, also referred to as , is a constituency of the

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in the

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. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Hyōgo, Kita and

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wards of

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. As of September 2015, 357,643 eligible voters were registered in the district. It is one of the 48 districts in the

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that form the

Kinki proportional representation block The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropolit ...

. The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by

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. Since the district's creation,

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of the

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party has been elected in six of the seven elections held. Koichi Mukoyama of the

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won the seat from Akaba in the 2009 election which brought the DPJ to power. Akaba subsequently defeated Mukoyama in the December 2012 election.

List of representatives

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List of representatives

Election results

See also

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