Hyōgo 1st district

This article is about the post-1994 Japanese House of Representatives district. For the district that existed prior to 1994, see Hyogo 1st district (1947–1993).

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. Until the 2024 election 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 Party Dates Notes
Hajime Ishii New Frontier
(1996–98) 		1996 – 2003 Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003
DPJ
(1998-2003)
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[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Nobuhiko Isaka 91,797 43.9 Increase7.0
LDP Masahito Moriyama 45,987 22.0 Decrease7.9
Ishin Yūichirō Ichitani 33,430 16.0 Decrease9.0
JCP Hiromi Fujisue 14,247 6.8
Sanseitō Satomi Yamaoka 12,011 5.7
Independent Kuniya Kihara 9,731 4.7
Independent Hirotsugu Kijima 1,914 0.9
Registered electors 391,056
Turnout 54.75 Decrease0.73
CDP hold
2021[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Nobuhiko Isaka 78,657 36.9
LDP Masahito Moriyama (won a seat in Kinki PR block) 64,202 30.1 Decrease9.3
Ishin Yūichirō Ichitani (won a seat in Kinki PR block) 53,211 25.0 Increase8.7
Independent Shingo ´Takahashi 9,922 4.7
Independent Kuniya Kihara 7,174 3.4
Turnout 55.48 Increase7.67
CDP gain from LDP
2017[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Masahito Moriyama 71,861 39.4 Decrease0.3
Kibō no Tō Nobuhiko Isaka 59,191 32.5
Ishin Satoshi Umemura 29,660 16.3
JCP Tomoyuki Rikishige 21,454 11.8 Decrease2.3
Turnout 47.81 Decrease2.24
LDP gain from Democratic
2014[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Innovation 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 50.05
2012[6]
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[7]
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[8]
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


See also

References

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