Chiba 1st district (1947–1993) explained

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
bgcolor=red		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

election year	highest vote (top tōsen)	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1947^[1]	Noriko Narushima (DP)		Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP)		Isamu Tada (JLP)		Yūtarō Shibuya (JLP)	–
1949^[2]		Tōru Sakuma (DLP)		Yoshio Yanagisawa (DLP)		Isamu Tada (DLP)			Yūtarō Shibuya (DLP)
1952^[3]	Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right)		Shōjirō Kawashima (LP)	Sōichi Usui (Progressive)		Shigejirō Inō (LP)
1953^[4]		Ihei Shiseki (Hatoyama LP)		Shōjirō Kawashima (Yoshida LP)		Sōichi Usui (Yoshida LP)
1955^[5]	Shōjirō Kawashima (JDP)		Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP, right)	Sōichi Usui (JDP)	Jūkichi Yokozeni (JSP, left)
1958^[6]	Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP)		Ihei Shiseki (LDP)		Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (JSP)	Sōichi Usui (LDP)
1960^[7]			Toyojirō Fujiwara (JSP)		Ihei Shiseki (LDP)
1963^[8]		Kanemitsu Yoshikawa (DSP)		Sōichi Usui (LDP)		Ihei Shiseki (LDP)
1967^[9]		Minoru Kihara (JSP)		Shōjirō Kawashima (LDP)		Ihei Shiseki (LDP)			Sōichi Usui (LDP)
1969^[10]		Shōjirō Kawashima † (LDP)		Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)		Minoru Kihara (JSP)			Ihei Shiseki (LDP)
1972^[11]		Makoto Someya (LDP)		Minoru Kihara (JSP)		Sōichi Usui (LDP)	Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)
1976^[12]	Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)	Ihei Shiseki (LDP)		Minoru Kihara (JSP)
1979^[13]				Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)		Minoru Kihara (JSP)
1980^[14]			Sanbachi Taidō (Ind.)		Hideo Usui (LDP)		Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)
1983^[15]		Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)		Hideo Usui (LDP)		Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)			Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP)
1986^[16]		Hideo Usui (LDP)		Kazuo Eguchi (LDP)		Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)		Masayuki Okajima (LDP)		Mutsuo Shibata (JCP)
1990^[17]		Ken'ichi Ueno (JSP)		Hideo Usui (LDP)		Kazuo Eguchi (LDP)		Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)		Masayuki Okajima (LDP)
1993^[18]	Yoshihiko Noda (JNP)		Masayuki Okajima (JRP)		Kazuo Torii (Kōmeitō)		Hideo Usui (LDP)		Kazuo Shii (JCP)

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1947/99/000733/00000733_4687.html. ja:衆議院>第23回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055606/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1947/99/000733/00000733_4687.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
2. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1949/99/001666/00001666_8179.html. ja:衆議院>第24回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042853/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1949/99/001666/00001666_8179.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
3. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1952/99/001659/00001659_8056.html. ja:衆議院>第25回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052229/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1952/99/001659/00001659_8056.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
4. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1953/99/001656/00001656_7938.html. ja:衆議院>第26回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230040/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1953/99/001656/00001656_7938.html. 2016-03-03. dead.
5. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1955/99/001652/00001652_7817.html. ja:衆議院>第27回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054812/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1955/99/001652/00001652_7817.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
6. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1958/99/001650/00001650_7698.html. ja:衆議院>第28回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043343/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1958/99/001650/00001650_7698.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
7. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1960/99/001649/00001649_7580.html. ja:衆議院>第29回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002446/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1960/99/001649/00001649_7580.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
8. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1963/99/001644/00001644_7458.html. ja:衆議院>第30回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese.
9. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1967/99/001639/00001639_7214.html. ja:衆議院>第31回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054535/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1967/99/001639/00001639_7214.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
10. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1969/99/001599/00001599_7037.html. ja:衆議院>第32回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235445/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1969/99/001599/00001599_7037.html. 2016-03-03. dead.
11. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1972/99/001597/00001597_6912.html. ja:衆議院>第33回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051049/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1972/99/001597/00001597_6912.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
12. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1976/99/001595/00001595_6782.html. ja:衆議院>第34回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000936/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1976/99/001595/00001595_6782.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
13. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1979/99/001594/00001594_6652.html. ja:衆議院>第35回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054249/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1979/99/001594/00001594_6652.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
14. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1980/99/001592/00001592_6521.html. ja:衆議院>第36回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054733/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1980/99/001592/00001592_6521.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
15. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1983/99/001591/00001591_6391.html. ja:衆議院>第37回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052023/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1983/99/001591/00001591_6391.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
16. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1986/99/001590/00001590_6261.html. ja:衆議院>第38回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055608/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1986/99/001590/00001590_6261.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
17. Web site: http://go2senkyo.com/election/1990/99/001588/00001588_6132.html. ja:衆議院>第39回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. ザ･選挙. 2011-08-16. K.K. Heartbeats. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060111/http://go2senkyo.com/election/1990/99/001588/00001588_6132.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
18. Web site: https://go2senkyo.com/shugiin/17789/senkyoku/29212. ja:衆議院>第40回衆議院議員選挙>千葉県>千葉1区. 選挙ドットコム (senkyo dot com). 2021-05-17. イチニ株式会社 (Ichini K.K.). Japanese.