Shiga 1st district

Shiga 1st district (滋賀県第1区, Shiga-ken dai-ikku or simply 滋賀1区, Shiga-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Western Shiga and covers the cities of Ōtsu, the prefectural capital, and Takashima. As of 2009, 314,742 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

The district's first representative for the district after its creation in the electoral reform of 1994 was Democratic Socialist Tatsuo Kawabata who had represented the five-member SNTV Shiga At-large district since 1986. After the party realignments of the 1990s, he like most former Democratic Socialists eventually joined the Democratic Party (Minshutō) of Japan where he became a leading figure in the Democratic Socialist faction, also often referred to as Kawabata group. In the landslide "postal election" of 2005, Kawabata lost Shiga 1st district to Liberal Democrat Ken'ichirō Ueno, but regained it in the 2009 general election that swept the Democrats to power. Kawabata became a minister of state in the Hatoyama, Kan and Noda cabinets; Ueno who failed re-election by proportional representation was a candidate in the 2010 Shiga gubernatorial race, but lost to centre-left supported incumbent Yukiko Kada. In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Kawabata lost the district to Liberal Democratic former Shizuoka assemblyman Toshitaka Ōoka. Despite his comparatively narrow margin of defeat that gave him rank 4 on the DPJ list in Kinki, Kawabata also failed to win a proportional seat as the Democratic Party was reduced to fourth party (12.0%) in the Kinki proportional vote and only won three of 29 seats.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Tatsuo Kawabata	NFP	1996–2000	Joined Shintō Yūai ("New Fraternity Party") after the dissolution of the NFP, "New" Democratic Party in 1998
Tatsuo Kawabata	DPJ	2000–2005	Re-elected in the Kinki PR block ("loss ratio" 94.5%)
Ken'ichirō Ueno	LDP	2005–2009	Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block ("loss ratio" 73.1%)
Tatsuo Kawabata	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the Kinki PR block ("loss ratio" 90.5%)
Toshitaka Ōoka	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (Kōmeitō)	Toshitaka Ōoka	67,259	34.9
DPJ (PNP)	Tatsuo Kawabata	60,921	31.9
JRP (YP)	Toshiki Okumura	43,003	22.3
JCP	Michiyo Fushiki	19,643	10.2
Independent	Yukimitsu Nishida	2,048	1.1

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Tatsuo Kawabata	112,590	51.9
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Ken'ichirō Ueno	82,262	37.9
	JCP	Takashi Kawauchi	19,920	9.2
	HRP	Yukinori Tainaka	2,037	0.9
Turnout			219,324	71.14

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Ken'ichirō Ueno	94,671	46.1
	DPJ	Tatsuo Kawabata (elected by PR)	89,503	43.6
	JCP	Takashi Kawauchi	21,111	10.3
Turnout			207,994	69.53

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DPJ	Tatsuo Kawabata	87,857	51.0
	LDP	Ken'ichirō Ueno	64,002	37.2
	JCP	Takashi Kawauchi	20,340	11.8
Turnout			175,722	59.71

2000^[6]
	Candidate	Votes	%
DPJ	Tatsuo Kawabata	78,834	44.2
LDP	Makoto Mekata	67,001	37.6
JCP	Minoru Yoshihara	29,753	16.7
LL	Yoshitaka Kurioka	2,627	1.5

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	NFP	Tatsuo Kawabata	55,967	34.7
	LDP	Makoto Mekata (elected by PR)	53,476	33.2
	DPJ	Tsutomu Yamamoto (elected by PR)	28,231	17.5
	JCP	Toshikazu Inoue	23,590	14.6
Turnout			164,565	61.64

References

↑ 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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　滋賀. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-27.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-12-19. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-12-19. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-12-19. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-12-19. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 滋賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-12-19. External link in |work= (help)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR
Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)
Tōhoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
Kitakantō proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Minami-Kantō proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)
Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Hokurikushin'etsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5
Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3
Chūgoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)
Kyūshū proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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