# Nagasaki 1st district

Nagasaki 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Nagasaki prefecture and covers the city of Nagasaki.
Before the electoral reform of 1994, Nagasaki city was part of the multi-member Nagasaki 1st district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
The district has been leaning towards the Democratic Party and its predecessors since its creation. Only in a 1998 by-election, Liberal Democrat Masakazu Kuranari, the eldest son of Tadashi Kuranari, longtime former Representative for the multi-member 1st district, could win the seat, but lost it to Democrat Yoshiaki Takaki in the following general election of 2000.

## List of representatives

| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes |
| Takeo Nishioka | NFP | 1996 – 1998 | Resigned for the 1998 Nagasaki gubernatorial election |
| Masakazu Kuranari | LDP | 1998 – 2000 | Failed reelection in the Kyūshū PR block |
| Yoshiaki Takaki | DPJ | 2000 – 2012 | |
| Tsutomu Tomioka | LDP | 2012 – 2017 | |
| Hideko Nishioka | Kibō | 2017 – 2021 | |
| Hideko Nishioka | DPFP | 2021 – | Incumbent |

## Election results

2021 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | DPP | Hideko Nishioka (Incumbent) | 101,877 | 56.1 |
| | LDP | Takiichiro Hastumura (Endorsed by Komeito) | 69,053 | 38.0 |
| | JCP | Ayako Yasue | 10,754 | 5.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
2017 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Kibō no Tō | Hideko Nishioka (Endorsed by the Democratic Party Nagasaki Prefectural Federation of Branches) | 90,569 | 48.5 |
| | LDP | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 80,049 | 42.9 |
| | JCP | Takashi Makiyama | 16,011 | 8.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 76,247 | 45.6 |
| | Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent - Kyushu) | 74,218 | 44.4 |
| | JCP | Atsunobu Nakanishi | 16,867 | 10.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
2012 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | LDP | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent - Kyushu) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 92,624 | 48.2 |
| | Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent) | 82,088 | 42.7 |
| | JCP | Takashi Makiyama | 17,354 | 9.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | |
2009 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent) (Endorsed by the PNP) | 129,044 | 55.3 |
| | LDP | Tsutomu Tomioka (Incumbent - Kyushu) (Endorsed by Komeito) | 87,297 | 37.4 |
| | JCP | Eiko Fuchise | 14,321 | 6.1 |
| | Happiness Realization | Koichi Eda | 2,527 | 1.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 236,495 | 67.03 |
2005 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Yoshiaki Takaki (Incumbent) | 110,518 | 48.3 |
| | LDP | Tsutomu Tomioka | 101,981 | 44.6 |
| | JCP | Toshihiko Haraguchi | 16,341 | 7.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 232,338 | 65.13 |
2003 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Yoshiaki Takagi (Incumbent) | 106,331 | 50.6 |
| | LDP | Masakazu Kuranari | 90,857 | 43.3 |
| | JCP | Toshihiko Haraguchi | 12,797 | 6.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 213,705 | 59.69 |
2000 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Democratic | Yoshiaki Takaki (Incumbent - Kyushu) | 76,798 | 33.8 |
| LDP | Masakazu Kuranari | 65,183 | 28.7 |
| Liberal | Takeo Nishioka | 63,248 | 27.9 |
| JCP | Yoshinori Terada | 16,714 | 7.4 |
| Liberal League | Ryoku Kikumura | 5,158 | 2.3 |
1998 by-election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| LDP | Masakazu Kuranari | 68,443 | 50.8 |
| Democratic | Izumi Yamazaki | 52,438 | 38.9 |
| JCP | Yoshinori Terada | 13,860 | 10.3 |
1996 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | New Frontier | Takeo Nishioka (Incumbent - Former district) | 84,464 | 41.1 |
| | LDP | Daisuke Miyajima | 71,499 | 34.8 |
| | Democratic | Kenji Taguchi (Incumbent - Former district) | 31,371 | 15.3 |
| | JCP | Yoshinori Terada | 18,317 | 8.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 209,303 | 58.62 |