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Kanagawa 11th district

Kanagawa 11th District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
衆議院小選挙区 (神奈川県).png
Numbered map of Kanagawa Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Kanagawa
Proportional District Minamikanto
Electorate 385,511
Current constituency
Created 1994
Seats One
Party LDP
Representative Shinjirō Koizumi (2009-)
Created from
Municipalities Yokosuka, Miura

The Kanagawa 11th district (神奈川11区?, Kanagawa dai-juichi-ku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Kanagawa Prefecture, and consists of the cities of Miura and Yokosuka. Former Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi served as the first representative of the constituency from its creation in 1996. Koizumi retired at the 2009 elections and his son Shinjirō ran as a candidate for his father's old seat. The Democratic Party of Japan fielded Katsuhito Yokokume, a lawyer and former participant in the Ainori TV show, as a candidate in 2009 to a bid to end the LDP dominance of the district.

As of September 2012, 391,020 eligible voters were registered in the district.

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