Hiroshima 1st district

Hiroshima 1st district (広島県第1区, Hiroshima-ken dai-ikku or 広島1区, Hiroshima ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Hiroshima. 331,786 eligible voters were registered in the district, as of 1 September 2020.^[1]

Hiroshima 1st district
Parliamentary constituency for the House of Representatives
A map of the House of Representatives constituencies in Hiroshima Prefecture
Prefecture	Hiroshima
Proportional District	Chūgoku
Electorate	331,786 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Fumio Kishida
Created from	Former Hiroshima 1st district (1947–1993)
Municipalities	Naka-ku, Higashi-ku and Minami-ku in Hiroshima part of Aki District

This constituency was newly established in 1994 from the former 1st district. The previous constituency elected two or more people, but this constituency elects only one person.

Fumio Kishida, former Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party, has represented this district since October 1996.^[a]

List of the members representing the district

Fumio Kishida has represented the constituency since 1996.

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Fumio Kishida		LDP	1996 –	Minister for Foreign Affairs (2012–2017) President of the Liberal Democratic Party (2021–2024) Prime Minister of Japan (2021–2024)

Election results

2024 • 2021 • 2017 • 2014 • 2012 • 2009 • 2005 • 2003 • 2000 • 1996

2024

2024^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	100,740	52.4	28.3
	CDP	Kōchi Hiramoto	46,493	24.2
	Ishin	Hajime Yamada	26,849	14.0
	JCP	Tsuyoshi Nakahara	12,225	6.4	2.4
	Independent	Toshifumi Ubuhara	5,995	3.1
Registered electors			407,675
Turnout				48.43	1.65
	LDP hold

2021

General election 2021: Hiroshima's 1st^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	133,704	80.7	2.7
	Social Democratic	Yūko Arita	15,904	9.6	N/A
	JCP	Osamu Ohnishi	14,508	8.8	13.2
	Minor party	Keiichi Kamide	1,630	1.0	N/A
Majority			117,800	71.1	15.1
Turnout			165,746	50.8	5.0
Registered electors			332,001
	LDP hold		Swing	7.5

2017

General election 2017: Hiroshima's 1st^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	113,239	78.0	12.3
	JCP	Osamu Ohnishi	32,011	22.0	9.2
Majority			81,223	56.0	7.7
Turnout			145,250	45.7	1.5
Registered electors			328,214
	LDP hold		Swing	7.3

2014

General election 2014: Hiroshima's 1st^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	96,236	65.7	2.2
	Innovation	Rika Shirasaka	25,452	17.4	New
	JCP	Osamu Ohnishi	18,737	12.8	5.2
	Future Generations	Shinji Itō	5,986	4.1	New
Majority			70,784	48.3	0.4
Turnout			146,411	47.3	6.2
Registered electors			317,223
	LDP hold		Swing	9.2

2012

General election 2012: Hiroshima's 1st^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	103,689	63.5	16.2
	Democratic	Kōichi Nonaka	25,429	15.6	27.8
	Tomorrow	Hiroshi Sugekawa	21,698	13.3	New
	JCP	Osamu Ohnishi	12,444	7.6	3.2
Majority			78,260	47.9	44.0
Turnout			163,260	53.5	12.1
Registered electors			314,600
	LDP hold		Swing	13.1

2009

General election 2009: Hiroshima's 1st^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	95,475	47.3	10.0
	Democratic	Hiroshi Sugekawa (elected by PR)	87,557	43.4	11.9
	JCP	Satoshi Fujimoto	8,945	4.4	1.3
	Social Democratic	Yoshiteru Uemura	5,438	2.7	2.8
	Independent	Fuminori Nakamura	2,889	1.4	N/A
	Minor Party	Hironori Yamamoto	1,393	0.6	N/A
Majority			7,918	3.9	21.9
Turnout			201,697	65.6	4.7
Registered electors			311,170
	LDP hold		Swing	4.1

2005

General election 2005: Hiroshima's 1st^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	107,239	57.3	1.8
	Democratic	Hiroshi Sugekawa	58,946	31.5	5.4
	JCP	Ryō Nagatsuma	10,698	5.7	1.8
	Social Democratic	Yoshiteru Uemura	10,313	5.5	N/A
Majority			48,293	25.8	7.3
Turnout			187,196	60.9	10.8
Registered electors			307,448
	LDP hold		Swing	1.1

2003

General election 2003: Hiroshima's 1st^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	84,292	55.5	0.3
	Democratic	Masaaki Kakinuma	56,072	36.9	4.8
	JCP	Yōkō Tsugi'ishi	11,463	7.6	5.2
Majority			28,220	18.5	N/A
Turnout			151,827	50.1	N/A
Registered electors			303,801
	LDP hold		Swing	N/A

2000

General election 2000: Hiroshima's 1st^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	85,482	55.1
	Democratic	Maei Nishio	49,765	32.1
	JCP	Hirofumi Nikaidō	19,778	12.8
Majority			35,717	23
Turnout			155,025	N/A
Registered electors			N/A
	LDP hold		Swing	N/A

1996

General election 1996: Hiroshima's 1st^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Fumio Kishida	64,709	44.1
	New Frontier	Kouji Nakahara	42,108	28.7
	Social Democratic	Chikou Matsusaka	12,301	8.4
	JCP	Mitsunori Hirano	11,128	7.6
	Democratic	Teiko Horima	9,746	6.6
	New Socialist	Yūko Nobui	5,930	4.0
	Independent	Hitoshi Shinmoto	939	0.6
Majority			22,601	15.4
Turnout			146,861	49.1
Registered electors			298,892
	LDP win (new seat)

Notes

1. Between 1947 and 1996, Kishida's constituency was a multi-member district elected through SNTV. After the 1994 Japanese electoral reform, mandating the abolition of all multi-member House of Representative districts, Hosakawa was re-elected to the synonymous Hiroshima 1st District, which was a single-member constituency elected through FPTP, in 1996 general election. The two constituencies are fundamentally different from each other, only with their identical name.