is a constituency of the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Hiroshima and consists of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012, 377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications The is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Japan. Its English name was Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) prior to 2004. It is housed in the 2nd Building of the Central Common Government Of ...

(MIC)
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Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of Hiroshima 3rd district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote. The first representative for the single-member 7th district was former Prime Minister

Kiichi Miyazawa was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. He was a member of the National Diet of Japan for over 50 years. Early life and education Miyazawa was born into a wealthy, politically active family in Fukuyama ...

for the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2000, he was followed by Yōichi Miyazawa (LDP), son of former Hiroshima governor

Hiroshi Miyazawa was the governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from 1973 to 1981 and justice minister from 1995 to 1996. Biography Miyazawa was born in 1921. He was the younger brother of Kiichi Miyazawa. He was elected as governor of Hiroshima in December 1973 fo ...

, nephew of Kiichi Miyazawa, grandson of Representatives Yutaka Miyazawa and Masaki Kishida and great-grandson of Representative Heikichi Ogawa. In the landslide election of 2009 when the LDP-Kōmeitō coalition lost its majority,

Takashi Wada is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used i ...

, husband of former Finance minister Tatsuo Murayama's granddaughter, won the district against Miyazawa for the Democratic Party. In the landslide election of 2012 when the DPJ-PNP coalition lost more than two-thirds of its seats, Liberal Democrat Fumiaki Kobayashi won the district.

List of representatives

Election results

References

{{coord missing, Hiroshima Prefecture Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)