Aomori 1st district (青森県第1区, ''Aomori-ken dai-ikku'' or simply 青森1区, ''Aomori-ikku'') is a single-member constituency of the

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in the national

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. It is located in Northern

Aomori is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 278,964 in 136,457 households, and a population density of 340 people per square kilometer spread over the city's total area of ...

and covers the cities of

, Mutsu and the Higashitsugaru and Kitatsugaru districts along with the northern half of the Kamikita District. Before the introduction of parallel voting and single-member districts, Aomori city and East Tsugaru county had been part of the four-member Aomori 1st district. Aomori is a "conservative kingdom", a Liberal Democratic stronghold; but in the landslide 2009 election

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, center-left supported gubernatorial candidate in 2003, could win the 1st district and became the first Democrat to win a district in Aomori by beating Jun Tsushima from the Tsushima writer-politician dynasty from Kanagi town (in present-day Goshogawara). Tsushima had tried to succeed his retiring father, LDP faction leader

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. Other members of the family included Representative, Councillor and Governor

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(Seiyūkai/LDP – Aomori), Representative

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(LDP – Aomori), Representative

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(LDP/DPJ – Tōhoku), Representative, Peer and Kanagi mayor Gen'emon Tsushima (Seiyūkai – Aomori), Kanagi mayor Eiji Tsushima and writers Shūji Tsushima (

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and Haruko Ōta. The second "inheritance" attempt in 2012 was successful.

List of representatives

Election results

References

{{coord missing, Aomori Prefecture Aomori Prefecture Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)