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Ōita 1st District
大分県第1区
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives

Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	386,368 (as of September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Independent
Representative	Shuji Kira

Ōita 1st District (大分県第1区, Ōita-ken dai-i-ku) is an electoral district in the Japanese House of Representatives. The district was established as a single-member constituency in 1994 from parts of the original 1st district.

Area covered

Current district

As of 5 January 2023, the areas covered by this district are as follows:

Ōita (city) (excluding the former towns of Saganoseki and Notsuharu)

Areas covered before 2013

Before the 2013 redistricting, the area covered by the district were as follows:

Ōita (city)

Elected representatives


Representative		Years served	Notes
Tomiichi Murayama	SDP	1996-2000
Ban Kugimiya	DPJ	2000-2003
Shuji Kira	Indep.	2003-2005
Shuji Kira	DPJ	2005-2012
Youichi Anami	LDP	2012-2014
Shuji Kira	DPJ	2014-2017
Youichi Anami	LDP	2017-2021
Shuji Kira	Indep.	2021-	Incumbent

Election results

‡ - Also ran in the Kyushu PR district

‡‡ - Also ran and won a seat in the Kyushu PR district

2024
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shuji Kira	96,944	49.1	0.3
	LDP	Hiroaki Etō	70,584	35.8	2.3
	Sanseitō	Shinsuke Nonaka	15,626	7.9
	JCP	Kai Yamasgita	14,18	7.2	0.1
Registered electors			383,997
Turnout				52.47	0.70
	Independent hold

2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Shuji Kira (incumbent - Kyushu PR) (endorsed by the Oita Prefectural Federations of the CDP and the DPP)	97,117	48.8
	LDP	Maiko Takahashi	75,932	38.1
	JCP	Kai Yamashita	15,889	8.0
	Independent	Shigetaka Nishimiya	6,216	3.1
	Anti-NHK	Misaki Nonaka	4,001	2.0
Turnout			204,954	53.2
	Independent gain from LDP

2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Youichi Anami (incumbent - Kyushu PR) (endorsed by Komeito)	90,422	46.4
	Kibō no Tō	Shuji Kira (incumbent)	87,392	44.8
	JCP	Megumi Kotegawa	17,082	8.8
Turnout			119,060	52.0
	LDP gain from Democratic

2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Shuji Kira	94,893	48.3
	LDP	Youichi Anami (incumbent)	88,507	45.0
	JCP	Shigeru Yamamoto	13,113	6.7
Turnout
	Democratic gain from LDP

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LDP	Youichi Anami (endorsed by Komeito)	84,848	39.9
	Democratic	Shuji Kira (incumbent) (endorsed by the PNP)	74,590	35.0
	Restoration	Hiroshi Kuwahara (endorsed by Your Party)	34,367	16.2
	JCP	Shigeru Yamamoto	9,316	4.4
	Tomorrow	Kotegawa Hiroshi (endorsed by New Party Daichi)	8,586	4.0
	Independent	Someya Seiji	1,149	0.5
Turnout
	LDP gain from Democratic

2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Shuji Kira (incumbent)	141,665	59.0
	LDP	Youichi Anami (endorsed by Komeito)	80,855	33.6
	JCP	Kai Yamashita	14,821	6.2
	Happiness Realization	Tayoko Takahata	2,893	1.2
Turnout
	Democratic hold

2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Shuji Kira (incumbent)	94,594	39.3
	Independent	Seiichi Eto	90,667	37.7
	LDP	Sato Ren (incumbent - Kyushu PR)	46,205	19.2
	JCP	Hiroko Kawano	9,369	3.9
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Independent

2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Shuji Kira (endorsed by the DPJ)	105,628	48.6
	LDP	Seiichi Eto	101,789	46.8
	JCP	Eizo Tsutumi	8,646	4.0
	Independent	Someya Seiji	1,254	0.6
Turnout
	Independent gain from Democratic

2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Ban Kugimiya	96,223	47.0
	LDP	Seiichi Eto	94,094	46.0
	JCP	Masami Doi	12,073	5.9
	Independent	Noriaki Kameyama	2,252	1.1
Turnout
	Democratic gain from Social Democratic

1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Social Democratic	Tomiichi Murayama	106,258	59.5
	LDP	Seiich Eto	57,301	32.1
	JCP	Noboru Mieno	10,666	6.0
	Liberal League	Yasuhiro Tomozawa	2,813	1.6
	Independent	Noriaki Kameyama	1,574	0.9
Turnout			185,627	62.9
	Social Democratic win (new seat)

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 2022] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-04.
"法律第百四号（平六・一一・二五）". www.shugiin.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"2024年衆議院議員総選挙大分". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved January 2, 2025.
"大分1区 - 第49回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 49th House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第48回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 48th House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第47回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 47th House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第46回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 46th House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第45回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 45th House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第45回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 45th House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第43回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 43rd House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第42回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 42nd House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
"大分1区 - 第41回衆議院議員選挙" [Oita 1st District - 41st House of Representatives general election] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-05.

v t e 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: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo 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
Eliminated districts	Eliminiated in 2002 Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4 Eliminiated in 2013 Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3 Eliminiated in 2017 Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5 Eliminiated in 2022 Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4

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