Nagasaki 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southwestern Nagasaki and covers the city of Nagasaki without the former towns of Kinkai and Sotome. As of 2009, 353,871 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]
Before the electoral reform of 1994, Nagasaki city was part of the multi-member Nagasaki 1st district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
The district has been leaning towards the Democratic Party and its predecessors since its creation. Only in a 1998 by-election, Liberal Democrat Masakazu Kuranari, the eldest son of Tadashi Kuranari, longtime former Representative for the multi-member 1st district, could win the seat, but lost it to Democrat Yoshiaki Takaki in the following general election of 2000.
Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
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Takeo Nishioka | NFP | 1996 – 1998 | Resigned for the 1998 Nagasaki gubernatorial election | |
Masakazu Kuranari | LDP | 1998 – 2000 | Failed reelection in the Kyūshū PR block [2] | |
Yoshiaki Takaki | DPJ | 2000 – 2012 | ||
Tsutomu Tomioka | LDP | 2012-2017 | ||
Hideko Nishioka | Kibō | 2017-2021 | ||
DPP | 2021- | Incumbent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DPP | Hideko Nishioka (Incumbent) | 101,877 | 56.1 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Takiichiro Hastumura (Endorsed by Komeito) | 69,053 | 38.0 | ||
Communist | Ayako Yasue | 10,754 | 5.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kibō no Tō | Hideko Nishioka (Endorsed by the Democratic Party Nagasaki Prefectural Federation of Branches) | 90,569 | 48.5 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 80,049 | 42.9 | ||
Communist | Takashi Makiyama | 16,011 | 8.6 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 76,247 | 45.6 | ||
Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent - Kyushu) | 74,218 | 44.4 | ||
Communist | Atsunobu Nakanishi | 16,867 | 10.1 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent - Kyushu) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 92,624 | 48.2 | ||
Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent) | 82,088 | 42.7 | ||
Communist | Takashi Makiyama | 17,354 | 9.1 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent) (Endorsed by the PNP) | 129,044 | 55.3 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent - Kyushu) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 87,297 | 37.4 | ||
Communist | Eiko Fuchise | 14,321 | 6.1 | ||
Happiness Realization | Koichi Eda | 2,527 | 1.1 | ||
Turnout | 236,495 | 67.03 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Yoshiaki Takaki (Incumbent) | 110,518 | 48.3 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Tsutomu Tomioka | 101,981 | 44.6 | ||
Communist | Toshihiko Haraguchi | 16,341 | 7.1 | ||
Turnout | 232,338 | 65.13 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent) | 106,331 | 50.6 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Masakazu Kuranari | 90,857 | 43.3 | ||
Communist | Toshihiko Haraguchi | 12,797 | 6.1 | ||
Turnout | 213,705 | 59.69 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Yoshiaki Takaki (Incumbent - Kyushu) | 76,798 | 33.8 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Masakazu Kuranari | 65,183 | 28.7 | ||
Liberal | Takeo Nishioka | 63,248 | 27.9 | ||
Communist | Yoshinori Terada | 16,714 | 7.4 | ||
Liberal League | Ryoku Kikumura | 5,158 | 2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Masakazu Kuranari | 68,443 | 50.8 | ||
Democratic | Izumi Yamazaki | 52,438 | 38.9 | ||
Communist | Yoshinori Terada | 13,860 | 10.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Frontier | Takeo Nishioka (Incumbent - Former district) | 84,464 | 41.1 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Daisuke Miyajima | 71,499 | 34.8 | ||
Democratic | Kenji Taguchi (Incumbent - Former district) | 31,371 | 15.3 | ||
Communist | Yoshinori Terada | 18,317 | 8.9 | ||
Turnout | 209,303 | 58.62 |
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