# Hyōgo 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 |
| Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | Komeito(1998-2009) | 1996 – 2009 |
| Yasuo Tanaka | New Party Nippon | 2009 – 2012 |
| Hiromasa Nakano | Komeito | 2012–present |

## Election results

2024 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 71,784 | 38.30 | 20.5 |
| | Ishin | Junko Tokuyasu | 60,150 | 32.09 | New |
| | JCP | Jun Komura | 26,873 | 14.34 | 12.27 |
| | Reiwa | Okan Yahata | 12,920 | 6.89 | 7.71 |
| | Your | Maria Yuki Hayashi | 2,555 | 1.36 | New |
| | Sanseitō | Seiichirō Aburatani | 13,155 | 7.02 | New |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 50.75 | 1.52 |
2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 100,313 | 58.80 | 4.76 |
| | JCP | Jun Komura | 45,403 | 26.61 | 9.83 |
| | Reiwa | Megumi Tsuji | 24,880 | 14.6 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 48.83 | 6.74 |
2017 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 94,116 | 63.6 | 2.7 |
| | JCP | Terufumi Horiuchi | 53,964 | 36.4 | 2.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 42.09 | 3.78 |
2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 94,687 | 60.9 | 14.3 |
| | JCP | Etsuko Shōmoto | 60,849 | 39.1 | 28.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 45.87 | 11.64 |
2012 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Komeito | Hiromasa Nakano | 97,562 | 46.6 | 5.3 |
| | NP-Nippon | Yasuo Tanaka | 62,697 | 30.0 | 12.2 |
| | Democratic | Hideko Muroi | 26,246 | 12.6 | 12.6 |
| | JCP | Etsuko Shōmoto | 22,645 | 10.8 | 2.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 57.51 | 9.76 |
2009 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | NP-Nippon | Yasuo Tanaka | 106,225 | 42.2 | |
| | Komeito | Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | 103,918 | 41.3 | 5.0 |
| | JCP | 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 | Turnout | Turnout | | 67.27 | |
2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Komeito | Tetsuzo Fuyushiba | 109,957 | 46.3 |
| | Democratic | Kunihiko Muroi | 83,288 | 35.1 |
| | JCP | Etsuko Shōmoto | 29,986 | 12.6 |
| | Social Democratic | Munenori Ueda | 14,019 | 5.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |