Chiba 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives

House of Representatives of Japan

The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

 in the Diet of Japan

Diet of Japan

The is Japan's bicameral legislature. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives, and an upper house, called the House of Councillors. Both houses of the Diet are directly elected under a parallel voting system. In addition to passing laws, the Diet is formally...

. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected initially four, later five Representatives by single non-transferable vote

Single non-transferable vote

The single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used in multi-member constituency elections.- Voting :In any election, each voter casts one vote for one candidate in a multi-candidate race for multiple offices. Posts are filled by the candidates with the most votes...

. It was located in Chiba

Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region and the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.- History :Chiba Prefecture was established on June 15, 1873 with the merger of Kisarazu Prefecture and Inba Prefecture...

 and, as of 1993, consisted of the cities of Chiba

Chiba, Chiba

is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000....

 (w/o the former town of Toke), Funabashi

Funabashi, Chiba

is a city located in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2011, the city had an estimated population of 609,157 and a population density of 7110 persons per km². The total area was 85.64 km². It is the 7th most populous city in Greater Tokyo....

, Yachiyo

Yachiyo, Chiba

is a city located in northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of August 2011, the town had an estimated population of 193,262 and a population density of 3769 persons per km²...

, Ichihara

Ichihara, Chiba

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of August 2010, the city has an estimated population of 279,080, with a population density of 758 persons per km². The total area of Ichihara was 368.20 km²...

 and Narashino

Narashino, Chiba

is a city located in northern Chiba, Japan. As of February 2011, the city had an estimated population of 164,809 and a population density of 7850 persons per km². The total area was 20.99 km².-Geography:...

. Today, the area extends into Chiba's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Chiba 4th district

Chiba 4th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan . It is located in Western Chiba and covers the city of Funabashi...

 and 9th single-member electoral districts.

Until the decline of the LDP in the 1970s after the oil crisis and the Lockheed scandal, the relatively urban district was won by a majority of LDP candidates several times. Representatives for Chiba 1st district included LDP faction leader and home affairs minister Shōjirō Kawashima (Kawashima faction), defense minister Shigejirō Inō (Satō faction), construction minister Ihei Shiseki (Fukuda faction), sōri-fu minister Sōichi Usui (Miki faction) and his son Hideo Usui

Hideo Usui

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Chiba, Chiba and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected for the first time in 1980 after an unsuccessful run in 1979.- External links :* in Japanese....

 (Miki (→Kōmoto) faction) and, in the final election period before the election reform, opposition politicians Yoshihiko Noda

Yoshihiko Noda

is the current Prime Minister of Japan, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan , and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet...

 (JNP) and Kazuo Shii

Kazuo Shii

is a Japanese politician and chairman of the Japanese Communist Party .- Early life :Shii was born in Yotsukaido, Chiba Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Physical Engineering at Tokyo University...

 (JCP) who later went on to play leading roles in the opposition parties.

Summary of results during the 1955 party system

General election			1958	1960	1963	1967	1969	1972	1976	1979	1980	1983	1986	1990	1993
	LDP & conservative independents		3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	3	1	3	3	1
	Opposition	center-left	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	3
		JSP	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0
		JCP	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1
District magnitude			4										5

Elected Representatives

election year	highest vote (top tōsen)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1947 Japanese general election, 1947 General elections were held in Japan on 25 April 1947. The result was a victory for the Japan Socialist Party, which won 144 of the 466 seats, despite receiving fewer votes than the Liberal Party. Voter turnout was 67.9%-Results:...	Noriko Narushima (DP Democratic Party (1947) Democratic Party was a right-wing political party in Japan. It was founded in spring 1947 by merging the Progressive Party of Inukai Takeru with a faction of Liberal Party led by Hitoshi Ashida and obtained 124 seats in 1947 elections. The party had held seven seats in Tetsu Katayama's government... )	Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP)	Isamu Tada (JLP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	Yūtarō Shibuya (JLP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	–
1949 Japanese general election, 1949 General elections were held in Japan on 23 January 1949. The result was a victory for the Democratic Liberal Party, which won 269 of the 466 seats. Voter turnout was 74.0%-Results:...	Tōru Sakuma (DLP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	Yoshio Yanagisawa (DLP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	Isamu Tada (DLP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	Yūtarō Shibuya (DLP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )
1952 Japanese general election, 1952 General elections were held in Japan on 1 October 1952. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 242 of the 466 seats. Voter turnout was 76.4%.-Results:...	Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right Rightist Socialist Party of Japan The Rightist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955. It was a center-left political party, which adopted a policy of moderate social-democracy.- History :... )	Shōjirō Kawashima (LP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	Sōichi Usui (Progressive)	Shigejirō Inō (LP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )
1953 Japanese general election, 1953 General elections were held in Japan on 19 April 1953. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 202 of the 466 seats. Voter turnout was 74.2%.-Results:...		Ihei Shiseki (Hatoyama LP)	Shōjirō Kawashima (Yoshida LP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )	Sōichi Usui (Yoshida LP Liberal Party (1945) was a right-wing party in Japan, founded on November 9, 1945, mainly by former members of Seiyukai Party. Its first leader was Ichirō Hatoyama. In 1946-1947 and 1948-1954, the next party leader Shigeru Yoshida was the Prime Minister.... )
1955 Japanese general election, 1955 General elections were held in Japan on 27 February 1955. The result was a victory for the Japan Democratic Party, which won 185 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 75.8%.-Results:...	Shōjirō Kawashima (JDP Japan Democratic Party (1954) Japan Democratic Party was a short-living right-wing political party in Japan 1954–1955, led by Ichirō Hatoyama. Its leaders included former foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and future Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. The party was formed on November 24, 1954, by merging Ichiro Hatoyama's group... )	Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right Rightist Socialist Party of Japan The Rightist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955. It was a center-left political party, which adopted a policy of moderate social-democracy.- History :... )	Sōichi Usui (JDP Japan Democratic Party (1954) Japan Democratic Party was a short-living right-wing political party in Japan 1954–1955, led by Ichirō Hatoyama. Its leaders included former foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and future Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. The party was formed on November 24, 1954, by merging Ichiro Hatoyama's group... )	Jūkichi Yokozeni (JSP, left Leftist Socialist Party of Japan The Leftist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955. It was a radical socialist political party, which adopted Marxism-Leninism.- History :... )
1958 Japanese general election, 1958 General elections were held in Japan on 22 May 1958. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 298 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 77.0%.-Results:...	Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Ihei Shiseki (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP)	Sōichi Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
1960 Japanese general election, 1960 General elections were held in Japan on 20 November 1960. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 300 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 73.5%.-Results:...		Toyojirō Fujiwara (JSP)	Ihei Shiseki (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
1963 Japanese general election, 1963 General elections were held in Japan on 21 November 1963. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 294 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 71.1%.-Results:...		Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (DSP Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) The was a social democratic party in Japan.- History :The Democratic Socialist Party was established in 1960 by a breakaway group of the Japan Socialist Party. It was made up of many members of the former Rightist Socialist Party of Japan, a moderate social-democratic faction that existed... )	Sōichi Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Ihei Shiseki (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
1967 Japanese general election, 1967 General elections were held in Japan on 29 January 1967. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 280 of the 486 seats. Voter turnout was 74.0%.-Results:...	Minoru Kihara Minoru Kihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kumamoto, Kumamoto and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected for the first time in 2005 after working at Japan Airlines until 2004.- External links :* in Japanese....  (JSP)	Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Ihei Shiseki (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Sōichi Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
1969 Japanese general election, 1969 General elections were held in Japan on 27 December 1969. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 300 of the 486 seats. Voter turnout was 68.5%.-Results:...	Shōjirō Kawashima † (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Minoru Kihara (JSP)	Ihei Shiseki (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
1972 Japanese general election, 1972 General elections were held in Japan on 10 December 1972. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 284 of the 491 seats. Voter turnout was 71.7%.-Results:...	Makoto Someya (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Minoru Kihara (JSP)	Sōichi Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Mutsuo Shibata (JCP Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism... )
1976 Japanese general election, 1976 General elections were held in Japan on 5 December 1976. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 260 of the 511 seats, but the election was overshadowed by the Lockheed bribery scandals. Voter turnout was 73.4%.-Results:...	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Ihei Shiseki (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Minoru Kihara (JSP)
1979 Japanese general election, 1979 Results of the 1979 general election in Japan for the House of Representatives. A total of 511 seats were contested:...			Mutsuo Shibata (JCP Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism... )	Minoru Kihara (JSP)
1980 Japanese general election, 1980 In Japan on 16 May 1980, Japan Socialist Party brought a no-confidence motion to the Diet, mentioning corruption and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives of Japan to withdraw its backing from the government...	Sanbachi Taidō (Ind.)		Hideo Usui Hideo Usui is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Chiba, Chiba and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected for the first time in 1980 after an unsuccessful run in 1979.- External links :* in Japanese....  (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)
1983 Japanese general election, 1983 The Japanese general election, 1983 was an election held place in Japan in 1983 for the House of Representatives.-References:* http://www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/jpn83par.html...	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Hideo Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Mutsuo Shibata (JCP Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism... )	Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP)
1986 Japanese general election, 1986 The Japanese general election, 1986 was an election held in Japan on July 6, 1986 for the House of Representatives.- References :http://www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/jpn86par.html...	Hideo Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Eguchi (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Masayuki Okajima (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Mutsuo Shibata (JCP Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism... )
1990	Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP)	Hideo Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Eguchi (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Masayuki Okajima (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )
1993	Yoshihiko Noda Yoshihiko Noda is the current Prime Minister of Japan, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan , and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet...  (JNP Japan New Party The Japan New Party was a Japanese political party that existed briefly from 1992 to 1994. It should not be confused with the New Party Nippon founded in 2005.... )	Masayuki Okajima (JRP Japan Renewal Party The Japan Renewal Party was a Japanese political party that existed in the early 1990s. It was founded in 1993 by 44 members of the Liberal Democratic Party led by Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa... )	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Hideo Usui (LDP Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election... )	Kazuo Shii Kazuo Shii is a Japanese politician and chairman of the Japanese Communist Party .- Early life :Shii was born in Yotsukaido, Chiba Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Physical Engineering at Tokyo University...  (JCP Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist Party is a left-wing political party in Japan.The JCP advocates the establishment of a society based on socialism, democracy and peace, and opposition to militarism... )

Late election results