Electoral district of Nishihama

Nishihama西浜 Xībīn西浜 NishihamaEnderronian Parliament 	Nishihama西浜 Xībīn西浜 NishihamaEnderronian Parliament
Location of Nishihama in Tojima Prefecture 	Location of Nishihama in Tojima Prefecture
District Details 	District Details
Created 	1966
MP 	Liz Coure
Party 	Social Democrats
Namesake 	Nishihama, Tojima
Electors 	131,167
Area 	TBA km²
Demographic 	Rural
Nishihama is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture, first contested at the 1966 federal election. It is named after the city of Nishihama, on Tojima's western coast, and covers the western third of the prefecture.
The sitting member, since the 2014 federal election, is Liz Coure, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
==History==
Nishihama was created at the 1966 redistribution, which expanded the Enderronian Parliament from 100 to 125 seats. It was created as a notionally marginal United seat, and was won by Daniel De Jong of that party at its first election. De Jong was defeated by the Social Democrats' Craig Taggart at the 1970 landslide, beginning a period of Social Democratic dominance in the seat.
The Social Democrats held Nishihama for all but one term between 1970 and 2006, largely on the back of consistently strong results in the city of Nishihama. The seat became less safe for the party from the 1980s onwards, as it expanded eastwards, due to minimal population growth, into more conservative-leaning territory in the central interior of Tojima. The Liberal Party won Nishihama for the first time at the 2006 election.
Recent redistributions have reversed the trend of eastward expansion. The 2014 redistribution pushed Nishihama significantly west, moving a significant portion of its eastern territory into the electorate of Kamijima. This had the effect of turning Nishihama into a notionally marginal Social Democratic seat. The Social Democrats subsequently gained the seat at the 2014 election, and experienced a large swing towards it at the following election, turning Nishihama into a safe seat in one stroke.
Nishihama is one of two current Tojima electorates that have never had an Asian Enderronian member, the other being Itabashi.
==Members==
# 	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1 	width="3%"	Daniel De Jong	United 	1966–1970
2 	 	Craig Taggart 	Social Democrats	1970–1978
3 	 	Frank Doyle 	United 	1978–1982
(2)	 	Craig Taggart 	Social Democrats	1982–1990
4 	 	Dirk Petersen 	Social Democrats	1990–1998
5 	 	Joe Chester 	Social Democrats	1998–2006
6 	 	Earl Langley 	Liberal 	2006–2014
7 	 	Liz Coure 	Social Democrats	2014–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Nishihama	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Nishihama	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Nishihama	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Nishihama	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Nishihama	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Nishihama
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Social Democrats 	Liz Coure 	64,649 	52.69 	+9.41
 	Liberal 	Isaias Maddox 	25,337 	20.65 	–10.14
 	Tojima First 	Nick Suzuki 	15,411 	12.56 	+2.78
 	Greens 	Julie Chae 	10,110 	8.24 	+1.27
 	Democrats 	Dylan Johnson 	7,190 	5.86 	–2.05
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	122,697 	96.04 	+1.59
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	5,057 	3.96 	–1.59
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	127,754 	98.16 	+3.84
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Social Democrats 	Liz Coure 	82,968 	67.62 	+10.74
 	Liberal 	Isaias Maddox 	39,729 	32.38 	–10.74
 	Social Democrats hold 	Social Democrats hold 	Swing 	+10.74 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture
Akagi · Durston · Harvey · Higashi · Itabashi · Kamijima · Kawayama · Kitaoka · Minato · Nakamura · Nishihama · Rijkens · Shirakawa Central · Shirakawa South