Kanagawa 15th district

Kanagawa 15th District
Kanagawa 15th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Kanagawa Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Kanagawa
Proportional District	Southern Kanto
Electorate	472,647
Current constituency
Seats	One
Party	LDP

Kanagawa 15th district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kanagawa Prefecture, and includes the cities of Chigasaki and Hiratsuka, and the town of Ōiso.

As of 2022, the district was home to 472,647 constituents.

The district is represented by Taro Kono of the Liberal Democratic Party; he has represented the district since the 1996 election.^[2]

List of representatives

Election	Representative
1996	Taro Kono	Liberal Democratic
2000
2003
2005
2009
2012
2014
2017
2021
2024

Election Results

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	210,515	79.32
	Social Democratic	Katsumi Sasaki [ja]	46,312	17.45
	Anti-NHK	Mariko Watanabe	8,565	3.23	New
Registered electors			473,497
Turnout				57.32	5.90
	LDP hold

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	159,647	67.63
	Social Democratic	Katsumi Sasaki [ja]	38,242	16.20
	Kibō no Tō	Ryosuke Nogi [ja]	38,162	16.17	New
Registered electors			469,287
Turnout				51.42	1.33
	LDP hold

2014^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	155,388	66.79
	Independent	Toichiro Ikeda [ja]	39,211	16.85
	Communist	Tokumitsu Numagami	38,068	16.36
Registered electors			456,896
Turnout				52.75
	LDP hold

2012^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	192,604	79.98
	Communist	Yuka Asaka	48,198	20.02
Turnout
	LDP hold

2009^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	163,470	53.25
	Democratic	Koichiro Katsumata [ja] (elected by Minami Kanto PR block)	124,414	40.52
	Communist	Takuya Nishiwaki	15,786	5.14
	Happiness Realization	Yusaku Hamada	3,341	1.09	New
Turnout
	LDP hold

2005^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	186,770	63.88
	Democratic	Koichiro Katsumata [ja]	83,490	28.55
	Communist	Takuya Nishiwaki	22,139	7.57
Turnout
	LDP hold

2003^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	148,955	59.89
	Democratic	Fumihiko Sakai	76,967	30.95
	Communist	Sadao Yoshii	16,122	6.48
	Independent	Hidemitsu Katsura	6,674	2.68	New
Turnout
	LDP hold

2000^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono (Incumbent)	120,001	47.44
	Democratic	Takeshi Suzuki	56,943	22.51	New
	Social Democratic	Etsuko Yamanaka	39,636	15.67	New
	Communist	Tadashi Mikami	24,355	9.63
	Liberal League	Yoko Shimizu	12,012	4.75	New
Turnout
	LDP hold

1996^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Taro Kono	84,723	36.44	New
	New Frontier	Koichiro Katsumata [ja]	71,426	30.72	New
	Democratic	Mitsuo Tomizuka [ja]	47,506	20.43	New
	Communist	Kazuo Yamamoto	28,820	12.40	New
Turnout

References

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[abc-1] "令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registrants on the electoral list and overseas electoral list as of September 1, 2022]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). 2023.

[2] "KONO_Taro_Shugiin". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-08-01.

[3] "2021年衆議院総選挙神奈川15区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[4] "2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHk (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[5] "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[6] "開票結果小選挙区神奈川". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.

[7] "第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川15区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-08.

[8] "第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川15区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-09.

[9] "第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川15区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-09.

[10] "第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川15区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-09.

[11] "第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川15区" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-10-09.

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4