Tokushima 1st district (徳島県第1区) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, located in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.
The district was created in the electoral reform of 1994. Previously, all of Tokushima prefecture had formed one SNTV multi-member constituency (five representatives) since 1947. The new district was used in the 1996 election for the first time.
Liberal Democrat Mamoru Fukuyama, former six-term member and president of the Tokushima prefectural assembly and secretary-general of the LDP prefectural federation, defeated Democrat Yoshito Sengoku in the 2012 Representatives election by almost 20,000 votes. Sengoku, a candidate for the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and its 1996 precursor had won the district five times after its creation. Sengoku, a lawyer and University of Tokyo drop-out, had previously represented the Tokushima At-large district between 1990 and 1993 for the Socialist Party of Japan.
Before redistricting in 2013, the district consisted of Tokushima city and the village of Sanagōchi in the Myōdō District and was among the least populated electoral districts in Japan. In the election of 2005 it had 214,763 constituents and its voters had the highest electoral weight throughout Japan.
Area Tokushima city Komatsushima Anan Katsuura District Myōdō District Myōzai District Naka District Kaifu District
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Yoshito Sengoku DPJ 1996 – 2012 Failed reelection to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block (sekihairitsu 66.5%, rank 3) Mamoru Fukuyama LDP 2012 – 2014 Masazumi Gotoda LDP 2014 – 2021 Elected to a proportional seat in the Shikoku block. Elected Governor of Tokushima Prefecture in 2023. Hirobumi Niki Independent 2021 – 2024 Member of the Diet for the DPJ 2009 – 2012. Member of Yūshi no Kai 2021 – 2023 then joined the LDP. LDP 2024 –
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