Draft:2021 Japanese general election in Kyushu

The 2021 Japanese general election in Kyushu were held on October 31, 2021, to elect 55 representatives, one from each of 35 Electoral districts and 20 proportional seats.

Candidates

 * Takahiro Inoue
 * Liberal Democratic Party
 * 59 years old
 * Member of the House of Representatives (2012 - )
 * Vice chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Diet Affairs Committee
 * Susumu Tsubota
 * Constitutional Democratic Party
 * 37 years old
 * Social insurance labor consultant
 * Gōsei Yamamoto
 * Nippon Ishin no Kai
 * 49 years old
 * Member of the House of Representatives (2009 - 2012)
 * Takuji Kimura
 * Japanese Communist Party
 * 35 years old

Result
Inoue, the LDP’s incumbent, was re-elected. Yamamoto, the Nippon Ishin  no Kai candidate, lost Inoue but won the seat by proportional representation block.

Fukuoka 2nd district

 * Candidates
 * Makoto Oniki
 * Liberal Democratic Party
 * 49 years old
 * Incumbent member of the House of Representatives from Fukuoka 2nd district (2012 - )
 * State Minister of Defense
 * Shuji Inatomi
 * Constitutional Democratic Party
 * 51 years old
 * Incumbent member of the House of Representatives from Kyushu proportional representation block (2017 - )
 * Vice-Leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party’s Fukuoka Prefectural Federation
 * Takashi Shinkai
 * Nippon Ishin no Kai
 * 50 years old
 * Consulting firm employee


 * Result

Oniki who is a candidate of LDP, and Inatomi who is a candidate of CDP, fought a close race. Eventually, Oniki defeated Inatomi by 8,124 votes. Inatomi won a seat in the Kyushu proportional representation block following the previous one.

Kagoshima 1st district

 * Candidates
 * Takahiro Inoue
 * Liberal Democratic Party
 * 59 years old
 * Member of the House of Representatives (2012 - )
 * Vice chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Diet Affairs Committee
 * Susumu Tsubota
 * Constitutional Democratic Party
 * 37 years old
 * Social insurance labor consultant
 * Gōsei Yamamoto
 * Nippon Ishin no Kai
 * 49 years old
 * Member of the House of Representatives (2009 - 2012)
 * Takuji Kimura
 * Japanese Communist Party
 * 35 years old


 * Result

Inoue, the LDP’s incumbent, was re-elected. Yamamoto, the Nippon Ishin  no Kai candidate, lost Inoue but won the seat by proportional representation block.