Miyagi 1st district

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Miyagi 1st District
宮城県第1区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Miyagi Prefecture single-member districts (1-6)
Prefecture	Miyagi
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	439,697^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Toru Doi

Miyagi 1st district (Japanese: 宮城県第1区, Hepburn: Miyagi-ken Daiikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located on the island of Honshu,^[2] in Miyagi Prefecture. It, along with Miyagi 2nd district and parts of districts 3 and 4, cover the city of Sendai and the surrounding suburbs.

As of 2020, the district was home to 437,128 constituents.^[3]

The district is represented by Toru Doi of the Liberal Democratic Party.^[4]

Areas covered

Current district

After rezoning in 2022, the district covers the following areas:

Sendai
- Aoba-ku
- Taihaku-ku

As a result of the rezoning, the district has returned to the state it was in before 2017.

Areas 2017–2022

From 2017 to 2022, the district covered the following areas:

Sendai
- Aoba-ku
- Taihaku-ku (excluding the former town of Akiu)

As a result of the 2017 rezoning, the area of the former town of Akiu was moved into the 3rd district.

Areas from pre–2017

From its creation in 1994 until redistricting in 2017, the district covered the following areas:

Sendai
- Aoba-ku
- Taihaku-ku

Elected representatives


Representative		Years served	Notes
Kazuo Aichi	NFP	1996-2000
Azuma Konno	DPJ	2000-2005
Tōru Doi	LDP	2005-2009
Kazuko Kōri	DPJ	2009-2012
Tōru Doi	LDP	2012-	Incumbent

Election results

‡ - Also ran in the Tohoku proportional representation block

‡‡ - Ran and won a seat in the Tohoku proportional representation block

2021^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡ (incumbent) (endorsed by Komeito)	101,964	43.4
	Constitutional Democratic	Akiko Okamoto^‡‡ (incumbent - Tohoku PR)	96,649	41.2
	Ishin	Sayaka Shundo^‡	23,033	9.8
	Independent	Yoshie Okusa	13,174	5.6
Turnout			240,075	54.6
	Liberal Democratic hold

2017^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡ (incumbent) (endorsed by Komeito and Party for Japanese Kokoro)	100,123	46.2
	Constitutional Democratic	Akiko Okamoto^‡‡ (elected to the Tohoku PR)	78,704	36.3
	Kibō no Tō	Yuta Ito^‡	24,047	11.1
	Restoration	Masaki Hatekayama^‡	10,001	4.6
	Happiness Realization	Satoshi Yui	2,413	1.1
	Independent	Imadome Naoto	1.547	0.7
Turnout			222,012	51.5
	Liberal Democratic hold

2014^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡ (incumbent) (endorsed by Komeito)	93,345	46.8
	Democratic	Kazuko Kori^‡‡ (incumbent) (won in thE Tohoku PR district)	81,113	40.7
	Communist	Hideaki Matsui	25,063	12.6
Turnout			206,868	49.0
	Liberal Democratic hold

2012^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡	87,482	39.2
	Democratic	Kazuko Kori^‡‡ (incumbent - Tohoku PR) (endorsed by the PNP)	60,916	27.3
	Your	Hiroki Hayashi^‡‡ (endorsed by the Japan Restoration Party)	38,316	17.2
	Tomorrow	Masato Yokota^‡	16,557	7.4
	Communist	Tatsuya Sumino	13,454	6.0
	Social Democratic	Takashi Kuwashima^‡	6,547	2.9
Turnout			229,462	55.2
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2009^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kazuko Kori^‡ (incumbent - Tohoku PR)	149,980	58.5
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡ (incumbent)	87,401	34.1
	Communist	Tatsuya Sumino	14,547	5.7
	Independent	Takuomi Yajima	2,987	1.2
	Happiness Realization	Keiichi Toda	1,344	0.5
Turnout			260,629	64.8
	Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic

2005^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡	117,236	47.3
	Democratic	Kazuko Kori^‡‡	115,264	46.5
	Communist	Tatsuya Sumino	15,470	6.2
Turnout			251,455	63.2
	Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic

2003^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Azuma Konno^‡	106,821	50.8
	Liberal Democratic	Toru Doi^‡	84,565	40.2
	Communist	Naoko Kanno	18,960	9.0
Turnout			215,884	54.7
	Democratic hold

2000^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Azuma Konno^‡	88,864	42.0
	Liberal Democratic	Kazuo Aichi^‡ (incumbent)	73,839	34.9
	Communist	Ikuko Endo^‡	28,281	13.4
	Social Democratic	Katsuo Okita^‡	20,416	9.7
Turnout
	Democratic gain from New Frontier

1996^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Frontier	Kazuo Aichi	77,817	40.8
	Democratic	Tomiko Okazaki^‡	56,537	29.7
	Liberal Democratic	Kodo Asano^‡	28,351	14.9
	Communist	Ikuko Endo^‡	26,346	13.8
	Independent	Masaya Okamoto	1,535	0.8
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)

References

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^ "Miyagi - Prefecture, Japan". 31 May 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^ "Electoral List and Overseas Registrants as of September 2, 2nd Year of Reiwa". 2 September 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^ "Members of the House of Representatives with Last Initial "D" - Japanese House of Representatives". Japanese Diet - Official Website. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^ "宮城1区 - 第48回衆議院議員選挙". Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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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
Hokkaidō (8 block seats, 12 district seats)	Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō (23 block seats, 36 district seats)	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
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

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