2016 Fukuoka 6th district by-election

November 2016 July 2026 2016 Fukuoka 6th district by-election Japan by-election Fukuoka 6th district no 2014 Japanese general election 2014 2017 Japanese general election 2017 23 October 2016 Jirō Hatoyama Independent (politician) 106,531 62.24% Fumiko Arai Democratic Party (Japan, 2016) 40,020 23.38% Ken Kurauchi Independent (politician) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) 22,253 13.00% Tadahiro Nishihara Happiness Realization Party 2,359 1.38% Representative Kunio Hatoyama Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Jirō Hatoyama IndependentHatoyama joined the LDP caucus soon after he was elected. A by-election for the Fukuoka 6th district in the Japanese Japanese House of Representatives was held on 23 October 2016.International Policy Forum. 14 September 2016 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.Japan Times 23 June 2016 LDP grandee Kunio Hatoyama dead at 67 22 June 2016 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/22/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-veteran-kunio-hatoyama-dead-67/ Asahi Shimbun 23 June 2016 Former prime ministers' kin Kunio Hatoyama dead at 67 22 June 2016 http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201606220025.html Hatoyama had served the district since 2005 and defended the seat by a margin of 43.94% in the 2014 election, where he faced only a Japanese Communist Party candidate. A separate by-election for the Tokyo 10th district was held on the same day. Hatoyama's son and Ōkawa mayor Jirō Hatoyama won the by-election as an independent. Hatoyama contested as an independent after a conflict with the local chapter of the LDP on the candidate selection process. The Fukuoka LDP prefectural chapter president, Isao Kurauchi, had submitted the nomination of his son Ken Kurauchi as the LDP candidate for the by-election before Hatoyama declared his candidacy. Hatoyama, who had originally planned to contest the by-election as an LDP candidate, protested this decision and decided to run as an independent. The national headquarters of the LDP attempted to persuade Kurauchi to drop out of the race to prevent dividing the LDP vote in the district. Kurauchi refused to drop out and contested the by-election.https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160825/ddp/041/010/016000c 福岡６区補選 蔵内氏、辞退要請を拒否 自民党本部、鳩山氏一本化狙う 25 August 2016 6 December 2017 Japanese Mainichi Shimbun 20 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190920103258/https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160825/ddp/041/010/016000c dead Hatoyama joined the LDP caucus soon after taking his seat in the Diet.https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160825/ddp/041/010/016000c 自民二階派に鳩山二郎氏入会 第３派閥まであと１人 10 November 2016 6 December 2017 Japanese Sankei Shimbun 20 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190920103258/https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160825/ddp/041/010/016000c dead Candidates Jirō Hatoyama (Independent, later LDP), Mayor of Ōkawa and son of former representative Kunio Hatoyama Fumiko Arai (DP, supported by SDP), former diplomat at the Japanese consulate-general in Chennai Ken Kurauchi (Independent, LDP member), secretary at the Fukuoka chapter of the LDP and son of chapter president Isao Kurauchi Tadahiro Nishihara (HRP), constituency party leader Campaign June 2016 Results right House of Representatives: Fukuoka 6th district by-election, 2016http://www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp/uploaded/life/239806_52226867_misc.htm 衆議院福岡県第6区選出議員補欠選挙投・開票速報 House of Representatives - Fukuoka 6th district by-election result. Japanese 23 October 2016 6 December 2017 6 December 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171206200500/http://www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp/uploaded/life/239806_52226867_misc.htm dead Independent (politician) Jirō Hatoyama 106,531 62.24 N/A Democratic Party (Japan, 2016) Fumiko Arai 40,020 23.38 N/A Independent (politician) Ken Kurauchi 22,253 13.00 N/A Happiness Realization Party Tadahiro Nishihara 2,359 1.38 N/A 1,195 1.11 66,511 38.86 5.08 173,078 45.46 1.52 Independent (politician) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) N/A Footnotes "note" References Category:2016 elections in Japan 2016 Category:October 2016 in Japan ja:2016年日本の補欠選挙#衆議院福岡県第6区