Yamagata 1st district

Yamagata 1st district (山形県第1区, Yamagata-ken dai-ikku or simply 山形県第1区, Yamagata-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Eastern Yamagata and covers the cities of Yamagata, Kaminoyama and Tendō and the county of Higashimurayama. As of 2012, 306,446 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Since its creation, the district has been mainly contested by Democrat Michihiko Kano (formerly Hata group, now leading his own faction since August 2011,^[2] until the 1990s: LDP, Fukuda faction), agriculture minister in the realigned Kan cabinet, and Liberal Democrat Toshiaki Endō (Koga faction), former vice minister in the education and science ministry during the First Abe cabinet.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Michihiko Kano	NFP	1996–2000	Founded Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People") after the dissolution of the NFP (NFP→Kokumin no Koe→Minseitō (lit. "Civil Government Party" or "Democratic Party", Engrish: Good Governance Party)→DPJ)
Michihiko Kano	DPJ	2000–2003	Reelected in the Tōhoku PR block
Toshiaki Endō	LDP	2003–2009	Reelected in the Tōhoku PR block
Michihiko Kano	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the PR block
Toshiaki Endō	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Toshiaki Endō	102,169	54.6
	DPJ (PNP)	Michihiko Kano	70,411	37.6
	JCP	Shō Ishikawa	14,447	7.7

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (SDP, PNP support)	Michihiko Kano	106,202	46.2
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Toshiaki Endō (elected by PR)	104,911	45.7
	Independent (Hiranuma group member)	Kaori Itō	11,419	5.0
	JCP	Masayuki Satō	6,021	2.6
	HRP	Daigorō Mori	1,149	0.5
Turnout			231,712	75.71

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō	125,774	56.4
	DPJ	Michihiko Kano	86,755	38.9
	JCP	Shō Ishikawa	10,536	4.7
Turnout			225,764	73.81

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō	100,764	49.9
	DPJ	Michihiko Kano (elected by PR)	81,580	40.4
	SDP	Shōsuke Saitō	12,266	6.1
	JCP	Shō Ishikawa	7,356	3.6
Turnout			204,584	67.2

2000^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Michihiko Kano	90,349	52.0
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō	70,290	40.5
	JCP	Akiko Satō	12,996	7.5

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NFP	Michihiko Kano	81,047	48.3
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō (elected by PR)	60,748	36.2
	SDP	Shingo Yamazaki	15,002	8.9
	JCP	Tatsuo Inoue	10,955	6.5
Turnout			170,554	69.5

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)
↑ Jiji Press, August 31, 2011: Kano group founding members
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　山形. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
↑ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
↑ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
↑ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
↑ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

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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