Nagasaki 1st district

Nagasaki 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southwestern Nagasaki and covers the city of Nagasaki without the former towns of Kinkai and Sotome. As of 2009, 353,871 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Nagasaki city was part of the multi-member Nagasaki 1st district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.

The district has been leaning towards the Democratic Party and its predecessors since its creation. Only in a 1998 by-election, Liberal Democrat Masakazu Kuranari, the eldest son of Tadashi Kuranari, longtime former Representative for the multi-member 1st district, could win the seat, but lost it to Democrat Yoshiaki Takaki in the following general election of 2000.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Takeo Nishioka NFP 1996 – 1998 Resigned for the 1998 Nagasaki gubernatorial election
Masakazu Kuranari LDP 1998 – 2000 Failed reelection in the Kyūshū PR block[2]
Yoshiaki Takaki DPJ 2000 – Incumbent

Election results
2009[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (PNP support) Yoshiaki Takaki 129,044
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Tsutomu Tomioka 87,297
JCP Eiko Fuchise 14,321
HRP Kōichi Eda 2,527
Turnout 236,495 67.03
2005[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshiaki Takaki 110,518
LDP Tsutomu Tomioka (elected by PR) 101,981
JCP Toshihiko Haraguchi 16,341
Turnout 232,338 65.13
2003[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshiaki Takaki 106,331
LDP Masakazu Kuranari 90,857
JCP Toshihiko Haraguchi 12,797
Turnout 213,705 59.69
2000[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Yoshiaki Takaki 76,798
LDP Masakazu Kuranari 65,183
LP Takeo Nishioka 63,248
JCP Yoshinori Terada 16,714
LL Ryūko Kikumura 5,158
1998 by-election[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masakazu Kuranari 68,443
DPJ Izumi Yamazaki 52,438
JCP Yoshinori Terada 13,860
1996[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Takeo Nishioka 84,464
LDP Daisuke Miyajima 71,499
DPJ Kenji Taguchi 31,371
JCP Yoshinori Terada 18,317
Turnout 209,303 58.62

References
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成21年9月2日現在における選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数の概要 (in Japanese)
  2. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>九州>自民. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙挙] (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  3. 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>長崎県>長崎1区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  4. 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>長崎県>長崎1区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  5. 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>長崎県>長崎1区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  6. 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>長崎県>長崎1区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  7. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員補欠選挙. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  8. 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>長崎県>長崎1区. senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2011-02-09.

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