Ibaraki 1st district

Ibaraki 1st district (茨城県第1区, Ibaraki-ken dai-ikku or simply 茨城1区, Ibaraki-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in the central region of Ibaraki Prefecture, and covers the cities of Mito, Kasama, Chikusei and Sakuragawa as well as the town of Shirosato.

Ibaraki 1st District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Ibaraki Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Ibaraki
Proportional District	Kitakantō
Electorate	402,090 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Independent
Representative	Nobuyuki Fukushima
Created from	Ibaraki's 1st "medium-sized" district and 3rd "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	Mito, Kasama, Chikusei, Sakuragawa and Shirosato Town

As of 2015, this district was home to 404,818 constituents.^[2]

List of representatives

Election	Representative	Party	Notes
1996	Norihiko Akagi	LDP
2000
2003
2005
2009	Nobuyuki Fukushima	DPJ
2012	Yoshinori Tadokoro	LDP
2014
2017
2021	Nobuyuki Fukushima	Independent
2024

Election results

2024

2024^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Nobuyuki Fukushima	94,243	45.0	7.1
	LDP	Yoshinori Tadokoro (Elected in N. Kanto PR block	76,960	36.8	11.2
	Ishin	Yūki Mutō	23,619	11.3
	JCP	Sei'ichirō Takahashi	14,565	7.0
Registered electors			418,446
Turnout				51.28	0.01
	Independent hold

2021

2021[4]
Party	Candidate	Age	Votes	%	±%	Loss ratio	Supports	Notes
Independent	Nobuyuki Fukushima	51	105,072	52.05%	12.28%	ー
LDP	Yoshinori Tadokoro	67	96,791	47.95%	0.48%	92.12%	Kōmei	He was elected in PR.

2017

2017[5]
Party	Candidate	Age	Votes	%	±%	Loss ratio	Supports	Notes
LDP	Yoshinori Tadokoro	63	100,875	48.43%	0.71%	ー	Kōmei
Kibō	Nobuyuki Fukushima	47	82,835	39.77%	3.83%	82.12%
JCP	Kumiko Ōuchi	68	22,034	10.58%	4.34%	21.84%
HRP	Kenichi Kawabe	30	2,564	1.23%	ー	2.54%

2014

2014[6]
Party	Candidate	Age	Votes	%	±%	Loss ratio	Supports	Notes
LDP	Yoshinori Tadokoro	60	105,536	49.14%	3.80%	ー	Kōmei
DPJ	Nobuyuki Fukushima	44	77,179	35.94%	6.98%	73.13%		He was elected in PR.
JCP	Kumiko Ōuchi	65	32,048	14.92%	ー	30.37%

2012^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshinori Tadokoro (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	103,463	45.34
	Democratic	Nobuyuki Fukushima (endorsed by PNP)	66,076	28.96
	Restoration	Yuki Ebisawa (endorsed by YP)	29,611	12.98
	Tomorrow	Yūko Mutō (endorsed by NPD)	15,971	7.00
	JCP	Takeo Taya	13,065	5.73

2009^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Nobuyuki Fukushima (endorsed by PNP)	151,165	57.1
	LDP	Norihiko Akagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	92,528	35.0
	JCP	Takeo Taya	15,776	6.0
	Happiness Realization	Kōji Kanazawa	5,267	2.0

2005^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Norihiko Akagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō)	144,499	58.27
	Democratic	Nobuyuki Fukushima	86,999	35.08
	JCP	Takeo Taya	16,476	6.64

2003^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Norihiko Akagi (endorsed by Kōmeitō, NCP)	128,349	58.71
	Democratic	Nobuyuki Fukushima (endorsed by SDP)	77,420	35.41
	JCP	Osamu Kojima	12,845	5.88

2000^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Norihiko Akagi	132,229	58.99
	Democratic	Yumi Satō	53,148	23.71
	Social Democratic	Katsuichi Takasawa	18,573	8.29
	JCP	Takeo Taya	17,246	7.69
	Liberal League	Takao Gunji	2,968	1.32

1996^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Norihiko Akagi	114,796	52.71
	New Frontier	Nobumitsu Tsukada	63,069	28.96
	Democratic	Yūji Tokizaki	24,730	11.36
	JCP	Hideko Sekito	15,185	6.97