Kyōto 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Kyōto and consisted, as of 1993, of the cities of Kyōto city's wards of Sakyō, Higashiyama, Kamigyō, Kita, Nakagyō, Shimogyō, Minami and Yamashina. Today, the area is split between Kyōto 1st and 2nd single-member electoral districts.
Kyōto is the stronghold of the Japanese Communist Party and the 1st district was among the few in the country where the party ever nominated more than one candidate – successfully so in the 1972 and 1979 elections; but in 1990, it lost both candidates due to vote splitting. Facing dwindling support for the major parties in the 1970s, the LDP often nominated only two candidates, the JSP just one candidate in Kyoto 1st district.
Representatives elected/candidates running.
| General election | 1958 | 1960 | 1963 | 1967 | 1969 | 1972 | 1976 | 1979 | 1980 | 1983 | 1986 | 1990 | 1993 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=red | LDP & conservative independents | 3/4 | 2/3 | 2/3 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 | ||
| Opposition | center-left | – | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 3/3 | 2/3 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/2 | 2/4 | ||
| JSP | 2/3 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0/2 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | |||
| JCP | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0/2 | 1/1 | |||
| District magnitude | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Election year | Highest vote (top tōsen) | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947[1] | Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP) | Kazumi Takeuchi (JSP) | Hanji Ogawa (DP) | Taminosuke Tsujii (JSP) | Toyojirō Kawahashi (JLP) | |||||
| 1949[2] | Kichinosuke Takagi (DLP) | Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) | Isaji Tanaka (DP) | Hanji Ogawa (DP) | Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP) | |||||
| 1952[3] | Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP, right) | Isaji Tanaka (LP) | Hanji Ogawa (Progressive) | Susumu Kagata (JSP, left) | Kichinosuke Takagi (LP) | |||||
| 1953[4] | Isaji Tanaka (Yoshida LP) | Gen'ichirō Nakagawa (Yoshida LP) | Sannojō Nakamura (Progressive) | |||||||
| 1955[5] | Hanji Ogawa (JDP) | Susumu Kagata (JSP, left) | Sannojō Nakamura (JDP) | Isaji Tanaka (LP) | ||||||
| 1958[6] | Isaji Tanaka (LDP) | Chōzaburō Mizutani (JSP) | Hanji Ogawa (LDP) | Sannojō Nakamura (LDP) | Susumu Kagata (JSP) | |||||
| 1960[7] | Yoneo Tsubono (JSP) | Isaji Tanaka (LDP) | Chōzaburō Mizutani (DSP) | Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) | ||||||
| 1963[8] | Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | Hanji Ogawa (LDP) | Susumu Kagata (JSP) | ||||||
| 1967[9] | Isaji Tanaka (LDP) | Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) | Hanji Ogawa (LDP) | Shin'ichi Higami (Kōmeitō) | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | |||||
| 1969[10] | Zentarō Taniguchi (JCP) | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | Isaji Tanaka (LDP) | |||||||
| 1972[11] | Masaru Umeda (JCP) | Yukio Takemura (JSP) | ||||||||
| 1976[12] | Isaji Tanaka (LDP) | Yamato Kaji (NLC) | Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | Hiroko Fujiwara (JCP) | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | |||||
| 1979[13] | Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | Masaru Umeda (JCP) | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | Isaji Tanaka (LDP) | ||||||
| 1980[14] | Mikio Okuda (LDP) | Isaji Tanaka (Ind.) | Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | |||||||
| 1983[15] | Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) | Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | Masaru Umeda (JCP) | Mikio Okuda (LDP) | ||||||
| 1986[16] | Mikio Okuda (LDP) | Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) | Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | Hiroko Fujiwara (JCP) | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | |||||
| 1990[17] | Eiichi Nagasue (DSP) | Yukio Takemura (JSP) | Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) | Katsuhiko Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | ||||||
| 1993[18] | Keiji Kokuta (JCP) | Seiji Maehara (JNP) | Bunmei Ibuki (LDP) | Yuzuru Takeuchi (Kōmeitō) | Mikio Okuda (LDP) |