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Saga 1st District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Saga Prefecture
single-member districts
PrefectureSaga
Proportional DistrictKyushu
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
PartyCDP
RepresentativeKazuhiro Haraguchi

Saga 1st district (佐賀県第1区, Saga-ken dai-ikku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan located in Saga Prefecture.

Kazuhiro Haraguchi initially won the district narrowly for the New Frontier Party (NFP) in 1996 but lost it in 2000 to Takanori Sakai (LDP) who was appointed as Cabinet Office Vice Minister in the 2nd realigned Mori cabinet. In March 2003, Sakai was arrested (and later sentenced to 32 months in prison) for having received illicit corporate donations in violation of the Political Funds Control Law.[1][2]
Takamaro Fukuoka replaced Sakai as LDP candidate for Saga 1 in the 2003 election and lost to Haraguchi. The "postal privatization" election of 2005 gave the LDP a landslide victory, and Fukuoka beat Haraguchi despite the fact that the DPJ's opposition ally, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), unlike in previous elections did not nominate a candidate in Saga 1st district. In the landslide LDP defeat of 2009, Haraguchi won the district for the third time and became the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications in the Hatoyama Cabinet.
Haraguchi was defeated by Kazuchika Iwata (LDP), a former second-generation Saga prefectural assemblyman, in 2012 but regained the seat in 2014.

In September 2023 the district had 331,037 eligible voters.[3] In 2012 they were 237,748.[4]

Before the 1994 electoral reform, the area had been part of Saga At-large district where five representatives were elected by single non-transferable vote.

Area

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List of representatives

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Election Representative Party Notes
1996 Kazuhiro Haraguchi NFP After the dissolution of NFP, Haraguchi joined DPJ through Voice of the people, GGP.
2000 Takanori Sakai LDP
2003 Kazuhiro Haraguchi DPJ
2005 Takamaro Fukuoka LDP Elected to the House of Councillors in 2010
2009 Kazuhiro Haraguchi DPJ
2012 Kazuchika Iwata LDP
2014 Kazuhiro Haraguchi DPJ
2017 Ind. Haraguchi tried to run for office in Kibō no Tō, but gave up.
2021 CDP
2024

Election results

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2024[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kazuhiro Haraguchi 96,083 54.7
LDP Kazuchika Iwata (Won PR seat) 79,723 45.3
Registered electors 330,285
Turnout 54.48
CDP hold
2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CDP Kazuhiro Haraguchi 92,452 50.04
LDP (Komeito) Kazuchika Iwata (Won PR seat) 92,319 49.96
2017
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent (DP) Kazuhiro Haraguchi 105,487 55.65
LDP (Komeito) Kazuchika Iwata (Won PR seat) 78,972 41.66
Happiness Realization Party Toru Nakajima 5086 2.68
2014[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Kazuhiro Haraguchi 85,903 47.5
LDP Kazuchika Iwata (Won PR seat) 83,421 46.1
JCP Makoto Koga 11,483 6.4
Registered electors 327,125
Turnout 56.43
Democratic gain from LDP
2012[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP (Kōmeitō) Kazuchika Iwata 70,547 49.2
DPJ (PNP) Kazuhiro Haraguchi (Won PR seat) 63,007 43.9
JCP Hitoshi Ōmori 9,857 6.9
2009[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ (SDP, PNP support) Kazuhiro Haraguchi 96,618
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Takamaro Fukuoka 75,475
Happiness Realization Party Ken Koba 1,568
Turnout 175,824 74.77
2005[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takamaro Fukuoka 84,643
DPJ Kazuhiro Haraguchi (Won PR seat) 75,449
JCP Akemi Mutō 8,029
Turnout 170,282 73.28
2003[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPJ Kazuhiro Haraguchi 70,271
LDP Takamaro Fukuoka 66,446
SDP Hisahiro Shibata 8,315
JCP Yasutoshi Kamimura 4,977
Turnout 152,297 66.13
2000[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDP Takanori Sakai 70,155
DPJ Kazuhiro Haraguchi (Won PR seat) 62,932
SDP Katsuyō Ogata 30,018
JCP Yasutoshi Kamimura 7,173
Liberal League Kō Nagai 1,612
1996[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NFP Kazuhiro Haraguchi 62,515
LDP Takanori Sakai (Won PR seat) 60,286
SDP Katsuyō Ogata 27,514
JCP Yasutoshi Kamimura 7,670
Liberal League Takashi Kimura 2,493

References

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  1. ^ The Japan Times, June 27, 2003: Sakai, cohort plead not guilty to defrauding state
  2. ^ The Japan Times, March 23, 2007: Prosecutors drive ex-labor minister to penitentiary
  3. ^ "総務省｜令和4年9月1日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数" [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Number of registered voters as of 1 September 2023] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-12-07.
  4. ^ 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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)
  5. ^ "2024年衆議院議員総選挙 佐賀". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  6. ^ "2014衆院選:衆議院選挙:選挙アーカイブス:NHK選挙WEB". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  7. ^ 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 佐賀. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  8. ^ 衆議院>第45回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2010-01-07. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  9. ^ 衆議院>第44回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2009-08-22. Retrieved 2009-12-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  10. ^ 衆議院 >第43回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
  11. ^ 衆議院>第42回衆議院議員選挙>佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2009-12-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ 衆議院>第41回衆議院議員選挙 >佐賀県>佐賀1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2010-01-07. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)[permanent dead link‍]

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