Chiba 1st district (1947–93)
Chiba 1st district was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. Between 1947 and 1993 it elected initially four, later five Representatives by single non-transferable vote. It was located in Chiba and, as of 1993, consisted of the cities of Chiba, Funabashi, Yachiyo, Ichihara and Narashino. Today, the area extends into Chiba's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th single-member electoral districts.
Until the decline of the LDP in the 1970s after the oil crisis and the Lockheed scandal, the relatively urban district was won by a majority of LDP candidates several times. Representatives for Chiba 1st district included LDP faction leader and home affairs minister Shōjirō Kawashima, defense minister Shigejirō Inō, construction minister Ihei Shiseki, sōri-fu minister Sōichi Usui and his son Hideo Usui and, in the final election period before the election reform, opposition politicians Yoshihiko Noda and Kazuo Shii who later went on to play leading roles in the opposition parties.Summary of results during the 1955 party system
Elected Representatives