Nara 1st district

Nara 1st district (奈良[県第]1区 Nara[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan, located in Nara Prefecture. The district consists of the city of Ikoma and the prefectural capital Nara City (without the former village of Tsuge that is in Nara 2nd district).

Nara 1st district
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives
Numbered map of Nara Prefecture single-member districts
Electorate	394,347 (as of September 1, 2022)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Number of members	1
Party	CDP
Representative	Sumio Mabuchi

The current representative is Sumio Mabuchi who was a minister of state in the Kan Cabinet in from 2010 to 2011.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Sanae Takaichi		NFP	1996 – 2000	Left NFP and joined LDP in 1996, re-elected in the Kinki proportional representation block
Masahiro Morioka		LDP	2000–2003	Re-elected by PR
Sumio Mabuchi		DPJ	2003 – 2016
		DP	2016 – 2017
Shigeki Kobayashi		LDP	2017 – 2021	Gained a seat in the PR block.
Sumio Mabuchi		CDP	2021 –

Election results

2024^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Sumio Mabuchi (incumbent)	90,323	38.96	0.73
	Liberal Democratic (endorsed by Komeito)	Shigeki Kobayashi (won a seat in Kinki PR block)	73,214	31.58	3.48
	Innovation	Atsushi Takano	43,400	18.72	7.25
	Communist	Yoshiko Inoue	13,511	5.83	New
	Sanseitō	Masako Hayashimoto	11,366	4.90	New
Majority			17,109	7.38	3.47
Registered electors			390,044
Turnout			231,814	60.40	0.90
	CDP hold

2021^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CDP	Sumio Mabuchi	93,050	39.0	0.7
	LDP	Shigeki Kobayashi (won a seat in Kinki PR block)	83,718	35.1	5.7
	Ishin	Kiyoshige Maekawa (won a seat in Kinki PR block)	62,000	26.0	16.3
Turnout				61.30	4.74
	CDP gain from LDP

2017^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Shigeki Kobayashi	90,558	40.8	0.4
	Kibō no Tō	Sumio Mabuchi	88,082	39.7	8.7
	JCP	Yoshiko Inoue	21,782	9.8	0.6
	Ishin	Tadao Yoshino	21,484	9.7
Turnout				56.56	0.26
	LDP gain from Kibō no Tō

2014^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Sumio Mabuchi	79,265	48.4	10.5
	LDP	Shigeki Kobayashi	67,473	41.2	7.6
	JCP	Kazuhiko Tanigawa	16,996	10.4	3.3
Turnout				56.82	6.03
	Democratic hold

2012^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ – PNP	Sumio Mabuchi	68,712	37.9
	LDP – Kōmeitō	Shigeki Kobayashi (won Kinki PR seat)	61,043	33.6
	JRP – YP	Yūji Ōno	38,791	21.4
	JCP	Emiko Itō	12,954	7.1

2009^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Sumio Mabuchi	120,812	60.7
	LDP – Kōmeitō	Masahiro Morioka	61,464	30.9
	JCP	Yoshiko Inoue	14,732	7.4
	HRP	Mayumi Kurioka	2,137	1.1
Turnout			202,354	68.38

2005^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Sumio Mabuchi	73,062	37.2
	LDP	Chūbē Kagita (elected by PR)	66,215	33.7
	Independent	Masahiro Morioka	41,914	21.4
	JCP	Ayumi Hosono	15,071	7.7
Turnout			202,810	68.54

2003^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Sumio Mabuchi	79,529	48.2
	LDP	Sanae Takaichi	65,538	39.7
	JCP	Masamichi Satō	20,010	12.1
Turnout			172,474	58.39

2000^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Masahiro Morioka	73,851	44.1
	DPJ	Sumio Mabuchi	54,684	32.7
	JCP	Masamichi Satō	32,337	19.3
	LL	Hiroshi Mukai	6,401	3.8

1996^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NFP	Sanae Takaichi	60,507	37.0
	LDP	Masahiro Morioka	50,249	30.7
	JCP	Daiichi Tsuji (elected by PR)	33,802	20.7
	DPJ	Satoru Ienishi (elected by PR)	18,994	11.6
Turnout			166,087	59.03