Kyōto 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Kyōto and consisted, as of 1993, of the cities of Kyōto city's wards of Sakyō, Higashiyama, Kamigyō, Kita, Nakagyō, Shimogyō, Minami and Yamashina. Today, the area is split between Kyōto 1st and 2nd single-member electoral districts.
Kyōto is the stronghold of the Japanese Communist Party and the 1st district was among the few in the country where the party ever nominated more than one candidate – successfully so in the 1972 and 1979 elections; but in 1990, it lost both candidates due to vote splitting. Facing dwindling support for the major parties in the 1970s, the LDP often nominated only two candidates, the JSP just one candidate in Kyoto 1st district.
Summary of results during the 1955 party system Representatives elected/candidates running.
General election 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 LDP & conservative independents 3/4 2/3 2/3 2/2 2/2 1/2 1/1 1/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 Opposition center-left – 1/1 1/1 2/2 2/2 1/2 3/3 2/3 2/2 2/2 2/3 2/2 2/4 JSP 2/3 1/2 1/2 0/2 0/1 1/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 1/1 0/1 JCP 0/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 2/2 1/2 2/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 0/2 1/1 District magnitude 5
Elected representatives Electionyear Highest vote(top tōsen) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1947 Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP) Kazumi Takeuchi (JSP) Hanji Ogawa (DP) Taminosuke Tsujii (JSP) Toyojirō Kawahashi (JLP) 1949 Kichinosuke Takagi (DLP) Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) Isaji Tanaka (DP) Hanji Ogawa (DP) Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP) 1952 Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP, right) Isaji Tanaka (LP) Hanji Ogawa (Progressive) Susumu Kagata (JSP, left) Kichinosuke Takagi (LP) 1953 Isaji Tanaka (Yoshida LP) Gen'ichirō Nakagawa (Yoshida LP) Sannojō Nakamura (Progressive) 1955 Hanji Ogawa (JDP) Susumu Kagata (JSP, left) Sannojō Nakamura (JDP) Isaji Tanaka (LP) 1958 Isaji Tanaka (LDP) Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP) Hanji Ogawa (LDP) Sannojō Nakamura (LDP) Susumu Kagata (JSP) 1960 Yoneo Tsubono (JSP) Isaji Tanaka (LDP) Chōzaburō Mizutani (DSP) Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) 1963 Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) Hanji Ogawa (LDP) Susumu Kagata (JSP) 1967 Isaji Tanaka (LDP) Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) Hanji Ogawa (LDP) Shin'ichi Higami (Kōmeitō) Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) 1969 Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) Isaji Tanaka (LDP) 1972 Masaru Umeda (JCP) Yukio Takemura (JSP) 1976 Isaji Tanaka (LDP) Yamato Kaji (NLC) Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) Hiroko Fujiwara (JCP) Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) 1979 Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) Masaru Umeda (JCP) Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) Isaji Tanaka (LDP) 1980 Mikio Okuda (LDP) Isaji Tanaka (Ind.) Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) 1983 Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) Masaru Umeda (JCP) Mikio Okuda (LDP) 1986 Mikio Okuda (LDP) Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) Hiroko Fujiwara (JCP) Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) 1990 Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) Yukio Takemura (JSP) Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) 1993 Keiji Kokuta (JCP) Seiji Maehara (JNP) Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) Yuzuru Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) Mikio Okuda (LDP)
Most recent election results
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