Aomori 1st district

Aomori 1st district (青森県第1区, Aomori-ken dai-ikku or simply 青森1区, Aomori-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Aomori and covers the cities of Aomori, Mutsu and the Higashitsugaru and Kitatsugaru districts along with the northern half of the Kamikita District.

Aomori 1st District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Aomori Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Aomori
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	336,748 (2014)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Jun Tsushima (2012–)
Created from	Aomori's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	The cities of Aomori and Mutsu and the Higashitsugaru, Shimokita, and part of the Kamikita districts

Before the introduction of parallel voting and single-member districts, Aomori city and East Tsugaru county had been part of the four-member Aomori 1st district.

Aomori is a "conservative kingdom", a Liberal Democratic stronghold; but in the landslide 2009 election Hokuto Yokoyama, center-left supported gubernatorial candidate in 2003, could win the 1st district and became the first Democrat to win a district in Aomori by beating Jun Tsushima from the Tsushima writer-politician dynasty from Kanagi town (in present-day Goshogawara). Tsushima had tried to succeed his retiring father, LDP faction leader Yūji Tsushima. Other members of the family included Representative, Councillor and Governor Bunji Tsushima (Seiyūkai/LDP – Aomori), Representative Kichirō Tazawa (LDP – Aomori), Representative Kyōichi Tsushima (LDP/DPJ – Tōhoku), Representative, Peer and Kanagi mayor Gen'emon Tsushima (Seiyūkai – Aomori), Kanagi mayor Eiji Tsushima and writers Shūji Tsushima (Osamu Dazai), Yūko Tsushima, Shizuko Ōta and Haruko Ōta. The second "inheritance" attempt in 2012 was successful.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Yūji Tsushima		LDP	1996–2009	Retired in 2009
Hokuto Yokoyama		DPJ	2009–2012	Joined PLF, then TPJ in 2012; failed re-election in the Tōhoku block
		PLF	2012
		TPJ	2012
Jun Tsushima		LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2014[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democratic	Jun Tsushima (endorsed by Komeito)	66,041	45.1	+4.6
	Innovation	Sekio Masuta (won PR seat)	47,400	42.1	+16.3
	Communist	Yō Yoshimata	18,274	12.5	new

2012[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democratic	Jun Tsushima (endorsed by Komeito)	73,237	40.5
	Restoration	Sekio Masuta	47,400	26.2
	Tomorrow	Hokuto Yokoyama (endorsed by NPD)	32,050	17.7
	Democratic	Rina Hatano	17,066	9.4
	Communist	Mio Saitō	11,217	6.2

2009[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Democratic	Hokuto Yokoyama (endorsed by PNP)	101,290	44.5
	Independent	Jun Tsushima (endorsed by Komeito)	68,910	30.3
	Independent (Hiranuma group)	Sekio Masuta	35,283	15.5
	Social Democratic	Hidehiko Watanabe	12,847	5.6
	Communist	Yō Yoshimata	7,976	3.5
	Happiness Realization	Kazuhiro Ueda	1,483	0.7
Turnout			231,307	66.67

2005[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democratic	Yūji Tsushima	94,072	40.4
	Democratic	Hokuto Yokoyama (won PR seat)	79,323	34.1
	Independent	Sekio Masuta	26,380	11.3
	Independent	Tetsukazu Shibutani	12,636	5.4
	Social Democratic	Ryōko Nakaya	11,521	4.9
	Communist	Hiroaki Takayanagi	8,832	3.8
Turnout			235,923	66.38

2003[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democratic	Yūji Tsushima	81,511	39.7
	Independent	Hokuto Yokoyama	74,799	36.4
	Democratic	Tsutomu Herai	15,736	7.7
	Social Democratic	Osami Imamura	14,123	6.9
	Independent	Shun'itsu Matsumori	12,119	5.9
	Communist	Takayuki Hatanaka	7,010	3.4
Turnout			208,462	58.41

2000[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democratic	Yūji Tsushima	96,691	51.4
	Social Democratic	Osami Imamura	40,706	21.6
	Democratic	Tsutomu Herai	34,645	18.4
	Communist	Yukimitsu Hori	16,094	8.6

1996[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democratic	Yūji Tsushima	86,411	43.6
	New Frontier	Ryūichi Kudō	71,999	36.4
	Social Democratic	Osami Imamura	24,075	12.2
	Communist	Hideo Togashi	15,548	7.9
Turnout			201,197	57.74

References

1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成２６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 (in Japanese)
2. 総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　青森. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 August 2015.
3. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　青森. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 February 2013.
4. 第45回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
5. 第44回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
6. 第43回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
7. 第42回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
8. 第41回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.