Kanagawa 1st district

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]

Electoral districts in Kanagawa Prefecture

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 and 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 Party 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 2012–2014
Jun Matsumoto LDP 2014–2017
Jun Matsumoto LDP 2017– Incumbent

Election results
2017[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP (Kōmeitō) Jun Matsumoto 103,070 47.8 4.6
CDP Gō Shinohara (elected by PR) 78,019 36.2 4.9
Kibō no Tō Kazuyoshi Nagashima 34,433 16.0 New
2014[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP (Kōmeitō) Jun Matsumoto 113,844 52.4 11.2
Innovation Gō Shinohara (elected by PR) 68,061 31.3 New
JCP Yukio Akashi 35,465 16.3 9.9
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP (Kōmeitō) Jun Matsumoto 101,238 41.2 0.7
DPJ (PNP) Mieko Nakabayashi 50,927 20.7 27.4
JRP Kōichi Matsumoto 41,198 16.8 New
YP Yoriyuki Yamashita 36,706 14.9 New
JCP Yukio Akashi 15,664 6.4 New
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DPJ (PNP) Mieko Nakabayashi 135,211 48.1 New
LDP (Kōmeitō) Jun Matsumoto (elected by PR) 117,840 41.9 16.4
JCP Ryōko Kōzai 18,898 6.7 New
Independent Seiichi Yamamoto 9,229 3.3 New
Turnout 286,784 68.2
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
LDP Jun Matsumoto 161,702 58.3 10.7
DPJ Ken'ichirō Satō 95,601 34.4 7.2
JCP Osamu Takayama 20,216 7.3 New
Turnout 282,349 68.2
2003[7]
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[8]
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[9]
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
  1. 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 (in Japanese)
  2. 2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  3. 2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  4. 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
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