Yamaguchi 4th district (山口県第4区 ''Yamaguchi-ken dai-yon-ku'') is a single-member electoral district for the

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, the lower house of the

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of Japan. It is located in Western Yamaguchi and consists of the cities of

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and Nagato. The seat was most recently held by former

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until his assassination in July 2022. As of September 2011, 266,456 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters well above average (347,878 voters per district) vote weight.

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island's Fukuoka-Kitakyūshū metropolitan area which lies just south across the

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. Yamaguchi is home to the

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- Shintarō Abe (non-prime minister, father of Shinzo Abe)-

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prime ministerial family whose members have represented the prefecture in the Diet for much of the postwar era and the

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prime ministerial family that produced its first two elected governors. Western Yamaguchi formed the four-member 1st district until the electoral reform of the 1990s, its representatives included Shintarō Abe,

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(former

) and

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, but also other prominent conservatives such as finance minister Yoshirō Hayashi or

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(

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), returning the LDP to power (with coalition partner

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, the LDP have a two-thirds majority and can break a deadlock in the

) and became prime minister again.

List of representatives

Election results

References

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