Gunma 1st district

Gunma 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Gunma Prefecture and consists of the cities of Maebashi, Numata, parts of Kiryū and Shibukawa as well as the Seta and Tone districts. As of 2012, 387,120 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Until 2009, Gunma had been a traditional "conservative kingdom" (hoshu-ōkoku), the Japanese equivalent of a "red state" in the United States. Like all single member districts in Gunma, the 1st district had been represented by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1997. The LDP used the Costa Rica method (kosutarika-hōshiki) with Koji Omi and Genichiro Sata as alternating candidates for the district. In the election of 2009, Omi was the LDP's candidate; incumbent Sata only ran in the Northern Kantō proportional representation block. Both Omi and Sata had represented the pre-reform three-member 1st district of Gunma. The Democratic Party's candidate in 2009 was Takeshi Miyazaki, a former journalist for the Jōmō Shimbun.^[2] In 2012, Sata regained the district for the LDP.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kōji Omi	LDP	1996–2000
Gen'ichirō Sata	LDP	2000–2003
Kōji Omi	LDP	2003–2005
Gen'ichirō Sata	LDP	2005–2009
Takeshi Miyazaki	DPJ	2009–2012
Gen'ichirō Sata	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Gen'ichirō Sata	94,709	45.0
	JRP (YP)	Hiroshi Ueno (elected by PR)	46,835	22.3
	DPJ	Takeshi Miyazaki	35,074	16.7
	TPJ (NPD)	Arata Gotō	20,663	9.8
	JCP	Hideo Ubukata	13,152	6.2

2009^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Takeshi Miyazaki	122,711
	LDP	Koji Omi	109,846
	JCP	Hiroaki Sakai	15,783
	Independent	Akira Yamada	5,505
	Happiness Realization Party	Akihiko Takizaki	1,795

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Genichiro Sata	136,920
	DPJ	Hitoshi Takahashi	78,544
	JCP	Yoshie Kondō	18,578
	SDP	Tomihisa Tsuchiya	11,233
Turnout			251,670	64.46

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Koji Omi	130,242
	DPJ	Hitoshi Takahashi	68,960
	JCP	Nobuo Matsuura	16,126
Turnout			222,686	57.05

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Genichiro Sata	134,247
	DPJ	Tsugio Kumagawa	61,658
	JCP	Fumiko Yamada^[7]	31,147
Turnout				61.57

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Koji Omi	110,103
	NFP	Tsugio Kumagawa	58,025
	DPJ	Hitoshi Takahashi	31,358
	JCP	Kaoru Hasegawa	21,193

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)
1 2 衆議院 >第45回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ 衆議院議院 >第44回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
↑ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
↑ 衆議院議院 >第42回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
↑ 山田富美子
↑ 衆議院 >第41回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.

Gunma's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 PR part of the Northern Kantō PR block (20 seats) House of Councillors At-large (5 Representatives, 4→2 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 (10 Representatives, 4 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (10 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 (9 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (8 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Maebashi city Takasaki city counties (gunbu) (8 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

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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