is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in central Iwate and consists of the prefectural capital Morioka city and the two remaining towns in Shiwa district.MIC: 2017 changes to House of Representatives electoral districts, Map and table of changes in Iwate Before 2017, it covered of the majority of the prefectural capital Morioka (the whole city without the former village of Tamayama) and Shiwa district. In 2012, 278,860 eligible voters were registered in the district.Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area had been part of the multi-member Iwate 1st district that elected four Representatives by single non-transferable vote.
Iwate is the home of Ichirō Ozawa and like three of the prefecture's four post-reform districts, the 1st district had been represented by his parties from its creation to 2012: the New Frontier Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party. In 2012, Ozawa and his followers split from the Democratic Party: 1st district representative Shina stayed with the Democrats, Ozawa's Tomorrow Party of Japan nominated Yōko Tasso, the wife of former representative and current Iwate governor Takuya Tasso; but Shina defended the district against Tasso and Liberal Democratic former prefectural assembly member Hinako Takahashi who won a proportional block seat.
List of representatives Representative Party Dates Notes Takuya Tasso NFP 1996–2000 LP 2000–2003 DPJ 2003–2007 Resigned. Elected Governor of Iwate Prefecture in 2007 Takeshi Shina DPJ 2007–2016 DP 2016–2017 Kibō no Tō 2017–2018 DPP 2018–2020 CDP 2020–2026 CRA 2026–
Election results DC: Dual candidate (jūfuku rikkōho) standing simultaneously for a seat in the Tōhoku proportional representation block $: Lost deposit and if a dual candidate: is also ineligible as a proportional candidate
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