Yamagata 1st district

Yamagata 1st district (山形県第1区, Yamagata-ken dai-ikku or simply 山形県第1区, Yamagata-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Eastern Yamagata and covers the cities of Yamagata, Kaminoyama and Tendō and the county of Higashimurayama. As of 2012, 306,446 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1]

Since its creation until 2012, the district was mainly contested by Democrat Michihiko Kano (formerly Hata group, leading his own faction from August 2011,^[2] until the 1990s: LDP, Fukuda faction), agriculture minister in the realigned Kan cabinet, and Liberal Democrat Toshiaki Endō (Koga faction), former vice minister in the education and science ministry during the First Abe cabinet. Since 2012, Endō has held the seat.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Michihiko Kano	NFP	1996–2000	Founded Kokumin no Koe ("Voice of the People") after the dissolution of the NFP (NFP→Kokumin no Koe→Minseitō (lit. "Civil Government Party" or "Democratic Party", Engrish: Good Governance Party)→DPJ)
Michihiko Kano	DPJ	2000–2003	Reelected in the Tōhoku PR block
Toshiaki Endō	LDP	2003–2009	Reelected in the Tōhoku PR block
Michihiko Kano	DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the PR block
Toshiaki Endō	LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%
LDP	Toshiaki Endō (endorsed by Komeito	102,169	54.6
Democratic	Michihiko Kano (endorsed by PNP)	70,411	37.6
JCP	Shō Ishikawa	14,447	7.7

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Michihiko Kano (supported by SDP, PNP)	106,202	46.2
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō (supported by Komeito) (elected by PR)	104,911	45.7
	Independent (Hiranuma group member)	Kaori Itō	11,419	5.0
	JCP	Masayuki Satō	6,021	2.6
	Happiness Realization	Daigorō Mori	1,149	0.5
Turnout			231,712	75.71

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō	125,774	56.4
	Democratic	Michihiko Kano	86,755	38.9
	JCP	Shō Ishikawa	10,536	4.7
Turnout			225,764	73.81

2003^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō	100,764	49.9
	Democratic	Michihiko Kano (elected by PR)	81,580	40.4
	Social Democratic	Shōsuke Saitō	12,266	6.1
	JCP	Shō Ishikawa	7,356	3.6
Turnout			204,584	67.2

2000^[7]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Michihiko Kano	90,349	52.0
LDP	Toshiaki Endō	70,290	40.5
JCP	Akiko Satō	12,996	7.5

1996^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Frontier	Michihiko Kano	81,047	48.3
	LDP	Toshiaki Endō (elected by PR)	60,748	36.2
	Social Democratic	Shingo Yamazaki	15,002	8.9
	JCP	Tatsuo Inoue	10,955	6.5
Turnout			170,554	69.5

References

^ 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)
^ Jiji Press, August 31, 2011: Kano group founding members
^ 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区山形. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

[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] Jiji Press, August 31, 2011: Kano group founding members

[3] 総選挙2012>開票結果小選挙区山形. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[4] 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

[5] 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

[6] 衆議院>第43回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

[7] 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

[8] 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙>山形県>山形1区. go2senkyo.com (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

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v t e First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
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Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku (10 block seats, 17 district seats)	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4