Hiroshi Yamada

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Hiroshi Yamada ( Japanese 山田 宏 , Yamada Hiroshi ; born January 8, 1958 in Hachiōji , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician ( New Liberal Club → New Japan Party → New Progressive Party → Independent → Nippon Sōshintō → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Jisedai no Tō → Liberal Democratic Party ) and member of the upper house of the national parliament .

Yamada, a graduate of the Law Faculty of Kyoto University and the Matsushita Seikei Juku (English The Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ), was elected to the Tokyo Prefecture Parliament in 1985 for the New Liberal Club and re-elected in 1989. In the 1993 general election , Yamada received the highest percentage of votes for the New Japan Party in the five-mandate 4th constituency of Tokyo and became a member of parliament. From 1994 he was a member of the New Progressive Party (NFP). In the 1996 election following the electoral reform, he lost the new constituency Tokyo 8 to Nobuteru Ishihara as a candidate for the NFP .

In 1999 Hiroshi was elected mayor of Suginami , one of Tokyo's 23 districts , and was most recently confirmed for a third four-year term in the 2007 unified regional elections.

In April 2010 he became chairman of the Nippon Sōshintō , which he founded together with other prefecture and local politicians for the 2010 upper house election . In the establishment involved, among other things Hiroshi Nakada , former mayor of Yokohama, and Hiroshi Saitō , former governor of Yamagata. The party, which won a few MPs at the prefectural and local levels in the 2011 regional elections , disbanded in the fall of 2012 to join the Nippon Ishin no Kai of the former governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara . For this, Yamada ran in the 2012 general election in the Tokyo 19 constituency, which includes the western suburbs of Tokyo. He landed behind the candidates of the two major parties with 22% of the vote, but won one of the three Ishin-no-Kai seats in the Tokyo proportional representation bloc. When the Ishin no Kai split in the summer of 2014, Yamada Ishihara followed into the Jisedai no Tō. In 2014 he only received 11.7% of the vote, and the Jisedai did not win any seats in the Tokyo bloc or nationwide proportional representation.

Yamada then joined the Liberal Democratic Party to stand for them in the 2016 upper house election in the nationwide proportional representation. He received 149,833 preferential votes and thus the twelfth of 19 LDP seats.

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  1. ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun : Sangiin 2016 election results, proportional representation, LDP
personal data
SURNAME Yamada, Hiroshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山田 宏 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachiōji , Tokyo Prefecture