Kagoshima 1st district

Numbered map of Kagoshima Prefecture single-member districts

Kagoshima 1st district is a single-member electoral district of the House of Representatives the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The district is in Kagoshima Prefecture and covers most of the prefectural capital the city of Kagoshima (a small part of the city is in the Kagoshima 2nd district) and includes Kagoshima District which covers several small islands south of Kyushu. In of 2021 the district had 358,559 eligible voters.^[1]

The district was created following the 1994 Japanese electoral reform. From the first elections in 1996 until 2009, the Representative was Okiharu Yasuoka who was first elected to the Diet in 1972 and was for a long time a Representative for an electoral district that covered the Amami Islands.

In the DPJ victory in the 2009 elections the district was won by democrat Hiroshi Kawauchi, but Yasuoka won the district back in 2012.

Yasuoka retired for health reasons in 2017 and his son ran for his seat in 2017 but lost to Kawauchi. In 2021 Hirotake Yasuoka was put on a safe spot in the Kyushu proportional representation block, where he gained a seat in the Diet, and was replaced by as the LDP candidate.^[2] Miyaji won the seat back in the 2021 election. Miyaji is the son of Kazuaki Miyaji, former Representative of the Kagoshima 3rd district and had first gained seat in the Diet in 2017 in the Kyushu PR block.

List of representatives[]

Representative		Dates
Okiharu Yasuoka	LDP	1996 – 2009
Hiroshi Kawauchi	DPJ	2009 – 2012
Okiharu Yasuoka	LDP	2012 – 2017
Hiroshi Kawauchi	CDP	2017 – 2021
	LDP	2021 –

Election results[]

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic		101,251	53.2	12.4
	Constitutional Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi	89,232	46.8	6.0
Turnout				54.10	2.33
	Liberal Democratic gain from Constitutional Democratic

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Constitutional Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi	76,699	41.8	10.8
	Liberal Democratic		74,831	40.8	3.4
	Innovation	Tsuyoshi Yamano'uchi	26,895	14.7	5.0
	Independent	Kasuhiro Miyazaki	5066	2.8
Turnout				51.77	5.42
	Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2014^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Okiharu Yasuoka	67,376	44.1	1.4
	Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi	47,315	31.0	5.6
	Innovation	Tsuyoshi Yamano'uchi	30,133	19.7	1.8
	Communist	Hironobu Yamaguchi	8024	5.2	1.7
Turnout				46.35	4.83
	Liberal Democratic hold

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Okiharu Yasuoka	76,652	45.5	2.8
	Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi	42,792	25.4	27.8
	Restoration	Tsuyoshi Yamano'uchi (won PR seat)	36,188	21,5
	Tomorrow	Shin'ichirō Watanabe	6,926	4.1
	Communist	Hironobu Yamaguchi	5,951	3.5	1.6
Turnout				51.18	15.70
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi	117,383	53.2	12.2
	Liberal Democratic	Okiharu Yasuoka	94,226	42.7	10.8
	Communist	Hironobu Yamaguchi	6,422	2.9	1.6
	Independent	Jun'ichi Yamashita	1,429	0.6
	Happiness Realization	Jun'ichi Kawata	1079	0.5
Turnout				66.88	2.66
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Okiharu Yasuoka	112,437	53.5	1.5
	Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi (won PR seat)	88,284	42.0	1.0
	Communist	Michiko Katsurada	9,525	4.5	0.6
Turnout				64.22	7.11
	Liberal Democratic hold

2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Okiharu Yasuoka	95,841	52.0	4.2
	Democratic	Hiroshi Kawauchi (won PR seat)	79,243	43.0	0.1
	Communist	Haruki Yamaguchi	9,359	5.1	4.1
Turnout				57.11
	Liberal Democratic hold

References[]

^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)
^ "後継は長男、火種を残し　鹿児島１区、保岡氏不出馬" (in Japanese). Nishi Nippon Shimbun. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：鹿児島- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ 小選挙区鹿児島1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
^ 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区鹿児島１区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[1] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): [1] (in Japanese)

[2] "後継は長男、火種を残し　鹿児島１区、保岡氏不出馬" (in Japanese). Nishi Nippon Shimbun. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[3] 開票速報小選挙区：鹿児島- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[4] 小選挙区鹿児島1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[5] 2014年12月14日(日) 投票小選挙区鹿児島１区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

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v t First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori-3rd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Hirotaka Akamatsu, Aichi-5th
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (13 block seats, 23 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 32 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Minami- (South) Kantō (22 block seats, 33 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1
Tokyo (17 block seats, 25 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 10 17 18 25
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (, 19 district seats)	Niigata 1 5 Toyama Ishikawa 2 Fukui Nagano 3
Tōkai (, 32 district seats)	Gifu 1 Shizuoka 1 Aichi 1 5 6 7 Mie 3
Kinki (, 47 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 Kyoto 2 3 5 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 19 Hyōgo 1 2 8 11 Nara 1 2 Wakayama 3
Chūgoku (11 block seats, 20 district seats)	Tottori 1 Shimane Okayama 4 Hiroshima 1 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4
Shikoku (6 block seats, 11 district seats)	Tokushima 1 Kagawa 2 Ehime Kōchi
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 35 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 8 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Iwate 4 Kumamoto 5