Hyōgo 1st district

Hyogo 1st district (兵庫県第1区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-ichiku), also referred to as Hyogo No.1 district and Hyōgo ichi-ku (兵庫1区) in Japanese, is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Chūō, Nada and Higashinada wards of Kobe. As of September 2015, 378,434 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote. The reform abolished the system of multi-member districts that had existed since 1947 and replaced them with small single-member districts coupled with large multi-member proportional representation blocks.

Since the district's creation it has been heavily contested and the seat has frequently changed hand between parties. To date, only the first member Hajime Ishii has won consecutive elections. The district is currently represented by Nobuhito Isaka [jp] of the Constitutional Democratic Party.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Hajime Ishii	New Frontier (1996–98)	1996 – 2003	Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003
Hajime Ishii	DPJ (1998-2003)	1996 – 2003	Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003
Keisuke Sunada	LDP	2003 – 2005	Elected to Kinki PR block in 1996 and 2000
Masahito Moriyama	LDP	2005 – 2009
Masae Ido	DPJ	2009 – 2012
Masahito Moriyama	LDP	2012 – 2014	Elected to Kinki PR block in 2014
Nobuhiko Isaka	Innovation	2014 – 2017	Elected to Kinki PR block as a Your Party candidate in 2012
Masahito Moriyama	LDP	2017 – 2021	Elected to Kinki PR block in 2021
Nobuhiko Isaka	CDP	2021 –

Election results

2024
Party		Candidate	±%
	CDP	Nobuhiko Isaka
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama
	Ishin	Yūichirō Ichitani
	JCP	Hiromi Fujisue
	Sanseitō	Satomi Yamaoka	New
	Independent	Hirotsugu Kijima
	Independent	Kuniya Kihara
Turnout

2021^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Nobuhiko Isaka	78,657	36.9
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama (won a seat in Kinki PR block)	64,202	30.1	9.3
	Ishin	Yūichirō Ichitani (won a seat in Kinki PR block)	53,211	25.0	8.7
	Independent	Shingo ´Takahashi	9,922	4.7
	Independent	Kuniya Kihara	7,174	3.4
Turnout				55.48	7.67
	CDP gain from LDP

2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama	71,861	39.4	0.3
	Kibō no Tō	Nobuhiko Isaka	59,191	32.5
	Ishin	Satoshi Umemura	29,660	16.3
	JCP	Tomoyuki Rikishige	21,454	11.8	2.3
Turnout				47.81	2.24
	LDP gain from Democratic

2014^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ishin	Nobuhiko Isaka	84,822	46.2	10.4
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama (Endorsed by Komeito) Elected to Kinki PR block	72,791	39.7	2.5
	JCP	Tetsujiro Tsutsui	25,875	14.1	5.3
Turnout

2012^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama (Endorsed by Komeito)	76,401	37.2	4.9
	Your	Nobuhiko Isaka (Endorsed by Restoration) Elected to Kinki PR block	73,587	35.8	35.8
	Democratic	Masae Ido (Endorsed by People's New)	37,584	18.3	−30.3
	JCP	Tetsujiro Tsutsui	18,059	8.8	−0.3
Turnout

2009^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Masae Ido	111,183	48.6	19.3
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama (Endorsed by Komeito)	73,767	32.3	−10.7
	JCP	Toshiyuki Ajiguchi	20,760	9.1	−0.5
	Independent	Kazumi Hara	19,995	8.7	−1.1
	Happiness Realization	Kenji Makiyama	2,868	1.3	1.3
Turnout

2005^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Masahito Moriyama	95,746	42.97
	Democratic	Hajime Ishii	65,386	29.34
	Independent	Kazumi Hara	21,844	9.80
	JCP	Toshiyuki Ajiguchi	21,402	9.60
	Independent	Keisuke Sunada (Endorsed by Lib. Dem.)	16,074	7.21
	Independent	Shinichi Iwamoto	2,392	1.07
Turnout

References

^ "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^ 小選挙区兵庫1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
^ 小選挙区兵庫1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
^ "総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
^ "総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
^ "総選挙2009>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.
^ "総選挙2005>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.

[1] "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[2] 小選挙区兵庫1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.

[3] 小選挙区兵庫1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 7 July 2023.

[4] "総選挙2014>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.

[5] "総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.

[6] "総選挙2009>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.

[7] "総選挙2005>開票結果小選挙区兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2016.

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district 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 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district 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 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 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 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

List of representatives

Election results

See also

References