Iwate 1st district

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 prefectural capital Morioka city and the two remaining towns in Shiwa district.[1] Before 2017, it covered 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.[2]

Iwate 1st District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureIwate
Proportional DistrictTohoku
Electorate278,860
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyDPP
RepresentativeTakeshi Shina (2007–)
Created fromIwate's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesThe city of Morioka (without the former village of Tamayama) and Shiwa County

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 2007 Iwate gubernatorial election (part of the unified local elections, 2007)
Takeshi Shina DPJ 2007-2016
DP 2016-2017
Kibō no Tō 2017-2018
DPP 2018-

Election results
  • DC: Dual candidate (jūfuku rikkōho) standing simultaneously for a seat in the Tōhoku proportional representation block
  • $: Lost deposit and if a dual candidate: is also ineligible as a proportional candidate
2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Takeshi Shina (DC) 76,787 52.0 +17.3
Liberal Democratic Hinako Takahashi (DC, won PR seat) 46,409 31.4 +4.1
Communist Kyōko Yoshida 15,374 10.4 new
Social Democratic Mitsumasa Hosokawa (DC, $) 9,052 6.1 new
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Takeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP, DC) 55,909 34.7
Liberal Democratic Hinako Takahashi (DC, elected by PR) 44,002 27.3
Tomorrow Yōko Tasso (endorsed by NPD, DC) 41,706 25.9
Social Democratic Masahiro Isawa (DC, $) 9,922 6.2
Communist Shino Yahata ($) 9,473 5.9
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Takeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP) 116,425 60.2
Liberal Democratic Hinako Takahashi (endorsed by Komeito) 50,585 26.2
Social Democratic Masahiro Isawa 13,048 6.8
Communist Kyōko Yoshida 12,187 6.3
Happiness Realization Kensaku Mori 1,047 0.5
Turnout 195,474 70.93
By-election, July 29, 2007[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Takeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP) 102,987 61.7
Liberal Democratic Masanori Tamazawa (endorsed by Komeito) 53,125 31.8
Communist Sadakiyo Segawa 10,821 6.5
Turnout 169,092 61.05
2005[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Takuya Tasso 95,109 51.7
Liberal Democratic Atsushi Oikawa 65,187 35.4
Social Democratic Mitsumasa Hosokawa 14,050 7.6
Communist Shin'ya Kanbe 9,659 5.2
Turnout 185,845 67.93
2003[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Democratic Takuya Tasso 91,025 53.6
Liberal Democratic Atsushi Oikawa 57,899 34.1
Social Democratic Yuriko Gotō 12,014 7.1
Communist Yōichi Naganuma 8,806 5.2
Turnout 171,880 63.34
2000[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Takuya Tasso 97,835 43.0
Liberal Democratic Tokuichirō Tamazawa 65,597 37.7
Social Democratic Yuriko Gotō 17,309 9.9
Communist Ryūgorō Satō 9,261 5.3
Democratic Kikuji Fujikura 6,964 4.0
1996[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
New Frontier Takuya Tasso 67,420 40.6
Liberal Democratic Tokuichirō Tamazawa (elected by PR) 49,665 29.9
Independent Riki Nakamura 17,087 10.3
Social Democratic Kuniki Yamanaka 16,758 10.1
Communist Toshiko Sakuma 10,668 6.4
Democratic Yuriko Gotō 4,551 2.7
Turnout 168,434 65.63
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References
  1. MIC: 2017 changes to House of Representatives electoral districts, Map and table of changes in Iwate (in Japanese)
  2. 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 (in Japanese)
  3. 総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  4. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  5. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011. External link in |work= (help)
  6. "Archived copy" 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011. External link in |work= (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011. External link in |work= (help)
  8. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011. External link in |work= (help)
  9. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011. External link in |work= (help)
  10. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved May 7, 2011. External link in |work= (help)

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