Iwate 1st district

Iwate 1st district (岩手[県第]1区 Iwate[-ken dai-]ikku?) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Iwate and consists of the majority of the prefectural capital Morioka (the whole city without the former villlage of Tamayama) and Shiwa county. As of 2009, 276,040 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of the multi-member Iwate 1st district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Iwate is the home of Ichirō Ozawa and like three of the prefecture's four post-reform districts, the 1st district has been represented by his parties since its creation: the New Frontier Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party.

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Takuya Tasso NFP 1996–2000
LP 2000–2003
DPJ 2003–2007 Resigned to run in the Iwate gubernatorial election, 2007 (part of the unified local elections, 2007)
Takeshi Shina DPJ 2007– Incumbent

Election results

2009[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Takeshi Shina 116,425 60.2
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Hinako Takahashi 50,585 26.2
SDP Masahiro Isawa 13,048 6.8
JCP Kyōko Yoshida 12,187 6.3
HRP Kensaku Mori 1,047 0.5
Turnout 195,474 70.93
By-election, July 29, 2007[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Takeshi Shina 102,987 61.7
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Masanori Tamazawa 53,125 31.8
JCP Sadakiyo Segawa 10,821 6.5
Turnout 169,092 61.05
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Takuya Tasso 95,109 51.7
LDP Atsushi Oikawa 65,187 35.4
SDP Mitsumasa Hosokawa 14,050 7.6
JCP Shin'ya Kanbe 9,659 5.2
Turnout 185,845 67.93
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Takuya Tasso 91,025 53.6
LDP Atsushi Oikawa 57,899 34.1
SDP Yuriko Gotō 12,014 7.1
JCP Yōichi Naganuma 8,806 5.2
Turnout 171,880 63.34
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LP Takuya Tasso 97,835 43.0
LDP Tokuichirō Tamazawa 65,597 37.7
SDP Yuriko Gotō 17,309 9.9
JCP Ryūgorō Satō 9,261 5.3
DPJ Kikuji Fujikura 6,964 4.0
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Takuya Tasso 67,420 40.6
LDP Tokuichirō Tamazawa (elected by PR) 49,665 29.9
Independent Riki Nakamura 17,087 10.3
SDP Kuniki Yamanaka 16,758 10.1
JCP Toshiko Sakuma 10,668 6.4
DPJ Yuriko Gotō 4,551 2.7
Turnout 168,434 65.63

References

  1. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成21年9月2日現在における選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数の概要 (Japanese)
  2. ^ "衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. K.K. VoiceJapan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23725.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  3. ^ "衆議院>第44回衆議院議員補欠選挙" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. K.K. VoiceJapan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2007/99/00006876.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  4. ^ "衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. K.K. VoiceJapan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_433.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  5. ^ "衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. K.K. VoiceJapan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_5793.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  6. ^ "衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. K.K. VoiceJapan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2000/99/001580/00001580_5493.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
  7. ^ "衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. K.K. VoiceJapan. http://go2senkyo.com/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5042.html. Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
Iwate's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan
FPTP "small" districts (1996–present): 1 2 3 4 · PR: part of the Tōhoku PR block (16→14 seats) · House of Councillors: At-large (4 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993): 1 2 (8→7 Representatives, 2 Councillors)
Limited voting "large" districts (1946): At-large (8 Representatives)
SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942): 1 2 (7 Representatives)
FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7 Representatives)
SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917): Morioka city · counties (gunbu) (6 Representatives)
FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898): 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)