Iwate 1st district

Iwate 1st district (岩手[県第]1区, Iwate[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Iwate and consists of the prefectural capital Morioka city and the two remaining towns in Shiwa district.[1] Before 2017, it covered of the majority of the prefectural capital Morioka (the whole city without the former village of Tamayama) and Shiwa district. As of 2012, 278,860 eligible voters were registered in the district.[2]

Iwate 1st District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureIwate
Proportional DistrictTohoku
Electorate278,860
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyCDP
RepresentativeTakeshi Shina (2007–)
Created fromIwate's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesThe city of Morioka, town of Shiwa and town of Yahaba

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of the multi-member Iwate 1st district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Iwate is the home of Ichirō Ozawa and like three of the prefecture's four post-reform districts, the 1st district had been represented by his parties from its creation to 2012: the New Frontier Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party. In 2012, Ozawa and his followers split from the Democratic Party: 1st district representative Shina stayed with the Democrats, Ozawa's Tomorrow Party of Japan nominated Yōko Tasso, the wife of former representative and current Iwate governor Takuya Tasso; but Shina defended the district against Tasso and Liberal Democratic former prefectural assembly member Hinako Takahashi who won a proportional block seat.

List of representatives

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RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Takuya TassoNFP1996–2000
LP2000–2003
DPJ2003–2007Resigned to run in the 2007 Iwate gubernatorial election (part of the unified local elections, 2007)
Takeshi ShinaDPJ2007–2016
DP2016–2017
Kibō no Tō2017–2018
DPP2018–2020
CDP2020–

Election results

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2014[3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticTakeshi Shina (DC)76,78752.0+17.3
Liberal DemocraticHinako Takahashi (DC, won PR seat)46,40931.4+4.1
CommunistKyōko Yoshida15,37410.4new
Social DemocraticMitsumasa Hosokawa (DC, $)9,0526.1new
2012[4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticTakeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP, DC)55,90934.7
Liberal DemocraticHinako Takahashi (DC, elected by PR)44,00227.3
TomorrowYōko Tasso (endorsed by NPD, DC)41,70625.9
Social DemocraticMasahiro Isawa (DC, $)9,9226.2
CommunistShino Yahata ($)9,4735.9
2009[5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticTakeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP)116,42560.2
Liberal DemocraticHinako Takahashi (endorsed by Komeito)50,58526.2
Social DemocraticMasahiro Isawa13,0486.8
CommunistKyōko Yoshida12,1876.3
Happiness RealizationKensaku Mori1,0470.5
Turnout195,47470.93
By-election, July 29, 2007[6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticTakeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP)102,98761.7
Liberal DemocraticMasanori Tamazawa (endorsed by Komeito)53,12531.8
CommunistSadakiyo Segawa10,8216.5
Turnout169,09261.05
2005[7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticTakuya Tasso95,10951.7
Liberal DemocraticAtsushi Oikawa65,18735.4
Social DemocraticMitsumasa Hosokawa14,0507.6
CommunistShin'ya Kanbe9,6595.2
Turnout185,84567.93
2003[8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticTakuya Tasso91,02553.6
Liberal DemocraticAtsushi Oikawa57,89934.1
Social DemocraticYuriko Gotō12,0147.1
CommunistYōichi Naganuma8,8065.2
Turnout171,88063.34
2000[9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LiberalTakuya Tasso97,83543.0
Liberal DemocraticTokuichirō Tamazawa65,59737.7
Social DemocraticYuriko Gotō17,3099.9
CommunistRyūgorō Satō9,2615.3
DemocraticKikuji Fujikura6,9644.0
1996[10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New FrontierTakuya Tasso67,42040.6
Liberal DemocraticTokuichirō Tamazawa (elected by PR)49,66529.9
IndependentRiki Nakamura17,08710.3
Social DemocraticKuniki Yamanaka16,75810.1
CommunistToshiko Sakuma10,6686.4
DemocraticYuriko Gotō4,5512.7
Turnout168,43465.63

References

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  1. ^ MIC: 2017 changes to House of Representatives electoral districts, Map and table of changes in Iwate (in Japanese)
  2. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (in Japanese)
  3. ^ 総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  4. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  5. ^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  6. ^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  7. ^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  8. ^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  9. ^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  10. ^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011.