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Kanagawa 1st district

Summary

Kanagawa 1st district (神奈川県第1区, Kanagawa-ken dai-ikku or 神奈川1区, Kanagawa ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and covers the central downtown and southeastern parts of the prefectural capital of Yokohama, namely the Naka (centre), Isogo and Kanazawa wards. It is among many other things home to the Yokohama city hall and the Kanagawa prefectural government building. As of December 1, 2020, 428,115 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Kanagawa 1st district
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
A map of the House of Representatives constituencies in Yokohama
PrefectureKanagawa
Proportional DistrictSouthern Kanto
Electorate428,115 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyConstitutional Democratic
RepresentativeGō Shinohara
Created fromKanagawa 1st district (1947–1993)
Kanagawa 4th district (1975–1993)
MunicipalitiesNaka, Isogo and Kanazawa wards in Yokohama

Before the electoral reform of the 1990s the area had been split between the four-member 1st district and the five-member 4th district.

In the first post-reform election of 1996, the 1st district was mainly contested by Liberal Democrat Jun Matsumoto (Asō faction), a former member of the city council and newcomer in national politics, Democrat Ken'ichirō Satō (formerly LDP, Fukuda faction, then New Party Sakigake member in the 1990s), an incumbent for the pre-reform 4th district, and newcomer Masahiko Okabe for the New Frontier Party. Matsumoto narrowly won, but Satō kept a seat via the newly introduced proportional representation. In 2000, Satō beat Matsumoto who then also failed to win a proportional seat but retook the 1st district in the 2003 and 2005 general elections. Satō retired from politics in 2007, but in the national landslide Democratic victory of 2009, first time candidate Mieko Nakabayashi won the 1st district against Matsumoto. Matsumoto was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Abe cabinet, Satō was chairman of the House of Representatives committee on the environment in the 1990s and chaired the disciplinary committee in 2004.

In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Nakabayashi lost more than 84,000 votes compared to 2009. Matsumoto lost only less than 17,000 votes and regained the district. In February 2021, after it emerged that Matsumoto had visited a club in Ginza during a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[2] he left the LDP and ran as an independent candidate in the 2021 election where he lost to CDP candidate Gō Shinohara.

List of members representing the district edit

Member Party Dates Electoral history Notes

Jun Matsumoto 		Liberal Democratic October 21, 1996 –
June 2, 2000 		Elected in 1996.
Lost re-election. 		Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block.
Ken'ichirō Satō Democratic June 26, 2000 –
October 10, 2003 		Re-elected in 2000.
Lost re-election. 		Redistricted from the former 4th district and Re-elected in 1996 by the Southern Kanto PR block.
Re-elected in 2003 by the Southern Kanto PR block.

Jun Matsumoto 		Liberal Democratic November 10, 2003 –
July 21, 2009 		Elected in 2003.
Re-elected in 2005.
Lost re-election. 		Re-elected in 2009 by the Southern Kanto PR block.
 
Mieko Nakabayashi 		Democratic August 31, 2009 –
November 16, 2012 		Elected in 2009.
Lost re-election. 		Lost re-election in the Southern Kanto PR block.

Jun Matsumoto 		Liberal Democratic December 17, 2012 –
February 1, 2021 		Re-elected in 2012.
Re-elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2017.
Lost re-election.
Independent February 1, 2021 –
October 14, 2021
 
Gō Shinohara 		Constitutional Democratic October 31, 2021 –
present 		Re-elected in 2021. Elected in 2014 by the Southern Kanto PR block.
Re-elected in 2017 by the Southern Kanto PR block.

Election results edit

2021 • 2017 • 2014 • 2012 • 2009 • 2005 • 2003 • 2000 • 1996

2021 edit

General election 2021: Kanagawa's 1st[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
CDP Gō Shinohara 100,118 45.0
Independent Jun Matsumoto 76,064 34.2
Innovation Yoshiharu Asakawa (elected by PR) 46,271 20.8
Total votes 222,453 100.0
CDP gain from Independent

2017 edit

2017 Japanese general election[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 103,070 47.8
CDP Gō Shinohara (re-elected by PR) 78,019 36.2
Kibō no Tō Kazuyoshi Nagashima 34,433 16.0
Total votes 215,522 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2014 edit

2014 Japanese general election[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 113,844 52.4
Innovation Gō Shinohara (elected by PR) 68,061 31.3
Communist Yukio Akashi 35,465 16.3
Total votes 217,370 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2012 edit

2012 Japanese general election[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 101,238 41.2
Democratic Mieko Nakabayashi 50,927 20.7
Restoration Kōichi Matsumoto 41,198 16.8
Your Yoriyuki Yamashita 36,706 14.9
Communist Yukio Akashi 15,664 6.4
Total votes 245,733 100.0
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2009 edit

2009 Japanese general election[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Mieko Nakabayashi 135,211 48.1
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto (re-elected by PR) 117,840 41.9
Communist Ryōko Kōzai 18,898 6.7
Independent Seiichi Yamamoto 9,229 3.2
Total votes 281,178 100.0
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2005 edit

2005 Japanese general election[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 161,702 58.3
Democratic Ken'ichirō Satō 95,601 34.4
Communist Osamu Takayama 20,216 7.3
Total votes 277,519 100.0
Liberal Democratic hold

2003 edit

2003 Japanese general election[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 111,730 47.6
Democratic Ken'ichirō Satō (re-elected by PR) 97,630 41.6
Communist Haruko Nakaie 15,331 6.5
Social Democratic Teizō Hayashi 10,243 4.4
Total votes 234,934 100.0
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2000 edit

2000 Japanese general election[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ken'ichirō Satō 91,578 40.1
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 81,245 35.5
Communist Takashi Munakata 28,411 12.4
Liberal Hiroshi Iijima 23,783 10.4
Liberal League Kiyoshi Matsuda 3,593 1.6
Total votes 228,610 100.0
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

1996 edit

1996 Japanese general election[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Democratic Jun Matsumoto 55,360 26.4
Democratic Ken'ichirō Satō (elected by PR) 54,494 26.0
New Frontier Masahisa Okabe 50,684 24.2
Communist Kimiko Tamura 26,686 12.7
Social Democratic Yumiko Hayashi 22,236 10.6
Total votes 209,460 100.0
Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

References edit

  1. ^ a b "選挙人名簿登録者数" [Number of registered voters]. Kanagawa Prefecture Election Commission (in Japanese). 2020.
  2. ^ Suga apologizes over lawmakers’ visit to Ginza nightclubs - Asahi Newspaper(02/02/2021)
  3. ^ "2021年衆議院総選挙 神奈川1区". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  4. ^ 2017衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  5. ^ 2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  6. ^ 神奈川1区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  7. ^ 神奈川1区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  8. ^ 神奈川1区. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  9. ^ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  10. ^ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  11. ^ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川1区 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-19.

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