is a current single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kumamoto and covers South Ward (Minami-ku) and West Ward (Nishi-ku) of the prefectural capital Kumamoto City, the cities of Arao and Tamana and the Tamana District (the towns of Nagasu, Nankan, Nagomi and Gyokutō). As of September 2022, 313,172 eligible voters were resident in the district.MIC: 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等
Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Kumamoto 1st district. Liberal Democrat Takeshi Noda, had represented the pre-reform 1st district since 1972 when he succeeded his deceased father-in-law Takeo Noda.
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Takeshi Noda NFP 1996 – 2000 Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split NCP 2000 – 2003 Did not join the NCP, but returned directly to the LDP; alternating LDP candidacy (Costa Rica method) in the district with Hayashida, re-elected by PR (Kyūshū) in 2003 Takeshi Hayashida LDP 2003 – 2005 Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2005 and re-elected Takeshi Noda LDP 2005 – 2009 Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2009 and re-elected Ken'ichirō Fukushima DPJ 2009 – 2012 Joined LF, then TPJ in 2012, failed re-election by PR Takeshi Noda LDP 2012– 2021 Defeated in the 2021 general election Daisuke NishinoIndep.2021 Joined the LDP in 2021 LDP2021 –
Election results
Note: The decimals stem from anbunhyō ("proportional fractional votes"), see Elections in Japan#Ballots, voting machines and early voting. As Takeshi (彪) Hayashida and Takeshi (毅) Noda have different Kanji for their given names, some voters must have voted for just "Takeshi" in Kana for the votes to be ambiguous.
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