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 |
Party |
Dates |
Notes |
Seiko Noda |
| LDP |
1996–2005 |
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| 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– |
Incumbent |
Election results
2003[6]
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[7]
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 |
References
First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996 |
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Hokkaidō (8 PR block seats, 12 FPTP district seats) | |
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Tōhoku (13 PR block seats, 23 FPTP district seats) | |
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Kita- (North) Kantō (19 PR block seats, 32 FPTP district seats) | |
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Minami- (South) Kantō (22 PR block seats, 33 FPTP district seats) | |
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Tokyo (17 PR block seats, 25 FPTP district seats) | |
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Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (11 PR block seats, 19 FPTP district seats) | |
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Tōkai (21 PR block seats, 32 FPTP district seats) | |
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Kinki (28 PR block seats, 47 FPTP district seats) | |
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Chūgoku (11 PR block seats, 20 FPTP district seats) | |
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Shikoku (6 PR block seats, 11 FPTP district seats) | |
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Kyūshū (20 PR block seats, 35 FPTP district seats) | |
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(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002, 2013 and 2017 reapportionments |