Chiba 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected initially four, later five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Chiba and, as of 1993, consisted of the cities of Chiba (w/o the former town of Toke), Funabashi, Yachiyo, Ichihara and Narashino. Today, the area extends into Chiba's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th single-member electoral districts.
Until the decline of the LDP in the 1970s after the oil crisis and the Lockheed scandal, the relatively urban district was won by a majority of LDP candidates several times. Representatives for Chiba 1st district included LDP faction leader and home affairs minister Shōjirō Kawashima (Kawashima faction), defense minister Shigejirō Inō (Satō faction), construction minister Ihei Shiseki (Fukuda faction), sōri-fu minister Sōichi Usui (Miki faction) and his son Hideo Usui (Miki (→Kōmoto) faction) and, in the final election period before the election reform, opposition politicians Yoshihiko Noda (JNP) and Kazuo Shii (JCP) who later went on to play leading roles in the opposition parties.
Summary of results during the 1955 party system General election 1958 1960 1963 1967 1969 1972 1976 1979 1980 1983 1986 1990 1993 LDP & conservative independents 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 3 1 3 3 1 Opposition center-left 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 JSP 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 JCP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 District magnitude 4 5
Elected representatives electionyear highest vote(top tōsen) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1947 Noriko Narushima (DP) Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP) Isamu Tada (JLP) Yūtarō Shibuya (JLP) – 1949 Tōru Sakuma (DLP) Yoshio Yanagisawa (DLP) Isamu Tada (DLP) Yūtarō Shibuya (DLP) 1952 Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right) Shōjirō Kawashima (LP) Sōichi Usui (Progressive) Shigejirō Inō (LP) 1953 Ihei Shiseki (Hatoyama LP) Shōjirō Kawashima (Yoshida LP) Sōichi Usui (Yoshida LP) 1955 Shōjirō Kawashima (JDP) Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right) Sōichi Usui (JDP) Jūkichi Yokozeni (JSP, left) 1958 Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP) Ihei Shiseki (LDP) Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP) Sōichi Usui (LDP) 1960 Toyojirō Fujiwara (JSP) Ihei Shiseki (LDP) 1963 Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (DSP) Sōichi Usui (LDP) Ihei Shiseki (LDP) 1967 Minoru Kihara (JSP) Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP) Ihei Shiseki (LDP) Sōichi Usui (LDP) 1969 Shōjirō Kawashima † (LDP) Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Minoru Kihara (JSP) Ihei Shiseki (LDP) 1972 Makoto Someya (LDP) Minoru Kihara (JSP) Sōichi Usui (LDP) Mutsuo Shibata (JCP) 1976 Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Ihei Shiseki (LDP) Minoru Kihara (JSP) 1979 Mutsuo Shibata (JCP) Minoru Kihara (JSP) 1980 Sanbachi Taidō (Ind.) Hideo Usui (LDP) Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) 1983 Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Hideo Usui (LDP) Mutsuo Shibata (JCP) Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP) 1986 Hideo Usui (LDP) Kazuo Eguchi (LDP) Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Masayuki Okajima (LDP) Mutsuo Shibata (JCP) 1990 Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP) Hideo Usui (LDP) Kazuo Eguchi (LDP) Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Masayuki Okajima (LDP) 1993 Yoshihiko Noda (JNP) Masayuki Okajima (JRP) Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō) Hideo Usui (LDP) Kazuo Shii (JCP)
Late election results
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