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
PrefectureAomori
Proportional DistrictTohoku
Electorate336,748 (2014)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyLDP
RepresentativeJun Tsushima (2012–)
Created fromAomori's 1st "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesThe 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.
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