Yamanashi 1st district

Yamanashi 1st district (山梨[県第]1区, Yamanashi[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It covers Northern Yamanashi, namely the capital Kōfu (without the former municipalities of Nakamichi and Kamikuishiki), the cities of Yamanashi and Kōshū and the former town of Kasugai in today's Fuefuki City. As of September 2012, 218,115 voters were registered in the district, giving its voters one of the highest vote weights in the country.[1]

Before the introduction of single-member districts in the 1990s, all of Yamanashi had formed one At-large district that elected five members to the House of Representatives. After the last House of Representatives election under the old system in 1993, Representatives from Yamanashi included Liberal Democrat Eiichi Nakao, Socialist Azuma Koshiishi and reformist Sakihito Ozawa. Nakao and Koshiishi contested the new 1st district in 1996: Nakao won. Koshiishi was elected to the Diet in the 1998 election to represent Yamanashi in the House of Councillors. In the 2000 Representatives election, Ozawa challenged Nakao and unseated him. He held onto the seat until 2012 when he joined the Japan Restoration Party and lost the district to Liberal Democratic newcomer Noriko Miyagawa, a former junior high school teacher.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Eiichi Nakao LDP 1996–2000
Sakihito Ozawa DPJ 2000–2012 Joined Japan Restoration Party in 2012
Re-elected in the S. Kantō PR block
Noriko Miyagawa LDP 2012 – 2019 Dies in office

Election results
2012[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP – Kōmeitō Noriko Miyagawa 54,930 43.6 new
JRP – YP Sakihito Ozawa (elected by PR) 34,414 27.3 -32.9
DPJ – PNP Tsuyoshi Saitō 26,070 20.7 new
JCP Michitaka Uemura 10,694 8.5 new
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DPJ Sakihito Ozawa 91,422 60.2 +12.7
LDP – Kōmeitō Masaaki Akaike 46,881 30.9 -13.3
JCP Akiko Endō 11,972 7.9 -0.3
HRP Hiroyuki Hayase 1,480 1.0 new
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DPJ Sakihito Ozawa 70,281 47.5 -7.4
LDP – Kōmeitō Masaaki Akaike (elected by PR) 65,426 44.2 new
JCP Akiko Endō 12,173 8.2 -2.2
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DPJ Sakihito Ozawa 71,623 54.9 +12.9
LDP Kenzō Yoneda 45,282 34.7 new
JCP Akiko Endō 13,545 10.4 +1.4
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DPJ Sakihito Ozawa 58,781 42.0 new
LDP Eiichi Nakao 52,964 37.8 -1.1
Independent Nobuaki Akaike 15,803 11.3 new
JCP Akiko Endō 12,538 9.0 new
1996[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP Eiichi Nakao 52,111 38.9 N/A
DPJ Azuma Koshiishi 45,288 33.8 N/A
NFP Hitoshi Gotō 25,265 18.9 N/A
JCP Susumu Kogoshi 10,610 7.9 N/A
LL Shigemoto Ishikawa 753 0.6 N/A
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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 (in Japanese)
  2. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　山梨. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  3. 総選挙2009>開票速報　小選挙区　山梨. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  4. 総選挙2005>開票速報　小選挙区　山梨. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-09.
  5. 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 山梨1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2013-02-09. External link in |work= (help)
  6. 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 山梨1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2013-02-09. External link in |work= (help)
  7. 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 山梨1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Retrieved 2013-02-09. External link in |work= (help)

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