Electoral district of Shirakawa Central

Shirakawa CentralShirakawa Centraal白川中央 Báichuān Zhōngyāng白川中央 Shirakawa-ChūōEnderronian Parliament 	Shirakawa CentralShirakawa Centraal白川中央 Báichuān Zhōngyāng白川中央 Shirakawa-ChūōEnderronian Parliament
Location of Shirakawa Central in Greater Shirakawa 	Location of Shirakawa Central in Greater Shirakawa
District Details 	District Details
Created 	1950
MP 	Yukiko Hirata
Party 	Social Democrats
Namesake 	City of Shirakawa
Electors 	130,754
Area 	TBA km²
Demographic 	Inner metropolitan
Shirakawa Central (also known by its Japanese name Shirakawa-Chūō) is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture, first contested at the 1950 federal election. It contains the Shirakawa central business district and the city's inner suburbs.
The sitting member, since the 2018 election, is Yukiko Hirata, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
==History==
Shirakawa Central was created in the 1950 redistribution, in which Tojima gained two seats and the electorate of Shirakawa was divided into Shirakawa Central and Shirakawa South.
Percentage-wise, Shirakawa Central has one of the highest populations of Japanese Enderronians in the country; indeed, it holds the unique distinction of being the only electorate to have always been represented by Japanese Enderronians, and currently holds the longest streak of electing non-white members to Parliament. The seat was held by the pro-multiculturalism New Democratic Party from its creation in 1950 to 1962, and then by the Social Democratic Party to the current day.
Shirakawa Central has the highest proportion of Asian Enderronians of any electorate in Enderron at 81.2%.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Ken Murayama 	New Democratic 	1950–1958
2	 	Shintaro Ichikawa	New Democratic 	1958–1962
2	 	Shintaro Ichikawa	Social Democrats	1962–1965
3	 	Jon Nakamura 	Social Democrats	1965–1982
4	 	Shiro Masaki 	Social Democrats	1982–1990
5	 	Dallas Oishi 	Social Democrats	1990–2009
6	 	June Takaki 	Social Democrats	2009–2018
5	 	Yukiko Hirata 	Social Democrats	2018–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Shirakawa Central	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Shirakawa Central	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Shirakawa Central	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Shirakawa Central	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Shirakawa Central	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Shirakawa Central
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Social Democrats 	Yukiko Hirata 	64,447 	51.67 	+4.53
 	Tojima First 	Jin Okura 	18,884 	15.14 	+1.54
 	Liberal 	Iki Konami 	15,491 	12.42 	–6.74
 	Greens 	Roy Misakawa 	12,149 	9.74 	+0.87
 	Independent 	Ken Nishihara 	5,950 	4.77 	+2.31
 	Pirate 	Sarah Tagawa 	3,605 	2.89 	+2.89
 	Tojiman Independence 	Yoshi Kikuchi 	2,507 	2.01 	+0.64
 	Democrats 	James Papadopoulos 	1,335 	1.07 	–1.11
 	Independent 	Emily Brown 	362 	0.29 	+0.29
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	124,728 	97.86 	+1.18
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	2,727 	2.14 	–1.18
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	127,455 	97.48 	+1.53
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 	Yukiko Hirata 	95,105 	76.25 	+3.37
 	Liberal 	Iki Konami 	29,623 	23.75 	–3.37
Two-candidate-preferred result 	Two-candidate-preferred result 	Two-candidate-preferred result 	Two-candidate-preferred result 	Two-candidate-preferred result 	Two-candidate-preferred result
 	Social Democrats 	Yukiko Hirata 	79,951 	64.10 	–2.24
 	Tojima First 	Jin Okura 	44,777 	35.90 	+2.24
 	Social Democrats hold 	Social Democrats hold 	Swing 	–2.24 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture
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