Ibaraki 1st district

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Ibaraki 1st District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
衆議院小選挙区 茨城県.svg
Numbered map of Ibaraki Prefecture single-member districts
PrefectureIbaraki
Proportional DistrictKitakantō
Electorate402,090 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyIndependent
Representative
Created fromIbaraki's 1st "medium-sized" district and 3rd "medium-sized" district
MunicipalitiesIbaraki's Mito (except the former Uchihara Town), Shimotsuma (except Chiyokawa Village), Kasama (except the area of Kasama City), Chikusei, Sakuragawa, Hitachiōmiya (except Gozenyama Village), and Higashi-Ibaraki District’s Shirosato Town

Ibaraki 1st district (茨城県第1区, Ibaraki-ken dai-ikku or simply 茨城1区, Ibaraki-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in the central region of Ibaraki Prefecture, and covers the prefecture's Mito (except the former Uchihara Town), Shimotsuma (except Chiyokawa Village), Kasama (except the area of Kasama City), Chikusei, Sakuragawa, Hitachiōmiya (except Gozenyama Village), and Higashi-Ibaraki District’s Shirosato Town.

As of 2015, this district was home to 404,818 constituents.[2]

List of representatives[]

Representative Party Dates Notes
Norihiko Akagi LDP 1996 – 2009 Lost re-election
DPJ 2009 – 2012 Lost re-election
LDP 2012 – 2021 won PR seat
Nobuyuki Fukushima Independent 2021 –

Election results[]

2017[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic 100,875 48.43 Decrease0.71
Kibō no Tō 82,835 39.77 Increase3.83
Communist Kumiko Ōuchi 22,034 10.58 Decrease4.34
Happiness Realization Ken'ichi Kawabe 2,564 1.23
Turnout 51.78 Decrease2.86
Liberal Democratic hold Swing
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Yoshinori Tadokoro (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 105,536 49.14
Democratic Nobuyuki Fukushima won (elected in PR seat) 77,179 35.94
Communist Kumiko Ōuchi 32,048 14.92
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 103,463 45.34
Democratic (endorsed by PNP) 66,076 28.96
Restoration (endorsed by YP) 29,611 12.98
Tomorrow (endorsed by NPD) 15,971 7.00
Communist 13,065 5.73
2009[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic (endorsed by PNP) 151,165 57.1
Liberal Democratic Norihiko Akagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 92,528 35.0
Communist 15,776 6.0
Happiness Realization 5,267 2.0
2005[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Norihiko Akagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō) 144,499 58.27
Democratic 86,999 35.08
Communist 16,476 6.64
2003[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Norihiko Akagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō, NCP) 128,349 58.71
Democratic (endorsed by SDP) 77,420 35.41
Communist 12,845 5.88
2000[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Norihiko Akagi 132,229 58.99
Democratic 53,148 23.71
Social Democratic 18,573 8.29
Communist 17,246 7.69
Liberal League 2,968 1.32
1996[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Norihiko Akagi 114,796 52.71
New Frontier 63,069 28.96
Democratic Yūji Tokizaki 24,730 11.36
Communist 15,185 6.97

References[]

  1. ^ "茨城1区". go2senkyo. initial.inc. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  2. ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
  3. ^ 2017年10月、開票速報終了時点のデータ 茨城１区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  4. ^ Data Sets (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  5. ^ Data Sets (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  6. ^ Data Sets (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  7. ^ Data Sets (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  8. ^ Data Sets (in Japanese). Election.co.jp. Archived from the original on 24 March 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ Election 2000 (in Japanese). Election.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2 November 2003.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ^ 茨城県 (in Japanese). Kunitaka Tanaka. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2016.


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