, also referred to as Hyogo No.1 district and in Japanese, is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Chūō, Nada and Higashinada wards of Kobe. As of September 2015, 378,434 eligible voters were registered in the district. It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.
The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote. The reform abolished the system of multi-member districts that had existed since 1947 and replaced them with small single-member districts coupled with large multi-member proportional representation blocks.
Since the district's creation it has been heavily contested and the seat has frequently changed hands between parties. Until the 2024 election only the first member Hajime Ishii had won consecutive elections.
List of representatives Representative Party DatesNotes Hajime Ishii New Frontier(1996–98) 1996 – 2003 Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003 DPJ(1998-2003) Keisuke Sunada LDP 2003 – 2005 Elected to Kinki PR block in 1996 and 2000 Masahito Moriyama LDP 2005 – 2009 Masae Ido DPJ 2009 – 2012 Masahito Moriyama LDP 2012 – 2014 Elected to Kinki PR block in 2014 Nobuhiko Isaka Innovation 2014 – 2017 Elected to Kinki PR block as a Your Party candidate in 2012 Masahito Moriyama LDP 2017 – 2021 Elected to Kinki PR block in 2021 Nobuhiko Isaka CDP 2021 – 2026 Masahito Moriyama LDP 2026 –
Election results
See also Hyogo at-large district, a multi-member district that represents the entire Hyogo Prefecture in the House of Councillors
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