Okinawa 4th District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Okinawa Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Okinawa
Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	286,832 (2016)
Current constituency
Created	2002
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic Party
Representative	Kōsaburō Nishime
Created from	Okinawa's 1st and 2nd district
Municipalities	Miyakojima, Ishigaki, Itoman, Tomigusuku, Nanjō, Tarama, Yaeyama District and parts of Shimajiri District (Haebaru, Yaese and Yonabaru)

Okinawa 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Okinawa Prefecture and encompasses the cities of Miyakojima, Ishigaki, Itoman, Tomigusuku, Nanjō, the village of Tarama, Yaeyama District and parts of Shimajiri District (Haebaru, Yaese and Yonabaru). The district was formed after the 2002 national electoral district review assigned Okinawa an extra district. Constituency cities and towns in the 1st and 2nd district were reassigned to form the 4th district. As of 2016, 286,832 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

The district is currently represented by Kōsaburō Nishime of the Liberal Democratic Party.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates
Kōsaburō Nishime	LDP	2003 – 2009
Chōbin Zukeran	DPJ	2009 – 2012
Kōsaburō Nishime	LDP	2012 – 2014
Toshinobu Nakasato	Ind	2014 – 2017
Kōsaburō Nishime	LDP	2017 –

Election results

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	87,671	54.90	4.39
	CDP	Tōru Kinjō	72,031	45.10
Turnout				55.05	3.27
	Liberal Democratic hold

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	82,199	50.51	2.48
	Independent	Toshinobu Nakasato	75,887	46.63	5.34
	Happiness Realization	Yasumasa Tomikawa	4,650	2.86	N/A
Majority			6,312	3.88
Turnout				58.32	7.15
	Liberal Democratic gain from Independent		Swing	3.91

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Toshinobu Nakasato (endorsed by JCP, SDP, PLP, OSMP, the Greens and Shinfūkai)	71,227	51.97	N/A
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)	65,838	48.03	4.18
Majority			5,389	3.94
Turnout				51.17	2.20
	Independent gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing	N/A

2012 Japanese general election – Okinawa 4th district^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (endorsed by NKP)	72,912	52.21	8.50
	Independent	Chōbin Zukeran	33,791	24.20	30.51
	Restoration	Kōtarō Uomori	12,918	9.25	N/A
	Communist	Tamotsu Maesato	11,825	8.47	N/A
	Democratic	Nobuhiko Ōshiro	8,193	5.87	N/A
Majority			39,121	28.01
Turnout			143,214	53.37	10.96
	Liberal Democratic gain from Independent		Swing	19.51

2009 Japanese general election – Okinawa 4th district^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Chōbin Zukeran (endorsed by PNP and OSMP)	89,680	54.71	24.94
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (endorsed by NKP)	71,653	43.71	5.33
	Happiness Realization	Mitsunari Tomikawa	2,598	1.58	N/A
Majority			18,027	11.00
Turnout			167,219	64.33	6.93
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic		Swing	16.14

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (endorsed by NKP)	68,419	49.04	5.43
	Democratic	Tadahiro Miyakuni (endorsed by OSMP)	41,532	29.77	1.22
	Communist	Tamotsu Maesato	15,068	10.80	N/A
	People's New	Hiroshi Kinjō	14,491	10.39	N/A
Majority			26,887	19.27	4.21
Turnout			142,690	57.40	2.46
	Liberal Democratic hold		Swing	2.11

2003^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Kōsaburō Nishime (endorsed by NKP)	67,752	54.47
	Democratic	Tadahiro Miyakuni (endorsed by SDP and OSMP)	38,550	30.99
	Independent	Takeshi Miyazato	18,074	14.53
Majority			29,202	23.48
Turnout			127,745	59.86
	Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References

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