Fukuoka 6th district by-election, 2016

Fukuoka 6th district by-election, 2016
Japan
23 October 2016
Fukuoka 6th district
Incumbent Representative

Kunio Hatoyama
Liberal Democratic

A by-election for the Fukuoka 6th district in the Japanese Japanese House of Representatives was held on 23 October 2016.[1] The by-election was called following the death of the incumbent member Kunio Hatoyama, a former cabinet minister and member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), from duodenal ulcer in Tokyo on 21 June 2016.[2][3] Hatoyama had served the district since 2005 and successfully defended the seat by a healthy margin of 43.94% in the 2014 election, where he was facing only a Japanese Communist Party candidate. A separate by-election for the Tokyo 10th district was held on the same day.

References

  1. ↑ http://grjapan.jp/sites/default/files/content/articles/files/20160914_gr_japan_ipf_presentation_0.pdf
  2. ↑ "LDP grandee Kunio Hatoyama dead at 67". Japan Times. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Former prime ministers' kin Kunio Hatoyama dead at 67". Asahi Shimbun. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
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