Saitama 5th district is a constituency of the
House of Representatives
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in the
Diet of Japan
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(national legislature). It is located in
Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...
and covers
Nishi,
Kita,
Minuma
or is an area of paddy fields and other agricultural fields along the Minuma Irrigational Canal in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The area encompasses 1260 hectares and straddles across five wards of the city of Saitama ( Kita-ku, Ōmiya-ku, ...
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and
Chūō wards of the city of
Saitama.
Yukio Edano
is a Japanese politician who served as the leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan from its formation in 2017 until 2021. A member of the House of Representatives in the Diet since 1993, he served as Chief Cabinet Secretary and M ...
of the
Constitutional Democratic Party
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(CDP) has held the district since the
2000 general election. After the
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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
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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
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The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic Part ...
(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
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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.
Edano was re-elected with a comfortable 20.28% majority.
List of representatives
Election results
References
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Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)