Iwate 1st district

Iwate 1st District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Iwate Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Iwate
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	278,860
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	DPJ
Representative	Takeshi Shina (2007–)
Created from	Iwate's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	The city of Morioka (without the former village of Tamayama) and Shiwa County

Iwate 1st district (岩手[県第]1区, Iwate[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Iwate and consists of the majority of the prefectural capital Morioka (the whole city without the former village of Tamayama) and Shiwa county. As of 2012, 278,860 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of the multi-member Iwate 1st district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Iwate is the home of Ichirō Ozawa and like three of the prefecture's four post-reform districts, the 1st district had been represented by his parties from its creation to 2012: the New Frontier Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party. In 2012, Ozawa and his followers split from the Democratic Party: 1st district representative Shina stayed with the Democrats, Ozawa's Tomorrow Party of Japan nominated Yōko Tasso, the wife of former representative and current Iwate governor Takuya Tasso; but Shina defended the district against Tasso and Liberal Democratic former prefectural assembly member Hinako Takahashi who won a proportional block seat.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Takuya Tasso	NFP	1996–2000
	LP	2000–2003
	DPJ	2003–2007	Resigned to run in the Iwate gubernatorial election, 2007 (part of the unified local elections, 2007)
Takeshi Shina	DPJ	2007–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Takeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP)	55,909	34.7
Liberal Democratic	Hinako Takahashi (elected by PR)	44,002	27.3
Tomorrow	Yōko Tasso (endorsed by NPD)	41,706	25.9
Social Democratic	Masahiro Isawa	9,922	6.2
Communist	Shino Yahata	9,473	5.9

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Takeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP)	116,425	60.2
	Liberal Democratic	Hinako Takahashi (endorsed by Komeito)	50,585	26.2
	Social Democratic	Masahiro Isawa	13,048	6.8
	Communist	Kyōko Yoshida	12,187	6.3
	Happiness Realization	Kensaku Mori	1,047	0.5
Turnout			195,474	70.93

By-election, July 29, 2007^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Takeshi Shina (endorsed by PNP)	102,987	61.7
	Liberal Democratic	Masanori Tamazawa (endorsed by Komeito)	53,125	31.8
	Communist	Sadakiyo Segawa	10,821	6.5
Turnout			169,092	61.05

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Takuya Tasso	95,109	51.7
	Liberal Democratic	Atsushi Oikawa	65,187	35.4
	Social Democratic	Mitsumasa Hosokawa	14,050	7.6
	Communist	Shin'ya Kanbe	9,659	5.2
Turnout			185,845	67.93

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Takuya Tasso	91,025	53.6
	Liberal Democratic	Atsushi Oikawa	57,899	34.1
	Social Democratic	Yuriko Gotō	12,014	7.1
	Communist	Yōichi Naganuma	8,806	5.2
Turnout			171,880	63.34

2000^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Takuya Tasso	97,835	43.0
Liberal Democratic	Tokuichirō Tamazawa	65,597	37.7
Social Democratic	Yuriko Gotō	17,309	9.9
Communist	Ryūgorō Satō	9,261	5.3
Democratic	Kikuji Fujikura	6,964	4.0

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Frontier	Takuya Tasso	67,420	40.6
	Liberal Democratic	Tokuichirō Tamazawa (elected by PR)	49,665	29.9
	Independent	Riki Nakamura	17,087	10.3
	Social Democratic	Kuniki Yamanaka	16,758	10.1
	Communist	Toshiko Sakuma	10,668	6.4
	Democratic	Yuriko Gotō	4,551	2.7
Turnout			168,434	65.63

References

↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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 (Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　岩手. Yomiuri Shimbun] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-06.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-05-07. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員補欠選挙. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-05-07. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-05-07. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-05-07. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-05-07. External link in |work= (help)
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>岩手県>岩手1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-05-07. External link in |work= (help)

Iwate's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 PR part of the Tōhoku PR block (16→14 seats) House of Councillors At-large (4 Representatives, 2 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 (8→7 Representatives, 2 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (8 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (7 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Morioka city counties (gunbu) (6 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 (5 Representatives)

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaidō proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tōhoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakantō proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikantō proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushin'etsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tōkai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chūgoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyūshū proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Ōita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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