Nara 1st district

Nara 1st district (奈良[県第]1区 Nara[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Nara and consists of the prefectural capital Nara City without the former village of Tsuge that is part of Nara 2nd district. As of September 2012, 296,007 voters were registered district, giving its voters above average vote weight.[1]

The current representative from the district is Democrat Sumio Mabuchi who became a minister of state in the Kan Cabinet in 2010.

List of Representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Sanae Takaichi NFP 1996–2000 Left NFP and joined LDP in 1996, re-elected in the Kinki proportional representation block
Masahiro Morioka LDP 2000–2003 Re-elected by PR
Sumio Mabuchi DPJ 2003– Incumbent

Election results

2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ – PNP Sumio Mabuchi 68,712 37.9
LDP – Kōmeitō Shigeki Kobayashi (won Kinki PR seat) 61,043 33.6
JRP – YP Yūji Ōno 38,791 21.4
JCP Emiko Itō 12,954 7.1
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Sumio Mabuchi 120,812 60.7
LDP – Kōmeitō Masahiro Morioka 61,464 30.9
JCP Yoshiko Inoue 14,732 7.4
HRP Mayumi Kurioka 2,137 1.1
Turnout 202,354 68.38
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Sumio Mabuchi 73,062 37.2
LDP Chūbē Kagita (elected by PR) 66,215 33.7
Independent Masahiro Morioka 41,914 21.4
JCP Ayumi Hosono 15,071 7.7
Turnout 202,810 68.54
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Sumio Mabuchi 79,529 48.2
LDP Sanae Takaichi 65,538 39.7
JCP Masamichi Satō 20,010 12.1
Turnout 172,474 58.39
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masahiro Morioka 73,851 44.1
DPJ Sumio Mabuchi 54,684 32.7
JCP Masamichi Satō 32,337 19.3
LL Hiroshi Mukai 6,401 3.8
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Sanae Takaichi 60,507 37.0
LDP Masahiro Morioka 50,249 30.7
JCP Daiichi Tsuji (elected by PR) 33,802 20.7
DPJ Satoru Ienishi (elected by PR) 18,994 11.6
Turnout 166,087 59.03

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of general affairs: 平成24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. ↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　奈良. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-04-06.
  3. ↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
  4. ↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
  5. ↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
  6. ↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
  7. ↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 奈良1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2012-11-06.