Kagoshima 1st district
| Kagoshima 1st District | |
|---|---|
| 鹿児島県第1区 | |
| Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives | |
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| Prefecture | Kagoshima |
| Proportional District | Kyushu |
| Electorate | 357,284 (as of September 2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1994 |
| Seats | One |
| Party | CDP |
| Representative | Hiroshi Kawauchi |
Kagoshima 1st District (鹿児島県第1区, Kagoshima-ken dai-i-ku) 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.[2]
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 Hirotake Yasuoka 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 Takuma Miyaji as the LDP candidate.[3] 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
[edit]| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okiharu Yasuoka | LDP | 1996 – 2009 | ||
| Hiroshi Kawauchi | DPJ | 2009 – 2012 | ||
| Okiharu Yasuoka | LDP | 2012 – 2017 | ||
| Hiroshi Kawauchi | CDP | 2017 – 2021 | ||
| Takuma Miyaji | LDP | 2021 – 2024 | ||
| Hiroshi Kawauchi | CDP | 2024 – | ||
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Hiroshi Kawauchi | 80,918 | 46.0 |  0.8
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| LDP | Takuma Miyaji (elected in Kyushu PR block) | 78,221 | 44.5 | 8.7
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| Sanseitō | Takuma Nobori | 16,607 | 9.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 353,174 | |||||
| Turnout | 50.65 | 3.45
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| CDP gain from LDP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Takuma Miyaji | 101,251 | 53.2 |  12.4
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| CDP | Hiroshi Kawauchi | 89,232 | 46.8 | 6.0
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| Turnout | 54.10 | 2.33
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| LDP gain from CDP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDP | Hiroshi Kawauchi | 76,699 | 41.8 | 10.8
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| LDP | Hirotake Yasuoka | 74,831 | 40.8 | 3.4
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| Ishin | Tsuyoshi Yamano'uchi | 26,895 | 14.7 | 5.0
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| Independent | Kasuhiro Miyazaki | 5066 | 2.8 | |||
| Turnout | 51.77 | 5.42
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| CDP gain from LDP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Okiharu Yasuoka | 67,376 | 44.1 | 1.4
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| Democratic | Hiroshi Kawauchi | 47,315 | 31.0 | 5.6
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| Ishin | Tsuyoshi Yamano'uchi | 30,133 | 19.7 | 1.8
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| JCP | Hironobu Yamaguchi | 8024 | 5.2 | 1.7
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| Turnout | 46.35 | 4.83
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| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Okiharu Yasuoka | 76,652 | 45.5 | 2.8
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| Democratic | Hiroshi Kawauchi | 42,792 | 25.4 | 27.8
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| Restoration | Tsuyoshi Yamano'uchi (won PR seat) | 36,188 | 21,5 | |||
| Tomorrow | Shin'ichirō Watanabe | 6,926 | 4.1 | |||
| JCP | Hironobu Yamaguchi | 5,951 | 3.5 | 1.6
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| Turnout | 51.18 | 15.70
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| LDP gain from Democratic | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Hiroshi Kawauchi | 117,383 | 53.2 | 12.2
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| LDP | Okiharu Yasuoka | 94,226 | 42.7 | 10.8
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| JCP | Hironobu Yamaguchi | 6,422 | 2.9 | 1.6
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| Independent | Jun'ichi Yamashita | 1,429 | 0.6 | |||
| Happiness Realization | Jun'ichi Kawata | 1079 | 0.5 | |||
| Turnout | 66.88 | 2.66
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| Democratic gain from LDP | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Okiharu Yasuoka | 112,437 | 53.5 | 1.5
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| Democratic | Hiroshi Kawauchi (won PR seat) | 88,284 | 42.0 | 1.0
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| JCP | Michiko Katsurada | 9,525 | 4.5 | 0.6
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| Turnout | 64.22 | 7.11
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| LDP hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | Okiharu Yasuoka | 95,841 | 52.0 | 4.2
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| Democratic | Hiroshi Kawauchi (won PR seat) | 79,243 | 43.0 | 0.1
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| JCP | Haruki Yamaguchi | 9,359 | 5.1 | 4.1
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| Turnout | 57.11 | ||||
| LDP hold | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ 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：-石川 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ 開票速報 小選挙区：鹿児島- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
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