Gunma 1st district

Gunma 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Gunma Prefecture and consists of the cities of Maebashi and Numata and the district of Tone as well as parts of the cities of Kiryū, Shibukawa and Midori. As of 2012, 387,120 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1]

Numbered map of Gunma Prefecture single-member districts

Until 2009, Gunma had been a traditional "conservative kingdom" (hoshu-ōkoku), the Japanese equivalent of a "red state" in the United States. Like all single member districts in Gunma, the 1st district had been represented by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1997. The LDP used the Costa Rica method (kosutarika-hōshiki) with Koji Omi and Genichiro Sata as alternating candidates for the district. In the election of 2009, Omi was the LDP's candidate; incumbent Sata only ran in the Northern Kantō proportional representation block. Both Omi and Sata had represented the pre-reform three-member 1st district of Gunma. The Democratic Party's candidate in 2009 was Takeshi Miyazaki, a former journalist for the Jōmō Shimbun.[2] In 2012, Sata regained the district for the LDP. In 2013, the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho accused Sata of inappropriate sexual conduct.[3] In the 2014 elections, Sata lost considerable support and did not receive endorsement from Komeito, but still managed to hold onto his seat.

Between 2017 and 2021, the representative was Asako Omi, the daughter of previous representative Kōji Omi. In 2021, the district was won by Yasutaka Nakasone, son of former Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone and grandson of Yasuhiro Nakasone who was Prime Minister 1982-1987.

List of representatives
Representative Party Dates Notes
Kōji Omi LDP 1996 – 2000
Gen'ichirō Sata LDP 2000 – 2003
Kōji Omi LDP 2003 – 2005
Gen'ichirō Sata LDP 2005 – 2009
Takeshi Miyazaki DPJ 2009 – 2012
Gen'ichirō Sata LDP 2012 – 2017
Asako Omi LDP 2017 – 2021
Yasutaka Nakasone LDP 2021 –

Election results
2014[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democratic Gen'ichirō Sata 61,927 32.99 12.02
Independent Hiroshi Ueno 54,530 29.05 7.79
Democratic Takeshi Miyazaki (elected in PR block) 49,862 26.56 9.89
Communist Setsuko Tanahashi 21,394 11.40 5.15
Turnout 50.71 5.35
2012[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (Kōmeitō) Gen'ichirō Sata 94,709 45.0
JRP (YP) Hiroshi Ueno (elected by PR) 46,835 22.3
DPJ Takeshi Miyazaki 35,074 16.7
TPJ (NPD) Arata Gotō 20,663 9.8
JCP Hideo Ubukata 13,152 6.2
2009[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Takeshi Miyazaki 122,711
LDP Koji Omi 109,846
JCP Hiroaki Sakai 15,783
Independent Akira Yamada 5,505
Happiness Realization Party Akihiko Takizaki 1,795
2005[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Genichiro Sata 136,920
DPJ Hitoshi Takahashi 78,544
JCP Yoshie Kondō 18,578
SDP Tomihisa Tsuchiya 11,233
Turnout 251,670 64.46
2003[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Koji Omi 130,242
DPJ Hitoshi Takahashi 68,960
JCP Nobuo Matsuura 16,126
Turnout 222,686 57.05
2000[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Genichiro Sata 134,247
DPJ Tsugio Kumagawa 61,658
JCP Fumiko Yamada[9] 31,147
Turnout 61.57
1996[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Koji Omi 110,103
NFP Tsugio Kumagawa 58,025
DPJ Hitoshi Takahashi 31,358
JCP Kaoru Hasegawa 21,193

References
  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数 (in Japanese)
  2. 衆議院 >第45回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
  3. "LDP lawmaker Genichiro Sata to resign over sex scandal". Tokyo Reporter. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  4. 2014年12月14日(日) 投票 小選挙区 群馬1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  5. 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 群馬. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
  6. 衆議院議院 >第44回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  7. 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  8. 衆議院議院 >第42回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  9. 山田 富美子
  10. 衆議院 >第41回衆議院議員選挙 >群馬県 >群馬1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-07-20.

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