Yamagata 1st district (山形県第1区, ''Yamagata-ken dai-ikku'' or simply 山形県第1区, ''Yamagata-ikku'') is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives in the

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. It is located in Eastern Yamagata and covers the cities of Yamagata, Kaminoyama and Tendō and the county of

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. As of 2012, 306,446 eligible voters were registered in the district. Since its creation until 2012 , the district was mainly contested by Democrat

Michihiko Kano was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was Minister of Agriculture. He lost his seat in the 16 December 2012 general election. Kano was born in Yamagata. He graduated from Gakushuin University is a private univer ...

(formerly Hata group, leading his own faction from August 2011,Jiji Press, August 31, 2011
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/ref> until the 1990s: LDP, Fukuda faction), agriculture minister in the realigned Kan cabinet, and Liberal Democrat

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(Koga faction), former vice minister in the education and science ministry during the First Abe cabinet. Since 2012, Endō has held the seat.

List of representatives

Election results

References

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