Tokyo's 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). Between 1947 and 1993 it elected four, later three representatives by single non-transferable vote. It initially consisted of Tokyo's Chiyoda, Chūō, Minato, Shinjuku, Bunkyō and Taitō special wards. In the 1964 redistricting Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō were split off to form the new 8th district.
It was represented by several influential political leaders in postwar Japan, namely right-wing Socialist Inejirō Asanuma, Communist Sanzō Nosaka and, after the lifting of SCAP Douglas MacArthur's purge and his recovery from a stroke, anti-mainstream conservative Ichirō Hatoyama. Later representatives included former Tokyo governor Seiichirō Yasui, construction minister Yūji Ōtsuka, JSP chairman Ichio Asukata, education minister Kaoru Yosano and Shimin League president and DPJ co-founder Banri Kaieda.
Summary of results during the 1955 party system General election 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 LDP & conservative independents 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 Opposition center-left 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 JSP 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 JCP 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seats up 4 3
Elected Representatives electionyear highest vote(top tōsen) 2nd 3rd 4th 1947 Inejirō Asanuma (JSP) Yoshio Sakurauchi (DP) Hyō Hara (JSP) Sanzō Nosaka (JCP) 1949 Sanzō Nosaka (JCP) Mitsuharu Ide (DLP) Inejirō Asanuma (JSP) Sentarō Nomura (DLP) 1952 Ichirō Hatoyama (LP) Inejirō Asanuma (JSP, right) Hyō Hara (JSP, left) Masuzumi Andō (LP) 1953 Ichirō Hatoyama (Hatoyama LP) Masuzumi Andō (Yoshida LP) Hyō Hara (JSP, left) 1955 Ichirō Hatoyama (JDP) Masuzumi Andō (JDP) Hyō Hara (JSP, left) Inejirō Asanuma (JSP, right) 1958 Eiichi Tanaka (LDP) Inejirō Asanuma (JSP) Hyō Hara (JSP) Ichirō Hatoyama (LDP) 1960 Seiichirō Yasui (LDP) Keiko (?) Asanuma浅沼亨子 (JSP) Eiichi Tanaka (LDP) Hyō Hara (JSP) 1963 Eiichi Tanaka (LDP) Yoshikata Asō (DSP) Hyō Hara (JSP) Kyūkichi Shinomiya (?)四宮久吉 (LDP) 1967 Kenichi Hirosawa (JSP) Yoshikata Asō (DSP) – 1969 Yoshikata Asō (DSP) Michiko Watanabe (Kōmeitō) 1972 Yojirō Konno (JCP) Eiichi Tanaka (LDP) Kiyomasa Katō (JSP) 1976 Yoshikata Asō (Indep.) Kaoru Yosano (LDP) Yūji Ōtsuka (LDP) 1979 Ichio Asukata (JSP) Yoshiaki Kiuchi (Kōmeitō) Yūji Ōtsuka (LDP) 1980 Kaoru Yosano (LDP) Yūji Ōtsuka (LDP) Ichio Asukata (JSP) 1983 Yoshiaki Kiuchi (Kōmeitō) 1986 1990 Kikuko Suzuki (JSP) Kaoru Yosano (LDP) Yūji Ōtsuka (LDP) 1993 Banri Kaieda (JNP) Taizō Shibano (JRP)
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