondō
DPJ 		Noriko Nakanowatami
DPJ 		Yōsuke Kondō
DPJ -> DP 		Yoshitami Kameoka
LDP 		Ichirō Kanke
LDP 		Manabu Terata
CDP
Rep.
Party 		Yasusuke Konta
NFP -> DPJ 		Yasasuke Konta
DPJ 		Izumi Yoshida
DPJ 		Kazuo Takamatsu
DPJ 		Izumi Yoshida
DPJ 		Manabu Terata
DPJ -> DP 		Takashi Fujiwara
LDP 		Manabu Terata
CDP 		Daijiro Kikuchi
DPP
Rep.
Party 		Kijūrō Sugahara
NFP -> Lib. 		Kijūrō Sugahara (resigned 2001)
Lib. 		Kentarō Ishihara
Lib. 		Michihiko Kano
DPJ 		Kazuko Kōri
DPJ 		Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
DPJ 		Shinji Oguma
JRP -> JIP 		Sekio Masuta
JIP -> DP 		Shinji Oguma
KnT -> DPP -> CDP 		Kenichi Shōji
Komeito 		Junji Fukuhara
LDP
Rep.
Party 		Tatsuo Sasayama
NFP -> Lib. 		Kentarō Kudō
Lib. 		Teruhiko Mashiko
DPJ 		Hokuto Yokoyama
DPJ 		Kyōichi Tsushima
DPJ 		Toshihide Muraoka
JRP -> JIP 		Toshihide Muraoka
JIP -> Vision of Reform -> DP 		Yoshihisa Inoue
Komeito 		Junji Fukuhara
LDP 		Kenichi Shōji
Komeito
Rep.
Party 		Yoshihisa Inoue
NFP -> Komeito 		Yoshihisa Inoue
Komeito 		Makoto Yamazaki
CDP 		Ichirō Ozawa
CDP 		Sekio Masuta
CDP
Rep.
Party 		Kōdō Kohata
NFP -> DPJ 		Yoshinobu Takahashi
Lib. 		Masashi Nakano
LDP 		Miki Wajima (resigned in 2012)
DPJ 		Ippu Watanabe
DPJ 		Hiroki Hayashi
YP -> Unity Party -> JIP 		Yūichi Mayama
Komeito 		Hinako Takahashi
LDP 		Katsutoshi Kaneda
LDP 		Nobuhide Minorikawa
LDP
Rep.
Party 		Kōki Hagino
NFP -> LDP 		Kōki Hagino
LDP 		Atsushi Watanabe
LDP 		Chōuemon Kikuchi
DPJ 		Sachiko Kanno
LDP 		Ichirō Kanke
LDP 		Chizuko Takahashi
JCP 		Wakako Sawara
Reiwa
Rep.
Party 		Hidefumi Minorikawa (died 2003)
LDP 		Kyōichi Tsushima
LDP 		Tatsuo Satō
LDP 		Katsutoshi Kaneda
LDP 		Miyo Ōkubo
LDP 		Shigeaki Katsunama
LDP 		Takashi Midorikawa
KnT -> DPP -> CDP 		Kentarō Uesugi
LDP 		Yuki Saito
CDP
Rep.
Party 		Ichio Kumagai
LDP 		Tokuichirō Tamazawa
LDP 		Kenya Akiba
LDP 		Hinako Takahashi
LDP 		Kentarō Uesugi
LDP 		Atsushi Hayasaka
Ishin 		Taku Nemoto
LDP
Rep.
Party 		Kōji Futada
LDP 		Hiroyuki Arai
LDP 		Kōji Futada
LDP 		Masayoshi Yoshino
LDP 		Hidenori Hashimoto
LDP 		Yukihiko Akutsu
CDP 		Yuki Baba
CDP 		Seat abolished
Rep.
Party 		Toshiaki Endō
LDP 		Kōji Sakamoto
LDP 		Masayoshi Yoshino
LDP 		Kōji Sakamoto
LDP 		Toshiaki Endō
LDP 		Takashi Fujiwara
LDP 		Seat abolished
Rep.
Party 		Tokuichirō Tamazawa
LDP 		Seat abolished
Rep.
Party 		Yoshiyuki Hozumi
LDP 		Seat abolished

Recent results

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  • #: List rank assigned by the party
  • District column: For double candidates who concurrently ran in a single-member electoral district, the district column contains the electoral district where they stood and the sekihairitsu (lit. "narrow defeat ratio"), the ratio of margin of defeat. It determines the ranking of candidates who are put on the same list rank by their party.
  • (in parentheses): Double candidates who are not eligible for election in the proportional block either because they won their district races or were disqualified for having received less than 10% of the vote in the district race (also the threshold for losing the deposit)

2014

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Tōhoku block results in the 2014 general House of Representatives election[2]
# Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status
LDP: 1,265,372 votes (32.9%), 5 seats DPJ: 863,539 votes (22.5%), 4 seats JIP: 499,437 votes (13.0%), 2 seats
1 (Jun Tsushima) Aomori 1 (won) 1 (Takeshi Shina) Iwate 1 (won) 1 (Shinji Oguma) Fukushima 4 (won)
(Akinori Eto) Aomori 2 (won) (Tōru Kikawada) Iwate 3 (won) Sekio Masuta Aomori 1 (94.2%) Elected
(Tadamori Ōshima) Aomori 3 (won) (Jun Azumi) Miyagi 5 (won) Toshihide Muraoka Akita 3 (94.0%) Elected
(Tarō Kumura) Aomori 4 (won) (Kōichirō Genba) Fukushima 3 (won) Hiroki Hayashi Miyagi 2 (66.4%) –
(Shun'ichi Suzuki) Iwate 2 (won) Emi Kaneko Fukushima 1 (94.8%) Elected Noriko Nakanowatari Aomori 2 (34.8%) –
(Tōru Doi) Miyagi 1 (won) Yōsuke Kondō Yamagata 2 (92.3%) Elected Kōmeitō: 431,169 votes (11.2%), 2 seats
(Ken'ya Akiba) Miyagi 2 (won) Manabu Terata Akita 1 (87.0%) Elected 1 Yoshihisa Inoue – Elected
(Akihiro Nishimura) Miyagi 3 (won) Kazuko Kōri Miyagi 1 (86.8%) Elected 2 Yūichi Mayama – Elected
(Shintarō Itō) Miyagi 4 (won) Izumi Yoshida Fukushima 5 (84.4%) – JCP: 379,811 votes (9.9%), 1 seat
(Itsunori Onodera) Miyagi 6 (won) Masayo Tanabu Aomori 3 (82.8%) – 1 Chizuko Takahashi – Elected
(Hiroyuki Togashi) Akita 1 (won) Takashi Midorikawa Akita 2 (69.1%) – 2 Tomo Iwabuchi – –
(Katsutoshi Kaneda) Akita 2 (won) Kiyohito Hashimoto Miyagi 3 (64.2%) – PLP: 181,487 votes (4.7%), no seat
(Nobuhide Minorikawa) Akita 3 (won) Mitsunori Akabe Fukushima 2 (63.6%) – 1 (Ichirō Ozawa) Iwate 4 (won)
(Toshiaki Endō) Yamagata 1 (won) Masae Ido Miyagi 4 (51.2%) – Kōji Hata Iwate 2 (84.1%) -
(Norikazu Suzuki) Yamagata 2 (won) Takashi Yamauchi Aomori 4 (48.1%) – 3 Sadao Hirano – –
(Ayuko Katō) Yamagata 3 (won) Masahiro Harada Yamagata 1 (46.7%) – PFG: 71,026 votes (1.8%), no seat
(Yoshitami Kameoka) Fukushima 1 (won) Sayuri Kamata Miyagi 6 (32.4%) – 1 (Teruaki Masumoto) Miyagi 2 (16.7%) DQ
(Takumi Nemoto) Fukushima 2 (won) (Taisei Yoshida) Yamagata 3 (20.0%) DQ 2 Nakako Uda – –
(Masayoshi Yoshino) Fukushima 5 (won) 19 Yoshiaki Kobayashi – – HRP: 18,201 votes (0.5%), no seat
Ichirō Kanke Fukushima 4 (99.2%) Elected SDP: 131,857 votes (3.4%), no seat 1 Hisshō Yanai – –
Takashi Fujiwara Iwate 4 (76.7%) Elected 1 (Uzen Ogawa) Fukushima 4 (17.8%) DQ 2 Ryōta Shirotori – –
Hinako Takahashi Iwate 1 (60.4%) Elected (Takashi Kuwajima) Miyagi 2 (12.8%) DQ 3 Tetsushi Yui – –
Hidenori Hashimoto Iwate 3 (57.4%) Elected (Mitsumasa Hosokawa) Iwate 1 (11.7%) DQ
Shigeaki Katsunuma Miyagi 5 (52.9%) Elected (Masamichi Itō) Akita 1 (8.1%) DQ
Kentarō Uesugi Fukushima 3 (52.0%) 5 Masahiro Kimura – –
26 Sachiko Kanno – –
27 Osamu Yoshida – –
28 Fumito Murakami – –

2012

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Tōhoku block results in the 2012 general House of Representatives election[3]
# Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status # Candidate District Status
LDP: 1,238,716 votes (28.6%), 5 seats DPJ: 805,709 votes (18.6%), 3 seats JRP: 725,006 votes (16.7%), 2 seats
1 (Jun Tsushima) Aomori 1 (won) 1 (Takeshi Shina) Iwate 1 (won) 1 Shinji Oguma Fukushima 4 (69.7%) Elected
(Akinori Eto) Aomori 2 (won) (Tōru Kikawada) Iwate 3 (won) 2 Toshihide Muraoka Akita 3 (76.5%) Elected
(Tadamori Ōshima) Aomori 3 (won) (Jun Azumi) Miyagi 5 (won) Sekio Masuta Aomori 1 (64.7%) –
(Tarō Kimura) Aomori 4 (won) (Kōichirō Genba) Fukushima 3 (won) 4 Masashi Nakano Miyagi 2 (59.1%) –
(Shun'ichi Suzuki) Iwate 2 (won) Izumi Yoshida Fukushima 5 (88.7%) Elected Noboru Usami Fukushima 5 (42.8%) –
(Tōru Doi) Miyagi 1 (won) Yōsuke Kondō Yamagata 2 (81.2%) Elected Masaki Hatakeyama Miyagi 4 (38.2%) –
(Ken'ya Akiba) Miyagi 2 (won) Kazuko Kōri Miyagi 1 (69.6%) Elected Takeaharu Satō Yamagata 3 (35.2%) –
(Akihiro Nishimura) Miyagi 3 (won) Michihiko Kano Yamagata 1 (68.9%) – Kazunori Midorikawa Fukushima 2 (27.9%) –
(Shintarō Itō) Miyagi 4 (won) Keiki Ishiyama Miyagi 4 (67.6%) – Hiroaki Kawano Yamagata 2 (26.1%) –
(Itsunori Onodera) Miyagi 6 (won) Manabu Terata Akita 1 (67.1%) – (Nobuhiro Ōmiya) Akita 1 (20.9%) DQ
(Hiroyuki Togashi) Akita 1 (won) Hiroshi Kawaguchi Akita 2 (62.5%) – Kōmeitō: 398,131 votes (9.2%), 1 seat
(Katsutoshi Kaneda) Akita 2 (won) Masayo Tanabu Aomori 3 (61.6%) – 1 Yoshihisa Inoue – Elected
(Nobuhide Minorikawa) Akita 3 (won) Kiyohito Hashimoto Miyagi 3 (53.2%) – 2 Yūichi Mayama – –
(Toshiaki Endō) Yamagata 1 (won) Azuma Konno Miyagi 2 (45.8%) – TPJ: 391,216 votes (9.0%), 1 seat
(Norikazu Suzuki) Yamagata 2 (won) Hideki Ōba Fukushima 1 (36.7%) – 1 Kōji Hata Iwate 2 (65.9%) Elected
(Yoshitami Kameoka) Fukushima 1 (won) Toshiaki Oikawa Iwate 4 (36.6%) – Yasunori Saitō Miyagi 2 (44.8%) –
(Takumi Nemoto) Fukushima 2 (won) Kyōichi Tsushima Aomori 4 (33.6%) – Hokuto Yokoyama Aomori 1 (43.7%) –
(Ichirō Kanke) Fukushima 4 (won) Yasuo Saitō Fukushima 2 (26.4%) – Yōzaburō Ishihara Fukushima 1 (41.3%) –
(Gōji Sakamoto) Fukushima 5 (won) Mariko Mitsui Akita 3 (24.3%) – Kazumi Ōta Fukushima 2 (27.1%) –
Hinako Takahashi Iwate 1 (78.7%) Elected Tomonobu Nakamura Aomori 2 (22.9%) – Kimiko Kyōno Akita 3 (25.9%) –
Takashi Fujiwara Iwate 4 (61.3%) Elected Sayuri Kamata Miyagi 6 (21.5%) – (Kazuo Takamatsu) Akita 1 (13.2%) DQ
Hidenori Hashimoto Iwate 3 (57.8%) Elected (Rina Hatano) Aomori 1 (23.3%) DQ 8 Chōuemon Kikuchi – –
Miyo Ōkubo Miyagi 5 (47.8%) Elected YP: 306,102 votes (7.1%), 1 seat 9 Yōko Tasso Iwate 1 (74.5%) –
Sachiko Kanno Fukushima 3 (45.2%) Elected 1 Hiroki Hayashi Miyagi 1 (43.7%) Elected Naomi Satō Iwate 3 (69.4%) –
25 Osamu Yoshida – – Fumihiro Kikuchi Miyagi 2 (30.2%) – Noriko Nakanowatari Aomori 2 (22.1%) –
26 Fumito Murakami – – (Kazumasa Sugamoto) Fukushima 5 (16.5%) DQ (Masato Yokota) Miyagi 1 (18.9%) DQ
JCP: 256,838 votes (5.9%), 1 seat SDP: 160,367 votes (3.7%), no seat (Takashi Yamanouchi) Aomori 3 (17.1%) DQ
1 Chizuko Takahashi – Elected 1 Hideo Yoshiizumi Yamagata 3 (31.9%) – (Nobuko Abe) Miyagi 5 (12.7%) DQ
2 Tomo Iwabuchi – – Hiroshi Ishida Akita 2 (23.4%) – (Kiichi Matsumoto) Fukushima 5 (11.2%) DQ
NRP: 41,587 votes (1.0%), no seat Uzen Ogawa Fukushima 4 (21.9%) – 16 Tamikazu Kawaguchi – –
1 Kentarō Uesugi – – (Masahiro Isawa) Iwate 1 (17.7%) DQ HRP: 14,825 votes (0.3%), no seat
– (Takashi Kuwajima) Miyagi 1 (7.4%) DQ 1 Hironori Matsushima – –
6 Fumiyo Yamana – – 2 Shūji Nakanishi – –
7 Tetsuo Kanno – – 3 Hidemitsu Sakai – –

2009

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Tōhoku block results in the 2009 general election[4][5]
LDP: 1,491,761 votes (27.9%), 4 seats DPJ: 2,433,836 votes (45.5%), 7 seats Kōmeitō: 516,688 votes (9.7%), 1 seat
# Candidate District "Loss ratio"
(sekihairitsu)		 Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
1 Masayoshi Yoshino Fukushima 3 (35.5%) Elected 1 Masayo Tanabu Aomori 3 99.5% Elected 1 Yoshihisa Inoue PR only Elected
2 Ken'ya Akiba PR only Elected Kyōichi Tsushima Aomori 4 86.8% Elected 2 Kaneshige Wakamatsu –
3 Toshiaki Endō Yamagata 1 98.7% Elected Noriko Nakanowatari Aomori 2 74.2% Elected 3 Tetsuya Kawamata –
Katsutoshi Kaneda Akita 2 98.5% Elected Hokuto Yokoyama Aomori 1 Won district JCP: 315,201 votes (5.9%), 1 seat
Akinori Eto Aomori 2 Won district Takeshi Shina Iwate 1 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Tadamori Ōshima Aomori 3 Won district Kōji Hata Iwate 2 Won district 1 Chizuko Takahashi PR only Elected
Tarō Kimura Aomori 4 Won district Tōru Kikawada Iwate 3 Won district 2 Shizue Miyamoto –
Itsunori Onodera Miyagi 6 Won district Kazuko Kōri Miyagi 1 Won district 3 Satoshi Suzuki Akita 1 17.0% –
Kōichi Katō Yamagata 3 Won district Yasunori Saitō Miyagi 2 Won district Mikio Katō Miyagi 4 9.9% –
Nobuhide Minorikawa Akita 3 88.9% – Kiyohito Hashimoto Miyagi 3 Won district Yō Yoshimata Aomori 1 7.8% –
Yoshitaka Kameoka Fukushima 1 87.4% – Keiki Ishiyama Miyagi 4 Won district Sadakiyo Segawa Iwate 4 6.1% –
Takumi Nemoto Fukushima 2 84.9% – Jun Azumi Miyagi 5 Won district Masayuki Satō Yamagata 1 5.6% –
Shun'ichi Suzuki Iwate 2 82.1% – Manabu Terata Akita 1 Won district SDP: 316,635 votes (5.9%), 1 seat
Akihiro Nishimura Miyagi 3 79.0% – Mikiko Kyōno Akita 3 Won district # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Shintarō Itō Miyagi 4 77.2% – Michihiko Kano Yamagata 1 Won district 1 Hideo Yoshiizumi Yamagata 3 61.5% Elected
Masami Saitō Miyagi 5 70.7% – Yōsuke Kondō Yamagata 2 Won district Tetsuo Kanno Miyagi 6 53.6% –
Kōji Futada Akita 1 66.3% – Yōsaburō Ishihara Fukushima 1 Won district Kiyohiro Yamamoto Akita 2 25.2% –
Kōji Sakamoto Fukushima 5 65.5% – Kazumi Ōta Fukushima 2 Won district Senryō Obara Iwate 4 21.5% –
Masashi Nakano Miyagi 2 62.3% – Kōichirō Genba Fukushima 3 Won district Hidehiko Watanabe Aomori 1 12.6% –
Tōru Doi Miyagi 1 58.2% – Kōzō Watanabe Fukushima 4 Won district Masahiro Isawa Iwate 1 11.2% –
Atsushi Watanabe Fukushima 4 53.8% – Izumi Yoshida Fukushima 5 Won district YP: 241,445 votes (4.5%), no seat
Hironori Suzuki Yamagata 2 48.7% – 22 Miki Wajima PR only Elected # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
Hidenori Hashimoto Iwate 3 46.9% – 23 Kazuo Takamatsu Elected 1 Shinji Oguma Fukushima 4 46.7% –
Hinako Takahashi Iwate 1 43.4% – 24 Chōuemon Kikuchi Elected Shigehito Sasaki Akita 2 9.2% –
Yoshinobu Takahashi Iwate 4 31.1% – 25 Kazuyuki Yamaguchi Elected HRP: 36,295 votes (0.7%), no seat
26 Nobuhiro Ōmiya PR only – 26 Tamikazu Kawaguchi – (removed) # Candidate District "Loss ratio" Elected
27 Shigeyo Nagaoka – 27 Ippu Watanabe – (in 2012) 1 Hironori Matsushima PR only –
28 Hisataka Satō – 28 Hisashi Suzuki – 2 Yukiya Uejō –
– 3 Maki Akimoto –

References

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  1. ^ MIC: 2017 changes to House of Representatives electoral districts (in Japanese)
  2. ^ 総選挙2014>開票結果 比例代表 東北（定数14）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  3. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 比例代表 東北（定数14）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  4. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Results of the 2009 general election
  5. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun: Election feature 2009

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