Yamanashi 1st district

Yamanashi 1st district (山梨[県第]1区, Yamanashi[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan located in western Yamanashi Prefecture. As of September 2022 it had 424,557 eligible voters.

Map of Yamanashi Prefecture single-member districts

Before the introduction of single-member districts in the 1990s, all of Yamanashi had formed one at-large district that elected five members to the House of Representatives. After the last House of Representatives election under the old system in 1993, Representatives from Yamanashi included Liberal Democrat Eiichi Nakao, Socialist Azuma Koshiishi and reformist Sakihito Ozawa. Nakao and Koshiishi contested the new 1st district in 1996: Nakao won. Koshiishi was elected to the Diet in the 1998 election to represent Yamanashi in the House of Councillors. In the 2000 Representatives election, Ozawa challenged Nakao and unseated him. He held onto the seat until 2012 when he joined the Japan Restoration Party and lost the district to Liberal Democratic newcomer Noriko Miyagawa, a former junior high school teacher.

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Towns

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Yamanashi lost one electoral constituency in reapportionment in 2013. Previously, the 1st district covered Kōfu, Enzan, Yamanashi City and Higashiyamanashi District. In September 2012, 218,115 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters one of the highest vote weights in the country.[1]

List of representatives

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RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Eiichi NakaoLDP1996 – 2000
Sakihito OzawaDPJ2000 – 2012Joined Japan Restoration Party in 2012
Re-elected in the S. Kantō PR block
Noriko MiyagawaLDP2012 – 2014Re-elected in the S. Kantō PR block
Katsuhito NakajimaDPJ2014 – 2016
DP2016 – 2017
Independent2017 – 2021Re-elected in the S. Kantō PR block
Shin'ichi NakataniLDP2021 –

Election results

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2021[2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal DemocraticShin'ichi Nakatani 125,325 50.5 6.6
CDPKatsuhito Nakajima (elected by PR)118,22347.6 3.3
Anti-NHKNobuyuki Henmi4,8261.9
Turnout59.49 1.99
Liberal Democratic gain from CDP
2017[3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
IndependentKatsuhito Nakajima 107,007 44.3 0.3
Liberal DemocraticShin'ichi Nakatani (elected by PR)105,87643.9 0.4
CommunistGen Miyauchi21,3208.8 3.7
Happiness RealizationAi Nishiwaki7,1193.0
Turnout57.50 1.24
Independent hold
2014[4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticKatsuhito Nakajima 102,111 44.0 23.7
Liberal DemocraticNoriko Miyagawa (elected by PR)101,02643.5 0.1
CommunistAkiko Endō29,12512.5 4.0
Turnout56.26 4.00
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic
2012[5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPKōmeitōNoriko Miyagawa54,93043.6new
JRPYPSakihito Ozawa (elected by PR)34,41427.3-32.9
DPJPNPTsuyoshi Saitō26,07020.7new
JCPMichitaka Uemura10,6948.5new
2009[6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJSakihito Ozawa91,42260.2+12.7
LDP – KōmeitōMasaaki Akaike46,88130.9-13.3
JCPAkiko Endō11,9727.9-0.3
HRPHiroyuki Hayase1,4801.0new
2005[7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJSakihito Ozawa70,28147.5-7.4
LDP – KōmeitōMasaaki Akaike (elected by PR)65,42644.2new
JCPAkiko Endō12,1738.2-2.2
2003[8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJSakihito Ozawa71,62354.9+12.9
LDPKenzō Yoneda45,28234.7new
JCPAkiko Endō13,54510.4+1.4
2000[9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJSakihito Ozawa58,78142.0new
LDPEiichi Nakao52,96437.8-1.1
IndependentNobuaki Akaike15,80311.3new
JCPAkiko Endō12,5389.0new
1996[10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPEiichi Nakao52,11138.9N/A
DPJAzuma Koshiishi45,28833.8N/A
NFPHitoshi Gotō25,26518.9N/A
JCPSusumu Kogoshi10,6107.9N/A
LLShigemoto Ishikawa7530.6N/A

References

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  1. ^ Ministry of general affairs: 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)
  2. ^ 小選挙区 山梨1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  3. ^ 小選挙区 山梨1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  4. ^ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票 小選挙区 山梨1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  5. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 山梨. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  6. ^ 総選挙2009>開票速報 小選挙区 山梨. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  7. ^ 総選挙2005>開票速報 小選挙区 山梨. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  8. ^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 山梨1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2013-02-09. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  9. ^ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 山梨1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2013-02-09. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  10. ^ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 山梨1区. ザ・選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2013-02-09. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)