Gifu 1st district

Gifu 1st District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Gifu Prefecture
single-member districts
PrefectureGifu
Major settlementsGifu
Current constituency
PartyLDP
RepresentativeSeiko Noda

Gifu 1st district (Gifu-ken dai-ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in central Gifu and consists of the capital city Gifu excluding the former town of Yanaizu. As of 2012, 325,090 eligible voters resided in the district.[1]

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Western Gifu including Gifu City had formed the five-member Gifu 1st district. In the last pre-reform House of Representatives election of 1993, representatives included top-elected Iwao Matsuda for the Renewal Party, third-ranking Seiko Noda for the Liberal Democratic Party and fourth-ranking Socialist Kazō Watanabe. These three representatives were the main contestants of the new single-member 1st district in the 1996 election. Noda won and held on to the seat in subsequent elections. In 2005, she was a postal privatization rebel, but defended the seat against "assassin" candidate Yukari Satō. Noda returned to the party in 2006.

In the landslide Liberal Democratic defeat of 2009, Noda lost the seat to Democrat Masanao Shibahashi and only remained in the House via the Tōkai proportional block. In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Noda regained the district at low turnout.

List of representatives

Representative Party Dates Notes
Seiko Noda LDP 1996–2005
Independent (postal privatization rebel) 2005–2009 Returned to the LDP in 2006, re-elected in the Tōkai block
Masanao Shibahashi DPJ 2009–2012 Failed re-election in the Tōkai block
Seiko Noda LDP 2012– Incumbent

Election results

2021[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 103,805 62.5 Decrease2.0
CDP Keisuke Kawamoto 48,629 29.3
JCP Toru Yamakoshi 9,846 5.9
Reform Future Party Masamitsu Tsuchida 3,698 2.2
Turnout 52.31 Increase1.83
LDP hold
2017[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 103,453 64.5 Increase7.0
Independent Rie Yoshida 43,688 27.2
Independent Taisuke Hattori 8,113 5.1
Happiness Realization Noriko Nohara 5,124 3.2
Turnout 50.48 Increase4.44
LDP hold
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 82,434 57.5 Increase7.5
Democratic Rie Yoshida 38,402 26.8 Decrease3.2
JCP Shizuka Ōsuga 22,647 15.8 Increase8.8
Turnout 46.04 Decrease11.83
LDP hold
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 90,164 49.9 +5.4
Democratic Masanao Shibahashi 54,254 30.0 −20.0
Tomorrow Tamiko Kasahara (endorsed by New Party Daichi 21,294 11.8 new
JCP Masanori Suzuki 12,687 7.0 +2.6
Happiness Realization Noriko Nohara 2,179 1.2 new
Turnout 57.90 Decrease12.09
LDP gain from Democratic
2009[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Masanao Shibahashi 111,987 50.0 +33.1
LDP Seiko Noda (won proportional seat) 99,500 44.5 +1.7
JCP Masanori Suzuki 9,832 4.4 new
HRP Kazue Ozawa 2,508 1.1 new
2005[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Seiko Noda 96,985 42.8 −8.6
LDP Yukari Satō (won proportional seat) 84,189 35.9 new
DPJ Masanao Shibahashi 38,349 16.9 new
JCP Satoru Ogawa 9,970 4.4 new
2003[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 92,717 51.4 −0.9
DPJ Makoto Asano 71,649 39.7 new
JCP Ritsuko Kinoshita 15,951 8.8 −2.4
2000[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 100,425 52.3 +15.2
DPJ Kazō Watanabe 56,751 29.6 +12.0
JCP Ritsuko Kinoshita 21,523 11.2 +1.0
SDP Jirō Toda 11,171 5.8 new
LL Kiyosuke Mamiya 1,975 1.0 new
1996[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Seiko Noda 70,799 37.1 N/A
NFP Iwao Matsuda 66,892 35.1 N/A
DPJ Kazō Watanabe 33,640 17.6 N/A
JCP Ritsuko Kinoshita 19,509 10.2 N/A

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