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 2012, 214,535 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.

The current representative from the district is Liberal Democrat Mamoru Fukuyama, former six-term member and president of the Tokushima prefectural assembly and secretary-general of the LDP prefectural federation. He defeated Democrat Yoshito Sengoku in the 2012 Representatives election by almost 20,000 votes. Sengoku, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its 1996 precursor had won the district five times after 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 – 2012	Failed reelection to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block (sekihairitsu 66.5%, rank 3)^[3]
Mamoru Fukuyama		LDP	2012 –	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[4]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP (NK)	Mamoru Fukuyama	59,231	53.2
DPJ (PNP)	Yoshito Sengoku	39,402	35.4
JCP	Motonori Furuta	12,724	11.4

2009^[5]
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^[6]
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^[7]
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^[8]
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^[9]
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^[10]	1,739	1.39
Turnout			124,705

References

↑ Yomiuri Shimbun, August 31, 2005: １票の格差２．１８倍　衆院選有権者数 (in Japanese)
↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　比例代表　四国（定数6）. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-21.
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　徳島. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-05-21.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>徳島県>徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-03-23. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第44回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-05-30. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-05-30. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第42回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-05-30. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院 >第41回衆議院議員選挙 >徳島県 >徳島1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-05-30. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 金丸昌弘

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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