Kinki proportional representation block

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Kinki Proportional Representation Block
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Map of House of Representatives proportional blocks, with the Kinki block highlighted
Prefecture	Osaka, Kyoto, Hyōgo, Shiga, Nara, Wakayama
Electorate	17,065,464
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	28
Representatives	28(LDP-10, LDP-8, Kōmeitō-3, CDP-3, DPFP-1, Reiwa-1)

Kinki Proportional Representation Block is one of the 11 proportional representation blocks in the House of Representatives in Japan.

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 "winning range" of votes here is lower than that in other blocks. However, political groups that meet the requirements of the Public Offices Election Law must field more candidates than 10% of the number of seats.

Shiga Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Hyōgo Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture

The D'Hondt method is used to allocate seats.

• The number of seats were reduced from 29 to 28
• Shinji Tarutoko resigned and ran in the by-election for Osaka 12th district (lost), and Sumio Mabuchi was drafted as a replacement (February 5, 2019)
• Takeshi Miyamoto resigned and ran in the by-election for Osaka 12th district (lost), and Tadashi Shimizu replaced him. (April 17, 2019)
• Takashi Tanihata resigned and was replaced by Akio Minobu. (April 16, 2020)

• Hirofumi Yoshimura won the Osaka mayoral election and won. He was replaced by Tamotsu Shiiki (October 9, 2015)
• Kenta Izumi won the by-election for Kyoto 3rd district in the House of Representatives and resigned after. Yoshiro Kitagamireplaced him as the deputy for the PR block (April 21, 2016)

• Hideo Higashikokubaru resigned as MP on 26 December 2013 and was replaced byKoichiro Shimizu.
• Taizō Mikazuki won the 2014 Shiga gubernatorial election and resigned as MP. He was replaced by Tatsuo Kawabata as MP on May 15, 2014.

※The numbers in parentheses are the "assumed ranking" of Your Party and DPJ candidates that could have been elected.

• Originally, the 21st seat was to be allocated to Koichi Oshino(candidate for Osaka 9th district and only PR candidate of Your Party). But his vote tally in the electorate did not exceed the point of forfeiture of the deposit. Therefore, the Party was disqualified from PR allocation and the seat was given to the 22nd allocation, which is Kenta Matsunami, LDP candidate for Osaka 10th district.
• The Democratic Party of Japan should have been able to win 14 seats in the allocation. Yet, all 52 candidates on the list was already elected after the 23rd allocation. As a result, the DPJ only gets 11 instead of 14 seats in proportional representation. The remaining 3 seats was allocated again with the D'Hondt method, giving the LDP 2 extra seats and the Kōmeitō 1 extra seat. The LDP elected Koichi Tani (Hyōgo 5th) and Takashi Tanihata (Osaka 14th) while the Kōmeitō elected Masao Akamatsu (only ran in PR).
• On the SDP party list, the 2 candidates that were ranked first along with Kiyomi Tsujimoto, who was elected in her constituency, lost the deposit and hence cannot be elected through PR. They were replaced by Ryoichi Hattori, who was 4th on the SDP list.
• All DPJ candidates were elected in their constituencies and party list. Hence, when Mitsuei Kawakami resighned to run in the 22nd Japanese House of Councillors to become a councillor for Kyoto (which he lost), the House of Representatives temporarily lost 1 representative until its dissolution in 2012.

• Chubee Kagita resigned to run in the mayoral election in Nara. He was replaced by Yasuji Izumihara as MP on May 21, 2009.

• The number of seats is decreased from 30 to 29.

• Number of MPs elected were reduced from 33 to 30
• Juntarō Toyoda, 1st on the Liberal Party list was not elected as he lost his deposit in the district due to not getting enough votes. Ikko Nakatsuka was drafted to replace him.
• Tetsushi Kubo died and was replaced by Shigeki Sato. (June 23, 2003)
• Tōru Okutani died and was replaced by Tomokatsu Kitagawa. (July 16, 2003)

• Minoru Noda lost his seat because he violated conflict of interest laws and was replaced by Tōru Okutani instead.

• Note: Parties without MPs are omitted