Hyōgo 1st district
Hyogo 1st district (兵庫県第1区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-ichiku), also referred to as Hyogo No.1 district and Hyōgo ichi-ku (兵庫1区) in Japanese, is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Chūō, Nada and Higashinada wards of Kobe. As of September 2015, 378,434 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.
The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote. The reform abolished the system of multi-member districts that had existed since 1947 and replaced them with small single-member districts coupled with large multi-member proportional representation blocks.
Since the district's creation it has been heavily contested and the seat has frequently changed hand between parties. To date, only the first member Hajime Ishii has won consecutive elections. The district is currently represented by Nobuhito Isaka of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
List of representatives[edit]
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hajime Ishii | New Frontier (1996–98) |
1996 – 2003 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003 | |
| DPJ (1998-2003) | ||||
| Keisuke Sunada | LDP | 2003 – 2005 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 1996 and 2000 | |
| Masahito Moriyama | LDP | 2005 – 2009 | ||
| Masae Ido | DPJ | 2009 – 2012 | ||
| Masahito Moriyama | LDP | 2012 – 2014 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 2014 | |
| Nobuhito Isaka | Innovation | 2014 – 2017 | Elected to Kinki PR block as a Your Party candidate in 2012 | |
| Masahito Moriyama | LDP | 2017 – 2021 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 2021 | |
| Nobuhito Isaka | CDP | 2021 – | ||
Election results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Nobuhito Isaka | 78,657 | 36.9 | |||
| Liberal Democratic | Masahito Moriyama (won a seat in Kinki PR block) | 64,202 | 30.1 |  9.3
| ||
| Innovation | Yūichirō Ichitani (won a seat in Kinki PR block) | 53,211 | 25.0 |  8.7
| ||
| Independent | Shingo ´Takahashi | 9,922 | 4.7 | |||
| Independent | Kuniya Kihara | 7,174 | 3.4 | |||
| Turnout | 55.48 | 7.67
| ||||
| CDP gain from Liberal Democratic | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Masahito Moriyama | 71,861 | 39.4 | 0.3
| ||
| Kibō no Tō | Nobuhito Isaka | 59,191 | 32.5 | |||
| Innovation | Satoshi Umemura | 29,660 | 16.3 | |||
| Communist | Tomoyuki Rikishige | 21,454 | 11.8 | 2.3
| ||
| Turnout | 47.81 | 2.24
| ||||
| Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | Nobuhito Isaka | 84,822 | 46.2 | 10.4 | |
| Liberal Democratic | Masahito Moriyama (Endorsed by Komeito) Elected to Kinki PR block |
72,791 | 39.7 | 2.5 | |
| Communist | Tetsujiro Tsutsui | 25,875 | 14.1 | 5.3 | |
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Masahito Moriyama (Endorsed by Komeito) |
76,401 | 37.2 | 4.9 | |
| Your | Nobuhito Isaka (Endorsed by Restoration) Elected to Kinki PR block |
73,587 | 35.8 | 35.8 | |
| Democratic | Masae Ido (Endorsed by People's New) |
37,584 | 18.3 | -30.3 | |
| Communist | Tetsujiro Tsutsui | 18,059 | 8.8 | -0.3 | |
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Masae Ido | 111,183 | 48.6 | 19.3 | |
| Liberal Democratic | Masahito Moriyama (Endorsed by Komeito) |
73,767 | 32.3 | -10.7 | |
| Communist | Toshiyuki Ajiguchi | 20,760 | 9.1 | -0.5 | |
| Independent | Kazumi Hara | 19,995 | 8.7 | -1.1 | |
| Happiness Realization | Kenji Makiyama | 2,868 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democratic | Masahito Moriyama | 95,746 | 42.97 | ||
| Democratic | Hajime Ishii | 65,386 | 29.34 | ||
| Independent | Kazumi Hara | 21,844 | 9.80 | ||
| Communist | Toshiyuki Ajiguchi | 21,402 | 9.60 | ||
| Independent | Keisuke Sunada (Endorsed by Lib. Dem.) |
16,074 | 7.21 | ||
| Independent | Shinichi Iwamoto | 2,392 | 1.07 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
See also[edit]
- Hyogo at-large district, a multi-member district that represents the entire Hyogo Prefecture in the House of Councillors
References[edit]
- ^ "平成27年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ 小選挙区 兵庫1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ 小選挙区 兵庫1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ "総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "総選挙2009>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "総選挙2005>開票結果 小選挙区 兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.