Kanagawa 1st district

Electoral districts in Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa 1st district (神奈川[県第]1区, Kanagawa-[ken-dai-]ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and covers the central downtown and southeastern parts of the prefectural capital of Yokohama, namely the Naka (centre), Isogo and Kanazawa wards. It is among many other things home to the Yokohama city hall and the Kanagawa prefectural government building. As of 2012, 420,153 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of the 1990s the area had been split between the four-member 1st district and the five-member 4th district.

In the first post-reform election of 1996, the 1st district was mainly contested by Liberal Democrat Jun Matsumoto (Asō faction), a former member of the city council and newcomer in national politics, Democrat Ken'ichirō Satō (formerly LDP, Fukuda faction, then New Party Sakigake member in the 1990s), an incumbent for the pre-reform 4th district, and newcomer Masahiko Okabe for the New Frontier Party. Matsumoto narrowly won, but Satō kept a seat via the newly introduced proportional representation. In 2000, Satō beat Matsumoto who then also failed to win a proportional seat but retook the 1st district in the 2003 an 2005 general elections. Satō retired from politics in 2007, but in the national landslide Democratic victory of 2009, first time candidate Mieko Nakabayashi won the 1st district against Matsumoto. Matsumoto was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Abe cabinet, Satō was chairman of the House of Representatives committee on the environment in the 1990s and chaired the disciplinary committee in 2004.

In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Nakabayashi lost more than 84,000 votes compared to 2009. Matsumoto lost only less than 17,000 votes and regained the district.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Jun Matsumoto	LDP	1996–2000	Failed re-election in the Southern Kantō PR block
Ken'ichirō Satō	DPJ	2000–2003	Re-elected in the Southern Kantō PR block
Jun Matsumoto	LDP	2003–2009	Re-elected in the Southern Kantō PR block
Mieko Nakabayashi	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the Southern Kantō PR block
Jun Matsumoto	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Jun Matsumoto	101,238	41.2
	DPJ (PNP)	Mieko Nakabayashi	50,927	20.7
	JRP	Kōichi Matsumoto	41,198	16.8
	YP	Yoriyuki Yamashita	36,706	14.9
	JCP	Yukio Akashi	15,664	6.4

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP)	Mieko Nakabayashi	135,211	48.1
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Jun Matsumoto (elected by PR)	117,840	41.9
	JCP	Ryōko Kōzai	18,898	6.7
	Independent	Seiichi Yamamoto	9,229	3.3
Turnout			286,784	68.2

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Jun Matsumoto	161,702	58.3
	DPJ	Ken'ichirō Satō	95,601	34.4
	JCP	Osamu Takayama	20,216	7.3
Turnout			282,349	68.2

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Jun Matsumoto	111,730	47.6
	DPJ	Ken'ichirō Satō (elected by PR)	97,630	41.6
	JCP	Haruko Nakaie	15,331	6.5
	SDP	Teizō Hayashi	10,243	4.4
Turnout			240,118	59.3

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Ken'ichirō Satō	91,578	40.1
	LDP	Jun Matsumoto	81,245	35.5
	JCP	Takashi Munakata	28,411	12.4
	LP	Hiroshi Iijima	23,783	10.4
	LL	Kiyoshi Matsuda (?, 松田清)	3,593	1.6

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Jun Matsumoto	55,360	26.4
	DPJ	Ken'ichirō Satō (elected by PR)	54,494	26.0
	NFP	Masahisa Okabe	50,684	24.2
	JCP	Kimiko Tamura	26,686	12.7
	SDP	Yumiko Hayashi	22,236	10.6
Turnout			213,994	55.3

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　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.

Kanagawa's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 PR part of the Southern Kantō PR block House of Councillors At-large (17→18 Representatives, 6 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 (13→22 Representatives, 4→6 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (12 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 (11 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (10 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Yokohama city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 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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