Kanagawa 10th district (神奈川[県第]10区, Kanagawa[-ken dai-]jikku) is a single-member electoral district for the
House of Representatives, the lower house of the
National Diet of Japan. It is located in North-eastern
Kanagawa Prefecture and consists of
Kawasaki City's three eastern wards of
Kawasaki,
Saiwai and
Nakahara. As of September 2011, 494,755 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters the second lowest vote weight in the country behind
Chiba 4th district.[1]
After the introduction of single-member districts, Kanagawa 10th district went narrowly to
NFP Representative
Eiji Nagai who had represented the pre-reform five-member
Kanagawa 2nd district for the
Japan New Party since 1993. Nagai became a
Democrat in the wake of the NFP dissolution, but lost the district to
Liberal DemocratKazunori Tanaka (Yamasaki faction). Tanaka who became Senior Vice Minister during the Koizumi and First Abe Cabinets held onto the 10th district until the landslide election of 2009 when he lost to Democrat
Kōriki Jōjima (Kawabata group=ex-
DSP faction) who had been a representative from
Tokyo (under his real name Masamitsu Jōjima) between 1996 and 2005. Jōjima went on to become a minister of state in the Noda Cabinet in 2011. In 2012, he was voted out of the House of Representatives alongside seven other sitting ministers in the Noda Cabinet. Tanaka was again appointed as a Senior Vice Minister in the Second Abe Cabinet.
Joined
Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People"),
Minseitō ("Democratic" or "Civil Government Party"), Minshutō ("Democratic Party") in the NFP dissolution Re-elected in the
Southern Kantō PR block