Tokushima 1st district

Tokushima 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, and consists of the city of Tokushima and the village of Sanagōchi in the Myōdō District. The district is among the least populated electoral districts in Japan and in the election of 2005 its voters had the highest electoral weight throughout Japan. The most populous district Tokyo 6 had 2.18 times the number of voters in Tokushima 1.[1] As of 2008, 214,830 eligible voters were registered in the district.[2]

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.

Yoshito Sengoku, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its 1996 precursor has won the district five times since 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.

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Yoshito Sengoku DPJ 1996 – Incumbent

Election results

2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Yoshito Sengoku 76,764 56.23
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Yoshirō Okamoto 39,780 29.14
Independent (Hiranuma group) Yūki Oka 10,275 7.53
JCP Motonori Furuta 8,313 6.09
HRP Akira Kondō 1,395 1.02
Turnout 138,535 64.63
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 68,026 50.57
LDP Yoshirō Okamoto 54,843 40.77
JCP Hideaki Kamimura 9,767 7.26
Turnout 134,521 62.79
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 60,917 52.09
LDP Akira Shichijō 44,892 38.39
JCP Chiyoko Yamamoto 9,767 8.35
Turnout 116,949 54.73
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 60,945 47.32
LDP Yoshirō Okamoto 41,628 32.32
JCP Hideaki Kamimura 14,164 11.00
Independent Hiromi Ōta 12,068 9.37
Turnout 128,802 59.1
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshito Sengoku 47,057 37.73
LDP Toshiji Miki 41,133 32.98
NFP Hiromi Ōta 23,684 18.99
JCP Hideaki Kamimura 11,092 8.89
Independent Masahiro Kanemaru[8] 1,739 1.39
Turnout 124,705

References

  1. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun, August 31, 2005: １票の格差２．１８倍　衆院選有権者数 (Japanese)
  2. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成20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 (Japanese)
  3. ^ "衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>徳島県>徳島1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://go2senkyo.com/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23958.html. Retrieved 2011-03-23. 
  4. ^ "衆議院 >第44回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_666.html. Retrieved 2009-05-30. 
  5. ^ "衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_6026.html. Retrieved 2009-05-30. 
  6. ^ "衆議院 >第42回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2000/99/001580/00001580_5724.html. Retrieved 2009-05-30. 
  7. ^ "衆議院 >第41回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区" (in Japanese). ザ･選挙. JANJAN. http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5274.html. Retrieved 2009-05-30. 
  8. ^ 金丸昌弘