Hideki Niwa | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 11 September 2005 |
Term End: | 21 July 2009 |
Predecessor: | Yūkichi Maeda |
Successor: | Yoshihiro Ishida |
Constituency: | Aichi-6th |
Term Start1: | 24 April 2011 |
Predecessor1: | Yoshihiro Ishida |
Constituency1: | Aichi-6th |
Birth Date: | 20 December 1972 |
Birth Place: | Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
Party: | LDP |
Alma Mater: | Tamagawa University |
is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kasugai, Aichi and graduate of Tamagawa University, he was elected for the first time in 2005 after an unsuccessful run in 2003. He was defeated in the 2009 election by DPJ candidate Yoshihiro Ishida but regained his seat in special elections in 2011.