Tokushima 1st district
Tokushima 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, and consists of the city of Tokushima and the village of Sanagōchi in the Myōdō District. The district is among the least populated electoral districts in Japan and in the election of 2005 its voters had the highest electoral weight throughout Japan. The most populous district Tokyo 6 had 2.18 times the number of voters in Tokushima 1.[1] As of 2012, 214,535 eligible voters were registered in the district.[2]
The district was created in the electoral reform of 1994. Previously, all of Tokushima prefecture had formed one SNTV multi-member constituency (5 representatives) since 1947. The new district was used in the 1996 election for the first time.
Liberal Democrat Mamoru Fukuyama, former six-term member and president of the Tokushima prefectural assembly and secretary-general of the LDP prefectural federation, defeated Democrat Yoshito Sengoku in the 2012 Representatives election by almost 20,000 votes. Sengoku, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its 1996 precursor had won the district five times after its creation. Sengoku, a lawyer and University of Tokyo drop-out, had previously represented the Tokushima At-large district between 1990 and 1993 for the Socialist Party of Japan.
List of representatives
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoshito Sengoku | DPJ | 1996–2012 | Failed reelection to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block (sekihairitsu 66.5%, rank 3)[3] | |
| Mamoru Fukuyama | LDP | 2012–2014 | ||
| Masazumi Gotoda | LDP | 2014–2021 | Elected to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block | |
| Hirobumi Niki | Independent | 2021– | Member of the Diet for the DPJ 2009–2012 | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Hirobumi Niki | 99,474 | 50.05 | ||
| LDP | Masazumi Gotoda (elected by PR) | 77,398 | 38.94 |  12.55
| |
| Ishin | Tomoyo Yoshida (elected by PR) | 20,065 | 10.10 | ||
| Turnout | 55.93 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Masazumi Gotoda | 90,281 | 51.49 | 0.54
| |
| Kibō no Tō | Hirobumi Niki | 69,442 | 39.60 |  0.60
| |
| JCP | Chiyoko Yamamoto | 15,622 | 8.91 | 0.00
| |
| Turnout | 47.98 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Masazumi Gotoda | 92,166 | 52.03 | 1.17
| |
| Democratic | Hirobumi Niki | 69,188 | 39.06 | 3.66
| |
| JCP | Motonori Furuta | 15.776 | 8.91 | 2.49
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| Turnout | 48.94 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP (NK) | Mamoru Fukuyama | 59,231 | 53.2 | ||
| DPJ (PNP) | Yoshito Sengoku | 39,402 | 35.4 | ||
| JCP | Motonori Furuta | 12,724 | 11.4 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ (PNP support) | Yoshito Sengoku | 76,764 | 56.23 | ||
| LDP (Kōmeitō support) | Yoshirō Okamoto | 39,780 | 29.14 | ||
| Independent (Hiranuma group) | Yūki Oka | 10,275 | 7.53 | ||
| JCP | Motonori Furuta | 8,313 | 6.09 | ||
| HRP | Akira Kondō | 1,395 | 1.02 | ||
| Turnout | 138,535 | 64.63 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ | Yoshito Sengoku | 68,026 | 50.57 | ||
| LDP | Yoshirō Okamoto | 54,843 | 40.77 | ||
| JCP | Hideaki Kamimura | 9,767 | 7.26 | ||
| Turnout | 134,521 | 62.79 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ | Yoshito Sengoku | 60,917 | 52.09 | ||
| LDP | Akira Shichijō | 44,892 | 38.39 | ||
| JCP | Chiyoko Yamamoto | 9,767 | 8.35 | ||
| Turnout | 116,949 | 54.73 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ | Yoshito Sengoku | 60,945 | 47.32 | ||
| LDP | Yoshirō Okamoto | 41,628 | 32.32 | ||
| JCP | Hideaki Kamimura | 14,164 | 11.00 | ||
| Independent | Hiromi Ōta | 12,068 | 9.37 | ||
| Turnout | 128,802 | 59.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPJ | Yoshito Sengoku | 47,057 | 37.73 | ||
| LDP | Toshiji Miki | 41,133 | 32.98 | ||
| NFP | Hiromi Ōta | 23,684 | 18.99 | ||
| JCP | Hideaki Kamimura | 11,092 | 8.89 | ||
| Independent | Masahiro Kanemaru[13] | 1,739 | 1.39 | ||
| Turnout | 124,705 | ||||
References
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