Hyogo 8th district

Hyogo 8th district (兵庫県第8区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-hachiku), also referred to as Hyōgo hachi-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyōgo and consists of the city of Amagasaki. As of September 2015, 379,207 eligible voters were registered in the district. It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 2nd district that elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, it has been represented by three people: former Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, former governor of Nagano Prefecture Yasuo Tanaka, and the current representative Hiromasa Nakano, who worked under Fuyushiba in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba		New Frontier Party(1996–98)	1996 – 2009
		Komeito(1998-2009)
Yasuo Tanaka		New Party Nippon	2009 – 2012
Hiromasa Nakano		Komeito	2012–present

Election results

2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kōmeitō	Hiromasa Nakano	94,687	60.9	14.3
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	60,849	39.1	28.3
Turnout

2012

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kōmeitō	Hiromasa Nakano	97,562	46.6	5.3
	New Party Nippon	Yasuo Tanaka	62,697	30.0	-12.2
	Democratic	Hideko Muroi	26,246	12.6	12.6
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	22,645	10.8	2.7
Turnout

2009

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Party Nippon	Yasuo Tanaka	106,225	42.2	42.2
	Kōmeitō	Tstsuzo Fuyushiba	103,918	41.3	-5.0
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	20,327	8.1	-4.5
	Social Democratic	Banko Ichiki	18,770	7.5	1.6
	Happiness Realization	Tomokazu Sumide	2,532	1.0	1.0
Turnout

2005

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kōmeitō	Tstsuzo Fuyushiba	109,957	46.3
	Democratic	Kunihiko Muroi	83,288	35.1
	Communist	Etsuko Shōmoto	29,986	12.6
	Social Democratic	Munenori Ueda	14,019	5.9
Turnout