Tokushima 1st district

Tokushima 1st district (徳島県第1区) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.

Tokushima 1st district
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives
Numbered map of Tokushima Prefecture single-member districts
Proportional District	Shikoku
Electorate	360,095 (as of September 1, 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Number of members	1
Party	Independent
Representative	Hirobumi Niki

The district was created in the electoral reform of 1994. Previously, all of Tokushima prefecture had formed one SNTV multi-member constituency (5 representatives) since 1947. The new district was used in the 1996 election for the first time.

Liberal Democrat Mamoru Fukuyama, former six-term member and president of the Tokushima prefectural assembly and secretary-general of the LDP prefectural federation, defeated Democrat Yoshito Sengoku in the 2012 Representatives election by almost 20,000 votes. Sengoku, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its 1996 precursor had won the district five times after its creation. Sengoku, a lawyer and University of Tokyo drop-out, had previously represented the Tokushima At-large district between 1990 and 1993 for the Socialist Party of Japan.

Before redistricting in 2013, the district consisted of Tokushima city and the village of Sanagōchi in the Myōdō District and was among the least populated electoral districts in Japan. In the election of 2005 it had 214,763 constituents and its voters had the highest electoral weight throughout Japan. ^[2]

Area

• Tokushima city
• Komatsushima
• Anan
• Katsuura District
• Myōdō District
• Myōzai District
• Naka District
• Kaifu District

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Yoshito Sengoku		DPJ	1996–2012	Failed reelection to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block (sekihairitsu 66.5%, rank 3)[3]
Mamoru Fukuyama		LDP	2012–2014
Masazumi Gotoda		LDP	2014–2021	Elected to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block
Hirobumi Niki		Independent	2021–	Member of the Diet for the DPJ 2009–2012

Election results

2021^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Hirobumi Niki	99,474	50.05	New
	Liberal Democratic	Masazumi Gotoda (elected by PR)	77,398	38.94	12.55
	Ishin	Tomoyo Yoshida (elected by PR)	20,065	10.10	New
Turnout				55.93
	Independent gain from Liberal Democratic

2017^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Masazumi Gotoda	90,281	51.49	0.54
	Kibō no Tō	Hirobumi Niki	69,442	39.60	0.60
	Communist	Chiyoko Yamamoto	15,622	8.91	0.00
Turnout				47.98
	Liberal Democratic hold

2014^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democratic	Masazumi Gotoda	92,166	52.03	1.17
	Democratic	Hirobumi Niki	69,188	39.06	3.66
	Communist	Motonori Furuta	15.776	8.91	2.49
Turnout				48.94
	Liberal Democratic hold

2012^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (NK)	Mamoru Fukuyama	59,231	53.2
	DPJ (PNP)	Yoshito Sengoku	39,402	35.4
	JCP	Motonori Furuta	12,724	11.4

2009^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ (PNP support)	Yoshito Sengoku	76,764	56.23
	LDP (Kōmeitō support)	Yoshirō Okamoto	39,780	29.14
	Independent (Hiranuma group)	Yūki Oka	10,275	7.53
	JCP	Motonori Furuta	8,313	6.09
	HRP	Akira Kondō	1,395	1.02
Turnout			138,535	64.63

2005^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshito Sengoku	68,026	50.57
	LDP	Yoshirō Okamoto	54,843	40.77
	JCP	Hideaki Kamimura	9,767	7.26
Turnout			134,521	62.79

2003^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshito Sengoku	60,917	52.09
	LDP	Akira Shichijō	44,892	38.39
	JCP	Chiyoko Yamamoto	9,767	8.35
Turnout			116,949	54.73

2000^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshito Sengoku	60,945	47.32
	LDP	Yoshirō Okamoto	41,628	32.32
	JCP	Hideaki Kamimura	14,164	11.00
	Independent	Hiromi Ōta	12,068	9.37
Turnout			128,802	59.1

1996^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Yoshito Sengoku	47,057	37.73
	LDP	Toshiji Miki	41,133	32.98
	NFP	Hiromi Ōta	23,684	18.99
	JCP	Hideaki Kamimura	11,092	8.89
	Independent	Masahiro Kanemaru[13]	1,739	1.39
Turnout			124,705

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13. 金丸昌弘