is a

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of the

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in the

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. It is located in Southern

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and consists of the city of Fujioka, the Southern part of

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city (without the former municipalities of

, Misato, Haruna and Kurabuchi) as well as Kanna town and

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village in Tano county. As of 2009, 292,356 eligible voters were registered in the district.

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(MIC)
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Before the electoral reform that took effect in 1996, the area was part of the multi-member

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that elected four Representatives by

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. Gunma is a "conservative kingdom" (''hoshu ōkoku''), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party, and the pre-1996 multi-seat 3rd district had been home to the families of LDP presidents and Prime Ministers of Japan

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and

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. The new 4th district's first representative was Fukuda's son

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(Machimura faction) who was elected LDP president and Prime Minister himself in 2007 over

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(Asō faction). In the LDP's landslide defeat in 2009, Fukuda held his seat over

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, one of the "Ozawa girls", a group of first-time female candidates handpicked by former Democratic Party president

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. Miyake easily won a seat in the Northern Kantō proportional representation block. She followed Ozawa out of the party in 2012 and ran for his

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in Democratic Party president

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where she failed to win even a tenth of the vote, disqualifying her also for potential re-election in the proportional representation bloc. In Gunma 4th district, Yasuo Fukuda retired in 2012 and was safely succeeded by his son Tatsuo.

List of representatives

Election results

References

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