, also referred to as Hyogo No.1 district and in Japanese, is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Chūō, Nada and Higashinada wards of Kobe. As of September 2015, 378,434 eligible voters were registered in the district.[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.
The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote. The reform abolished the system of multi-member districts that had existed since 1947 and replaced them with small single-member districts coupled with large multi-member proportional representation blocks.
Since the district's creation it has been heavily contested and the seat has frequently changed hand between parties. To date, only the first member Hajime Ishii has won consecutive elections. The district is currently represented by of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
| Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hajime Ishii | bgcolor= | New Frontier (1996–98) | 1996 – 2003 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 2003 | ||
| bgcolor= | DPJ (1998-2003) | |||||
| Keisuke Sunada | bgcolor= | LDP | 2003 – 2005 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 1996 and 2000 | ||
| Masahito Moriyama | bgcolor= | LDP | 2005 – 2009 | |||
| Masae Ido | bgcolor= | DPJ | 2009 – 2012 | |||
| Masahito Moriyama | bgcolor= | LDP | 2012 – 2014 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 2014 | ||
| Nobuhito Isaka | bgcolor= | Innovation | 2014 – 2017 | Elected to Kinki PR block as a Your Party candidate in 2012 | ||
| Masahito Moriyama | bgcolor= | LDP | 2017 – 2021 | Elected to Kinki PR block in 2021 | ||
| Nobuhito Isaka | bgcolor= | CDP | 2021 – | |||