Nagasaki 1st district is 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...

. It is located in Southwestern Nagasaki

Nagasaki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. The capital is the city of Nagasaki.- History :Nagasaki Prefecture was created by merging of the western half of the former province of Hizen with the island provinces of Tsushima and Iki...

 and covers the city of Nagasaki without the former towns of Kinkai

Kinkai, Nagasaki

was a town located in Nishisonogi District, Nagasaki, Japan.On January 4, 2006 Kinkai was merged into the expanded city of Nagasaki.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,518 and a density of 185.10 persons per km². The total area was 67.63 km²....

 and Sotome

Sotome, Nagasaki

was a town located in Nishisonogi District, Nagasaki, Japan.As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,412 and a density of 116.09 persons per km²...

. As of 2009, 353,871 eligible voters were registered in the district.

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Nagasaki city was part of the multi-member Nagasaki 1st district

Nagasaki 1st district (1947–1993)

Nagasaki 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote...

 where five Representatives had been elected 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...

.

The district has been leaning towards the Democratic Party and its predecessors since its creation. Only in a 1998 by-election, Liberal Democrat Masakazu Kuranari, the eldest son of Tadashi Kuranari, longtime former Representative for the multi-member 1st district, could win the seat, but lost it to Democrat Yoshiaki Takaki

Yoshiaki Takaki

is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi and high-school graduate he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1990 after serving in the union executive and local assemblies for...

 in the following general election of 2000.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Takeo Nishioka Takeo Nishioka was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet .A native of Nagasaki and a graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1963. He lost his seat in 1983 but was re-elected in 1986...		NFP New Frontier Party The was a Japanese political party that existed during the mid-1990s. As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate socialists to neoliberals and conservatives...	1996 – 1998	Resigned for the 1998 Nagasaki gubernatorial election
Masakazu Kuranari		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...	1998 – 2000	Failed reelection in the Kyūshū PR block
Yoshiaki Takaki Yoshiaki Takaki is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi and high-school graduate he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1990 after serving in the union executive and local assemblies for...		DPJ Democratic Party of Japan The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum...	2000 –	Incumbent

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