Kanagawa 19th district

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Kanagawa 19th District
神奈川県第19区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Parliamentary constituencies in Kanagawa Prefecture
Detailed map of parliamentary constituencies in Yokohama city
Prefecture	Kanagawa
Proportional Block	Southern Kanto
Electorate	368,329 (as of September 2022)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	2022
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representatives	Kusama Tsuyoshi [ja]
Created from	Parts of: Kanagawa 7th Kanagwa 8th Kanagawa 9th Kanagawa 18th

Kanagawa 19th District (神奈川県第19区, Kanagawa-ken dai-junana-ku) is an electoral district of the Japanese House of Representatives. The district was created as part of the 2022 reapportionments that added two districts to Kanagawa Prefecture. Kusama Tsuyoshi, former member of the Yokohama City Council, became the first representative as a result of the 2024 general election.

Area

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Tsuzuki Ward of Yokohama
Miyamae Ward of Kawasaki

Previously, most of Tsuzuki had been a part of the 7th district and most of Miyamae had been a part of the 18th district.

Elected Representatives

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Representative	Party		Years Served	Notes
Kusama Tsuyoshi [ja]		LDP	2024 –

Election Results

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2024^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Kusama Tsuyoshi	64,315	31.3
	CDP	Takashi Satō	50,857	24.8
	DPP	Jesús Fukasaku (won seat in Southern Kantō PR block)	50,578	24.6
	Ishin	Masaru Soeda	25,630	12.5
	JCP	Katsuhiro Yokozeki	9,008	4.4
	Independent	Sayuri Kiyoshi	4,859	2.4
Turnout				57.05

References

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^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
^ "2024年衆議院総選挙神奈川19区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-01.

v t e Kanagawa's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 PR part of the Southern Kantō PR block House of Councillors At-large (17→20 Representatives, 6→8 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 (13→22 Representatives, 4→6 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (12 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 (11 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (10 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Yokohama city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 Representatives)

v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

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