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{{short description|Legislative district of Japan}}
'''Saga 1st district''' is a constituency of the [[House of Representatives of Japan|House of Representatives]] in the [[Diet of Japan]] (national legislature). It is located in [[Saga Prefecture]] and consists of [[Tosu, Saga|Tosu]], parts of [[Saga, Saga|Saga]] and [[Kanzaki, Saga|Kanzaki]] as well as the [[Miyaki District, Saga|Miyaki District]]. As of September 2012, 237,748 eligible voters were registered in the district.<ref>[[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications]] (MIC): [http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_h24.html 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等] {{ja icon}}</ref>
'''Saga 1st district''' is a constituency of the [[House of Representatives of Japan|House of Representatives]] in the [[Diet of Japan]] (national legislature). It is located in [[Saga Prefecture]] and consists of [[Tosu, Saga|Tosu]], parts of [[Saga, Saga|Saga]] and [[Kanzaki, Saga|Kanzaki]] as well as the [[Miyaki District, Saga|Miyaki District]]. As of September 2012, 237,748 eligible voters were registered in the district.<ref>[[Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications]] (MIC): [http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/meibo/meibo_h24.html 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等] {{in lang|ja}}</ref>


Saga 1st district has been a swing district since its creation in 1996: it alternately elected candidates for the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] (LDP) and the [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|Democratic Party of Japan]] (DPJ)/its precursor [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|New Frontier Party]] (NFP). The district is currently represented by [[Kazuchika Iwata]] (LDP), a former second-generation Saga prefectural assemblyman. In 2012, Iwata defeated [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]] (DPJ), Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication in the Hatoyama cabinet. Haraguchi had initially won the district narrowly for the NFP in 1996 but lost it in 2000 to [[Takanori Sakai]] (LDP) who was appointed as Cabinet Office Vice Minister in the 2nd realigned Mori cabinet. In March 2003, Sakai was arrested (and later sentenced to 32 months in prison) for having received illicit corporate donations in violation of the Political Funds Control Law.<ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20030627a1.html The Japan Times, June 27, 2003: Sakai, cohort plead not guilty to defrauding state]</ref><ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070323a8.html The Japan Times, March 23, 2007: Prosecutors drive ex-labor minister to penitentiary]</ref> [[Takamaro Fukuoka]] replaced Sakai as LDP candidate for Saga 1 in the 2003 election and lost to Haraguchi. The "postal privatization" election of 2005 gave the LDP a landslide victory, and Fukuoka beat Haraguchi despite the fact that the DPJ's opposition ally, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), unlike in previous elections did not nominate a candidate in Saga 1st district. In the landslide LDP defeat of 2009, Haraguchi won the district for the third time.
Saga 1st district has been a swing district since its creation in 1996: it alternately elected candidates for the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] (LDP) and the [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|Democratic Party of Japan]] (DPJ)/its precursor [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|New Frontier Party]] (NFP). The district is currently represented by [[Kazuchika Iwata]] (LDP), a former second-generation Saga prefectural assemblyman. In 2012, Iwata defeated [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]] (DPJ), Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication in the Hatoyama cabinet. Haraguchi had initially won the district narrowly for the NFP in 1996 but lost it in 2000 to [[Takanori Sakai]] (LDP) who was appointed as Cabinet Office Vice Minister in the 2nd realigned Mori cabinet. In March 2003, Sakai was arrested (and later sentenced to 32 months in prison) for having received illicit corporate donations in violation of the Political Funds Control Law.<ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20030627a1.html The Japan Times, June 27, 2003: Sakai, cohort plead not guilty to defrauding state]</ref><ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070323a8.html The Japan Times, March 23, 2007: Prosecutors drive ex-labor minister to penitentiary]</ref> [[Takamaro Fukuoka]] replaced Sakai as LDP candidate for Saga 1 in the 2003 election and lost to Haraguchi. The "postal privatization" election of 2005 gave the LDP a landslide victory, and Fukuoka beat Haraguchi despite the fact that the DPJ's opposition ally, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), unlike in previous elections did not nominate a candidate in Saga 1st district. In the landslide LDP defeat of 2009, Haraguchi won the district for the third time.
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==List of representatives==
==List of representatives==
{| class=wikitable
{| class=wikitable
|- valign=bottom
! Representative
! colspan="2" | Party
! Dates
! Notes
|-
|-
!Election
| [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
!Representative
| bgcolor=blue | || [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|NFP]]
!Party
| 1996–2000
!Notes
| Reelected to a proportional seat in the [[Kyūshū proportional representation bloc|Kyūshū bloc]], joined [[Kokumin no Koe|"Voice of the People"]] in the NFP dissolution, merged into [[Minseitō]], then DPJ in 1998
|-
|-
|[[1996 Japanese general election|1996]]
| [[Takanori Sakai]]
|[[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
| bgcolor=red | || [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|style="background:lightsalmon;"|[[New Frontier Party (Japan)|NFP]]
| 2000–2003
|After the dissolution of NFP, Haraguchi joined DPJ through Voice of the people, [[Good Governance Party |GGP]].
| Violation of the Political Funds Control Act, but in office until dissolution
|-
|-
|[[2000 Japanese general election|2000]]
| Kazuhiro Haraguchi
|[[Takanori Sakai]]
| bgcolor=blue | || [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|style="background:lawngreen;"| [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
| 2003–2005
|
| Reelected to a proportional seat in the Kyūshū bloc
|-
|-
|[[2003 Japanese general election|2003]]
| [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
|Kazuhiro Haraguchi
| bgcolor=red | || LDP
|style="background:darkorange;"|[[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
| 2005–2009
|
| Failed reelection to a proportional seat in the Kyūshū bloc; became [[Saga At-large district (House of Councillors)|member of the House of Councillors from Saga]] in the 2010 election
|-
|-
|[[2005 Japanese general election|2005]]
| Kazuhiro Haraguchi
|[[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
| bgcolor=blue | || DPJ
|style="background:lawngreen;"|LDP
| 2009–2012
| After losing the 2009, Iwata was elected in [[2010 Japanese House of Councillors election|2010]].
| Reelected to a proportional seat in the Kyūshū bloc
|-
|-
|[[2009 Japanese general election|2009]]
| [[Kazuchika Iwata]]
|Kazuhiro Haraguchi
| bgcolor=red | || LDP
|style="background:darkorange;"|DPJ
| 2012–2014
|
| Reelected to a proportional seat in the Kyūshū bloc
|-
|-
|[[2012 Japanese general election|2012]]
| Kazuhiro Haraguchi
|[[Kazuchika Iwata]]
| bgcolor=blue | || DPJ
|style="background:lawngreen;"|LDP
| 2014-
|
| Incumbent
|-
|[[2014 Japanese general election|2014]]
|rowspan="3"|Kazuhiro Haraguchi
|style="background:darkorange;"|DPJ
|
|-
|[[2017 Japanese general election|2017]]
|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
| Haraguchi tried to run for office in [[Kibō no Tō|Kibō]], but gave up.
|-
|[[2021 Japanese general election|2021]]
|style="background:darkorange;"|[[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan|CDP]]
|
|}
|}


== Election results ==
== Election results ==
{{Election box begin | title=[[2012 Japanese general election|2012]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya41.htm|script-title=ja:総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　佐賀|work=[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]|accessdate=2013-06-05|language=Japanese}}</ref>}}
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 Japanese general election|2021]]}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan|CDP]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|votes = 92,452
|percentage = 50.04
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] ([[Komeito|NKP]])
|candidate = [[Kazuchika Iwata]]
|votes = 92,319
|percentage = 49.96
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=[[2017 Japanese general election|2017]]}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|Ind.]] ([[Democratic Party (Japan, 2016)|DP]])
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|votes = 105,487
|percentage = 55.65
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] ([[Komeito|NKP]])
|candidate = [[Kazuchika Iwata]]
|votes = 78,972
|percentage = 41.66
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Happiness Realization Party]]
|candidate = Toru Nakajima
|votes = 5086
|percentage = 2.68
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin | title=[[2012 Japanese general election|2012]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/shugiin/2012/kaihyou/ya41.htm|script-title=ja:総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 佐賀|work=[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]|accessdate=2013-06-05|language=Japanese}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] ([[Kōmeitō|NK]])
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] ([[Kōmeitō|NK]])
|candidate = [[Kazuchika Iwata]]
|candidate = [[Kazuchika Iwata]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]] ([[People's New Party|PNP]])
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]] ([[People's New Party|PNP]])
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]] (elected by PR)
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]] (elected by PR)
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Japanese Communist Party|JCP]]
|party = [[Japanese Communist Party|JCP]]
|candidate = Hitoshi Ōmori
|candidate = Hitoshi Ōmori
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box end}}


{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Japanese general election|2009]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23982.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙]|accessdate=2010-01-07|publisher=''[[JANJAN]]''|language=Japanese|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111030251/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23982.html|archivedate=2010-01-11|df=}}</ref>}}
{{Election box begin | title=[[2009 Japanese general election|2009]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23982.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙]|accessdate=2010-01-07|publisher=[[JANJAN]]|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111030251/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2009/99/008477/00008477_23982.html|archivedate=2010-01-11}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]] ([[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]], [[New People's Party (Japan)|NPP]] support)
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]] ([[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]], [[New People's Party (Japan)|NPP]] support)
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] ([[Kōmeitō]] support)
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] ([[Kōmeitō]] support)
|candidate = [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
|candidate = [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Happiness Realization Party]]
|party = [[Happiness Realization Party]]
|candidate = Ken Koba
|candidate = Ken Koba
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box turnout|
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 175,824
|votes = 175,824
|percentage = 74.77
|percentage = 74.77
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box end}}


{{Election box begin | title=[[2005 Japanese general election|2005]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_690.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙]|accessdate=2009-12-30|publisher=''[[JANJAN]]''|language=Japanese|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822194125/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_690.html|archivedate=2009-08-22|df=}}</ref>}}
{{Election box begin | title=[[2005 Japanese general election|2005]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_690.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙]|accessdate=2009-12-30|publisher=[[JANJAN]]|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822194125/http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2005/99/000001/00000001_690.html|archivedate=2009-08-22}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|candidate = [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
|candidate = [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|candidate = Akemi Mutō
|candidate = Akemi Mutō
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box turnout|
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 170,282
|votes = 170,282
|percentage = 73.28
|percentage = 73.28
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box end}}


{{Election box begin | title=[[2003 Japanese general election|2003]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_6050.html|script-title=ja:衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙] |accessdate=2009-12-30 |publisher=''[[JANJAN]]'' |language=Japanese}}</ref>}}
{{Election box begin | title=[[2003 Japanese general election|2003]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2003/99/001583/00001583_6050.html|script-title=ja:衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙] |accessdate=2009-12-30 |publisher=[[JANJAN]] |language=Japanese}}</ref>}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|candidate = [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
|candidate = [[Takamaro Fukuoka]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]]
|party = [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]]
|candidate = Hisahiro Shibata
|candidate = Hisahiro Shibata
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|candidate = Yasutoshi Kamimura
|candidate = Yasutoshi Kamimura
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box turnout|
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 152,297
|votes = 152,297
|percentage = 66.13
|percentage = 66.13
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box end}}


{{Election box begin | title=[[2000 Japanese general election|2000]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/2000/99/001580/00001580_5748.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙]|accessdate=2009-12-30|publisher=''[[JANJAN]]''|language=Japanese}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}
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{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|candidate = [[Takanori Sakai]]
|candidate = [[Takanori Sakai]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|party = [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1998)|DPJ]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]]
|party = [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]]
|candidate = Katsuyō Ogata
|candidate = Katsuyō Ogata
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|candidate = Yasutoshi Kamimura
|candidate = Yasutoshi Kamimura
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|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal League (Japan)|Liberal League]]
|party = [[Liberal League (Japan)|Liberal League]]
|candidate = Kō Nagai
|candidate = Kō Nagai
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box end}}


{{Election box begin | title=[[1996 Japanese general election|1996]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/election/1996/99/001557/00001557_5298.html|script-title=ja:衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区|work=[http://www.senkyo.janjan.jp/ ザ･選挙]|accessdate=2010-01-07|publisher=''[[JANJAN]]''|language=Japanese}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}
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{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|NFP]]
|party = [[New Frontier Party (Japan)|NFP]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
|candidate = [[Kazuhiro Haraguchi]]
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|change =
|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|party = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]]
|candidate = [[Takanori Sakai]]
|candidate = [[Takanori Sakai]]
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|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]]
|party = [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|SDP]]
|candidate = Katsuyō Ogata
|candidate = Katsuyō Ogata
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|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|party = [[Japan Communist Party|JCP]]
|candidate = Yasutoshi Kamimura
|candidate = Yasutoshi Kamimura
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|change =
}}
}}
{{Election box candidate|
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Liberal League (Japan)|Liberal League]]
|party = [[Liberal League (Japan)|Liberal League]]
|candidate = Takashi Kimura
|candidate = Takashi Kimura
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[[Category:Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)]]
[[Category:House of Representatives (Japan) districts in Saga Prefecture]]
[[Category:1994 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1994]]
[[Category:Saga (city)]]

Latest revision as of 16:47, 18 July 2024

Saga 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Saga Prefecture and consists of Tosu, parts of Saga and Kanzaki as well as the Miyaki District. As of September 2012, 237,748 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Saga 1st district has been a swing district since its creation in 1996: it alternately elected candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)/its precursor New Frontier Party (NFP). The district is currently represented by Kazuchika Iwata (LDP), a former second-generation Saga prefectural assemblyman. In 2012, Iwata defeated Kazuhiro Haraguchi (DPJ), Minister of Internal Affairs and Communication in the Hatoyama cabinet. Haraguchi had initially won the district narrowly for the NFP in 1996 but lost it in 2000 to Takanori Sakai (LDP) who was appointed as Cabinet Office Vice Minister in the 2nd realigned Mori cabinet. In March 2003, Sakai was arrested (and later sentenced to 32 months in prison) for having received illicit corporate donations in violation of the Political Funds Control Law.[2][3] Takamaro Fukuoka replaced Sakai as LDP candidate for Saga 1 in the 2003 election and lost to Haraguchi. The "postal privatization" election of 2005 gave the LDP a landslide victory, and Fukuoka beat Haraguchi despite the fact that the DPJ's opposition ally, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), unlike in previous elections did not nominate a candidate in Saga 1st district. In the landslide LDP defeat of 2009, Haraguchi won the district for the third time.

Before the 1994 electoral reform, the area had been part of Saga At-large district where five representatives were elected by single non-transferable vote.

List of representatives

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Election Representative Party Notes
1996 Kazuhiro Haraguchi NFP After the dissolution of NFP, Haraguchi joined DPJ through Voice of the people, GGP.
2000 Takanori Sakai LDP
2003 Kazuhiro Haraguchi DPJ
2005 Takamaro Fukuoka LDP After losing the 2009, Iwata was elected in 2010.
2009 Kazuhiro Haraguchi DPJ
2012 Kazuchika Iwata LDP
2014 Kazuhiro Haraguchi DPJ
2017 Independent Haraguchi tried to run for office in Kibō, but gave up.
2021 CDP

Election results

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2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kazuhiro Haraguchi 92,452 50.04
LDP (NKP) Kazuchika Iwata 92,319 49.96
2017
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. (DP) Kazuhiro Haraguchi 105,487 55.65
LDP (NKP) Kazuchika Iwata 78,972 41.66
Happiness Realization Party Toru Nakajima 5086 2.68
2012[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (NK) Kazuchika Iwata 70,547 49.2
DPJ (PNP) Kazuhiro Haraguchi (elected by PR) 63,007 43.9
JCP Hitoshi Ōmori 9,857 6.9
2009[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (SDP, NPP support) Kazuhiro Haraguchi 96,618
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Takamaro Fukuoka 75,475
Happiness Realization Party Ken Koba 1,568
Turnout 175,824 74.77
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takamaro Fukuoka 84,643
DPJ Kazuhiro Haraguchi 75,449
JCP Akemi Mutō 8,029
Turnout 170,282 73.28
2003[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Kazuhiro Haraguchi 70,271
LDP Takamaro Fukuoka 66,446
SDP Hisahiro Shibata 8,315
JCP Yasutoshi Kamimura 4,977
Turnout 152,297 66.13
2000[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takanori Sakai 70,155
DPJ Kazuhiro Haraguchi 62,932
SDP Katsuyō Ogata 30,018
JCP Yasutoshi Kamimura 7,173
Liberal League Kō Nagai 1,612
1996[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Kazuhiro Haraguchi 62,515
LDP Takanori Sakai 60,286
SDP Katsuyō Ogata 27,514
JCP Yasutoshi Kamimura 7,670
Liberal League Takashi Kimura 2,493

References

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  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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
  2. ^ The Japan Times, June 27, 2003: Sakai, cohort plead not guilty to defrauding state
  3. ^ The Japan Times, March 23, 2007: Prosecutors drive ex-labor minister to penitentiary
  4. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 佐賀. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  5. ^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2010-01-07. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  6. ^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2009-12-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  7. ^ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  8. ^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)[permanent dead link‍]
  9. ^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-07. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)[permanent dead link‍]

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