Tokushima 1st district

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Tokushima 1st district
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Tokushima Prefecture single-member districts
Proportional District Shikoku
Electorate360,095 (as of September 1, 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Number of members1
PartyIndependent
Representative Hirobumi Niki

Tokushima 1st district (徳島県第1区) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.

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The district was created in the electoral reform of 1994. Previously, all of Tokushima prefecture had formed one SNTV multi-member constituency (5 representatives) since 1947. The new district was used in the 1996 election for the first time.

Liberal Democrat Mamoru Fukuyama, former six-term member and president of the Tokushima prefectural assembly and secretary-general of the LDP prefectural federation, defeated Democrat Yoshito Sengoku in the 2012 Representatives election by almost 20,000 votes. Sengoku, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its 1996 precursor had won the district five times after its creation. Sengoku, a lawyer and University of Tokyo drop-out, had previously represented the Tokushima At-large district between 1990 and 1993 for the Socialist Party of Japan.

Before redistricting in 2013, the district consisted of Tokushima city and the village of Sanagōchi in the Myōdō District and was among the least populated electoral districts in Japan. In the election of 2005 it had 214,763 constituents and its voters had the highest electoral weight throughout Japan. [2]

Area

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Yoshito Sengoku DPJ 1996–2012Failed reelection to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block ( sekihairitsu 66.5%, rank 3) [3]
Mamoru Fukuyama LDP 2012–2014
Masazumi Gotoda LDP 2014–2021Elected to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block
Hirobumi Niki Independent2021–Member of the Diet for the DPJ 2009–2012

Election results

2021 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Hirobumi Niki 99,474 50.05 New
Liberal Democratic Masazumi Gotoda (elected by PR)77,39838.94Decrease2.svg12.55
Innovation Tomoyo Yoshida (elected by PR)20,06510.10New
Turnout 55.93
Independent gain from Liberal Democratic
2017 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Masazumi Gotoda 90,281 51.49 Decrease2.svg0.54
Kibō no Tō Hirobumi Niki69,44239.60Increase2.svg0.60
Communist Chiyoko Yamamoto15,6228.91Increase2.svg0.00
Turnout 47.98
Liberal Democratic hold
2014 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Masazumi Gotoda 92,166 52.03 Decrease2.svg1.17
Democratic Hirobumi Niki69,18839.06Increase2.svg3.66
Communist Motonori Furuta15.7768.91Decrease2.svg2.49
Turnout 48.94
Liberal Democratic hold
2012 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP (NK) Mamoru Fukuyama 59,23153.2
DPJ (PNP) Yoshito Sengoku 39,40235.4
JCP Motonori Furuta12,72411.4
2009 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ (PNP support) Yoshito Sengoku 76,76456.23
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Yoshirō Okamoto 39,78029.14
Independent (Hiranuma group) Yūki Oka 10,2757.53
JCP Motonori Furuta8,3136.09
HRP Akira Kondō1,3951.02
Turnout 138,53564.63
2005 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 68,02650.57
LDP Yoshirō Okamoto 54,84340.77
JCP Hideaki Kamimura 9,7677.26
Turnout 134,52162.79
2003 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 60,91752.09
LDP Akira Shichijō 44,89238.39
JCP Chiyoko Yamamoto 9,7678.35
Turnout 116,94954.73
2000 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 60,94547.32
LDP Yoshirō Okamoto 41,62832.32
JCP Hideaki Kamimura 14,16411.00
Independent Hiromi Ōta 12,0689.37
Turnout 128,80259.1
1996 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 47,05737.73
LDP Toshiji Miki 41,13332.98
NFP Hiromi Ōta 23,68418.99
JCP Hideaki Kamimura 11,0928.89
Independent Masahiro Kanemaru [13] 1,7391.39
Turnout 124,705

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References

  1. ↑ "令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registrants on the electoral list and overseas electoral list as of September 1, 2022]. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in Japanese). 2023.
  2. ↑ "１票の格差２．１８倍　衆院選有権者数". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 31 August 2005. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010.
  3. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果 比例代表 四国（定数6）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  4. ↑ 開票速報 小選挙区：徳島 - 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  5. ↑ 小選挙区：徳島 - 開票速報 - 2017総選挙 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  6. ↑ 小選挙区：徳島 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  7. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 徳島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  8. ↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>徳島県>徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2011-03-23.{{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  9. ↑ 衆議院 >第44回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2009-05-30.{{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
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  11. ↑ 衆議院 >第42回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN . Retrieved 2009-05-30.{{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
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