Hyogo 1st district

Hyogo 1st district (兵庫県第1区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-ichiku), also referred to as Hyogo No.1 district and Hyōgo ichi-ku (兵庫1区) in Japanese, is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Chūō, Nada and Higashinada wards of Kobe. As of September 2015, 378,434 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

This article is about the post-1994 Japanese House of Representatives district. For the district that existed prior to 1994, see Hyogo 1st district (1947–1993).

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote. The reform abolished the system of multi-member districts that had existed since 1947 and replaced them with small single-member districts coupled with large multi-member proportional representation blocks.

In seven elections since the district's creation, five representatives from four different parties have been elected, with only the first member Hajime Ishii winning consecutive elections. The district is currently represented by Nobuhito Isaka of the Democratic Party.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Hajime Ishii New Frontier
(1996–98)		 1996 – 2003 Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003
Democratic
(1998-2003)
Keisuke Sunada Liberal Democratic 2003 – 2005 Elected to Kinki PR block in 1996 and 2000
Masahito Moriyama Liberal Democratic 2005 – 2009
Masae Ido Democratic 2009 – 2012
Masahito Moriyama Liberal Democratic 2012 – 2014 Elected to Kinki PR block in 2014
Nobuhito Isaka Innovation 2014–present Elected to Kinki PR block as a Your Party candidate in 2012

Election results
2014[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Innovation Nobuhito Isaka 84,822 46.2 10.4
Liberal Democratic Masahito Moriyama
(Endorsed by Komeito)
Elected to Kinki PR block		 72,791 39.7 2.5
Communist Tetsujiro Tsutsui 25,875 14.1 5.3
Turnout
2012[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Masahito Moriyama
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 76,401 37.2 4.9
Your Nobuhito Isaka
(Endorsed by Restoration)
Elected to Kinki PR block		 73,587 35.8 35.8
Democratic Masae Ido
(Endorsed by People's New)		 37,584 18.3 -30.3
Communist Tetsujiro Tsutsui 18,059 8.8 -0.3
Turnout
2009[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Masae Ido 111,183 48.6 19.3
Liberal Democratic Masahito Moriyama
(Endorsed by Komeito)		 73,767 32.3 -10.7
Communist Toshiyuki Ajiguchi 20,760 9.1 -0.5
Independent Kazumi Hara 19,995 8.7 -1.1
Happiness Realization Kenji Makiyama 2,868 1.3 1.3
Turnout
2005[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Masahito Moriyama 95,746 42.97
Democratic Hajime Ishii 65,386 29.34
Independent Kazumi Hara 21,844 9.80
Communist Toshiyuki Ajiguchi 21,402 9.60
Independent Keisuke Sunada
(Endorsed by Lib. Dem.)		 16,074 7.21
Independent Shinichi Iwamoto 2,392 1.07
Turnout


See also

References
  1. "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. "総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  3. "総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  4. "総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  5. "総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.

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