Gifu 1st district

Gifu 1st district (Gifu-ken dai-ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in central Gifu and consists of the capital city Gifu excluding the former town of Yanaizu. As of 2012, 325,090 eligible voters resided in the district.^[1]

Gifu 1st District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Gifu Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Gifu
Major settlements	Gifu
Current constituency
Party	LDP
Representative	Seiko Noda

Before the electoral reform of 1994, Western Gifu including Gifu City had formed the five-member Gifu 1st district. In the last pre-reform House of Representatives election of 1993, representatives included top-elected Iwao Matsuda for the Renewal Party, third-ranking Seiko Noda for the Liberal Democratic Party and fourth-ranking Socialist Kazō Watanabe. These three representatives were the main contestants of the new single-member 1st district in the 1996 election. Noda won and held on to the seat in subsequent elections. In 2005, she was a postal privatization rebel, but defended the seat against "assassin" candidate Yukari Satō. Noda returned to the party in 2006.

In the landslide Liberal Democratic defeat of 2009, Noda lost the seat to Democrat Masanao Shibahashi and only remained in the House via the Tōkai proportional block. In the landslide Democratic defeat of 2012, Noda regained the district at low turnout.

List of representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Seiko Noda		LDP	1996–2005
		Independent (postal privatization rebel)	2005–2009	Returned to the LDP in 2006, re-elected in the Tōkai block
Masanao Shibahashi		DPJ	2009–2012	Failed re-election in the Tōkai block
Seiko Noda		LDP	2012–	Incumbent

Election results

2021^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	103,805	62.5	2.0
	CDP	Keisuke Kawamoto	48,629	29.3
	JCP	Toru Yamakoshi	9,846	5.9
	Reform Future Party	Masamitsu Tsuchida	3,698	2.2
Turnout				52.31	1.83
	LDP hold

2017^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	103,453	64.5	7.0
	Independent	Rie Yoshida	43,688	27.2
	Independent	Taisuke Hattori	8,113	5.1
	Happiness Realization	Noriko Nohara	5,124	3.2
Turnout				50.48	4.44
	LDP hold

2014^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	82,434	57.5	7.5
	Democratic	Rie Yoshida	38,402	26.8	3.2
	JCP	Shizuka Ōsuga	22,647	15.8	8.8
Turnout				46.04	11.83
	LDP hold

2012^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	90,164	49.9	+5.4
	Democratic	Masanao Shibahashi	54,254	30.0	−20.0
	Tomorrow	Tamiko Kasahara (endorsed by New Party Daichi	21,294	11.8	new
	JCP	Masanori Suzuki	12,687	7.0	+2.6
	Happiness Realization	Noriko Nohara	2,179	1.2	new
Turnout				57.90	12.09
	LDP gain from Democratic

2009^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DPJ	Masanao Shibahashi	111,987	50.0	+33.1
	LDP	Seiko Noda (won proportional seat)	99,500	44.5	+1.7
	JCP	Masanori Suzuki	9,832	4.4	new
	HRP	Kazue Ozawa	2,508	1.1	new

2005^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Seiko Noda	96,985	42.8	−8.6
	LDP	Yukari Satō (won proportional seat)	84,189	35.9	new
	DPJ	Masanao Shibahashi	38,349	16.9	new
	JCP	Satoru Ogawa	9,970	4.4	new

2003^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	92,717	51.4	−0.9
	DPJ	Makoto Asano	71,649	39.7	new
	JCP	Ritsuko Kinoshita	15,951	8.8	−2.4

2000^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	100,425	52.3	+15.2
	DPJ	Kazō Watanabe	56,751	29.6	+12.0
	JCP	Ritsuko Kinoshita	21,523	11.2	+1.0
	SDP	Jirō Toda	11,171	5.8	new
	LL	Kiyosuke Mamiya	1,975	1.0	new

1996^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Seiko Noda	70,799	37.1	N/A
	NFP	Iwao Matsuda	66,892	35.1	N/A
	DPJ	Kazō Watanabe	33,640	17.6	N/A
	JCP	Ritsuko Kinoshita	19,509	10.2	N/A

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