# Nara 1st district

Nara 1st district (奈良[県第]1区 Nara[-ken dai-]ikku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan, located in Nara Prefecture. The district consists of the city of Ikoma and the prefectural capital Nara City (without the former village of Tsuge that is in Nara 2nd district).
The current representative is Sumio Mabuchi who was a minister of state in the Kan Cabinet in from 2010 to 2011.

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Sanae Takaichi | NFP | 1996 – 2000 | Left NFP and joined LDP in 1996, re-elected in the Kinki proportional representation block |
| Masahiro Morioka | LDP | 2000–2003 | Re-elected by PR |
| Sumio Mabuchi | DPJ | 2003 – 2016 | |
| Sumio Mabuchi | DP | 2016 – 2017 | |
| Shigeki Kobayashi | LDP | 2017 – 2021 | Gained a seat in the PR block. |
| Sumio Mabuchi | CDP | 2021 – | |

## Election results

2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Constitutional Democratic | Sumio Mabuchi | 93,050 | 39.0 | 0.7 |
| | Liberal Democratic | Shigeki Kobayashi (won a seat in Kinki PR block) | 83,718 | 35.1 | 5.7 |
| | Ishin | Kiyoshige Maekawa (won a seat in Kinki PR block) | 62,000 | 26.0 | 16.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 61.30 | 4.74 |
| | Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic | Constitutional Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic |
2017 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democratic | Shigeki Kobayashi | 90,558 | 40.8 | 0.4 |
| | Kibō no Tō | Sumio Mabuchi | 88,082 | 39.7 | 8.7 |
| | Communist | Yoshiko Inoue | 21,782 | 9.8 | 0.6 |
| | Ishin | Tadao Yoshino | 21,484 | 9.7 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.56 | 0.26 |
| | Liberal Democratic gain from Kibō no Tō | Liberal Democratic gain from Kibō no Tō | Liberal Democratic gain from Kibō no Tō | Liberal Democratic gain from Kibō no Tō | Liberal Democratic gain from Kibō no Tō |
2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Democratic | Sumio Mabuchi | 79,265 | 48.4 | 10.5 |
| | Liberal Democratic | Shigeki Kobayashi | 67,473 | 41.2 | 7.6 |
| | Communist | Kazuhiko Tanigawa | 16,996 | 10.4 | 3.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 56.82 | 6.03 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |
2012 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| DPJ – PNP | Sumio Mabuchi | 68,712 | 37.9 |
| LDP – Kōmeitō | Shigeki Kobayashi (won Kinki PR seat) | 61,043 | 33.6 |
| JRP – YP | Yūji Ōno | 38,791 | 21.4 |
| JCP | Emiko Itō | 12,954 | 7.1 |
2009 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Sumio Mabuchi | 120,812 | 60.7 |
| | LDP – Kōmeitō | Masahiro Morioka | 61,464 | 30.9 |
| | JCP | Yoshiko Inoue | 14,732 | 7.4 |
| | HRP | Mayumi Kurioka | 2,137 | 1.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 202,354 | 68.38 |
2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Sumio Mabuchi | 73,062 | 37.2 |
| | LDP | Chūbē Kagita (elected by PR) | 66,215 | 33.7 |
| | Independent | Masahiro Morioka | 41,914 | 21.4 |
| | JCP | Ayumi Hosono | 15,071 | 7.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 202,810 | 68.54 |
2003 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPJ | Sumio Mabuchi | 79,529 | 48.2 |
| | LDP | Sanae Takaichi | 65,538 | 39.7 |
| | JCP | Masamichi Satō | 20,010 | 12.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 172,474 | 58.39 |
2000 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Masahiro Morioka | 73,851 | 44.1 |
| DPJ | Sumio Mabuchi | 54,684 | 32.7 |
| JCP | Masamichi Satō | 32,337 | 19.3 |
| LL | Hiroshi Mukai | 6,401 | 3.8 |
1996 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | NFP | Sanae Takaichi | 60,507 | 37.0 |
| | LDP | Masahiro Morioka | 50,249 | 30.7 |
| | JCP | Daiichi Tsuji (elected by PR) | 33,802 | 20.7 |
| | DPJ | Satoru Ienishi (elected by PR) | 18,994 | 11.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 166,087 | 59.03 |