Gifu 1st district

Gifu 1st district (Gifu-ken dai-ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in central Gifu and consists of the capital city Gifu excluding the former town of Yanaizu. As of 2012, 325,090 eligible voters resided in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Western Gifu including Gifu City had formed the five-member Gifu 1st district. In the last pre-reform House of Representatives election of 1993, representatives included top-elected Iwao Matsuda for the Renewal Party, third-ranking Seiko Noda for the Liberal Democratic Party and fourth-ranking Socialist Kazō Watanabe. These three representatives were the main contestants of the new single-member 1st district in the 1996 election. Noda won and held on to the seat in subsequent elections. In 2005, she was a postal privatization rebel, but defended the seat against "assassin" candidate Yukari Satō. Noda returned to the party in 2006.

In the landslide Liberal Democratic defeat of 2009, Noda lost the seat to Democrat Masanao Shibahashi and only remained in the House via the Tōkai proportional block. In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Noda regained the district at low turnout.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Seiko Noda	LDP	1996–2005
Seiko Noda	Independent (postal privatization rebel)	2005–2009	Returned to the LDP in 2006, re-elected in the Tōkai block
Masanao Shibahashi	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the Tōkai block
Seiko Noda	LDP	2012–

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Seiko Noda	90,164	49.9	+5.4
	DPJ	Masanao Shibahashi	54,254	30.0	-20.0
	TPJ (NPD)	Tamiko Kasahara	21,294	11.8	new
	JCP	Masanori Suzuki	12,687	7.0	+2.6
	HRP	Noriko Nohara	2,179	1.2	new

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Masanao Shibahashi	111,987	50.0	+33.1
	LDP	Seiko Noda (won proportional seat)	99,500	44.5	+1.7
	JCP	Masanori Suzuki	9,832	4.4	new
	HRP	Kazue Ozawa	2,508	1.1	new

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Seiko Noda	96,985	42.8	-8.6
	LDP	Yukari Satō (won proportional seat)	84,189	35.9	new
	DPJ	Masanao Shibahashi	38,349	16.9	new
	JCP	Satoru Ogawa	9,970	4.4	new

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	92,717	51.4	-0.9
	DPJ	Makoto Asano	71,649	39.7	new
	JCP	Ritsuko Kinoshita	15,951	8.8	-2.4

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	100,425	52.3	+15.2
	DPJ	Kazō Watanabe	56,751	29.6	+12.0
	JCP	Ritsuko Kinoshita	21,523	11.2	+1.0
	SDP	Jirō Toda	11,171	5.8	new
	LL	Kiyosuke Mamiya	1,975	1.0	new

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	70,799	37.1	N/A
	NFP	Iwao Matsuda	66,892	35.1	N/A
	DPJ	Kazō Watanabe	33,640	17.6	N/A
	JCP	Ritsuko Kinoshita	19,509	10.2	N/A

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
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　岐阜. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ ２００９総選挙開票結果小選挙区・岐阜１区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ 総選挙2015>開票結果　小選挙区　岐阜. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
↑ 総選挙2003>小選挙区　岐阜. Mainichi Broadcasting System (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.
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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

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

Tohoku 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

Kitakanto 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

Minamikanto 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

Hokurikushinetsu 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

Tokai 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 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku 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)

Kyushu 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 Oita 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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