Shimane 1st district

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

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Shimane 1st district
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Shimane Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Shimane
Proportional District Chugoku
Electorate259,179 [1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Akiko Kamei
Municipalities Matsue, Yasugi, Unnan, Nita District, Iishi District, and Oki District

History

Since the introduction of the Single-member district to Japan beginning in 1994, Hiroyuki Hosoda of the Liberal Democratic Party has been elected continuously, backed by the solid foundation of support the Hosoda family has built in Shimane, starting with Hiroyuki Hosoda's father, Kichizo Hosoda  [ ja ]. Shimane also serves as a conservative kingdom for the LDP. Hiroyuki was extremely knowledgeable in elections; Noboru Takeshita praised him as "the most knowledgeable about poltiics outside of myself". In 2005, Hosoda became Chief Cabinet Secretary, and has additionally held the roles of Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party and Party Chairman of General Affairs. Due to this, Hosoda himself rarely returned to campaign in the district, but usually won by hefty margins, with no other candidates even winning a spot in the overall Chūgoku proportional representation block (outside of the 2009 Japanese general election, where Toshiaki Komuro managed to win a spot. He lost it in the 2012 Japanese general election).

The death of the Takeshita brothers (Noboru, along with Wataru Takeshita) has strained LDP influence in the prefecture. Additionally, Hiroyuki Hosoda himself died in October 2023. [2] Prior to this, Hosoda's margin of victory had been halved; prior to 2017, he had won by nearly thirty points in every election. In the 2017 Japanese general election, this was cut down to twenty, and Akiko Kamei became the first opposition politician since 2009 to return on a proportional block. Despite her losing the proportional seat in the 2021 Japanese general election, Hosoda's margin of victory had been cut down to a further fifteen points. With Hosoda's death and extreme unpopularity relating to his sexual harassment scandals and ties to the Unification Church, the by-election due to occur in April 2024, were projected to be unusually close. The opposition unified around Akiko Kamei, who won with a clear majority, marking the first time an opposition delegate had ever been elected from Shimane since the introduction of FPTP seats. [3] [4]

Areas Covered

Additionally, the Liancourt Rocks are included in the district.

List of representatives

ElectionRepresentativePartyNotes
1996 [5] Hiroyuki Hosoda Liberal Democratic Hosoda died on November 10, 2023. [6] [7]
2000 [8]
2003 [9]
2005 [10]
2009 [11]
2012 [12]
2014 [13]
2017 [14]
2021 [15]
Vacant (November 2023 - April 2024)
2024 b [16] Akiko Kamei CDP

Election results

2024 by-election [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Akiko Kamei 82,69158.82Increase2.svg17.51
LDP, Komeito Norimasa Nishikori57,89741.18Decrease2.svg14.84
Turnout 261,19054.62Decrease2.svg6.61
2021 [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP, Komeito Hiroyuki Hosoda 90,63856.02Decrease2.svg3.38
CDP, SDP , JCP Akiko Kamei 66,84741.31Increase2.svg0.71
Independent Akiko Kamei [lower-alpha 1] 4,3192.67New
Turnout 268,33761.23Increase2.svg2.06
2017 [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP, Komeito Hiroyuki Hosoda 95,51359.40Decrease2.svg4.86
CDP, SDP , DPP Akiko Kamei 65,28540.60New
Turnout 276,66459.17Increase2.svg1.23
2014 [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP, Komeito Hiroyuki Hosoda 100,37664.26Decrease2.svg0.41
DPJ Shoichiro Wada38,34624.55Decrease2.svg2.64
JCP Yoshio Uedai17,47611.19Increase2.svg3.05
2012 [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP, Komeito Hiroyuki Hosoda 112,60564.67Increase2.svg7.48
DPJ Toshiaki Komuro47,34327.19Decrease2.svg10.5
JCP Keiko Yoshigi14,1738.14Increase2.svg3.98
2009 [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hiroyuki Hosoda 122,59557.19Decrease2.svg3.33
DPJ, PNP Toshiaki Komuro80,78937.69Increase2.svg9.05
JCP Ikuhisa Ishitobi8,9234.16Decrease2.svg2.01
HRP Kenichiro Ikeda2,0600.96New
2005 [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hiroyuki Hosoda 125,40160.52Decrease2.svg0.5
DPJ Kazuhisa Hamaguchi59,33428.64Decrease2.svg2.97
JCP Kiyoichi Tanaka12,7866.17Decrease2.svg1.2
SDP Katsumi Kano9,6754.67New
2003 [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hiroyuki Hosoda 117,89761.02Increase2.svg10.1
DPJ Kazuhiza Hamaguchi61,07131.61Increase2.svg5.98
JCP Yoshio Uedai14,2377.37Increase2.svg1.54
2000 [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hiroyuki Hosoda 74,16350.92Decrease2.svg1.2
DPJ Daikichi Ishibashi 37,32325.63Decrease2.svg7.15
Independents Hisato Iwamoto25,67117.63New
JCP Haruo Yoshikawa8,4845.83Decrease2.svg9.27
1996 [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Hiroyuki Hosoda 73,90752.12New
DPJ Daikichi Ishibashi 46,48132.78New
JCP Yoshiko Nakabayashi21,41615.10New

Notes

  1. ↑ Unrelated to Akiko Kamei, the CDP candidate.

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