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Kyoto 5th District
京都府第5区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Prefecture	Kyoto
Proportional district	Kinki
Electorate	236,343 (as of September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Taro Honda

Kyōto 5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Kyōto and covers the northwestern part of the prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The district consists of the cities of Fukuchiyama, Maizuru, Ayabe, Miyazu and Kyōtango as well as the Yosa District. As of 2012, 254,636 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area was part of Kyōto 2nd district where five representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

From the creation of the district until 2017, the representative for the 5th district was Sadakazu Tanigaki (LDP, Tanigaki→Koga faction) who had previously represented the old 2nd district since his father's death in 1983. In 2009, the 5th district was the only district in Kyōto the LDP could defend against the landslide for Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party. Tanigaki's Democratic challenger Mai Ohara lost the district by 7,000 votes but easily won a seat on the Kinki PR list. After the election that swept the LDP from power, Tanigaki was elected LDP president. During his term the opposition won a majority in the 2010 House of Councillors election. After one term, he did not run for re-election as party president. In the 2012 House of Representatives election that brought devastating results for the Democratic Party at record low turnout nationwide, Tanigaki lost only few votes and clearly defended his district seat. Tanigaki injured his spinal cord in a bicycle accident in July 2016, and remained hospitalized as of September 2017; he decided not to run in the 2017 general election due to his physical condition.

Areas covered

Current district

As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by the district are as follows:

• Fukuchiyama
• Maizuru
• Ayabe
• Miyazu
• Kyōtango
• Yosa District

In 2004, the districts of Naka, Takeno and Kumano merged to form the city of Kyōtango. Amata District disappeared when the last of its towns merged into Fukuchiyama in 2006

Areas from before 2013

From its creation in 1994 until redistricting in 2013, the areas covered by this district were as follows:

• Fukuchiyama
• Maizuru
• Ayabe
• Miyazu
• Amata District
• Kasa District
• Yosa District
• Naka District
• Takeno District
• Kumano District

List of representatives

Election results

2021

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Tarō Honda	68,693	49.4	6.1
	CDP	Wakako Yamamoto	32,108	23.1
	Independent	Kazunori Inouchi	21,904	15.7	1,6
	JCP	Ken Yamauchi	16,375	11.8	3.5
Turnout				59.49	2.28
	LDP hold

2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Tarō Honda	60,277	43.3	13.3
	Independent	Yasushi Nakayama	30,665	22.0
	JCP	Ken Yamauchi	21,234	15.3	0.8
	Kibō no Tō	Kazunori Inouchi (won Kinki PR seat)	19,586	14.1
	Independent	Mariko Suzuki	7,464	5.4
Turnout				57.21	1.67
	LDP hold

2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Sadakazu Tanigaki	76,733	56.6	0.1
	Democratic	Mai Ohara	39,178	28.9	3.8
	JCP	Ken Yamauchi	19,558	14.4	2.0
Turnout				55.54	7.80
	LDP hold

References

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2. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数
3. "Ex-LDP leader Tanigaki won't seek re-election in Lower House poll owing to spinal cord injury". The Japan Times Online. 2017-09-21. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
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• House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Kyoto Prefecture
• 1994 establishments in Japan
• Constituencies established in 1994
• Fukuchiyama, Kyoto
• Maizuru
• Ayabe, Kyoto
• Miyazu, Kyoto