Chiba 4th district is a constituency of the

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, located in Western Chiba. As of 2016, 459,431 eligible voters were registered in the district. In the 2009 and 2012 general elections, the district had the lowest electoral weight throughout Japan at more than two times as many voters as the district with the highest electoral weight, Kōchi-3rd.

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Yoshihiko Noda is a Japanese politician. He is the current leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2000. From 2011 to 2012, he was the Prime Minister of Japan. Noda entered po ...

represented Chiba 4th district from 2000 until 2024 when he transferred to the newly established

Chiba 14th district Chiba 14th district (千葉県第14区, ''Chiba-ken dai-ju-yonku'' or simply 千葉14区, ''Chiba-ju-yonku'') is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Chiba Prefecture. Areas covered ...

. Noda initially lost as a candidate for the New Frontier Party by 105 votes to Liberal Democrat Shōichi Tanaka in 1996. Amid the LDP landslide in 2012 that returned them into power, then-PM Noda became a rare DPJ politician who actually increased his share of vote in his constituency. Before resdistricting, the electoral district covered the city of

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. After 2022 it comprises a part of Funabashi and a part of Ichikawa. Areas of Funabashi that had previously belonged to the 4th were moved to the new 14th district. Before the electoral reform of 1994, Funabashi was part of Chiba 1st district where four Representatives had been elected by

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List of representatives

Election results

In 2009, Yoshihiko Noda's candidacy was formally supported by the People's New Party, Mikio Fujita by New Komeito.

References

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