Toyama 1st district

Toyama 1st district
Toyama 1st district
Single-member constituency; for the House of Representatives
Electorate	262,391
Current constituency
Created	1994
Number of members	1
Party	Liberal Democratic
Representative	Hiroshi Nakada

Toyama 1st district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The district is located in the city of Toyama, the capital of Toyama Prefecture.

In September 2023 the district had 266,166 eligible voters.^[1]

From 2012 to 2024, the district was represented by Hiroaki Tabata of the Liberal Democratic Party.^[2]^[3] After narrowly winning the seat in the 2024 Japanese general election Tabata faced criticism for registering people as LDP party members without their permission, as well as coverup.^[4] Before the 2026 election he was replaced with Hiroshi Nakada, a former mayor of Yokohama.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Jinen Nagase	LDP	1996–2009	Won seat in PR Block in 2009
Muneaki Murai	DPJ	2009–2012
Hiroaki Tabata	LDP	2012–2026	Elected in PR block in 2026
Hiroshi Nakada	LDP	2026–

Election results

2026^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroshi Nakada	81,875	63.4	28.3
	Centrist Reform	Toshihiro Yama	27,730	21.5	13.0
	Sanseitō	Takumi Saitō	14,207	11.0
	JCP	Ryōsuke Aoyama	5,323	4.1	1.2
Registered electors			262,391
Turnout			129,135	50.10	1.56
	LDP hold

2024^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroaki Tabata	45,917	35.1	15.8
	CDP	Toshihiro Yama (elected by PR)	45,179	34.5	24.0
	Independent	Toyofumi Yoshida	19,870	15.2
	Ishin	Hirohiko Asaoka	12,995	9.9	22.9
	JCP	Ryōsuke Aoyama	6,903	5.3	0.3
Registered electors			263,989
Turnout				51.66	0.77
	LDP hold

2021^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroaki Tabata	71,696	51.8	7.4
	Ishin	Toyofumi Yoshida (elected by PR)	45,411	32.8	2.6
	CDP	Masaei Nishio	14,563	10.5
	JCP	Ryōsuke Aoyama	6,800	4.9	5.3
Turnout				52.43	4.24
	LDP hold

2017^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Hiroaki Tabata	74,876	59.2	0.3
	Ishin	Toyofumi Yoshida	38,219	30.2	2.8
	JCP	Ryōsuke Aoyama	13,471	10.6	2.4
Turnout				48.19	1.72
	LDP hold

References

^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2023] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-07.
^ "TABATA_Hiroaki_Shugiin". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
^ "LDP Members TABATA Hiroaki". LibDems. Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ "LDP member reportedly tried to hide membership scandal". The Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：-富山 - 2026衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
^ 開票速報小選挙区：-富山 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
^ 小選挙区富山1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ 小選挙区富山1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

[1] "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2023] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-07.

[2] "TABATA_Hiroaki_Shugiin". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-06-14.

[3] "LDP Members TABATA Hiroaki". LibDems. Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

[4] "LDP member reportedly tried to hide membership scandal". The Japan Times. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

[5] 開票速報小選挙区：-富山 - 2026衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 February 2026.

[6] 開票速報小選挙区：-富山 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

[7] 小選挙区富山1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

[8] 小選挙区富山1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 4 July 2023.

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First-past-the-post (FPTP) districts and proportional representation (PR) "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives of the National Diet (1996–present)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Eisuke Mori, Chiba 11th Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Keiichi Ishii, Northern Kanto PR
Hokkaidō	Block 8 seats Hokkaidō 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tōhoku	Block 12 seats Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō	Block 19 seats Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Minami- (South) Kantō	Block 23 seats Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yamanashi 1 2
Tokyo	Block 19 seats Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu	Block 10 seats Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai	Block 21 seats Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki	Block 28 seats Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
Chūgoku	Block 10 seats Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 Okayama 1 2 3 4 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yamaguchi 1 2 3
Shikoku	Block 6 seats Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū	Block 20 seats Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Former districts	Abolished in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Abolished in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Abolished in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Abolished in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4