Kinki proportional representation block

Kinki Proportional Representation Block
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Kinki block highlighted
PrefecturesOsaka, Kyoto, Hyōgo, Shiga, Nara, and Wakayama
Electorate16,858,894 (2024)
Current constituency
Created1994
Number of members28

The Kinki proportional representation block (Hirei [daihyō] kinki burokku (比例近畿ブロック)) is one of eleven proportional representation (PR) "blocks", multi-member constituencies for the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of the Kinki (or Kansai) region, and consists of the prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto, Hyōgo, Shiga, Nara, and Wakayama. Following the introduction of proportional voting, Kinki elected 33 representatives by PR in the 1996 general election, reduced to 30 in the election of 2000 when the total number of PR seats was reduced from 200 to 180. Kinki was reduced to 29 seats in 2003, and again to 28 in 2017.

Overview

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Kinki is usually defined as comprising the following regions: Osaka Prefecture, Hyōgo Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, and Mie Prefecture. While Wakayama is in the Kinki proportional representation block, Mie is in the Tōkai proportional representation block.

With a population of 20.7 million people and 28 seats, this is the largest proportional block in terms of population and seats in Japan. Since this is the block with the most seats, the quota of votes required to win seats here is lower than that in other blocks. However, political parties must field more candidates than 10% of the number of seats to meet the requirements of the Public Offices Election Law.

Results timeline

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Vote share

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Party 1996 2000 2003 2005 2009 2012 2014 2017 2021 2024
NFP 33.04
LDP 28.37 23.68 30.69 36.79 23.23 23.86 28.91 30.62 25.67 20.72
JCP 17.48 15.81 10.75 9.67 9.56 7.52 12.84 9.31 7.85 7.32
DPJ[a] 13.89 23.34 37.11 29.02 42.41 12.03 12.40
SDP 6.16 9.13 4.07 5.70 3.68 1.36 1.47 0.93 1.08 1.12
NPS 2.67
Komeito 16.07 17.39 14.95 12.98 12.66 14.64 13.79 12.32 11.62
LP 9.52
Nippon 3.87 1.20
Your 4.17 6.52
PNP 1.56
Ishin[b] 30.76 26.08 18.29 33.91 23.34
TPJ 4.94
PLP 1.15
CDP 15.81 11.63 14.06
KnT 10.82
DPFP 3.24 8.34
Reiwa 3.12 6.29
Sanseitō 3.95
CPJ 3.25
Others 2.27[c] 2.44[d] 1.24[e] 0.34[f] 2.50[g] 0.44[h] 1.19[i]
Turnout 59.05 57.42 66.61 67.82 59.11 51.32 50.00 56.06 53.69

Seat distribution

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Election Distribution Seats
1996                                                                   33
2000                                                             30
2003                                                           29
2005                                                           29
2009                                                           29
2012                                                           29
2014                                                           29
2017                                                         28
2021                                                         28
2024                                                         28

MPs elected

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選挙回 1996 2000 2003 2005 2009 2012 2014 2017 2021
#1 Yasuko Ikenobō

(New Frontier)
Sanae Takaichi
(LDP)
Kazuya Tamaki

(DPJ)
Mitsue Kondo

(LDP)
Takanori Ohnishi

(DPJ)
Hideo Higashikokubaru
→Koichiro Shimizu

(Restoration)
Takashi Nagao

(LDP)
Shinsuke Ono

(LDP)
Kee Miki

(Ishin)
#2 Ryotaro Tanose

(LDP)
Kazunori Yamanoi

(DPJ)
Takuji Yanagimoto

(LDP)
Shingo Nishimura

(DPJ)
Mitsue Kondo

(LDP)
Hirofumi Kado

(LDP)
Sakihito Ozawa

(Innovation)
Natsue Mori

(Ishin)
Shinsuke Okuno

(LDP)
#3 Mitsuo Higashinaka

(JCP)
Yasuko Ikenobo

(Kōmeitō)
Hajime Ishii

(DPJ)
Nobuko Iwaki

(LDP)
Mai Ohara

(DPJ)
Shingo Nishimura

(Restoration)
Yuzuru Takeuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Hiroyuki Moriyama

(CDP)
Yuichiro Wada

(Ishin)
#4 Mikio Omi

(New Frontier)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Yasuko Ikenobo

(Kōmeitō)
Yasuko Ikenobo

(Kōmeitō)
Kimiyoshi Tamaki

(DPJ)
Yuzuru Takeuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Hiroyuki Ōnishi

(LDP)
Noboru Kamitani

(LDP)
Akira Yanagimoto

(LDP)
#5 Shigehiko Okuyama

(LDP)
Takuji Yanagimoto

(LDP)
Masahiro Morioka

(LDP)
Takeaki Matsumoto

(DPJ)
Yasuko Ikenobo

(Kōmeitō)
Kenta Izumi

(DPJ)
Yasushi Adachi

(Innovation)
Yuzuru Takeuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Yuzuru Takeuchi

(Kōmeitō)
#6 Satoru Ienishi
(Democratic)
Tsutomu Yamamoto

(DPJ)
Yasuhiro Kajiwara

(DPJ)
Takuji Yanagimoto

(LDP)
Takui Yanagimoto

(LDP)
Naokazu Takemoto

(LDP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Shinji Tarutoko

Sumio Mabuchi

(Kibō)
Shū Sakurai

(CDP)
#7 Tetsushi Kubo

(New Frontier)
Shingo Nishimura

(Liberal)
Ikuko Ishii

(JCP)
Keiro Kitagami

(DPJ)
Hideko Muroi

(DPJ)
Naoto Sakaguchi

(Restoration)
Kenta Izumi

→Yoshiro Kitagami

(DPJ)
Yukari Sato

(LDP)
Hiroki Sumiyoshi

(Ishin)
#8 Keisuke Sunada

(LDP)
Tomoko Nakagawa

(SDP)
Yuriko Koike

(LDP)
Ikuko Ishii

(JCP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Yasuhide Nakayama

(LDP)
Noboru Kamitani

(LDP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Masaki Ōgushi

(LDP)
#9 Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Nishi Hiroyoshi

(Kōmeitō)
Fusaho Izumi

(DPJ)
Osamu Uno

(LDP)
Sadatoshi Kumagai

(DPJ)
Kee Miki

(Restoration)
Tomohiko Kinoshita

(Innovation)
Hidetaka Inoue

(Ishin)
Kenji Horii

(Ishin)
#10 Masao Akamatsu

(New Frontier)
Ikuko Ishii

(JCP)
Masao Akamatsu

(Kōmeitō)
Masao Akamatsu

(Kōmeitō)
Sanae Takaichi

(LDP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Tomoko Ukishima

(Kōmeitō)
Shū Sakurai

(CDP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
#11 Makoto Mekata

(LDP)
Yoshihide Sakagami

(LDP)
Tomokatsu Kitagawa

(LDP)
Koichiro Shimizu

(LDP)
Hiroshi Hamamoto

(DPJ)
Nobuhiko Isaka

(Your Party)
Hiroshi Ando

(LDP)
Yayoi Kimura

(LDP)
Sachiko Horiba

(Ishin)
#12 Miyoko Hida

(Democratic)
Setsuya Kagita

(DPJ)
Tenzo Okumura

(DPJ)
Tatsui Kawabata

(DPJ)
Nishi Hiroyoshi

(Kōmeitō)
Tomoko Ukishima

(Kōmeitō)
Hirofumi Yoshimura

Tamotsu Shiiki(Innovation)

Tomoko Ukishima

(Kōmeitō)
Shigeki Kobayashi

(LDP)
#13 Kiyomi Tsujimoto

(SDP)
Akira Nishino

(LDP)
Tetsuo Inami

(DPJ)
Tomohiro Yamamoto

(LDP)
Yoshihiko Watanabe

(DPJ)
Hiroshi Miyake

(Restoration)
Takeshi Miyamoto

(JCP)
Shōhei Okashita

(LDP)
Tomoko Ukishima

(Kōmeitō)
#14 Hiroyoshi Nishi

(New Frontier)
Satoru Ienishi

(DPJ)
Takeshi Nishida

(LDP)
Kiyomi Tsujimoto

(SDP)
Naokazu Takemoto

(LDP)
Taizō Mikazuki

→Tatsuo Kawabata

(DPJ)
Tatsuo Kawabata

(DPJ)
Takashi Tanihata

Teruo Minobe(Ishin)

Hiroyuki Moriyama

(CDP)
#15 Ikuko Ishii

(JCP)
Yasuhide Yamana

(Kōmeitō)
Nishi Hiroyoshi

(Kōmeitō)
Ryuichi Doi

(DPJ)
Mitsuei Kawakami

Vacant

(DPJ)
Takashi Ōtsuka

(LDP)
Tom Tanigawa

(LDP)
Kazunori Inoue

(Kibō)
Ryota Endo

(Ishin)
#16 Takashi Tanihata

(LDP)
Hidekatsu Yoshii

(JCP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Kyoko Izawa

(LDP)
Hidekatsu Yoshii

(JCP)
Sayuri Uenishi

(Restoration)
Yasuto Urano

(Innovation)
Fumiyoshi Murakami

(CDP)
Hideyuki Tanaka

(LDP)
#17 Takashi Yamamoto

(New Frontier)
Susumu Shiota

(Liberal)
Yoshikazu Tarui

(DPJ)
Shigeki Sato

(Kōmeitō)
Hirotaka Matsuoka

(DPJ)
Fumiyoshi Murakami

(Tomorrow)
Naoya Higuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Tom Tanigawa

(LDP)
Yuichirō Ichitani

(Ishin)
#18 Takuji Yanagimoto

(LDP)
Okutani Toru

Tomokatsu Kitagawa

(LDP)
Yasuhide Nakayama

(LDP)
Keiji Kokuta

(JCP)
Masatoshi Ishida

(LDP)
Hiroshi Ando

(LDP)
Shōhei Okashita

(LDP)
Takeshi Miyamoto

Tadashi Shimizu(JCP)

Kōichi Munekiyo

(LDP)
#19 Issei Inoue

(Democratic)
Miyoko Hida

(DPJ)
Kunihiko Muroi

(DPJ)
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi

(DPJ)
Shigeki Sato

(Kōmeitō)
Yuka Hayashibara

(Restoration)
Sayuri Uenishi

(Innovation)
Susumu Hamamura

(Kōmeitō)
Kiyoshige Maekawa

(Ishin)
#20 Sumi Fujita

(JCP)
Renko Kitagawa

(SDP)
Osamu Konishi

(LDP)
Chubee Kagita

→Yasuji Izumihara

(LDP)
Juntaro Toyoda

(DPJ)
Naoya Higuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Tadashi Shimizu

(JCP)
Yasushi Adachi

(Ishin)
Yoko Wanibuchi

(Kōmeitō)
#21 Shigeki Sato

(New Frontier)
Tetsushi Kubo

→Shigeki Sato

(Kōmeitō)
Shigeki Sato

(Kōmeitō)
Koichiro Ichimura

(DPJ)
Kenta Matsunami

(LDP)
Kiyomi Tsujimoto

(DPJ)
Hirofumi Kado

(LDP)
Hirofumi Kado

(LDP)
Takeshi Miyamoto

(JCP)
#22 Yoshihide Sakagami

(LDP)
Yoko Fujiki

(JCP)
Osamu Nakagawa

(DPJ)
Kenshiro Matsunami

(LDP)
Shunichi Higuchi

(DPJ)
Shigeki Kobayashi

(LDP)
Issei Tajima

(DPJ)
Kanako Otsuji

(CDP)
Hisashi Tokunaga

(CDP)
#23 Osamu Yoshida

(New Frontier)
Shonosuke Hayashi

(LDP)
Takako Doi

(SDP)
Makoto Taki

(New Party)
Ryoichi Hattori

(SDP)
Hiroki Iwanaga

(Restoration)
Kenta Matsunami

(Innovation)
Kazuhide Ōkuma

(LDP)
Kōtarō Ikehada

(Ishin)
#24 Kenzaburo Hara

(LDP)
Kazuya Tamaki

(DPJ)
Osamu Uno

(LDP)
Nishi Hiroyoshi

(Kōmeitō)
Bunmei Ibuki

(LDP)
Takeshi Miyamoto

(JCP)
Susumu Hamamura

(Kōmeitō)
Yasuto Urano

(Ishin)
Masahito Moriyama

(LDP)
#25 Tsuji Daiichi

(JCP)
Keisuke Sunada

(LDP)
Ken Kishimoto

(DPJ)
Yuji Fujii

(LDP)
Yuzuru Takeuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Hideto Shinbara

(Restoration)
Kazuhide Ōkuma

(LDP)
Kazunori Yamanoi

(Kibō)
Masayuki Akagi

(Ishin)
#26 Seiji Maehara

(Democratic)
Tetsuji Nakamura

(DPJ)
Hidekatsu Yoshii

(JCP)
Osamu Fujimura

(DPJ)
Takeshi Miyamoto

(JCP)
Kenji Harada

(LDP)
Nobuhisa Itō

(Innovation)
Yoko Wanibuchi

(Kōmeitō)
Alex Saitō

(DPFP)
#27 Setsuya Kagita

(New Frontier)
Masao Akamatsu

(Kōmeitō)
Yasuhide Yamana

(Kōmeitō)
Takashi Yano

(LDP)
Koichi Tani

(LDP)
Mitsunari Hatanaka

(Your Party)
Masahito Moriyama

(LDP)
Mamoru Shigemoto

(LDP)
Tom Tanigawa

(LDP)
#28 Minoru Noda

→Okutani Tōru

(LDP)
Ikko Nakatsuka

(Liberal)
Makoto Taki

(LDP)
Okumura Tenzo

(DPJ)
Masao Akamatsu

(Kōmeitō)
Susumu Hamamura

(Kōmeitō)
Terufumi Horiuchi

(JCP)
Hideki Nagao

(CDP)
Akiko Oishi

(Reiwa)
#29 Tomoko Nakagawa

(SDP)
Motoo Ohata

(JCP)
Megumi Tsuji

(DPJ)
Hidekatsu Yoshii

(JCP)

Takashi Tanihata

(LDP)
Mio Sugita

(Innovation)
Hirofumi Hirano

(DPJ)
#30 Kyokudōzan Kazuyasu

(New Frontier)
Yuki Ueda

(SDP)
#31 Yoko Fujiki

(JCP)
#32 Masaki Nakayama

(LDP)
#33 Tsutomu Yamamoto

(Democratic)

Election results

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2024

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2024 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) 2,069,796 23.34 Decrease10.57 7 Decrease3
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 1,837,859 20.72 Decrease4.95 6 Decrease2
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) 1,247,328 14.06 Increase2.43 4 Increase1
Komeito 1,030,324 11.62 Decrease0.71 3 Steady0
Democratic Party For the People (DPFP) 739,441 8.34 Increase5.10 2 Increase1
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 649,195 7.32 Decrease0.53 2 Steady0
Reiwa Shinsengumi (Reiwa) 557,899 6.29 Increase3.17 2 Increase1
Sanseitō 350,211 3.95 New 1 New
Conservative Party of Japan (CPJ) 288,326 3.25 New 1 New
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 99,161 1.12 Increase0.04 0 Steady0
Total 8,869,540 100.00 28
Invalid votes 182,255 2.01
Turnout 9,051,795 53.69 Decrease2.37
Registered voters 16,858,894

2021

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2021 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) 3,180,219 33.91 Increase15.62 10 Increase5
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,407,699 25.67 Decrease4.95 8 Decrease1
Komeito 1,155,683 12.32 Decrease1.47 3 Decrease1
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) 1,090,666 11.63 Decrease4.18 3 Decrease2
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 736,156 7.85 Decrease1.46 2 Steady0
Democratic Party For the People (DPFP) 303,480 3.24 New 1 New
Reiwa Shinsengumi (Reiwa) 292,483 3.12 New 1 New
NHK Party 111,539 1.19 New 0 New
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 100,980 1.08 Increase0.14 0 Steady0
Total 9,378,905 100.00 28
Invalid votes 197,724 2.06
Turnout 9,576,629 56.06 Increase6.06
Registered voters 17,081,677

2017

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2017 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,586,424 30.62 Increase1.70 9 Steady0
Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) 1,544,821 18.29 New 5 New
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) 1,335,360 15.81 New 5 New
Komeito 1,164,995 13.79 Decrease0.85 4 Steady0
Kibō no Tō 913,860 10.82 New 3 New
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 786,158 9.31 Decrease3.53 2 Decrease2
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 78,702 0.93 Decrease0.54 0 Steady0
Happiness Realization Party (HRP) 36,774 0.44 Increase0.01 0 Steady0
Total 8,447,094 100.00 28 Decrease1
Invalid votes 150,474 1.75
Turnout 8,597,568 50.00 Decrease1.32
Registered voters 17,194,606

2014

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2014 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,442,006 28.91 Increase5.06 9 Increase2
Japan Innovation Party (JIP) 2,202,932 26.08 Decrease4.68 8 Decrease2
Komeito 1,236,217 14.64 Increase1.98 4 Steady0
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1,084,154 12.84 Increase5.32 4 Increase2
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 1,047,361 12.40 Increase0.37 4 Increase1
Party for Future Generations 175,279 2.08 New 0 New
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 124,494 1.47 Increase0.11 0 Steady0
People's Life Party (PLP) 97,398 1.15 New 0 New
Happiness Realization Party (HRP) 35,830 0.42 Increase0.08 0 Steady0
Total 8,445,671 100.00 29
Invalid votes 192,636 2.23
Turnout 8,638,307 51.32 Decrease7.79
Registered voters 16,832,477

2012

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2012 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Japan Restoration Party (JRP) 2,999,020 30.76 New 10 New
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,326,005 23.86 Increase0.63 7 Decrease2
Komeito 1,234,345 12.66 Decrease0.32 4 Decrease1
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 1,173,051 12.03 Decrease30.38 3 Decrease8
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 732,976 7.52 Decrease2.05 2 Decrease1
Your Party 635,381 6.52 Increase2.35 2 Increase2
Tomorrow Party of Japan (TPJ) 481,603 4.94 New 1 New
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 133,064 1.36 Decrease2.32 0 Decrease1
Happiness Realization Party (HRP) 33,509 0.34 Decrease0.38 0 Steady0
Total 9,748,954 100.00 29
Invalid votes 203,761 2.05
Turnout 9,952,715 59.11 Decrease7.79
Registered voters 16,837,834

2009

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2009 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 4,733,415 42.41 Increase13.39 11 Increase2
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,592,451 23.23 Decrease13.57 9 Decrease2
Komeito 1,449,170 12.98 Decrease1.97 5 Increase1
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1,067,443 9.56 Decrease0.10 3 Steady0
Your Party 465,591 4.17 New 0 New
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 411,092 3.68 Decrease2.01 1 Steady0
People's New Party (PNP) 169,380 1.52 New 0 New
New Party Nippon (Nippon) 133,708 1.20 Decrease2.67 0 Decrease1
Happiness Realization Party (HRP) 80,529 0.72 New 0 New
New Renaissance Party (NRP) 58,141 0.52 New 0 New
Total 11,160,920 100.00 29
Invalid votes 250,392 2.19
Turnout 11,411,312 67.82 Increase1.21
Registered voters 16,826,523

2005

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2005 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 4,003,209 36.79 Increase6.10 11 Increase2
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 3,157,556 29.02 Decrease8.09 9 Decrease2
Komeito 1,626,678 14.95 Decrease2.43 4 Decrease1
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1,051,949 9.67 Decrease1.08 3 Steady0
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 619,883 5.70 Increase1.63 1 Steady0
New Party Nippon (Nippon) 420,908 3.87 New 1 New
Total 10,880,183 100.00 29
Invalid votes 260,874 2.34
Turnout 11,141,057 66.61 Increase9.19
Registered voters 16,726,546

2003

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2003 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 3,425,342 37.11 Increase13.77 11 Increase4
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,833,181 30.69 Increase7.02 9 Increase2
Komeito 1,604,469 17.38 Increase1.31 5 Steady0
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 992,142 10.75 Decrease5.06 3 Decrease2
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 375,228 3.07 Decrease5.07 1 Decrease2
Total 9,230,362 100.00 29 Decrease1
Invalid votes 322,371 3.37
Turnout 9,552,733 57.42 Decrease1.63
Registered voters 16,636,274

2000

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2000 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes Swing % Seats +/–
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,185,236 23.68 Decrease4.69 7 Decrease3
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) 2,154,312 23.34 Increase9.45 7 Increase2
Komeito 1,483,220 16.07 New 5 New
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1,458,970 15.81 Decrease1.56 5 Decrease1
Liberal Party (LP) 878,910 9.52 New 3 New
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 843,060 9.13 Increase2.98 3 Increase1
New Conservative Party (NCP) 125,824 1.36 New 0 New
Liberal League (LL) 99,791 1.08 Increase0.42 0 Steady0
Total 9,229,323 100.00 30 Decrease3
Invalid votes 466,930 4.82
Turnout 9,696,253 59.05
Registered voters 16,419,889

1996

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1996 results in the Kinki PR block
Party Votes % Seats
New Frontier Party (NFP) 2,567,452 29.16 10
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2,497,411 28.37 10
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1,539,172 17.48 6
Democratic Party (DP) 1,223,192 13.89 5
Social Democratic Party (SDP) 542,047 6.16 2
New Party Sakigake (NPS) 234,849 2.67 0
New Socialist Party (NSP) 122,989 1.40 0
Liberal League (LL) 58,320 0.66 0
Democratic Reform Party 18,844 0.21 0
Total 8,804,276 100.00 33

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ 1996 DP
  2. ^ 2012 JRP, 2014 JIP
  3. ^ NSP 1.40, LL 0.66, DRP 0.21
  4. ^ NCP 1.36, LL 1.08
  5. ^ HRP 0.72, NRP 0.52
  6. ^ HRP 0.34
  7. ^ Generations 2.08, HRP 0.42
  8. ^ HRP 0.44
  9. ^ NHK 1.19