Tokyo 8th district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1967 and 1993 it elected three, later two representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was created in a 1964 redistricting form areas that had previously formed part of the 1st district: It consisted of Eastern Tokyo's Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō special wards, central parts of the former city of Tokyo. In a reapportionment for the 1993 election the number of representatives for Tokyo 8th district was reduced from three to two. Following the 1994 electoral reform, the area now forms the single-member Tokyo 2nd district.
Summary of results Tokyo 8th district usually went to the LDP with two to one seats while the opposition parties competed for the third seat. Exceptions were the elections of 1979 when the conservative vote was split between three LDP candidates (Takashi Fukaya, Nakasone faction, Kunio Hatoyama, Tanaka faction and Hisanari Yamada, without faction) and 1993 when Kunio Hatoyama had left the LDP to side with the opposition demanding political reform from the LDP. Hatoyama joined Takeo Nishioka's Kaikaku no Kai ("reform assembly") in 1994 that eventually became part of the Liberal Reform League (Jiyū Kaikaku Rengō) later that year.
General election 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 LDP & conservative independents 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 Opposition center-left 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 JSP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JCP 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 Seats up 3 2
Elected representatives electionyear highest vote(top tōsen) 2nd 3rd 1967 Hisanori Yamada (LDP) Keigo Ida?, 依田圭五 (JSP) Kyūkichi Shinomiya?, 四宮久吉 (LDP) 1969 Kei Ishii (LDP) Yoshimi Nakagawa (Kōmeitō) 1972 Mitsuhiro Kaneko (JCP) Hisanori Yamada (LDP) Takashi Fukaya (Indep.elected with LDP support) 1976 Kunio Hatoyama (Indep.) Yoshimi Nakagawa (Kōmeitō) 1979 Takashi Fukaya (LDP) Mitsuhiro Kaneko (JCP) 1980 Kunio Hatoyama (LDP) 1983 Kunio Hatoyama (LDP) Yoshimi Nakagawa (Kōmeitō) Takashi Fukaya (LDP) 1986 Takashi Fukaya (LDP) Mitsuhiro Kaneko (JCP) 1990 1993 Kunio Hatoyama (Indep.) –
Last election result 1993
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