Tokushima 1st district

Tokushima 1st district (徳島県第1区) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.

Tokushima 1st district
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
Numbered map of Tokushima Prefecture single-member districts
Proportional DistrictShikoku
Electorate360,095 (as of September 1, 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Number of members1
PartyIndependent
RepresentativeHirobumi Niki

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.

Before redistricting in 2013, the district consisted of Tokushima city and the village of Sanagōchi in the Myōdō District and was among the least populated electoral districts in Japan. In the election of 2005 it had 214,763 constituents and its voters had the highest electoral weight throughout Japan. [2]

Area

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
2021[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Hirobumi Niki 99,474 50.05 New
Liberal Democratic Masazumi Gotoda (elected by PR) 77,398 38.94 Decrease12.55
Innovation Tomoyo Yoshida (elected by PR) 20,065 10.10 New
Turnout 55.93
Independent gain from Liberal Democratic
2017[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Masazumi Gotoda 90,281 51.49 Decrease0.54
Kibō no Tō Hirobumi Niki 69,442 39.60 Increase0.60
Communist Chiyoko Yamamoto 15,622 8.91 Increase0.00
Turnout 47.98
Liberal Democratic hold
2014[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Masazumi Gotoda 92,166 52.03 Decrease1.17
Democratic Hirobumi Niki 69,188 39.06 Increase3.66
Communist Motonori Furuta 15.776 8.91 Decrease2.49
Turnout 48.94
Liberal Democratic hold
2012[7]
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
2009[8]
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
2005[9]
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
2003[10]
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
2000[11]
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
1996[12]
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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  13. 金丸昌弘

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