Chiba 1st district (1947–1993)

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Chiba 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected initially four, later five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Chiba and, as of 1993, consisted of the cities of Chiba (w/o the former town of Toke), Funabashi, Yachiyo, Ichihara and Narashino. Today, the area extends into Chiba's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th single-member electoral districts.

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Until the decline of the LDP in the 1970s after the oil crisis and the Lockheed scandal, the relatively urban district was won by a majority of LDP candidates several times. Representatives for Chiba 1st district included LDP faction leader and home affairs minister Shōjirō Kawashima (Kawashima faction), defense minister Shigejirō Inō (Satō faction), construction minister Ihei Shiseki (Fukuda faction), sōri-fu minister Sōichi Usui (Miki faction) and his son Hideo Usui (Miki (→Kōmoto) faction) and, in the final election period before the election reform, opposition politicians Yoshihiko Noda (JNP) and Kazuo Shii (JCP) who later went on to play leading roles in the opposition parties.

Summary of results during the 1955 party system

General election1958196019631967196919721976197919801983198619901993
LDP & conservative independents3333221131331
Oppositioncenter-left0010101111113
JSP1101111101010
JCP0000011101101
District magnitude45

Elected representatives

election
year		highest vote
(top tōsen)		2nd3rd4th5th
1947 [1] Noriko Narushima (DP) Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP) Isamu Tada (JLP) Yūtarō Shibuya (JLP)–
1949 [2] Tōru Sakuma (DLP) Yoshio Yanagisawa (DLP)Isamu Tada (DLP)Yūtarō Shibuya (DLP)
1952 [3] Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right) Shōjirō Kawashima (LP) Sōichi Usui (Progressive) Shigejirō Inō (LP)
1953 [4] Ihei Shiseki (Hatoyama LP)Shōjirō Kawashima (Yoshida LP)Sōichi Usui (Yoshida LP)
1955 [5] Shōjirō Kawashima (JDP)Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right)Sōichi Usui (JDP) Jūkichi Yokozeni (JSP, left)
1958 [6] Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP)Ihei Shiseki (LDP)Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP)Sōichi Usui (LDP)
1960 [7] Toyojirō Fujiwara (JSP)Ihei Shiseki (LDP)
1963 [8] Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (DSP)Sōichi Usui (LDP)Ihei Shiseki (LDP)
1967 [9] Minoru Kihara (JSP)Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP)Ihei Shiseki (LDP)Sōichi Usui (LDP)
1969 [10] Shōjirō Kawashima † (LDP) Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)Minoru Kihara (JSP)Ihei Shiseki (LDP)
1972 [11] Makoto Someya (LDP)Minoru Kihara (JSP)Sōichi Usui (LDP) Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)
1976 [12] Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)Ihei Shiseki (LDP)Minoru Kihara (JSP)
1979 [13] Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)Minoru Kihara (JSP)
1980 [14] Sanbachi Taidō (Ind.) Hideo Usui (LDP)Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)
1983 [15] Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)Hideo Usui (LDP)Mutsuo Shibata (JCP) Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP)
1986 [16] Hideo Usui (LDP)Kazuo Eguchi (LDP)Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Masayuki Okajima (LDP)Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)
1990 [17] Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP)Hideo Usui (LDP)Kazuo Eguchi (LDP)Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)Masayuki Okajima (LDP)
1993 [18] Yoshihiko Noda (JNP)Masayuki Okajima (JRP)Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)Hideo Usui (LDP) Kazuo Shii (JCP)

Late election results

1993 [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JNP Yoshihiko Noda 175,671.00020.5
JRP Masayuki Okajima 151,163.00017.7
Kōmeitō Kazuo Torii 113,706.00013.3
LDP Hideo Usui 108,613.00012.7
JCP Kazuo Shii 98,297.00011.5
LDP Kazuo Eguchi 97,277.00011.4
JSP Hiroharu Yoshimine82,633.0009.7
DSP Takuya Watanabe22,935.0002.7
IndependentKazuo Wakimoto4,835.0000.6
1990 [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JSP Ken’ichi Ueno 221,216.00025.2
LDP Hideo Usui 132,238.00015.0
LDP Kazuo Eguchi 127,689.00014.5
Kōmeitō Kazuo Torii 109,241.00012.4
LDP Masayuki Okajima 106,202.00012.1
JCP Mutsuo Shibata 97,917.00011.1
DSP Takayuki Kojima76,075.0008.7
IndependentKazuo Wakimoto3,776.0000.6
NDP Kunio Sakai2,277.0000.3
Earth Restoration Party Shin'ya Satō2,187.0000.2
1986 [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hideo Usui 124,07416.8
LDP Kazuo Eguchi 119,05516.1
Kōmeitō Kazuo Torii 114,82415.5
LDP Masayuki Okajima 98,27613.3
JCP Mutsuo Shibata 97,90013.2
JSP Ken’ichi Ueno 92,99312.6
DSP Takayuki Kojima88,55712.0
IndependentKazuo Wakimoto4,3820.6

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