Saitama 5th district

Saitama 5th District
Saitama 5th District
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
	Numbered map of Saitama Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Saitama
Proportional District	Kita-Kantō
Electorate	371,683 (2016)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Constitutional Democratic Party
Representative	Yukio Edano
Created from	Saitama's 5th "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Saitama's Nishi, Kita, Minuma, Ōmiya and Chūō wards

Saitama 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Saitama Prefecture and covers Nishi, Kita, Minuma, Ōmiya and Chūō wards of the city of Saitama.

Yukio Edano of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) has held the district since the 2000 general election. After the Democratic Party dissolved and split in 2017, Edano ascended to leadership of the centre-left CDP, which became the second-largest party in the House of Representatives in the 2017 general election.

Edano along with other DPJ candidates won all but one district in Saitama in the 2009 DPJ landslide, wiping out the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from the prefecture. Their fortunes were reversed in the 2012 general election. Edano was the only member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in Saitama prefecture to retain his seat, as the party lost two-thirds of its seats nationwide amid a poor economy and relative geopolitical decline. While losing the race, Edano's resurgent LDP opponent Hideki Makihara managed to gain a proportional block seat. The margin closed down further in the 2014 election and Makihara was only within 3,300 votes from unseating Edano. Makihara was unable to overcome the margin in the 2017 election following the nationwide surge of the Edano-led CDP.^[1] Edano was re-elected with a comfortable 20.28% majority.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Nobuhiko Fukunaga	LDP	1996 – 2000
Yukio Edano	DPJ	2000 – 2016	Incumbent
	DP	2016 – 2017
	CDP	2017 –

Election results

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Yukio Edano	113,615	51.38%	6.02
	LDP	Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	107,532	48.62%	11.50
Majority			6,083	1.38	18.90
	CDP hold		Swing	6.02

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Yukio Edano	119,091	57.40	11.31
	LDP	Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	77,023	37.12	7.24
	Kibō no Tō	Hidefumi Takagi (endorsed by Ishin)	11,379	5.48	N/A
Majority			42,068	20.28
Turnout				54.76	0.78
	CDP hold		Swing	9.28

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yukio Edano	90,030	46.09	0.72
	LDP	Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	86,636	44.36	3.57
	JCP	Yūko Yamamoto	18,654	9.55	3.19
Majority			3,394	1.73
Turnout				55.54
	Democratic hold		Swing	1.43

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yukio Edano (endorsed by PNP)	93,585	45.37	13.68
	LDP	Hideki Makihara (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	84,120	40.79	2.31
	Tomorrow	Toshihisa Fujishima (endorsed by NPD)	15,434	7.48	N/A
	JCP	Yutaka Ōishi	13,109	6.36	N/A
Majority			9,465	4.58
Turnout
	Democratic hold		Swing	8.00

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Yukio Edano	130,920	59.15	10.47
	LDP	Hideki Makihara	85,139	38.48	4.75
	Happiness Realization	Masako Sasaki	5,274	2.38	N/A
Majority			45,781	20.67
	Democratic hold		Swing	7.61

2005^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Yukio Edano	103,014	48.68
LDP	Hideki Makihara (elected by PR)	91,472	43.22
JCP	Yutaka Matsushita	17,140	8.10

2003
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Yukio Edano	95,626	56.4
LDP	Hideaki Takahashi	60,410	35.6
JCP	Yutaka Matsushita	13,493	8.0

2000
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Yukio Edano	106,711	45.5
LDP	Nobuhiko Fukunaga	86,179	36.8
JCP	Yukio Fujiwara	34,192	14.6
Liberal League	Chiwa Aida	7,369	3.1

1996
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Nobuhiko Fukunaga	63,120	30.9
New Frontier	Zenjirō Kaneko	54,032	26.4
Democratic	Yukio Edano (elected by PR)	51,425	25.2
JCP	Yukio Fujiwara	33,643	16.5
Liberal League	Masayuki Abe	2,127	1.0

References

^ Osaki, Tomohiro (20 October 2017). "Anchored by Edano's underdog charm, CDP turning into formidable force ahead of election". Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ "House of Representatives Election Saitama List of Candidates" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^ 小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県（定数15） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ 小選挙区：埼玉県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ 小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[1] Osaki, Tomohiro (20 October 2017). "Anchored by Edano's underdog charm, CDP turning into formidable force ahead of election". Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[2] "House of Representatives Election Saitama List of Candidates" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2023.

[3] 小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県（定数15） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[4] 小選挙区：埼玉県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[5] 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：埼玉県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[6] 小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[7] ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー埼玉県５区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

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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