Fukushima 1st district

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Fukushima 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan.

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Fukushima 1st district
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Fukushima Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Fukushima
Proportional District Tōhoku
Electorate385,061 [1] (1.698 times the population of Tottori 1st district)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Emi Kaneko
Municipalities Fukushima, Nihonmatsu, Date City, Motomiya, Date District, Adachi District

History

The constituency primarily consists of Fukushima and Date City, alongside Nihonmatsu. From the districts formation in 1994 and the first election in 1996 to 2012, the district primarily consisted of match-ups between the Ishihara family (unrelated to Shintaro Ishihara, of descent from Takuya Inoue  [ ja ]) and LDP candidates, either Yoshitami Kameoka or, pre-2003, Tatsuo Sato. Kameoka has run in the district since 1996, and joined the LDP after Sato retired.

In 2014, the Democratic Party of Japan broke away from running Ishihara descendants after their past representative, Yosaburo Ishihara  [ ja ], had joined the Tomorrow Party of Japan. Instead, they ran Emi Kaneko, a former member of the House of Councillors. She managed to close the gap to 3%, but ultimately lost, and was revived on proportional representation.

The two had a rematch in 2017, with Kaneko running as an independent following the merger of the Democratic Party with Kibō no Tō shortly before for the election. As an independent, she would not have been revived on the proportional block had she lost, but she managed to defeat Kameoka for the first time since 2012. She held the district again in 2021 after joining the CDP, but with a slightly narrower margin. Kameoka was revived proportionally both times.

In 2024, Kameoka was found to have been involved in the 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal. He was allowed to stay in the party, but was kicked off of the proportional list, meaning that he would not be revived under any circumstance due to his involvement. In the end, Kaneko managed to beat him by nearly twenty points. This left Kameoka without a seat in the Diet.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyYears servedNotes
Tatsuo Sato LDP 1996-2005
Yoshitami Kameoka LDP 2005-2009
Yosaburo Ishihara DPJ 2009-2012
PLF 2012Left DPJ after consumption tax vote.
TPJ 2012Joined TPJ when PLF merged. Lost re-election.
Yoshitami Kameoka LDP 2012-2017Lost re-election. Revived on proportional block, until 2024.
Emi Kaneko Independent 2017-2019
CDP 2019-Joined CDP.

Election results

2024 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Emi Kaneko 124,441 59.60 Increase2.svg8.45
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka 84,35140.40Decrease2.svg8.45
Turnout 208,79256.34Decrease2.svg4.27
CDP hold
2021 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Emi Kaneko 123,620 51.15 New
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka (won a seat in PR block)118,07448.85Increase2.svg1.59
Turnout 241,69460.61Increase2.svg2.17
CDP hold
2017 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Emi Kaneko 126,664 52.74 New
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka (won a seat in PR block)113,51447.26Decrease2.svg0.10
Turnout 240,17858.44Increase2.svg4.91
Independent gain from LDP
2014 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka 102,950 47.36 Decrease2.svg3.61
Democratic Emi Kaneko (won a seat in PR block)97,64344.92Increase2.svg26.17
JCP Yasuko Wantanabe16,7877.72Decrease2.svg1.48
Turnout 217,38053.53Decrease2.svg5.47
LDP hold
2012 [6] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka 121,235 50.97 Increase2.svg7.21
Tomorrow Yosaburo Ishihara50,14121.08New
Democratic Hideki Ohba44,59918.75Decrease2.svg31.28
JCP Chiiko Wanatanabe21,8969.20Increase2.svg4.11
Turnout 237,87159.00Decrease2.svg14.86
LDP gain from Tomorrow
2009 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yosaburo Ishihara 156,060 50.03 Increase2.svg13.64
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka 136,52643.76Decrease2.svg13.08
JCP Yutaka Yamada15,8795.09Decrease2.svg1.68
Happiness Realization Kazuyuki Ohashi3,4921.12New
Turnout 311,95773.86Increase2.svg2.50
Democratic gain from LDP
2005 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Yoshitami Kameoka 171,507 56.84 Increase2.svg21.92
Democratic Nobuichiro Ishihara109,79536.39Increase2.svg10.94
JCP Yutaka Yamada20,4126.77Increase2.svg1.39
Turnout 301,71471.36Increase2.svg4.42
LDP hold
2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Tatsuo Sato 98,896 34.92 Increase2.svg4.67
Independents Yoshitami Kameoka 96,95434.23New
Democratic Nobuichiro Ishihara72,07625.45Increase2.svg6.21
JCP Yutaka Yamada15,2415.38Decrease2.svg1.37
Turnout 283,16766.94
LDP hold
2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Tatsuo Sato 89,353 30.25 Decrease2.svg10.13
Independent Yoshitami Kameoka 68,87423.31New
Democratic Hiromichi Kibata56,83819.24New
Liberal Kentaro Ishihara32,16610.89New
Social Democratic Tsuneharu Sato28,2519.56Decrease2.svg5.42
JCP Shinmi Masayo19,9276.75Decrease2.svg1.27
Turnout 295,409
LDP hold
1996
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Kenzo Muraoka 102,950 40.38 New
Independent Kentaro Ishihara93,34736.61New
Social Democratic Tsuneharu Sato38,19614.98New
JCP Katsuo Okazaki20,4518.02New
Turnout 254,944
LDP hold

Notes

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