Iwate 1st district

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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 village of Tamayama) and Shiwa county. As of 2012, 278,860 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 had been represented by his parties from its creation to 2012: the New Frontier Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party. In 2012, Ozawa and his followers split from the Democratic Party: 1st district representative Shina stayed with the Democrats, Ozawa's Tomorrow Party of Japan nominated Yōko Tasso, the wife of former representative and current Iwate governor Takuya Tasso; but Shina defended the district against Tasso and Liberal Democratic former prefectural assembly member Hinako Takahashi who won a proportional block seat.

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

2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP) Takeshi Shina 55,909 34.7
LDP Hinako Takahashi (elected by PR) 44,002 27.3
TPJ (NPD) Yōko Tasso 41,706 25.9
SDP Masahiro Isawa 9,922 6.2
JCP Shino Yahata 9,473 5.9
2009[3]
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[4]
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[5]
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[6]
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[7]
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[8]
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

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