# Tokyo 8th district

Tokyo 8th district (東京都第8区, Tōkyō-to dai-hachiku or simply 東京8区, Tōkyō-hachiku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in western part of former Tokyo City and is almost coterminous with Suginami Ward (a small area in the east is part of the Tokyo 27th district). The district was created in 1994 as part of an electoral reform effort in the Japanese House of Representatives, and was first implemented in the 1996 general election.
As of 2015, this district was home to 365,194 constituents.
Before a series of electoral reforms in 1994, Suginami Ward had been part of Tokyo 4th district, where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
From the creation of the district until 2021, the only representative for the district was Nobuteru Ishihara, a former LDP secretary-general and Minister of the Environment who headed his own faction and is the son of Shintarō Ishihara former Governor of Tōkyō. Ishihara lost the seat to Harumi Yoshida, a university professor, in the 2021 elections. Tarō Yamamoto, leader of the Reiwa Shinsengumi, had announced he would run in the district, but he bowed out and endorsed Yoshida.

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Nobuteru Ishihara | | LDP | 1996–2021 | |
| Harumi Yoshida | | CDP | 2021–present | |

## Election results

2024 :
| Party | Party | Candidate |
| | CDP | Harumi Yoshida |
| | LDP | Hiroko Kado |
| | Ishin | Chitose Nanboku |
| | Sanseitō | Noriaki Oomori |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout |
2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | CDP | Harumi Yoshida (endorsed by Reiwa and SDP) | 137,341 | 48.45 | 18.49 |
| | LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 105,381 | 37,17 | 2.05 |
| | Ishin | Keiji Kasatani | 40,763 | 14.38 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | 11.28 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 61.03 | 5.61 |
| | CDP gain from LDP | CDP gain from LDP | Swing | 10.27 | |
2017 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 99,863 | 39.22 | 8.34 |
| CDP | Harumi Yoshida | 76,283 | 29.96 | |
| Kibō no Tō | Takatane Kiuchi | 41,175 | 16.17 | |
| JCP | Fumiko Osanai | 22,399 | 8.80 | |
| Independent | Yoriko Madoka | 11,997 | 4.71 | |
2014 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 116,193 | 47.56 |
| Democratic | Yoriko Madoka (endorsed by PLP) | 73,348 | 30.02 |
| JCP | Shingo Sawada | 37,788 | 15.47 |
| Independent | Tatsuo Suzuki | 16,981 | 6.95 |
2012 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 132,521 | 46.9 |
| Independent | Tarō Yamamoto (endorsed by SDP, TPJ) | 71,028 | 25.2 |
| Democratic | Yoriko Madoka | 54,881 | 19.4 |
| JCP | Masatake Jōho | 23,961 | 8.5 |
2009 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 147,514 | 49.9 |
| | Social Democratic | Nobuto Hosaka (endorsed by DPJ, PNP) | 116,723 | 39.5 |
| | JCP | Shunji Sawada | 24,965 | 8.5 |
| | Happiness Realization | Seiichi Ueta | 6,132 | 2.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 301,928 | 65.5 |
2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara | 161,966 | 57.3 |
| | Democratic | Morio Suzuki | 94,074 | 33.3 |
| | JCP | Shunji Sawada | 26,819 | 9.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 288,840 | 64.61 |
2003 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP) | 136,429 | 55.0 |
| | Democratic | Morio Suzuki | 78,007 | 31.4 |
| | JCP | Shunji Sawada | 17,572 | 7.1 |
| | Social Democratic | Akiko Sugiyama | 16,156 | 6.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 254,314 | 57.39 |
2000 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara (endorsed by NCP) | 105,779 | 43.7 |
| Democratic | Mitsuyo Katayama | 77,132 | 31.8 |
| JCP | Kazuko Yamazaki | 36,546 | 15.1 |
| Independent | Hidenori Hasegawa | 22,799 | 9.4 |
1996 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Nobuteru Ishihara | 74,856 | 32.7 |
| | New Frontier | Hiroshi Yamada | 67,670 | 29.5 |
| | JCP | Kazuyoshi Hatta | 40,677 | 17.8 |
| | Democratic | Seijun Murata | 37,598 | 16.4 |
| | Independent | Takeshi Tsuji | 8,324 | 3.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 234,869 | 55.64 |

## In popular culture

The 8th district is featured in the fifth season of the anime Aggretsuko, with the main character Retsuko running for election to the district for the Rage Party against her boyfriend Haida's brother Jiro to succeed his father Juzo.