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Aomori 1st District
Parliamentary constituency for the Japanese House of Representatives
Numbered map of Aomori Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture	Aomori
Proportional District	Tohoku
Electorate	336,748 (2014)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	LDP
Representative	Jun Tsushima
Created from	Aomori's 1st "medium-sized" district
Municipalities	The cities of Aomori and Mutsu and the Higashitsugaru, Shimokita, and part of the Kamikita districts

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 House of Representatives in the national Diet of Japan. It is located in Northern Aomori and covers the cities of Aomori, Mutsu and the Higashitsugaru and Shimokita 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 Hokuto Yokoyama, 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 Yūji Tsushima. Other members of the family included Representative, Councillor and Governor Bunji Tsushima (Seiyūkai/LDP – Aomori), Representative Kichirō Tazawa (LDP – Aomori), Representative Kyōichi Tsushima (LDP/DPJ – Tōhoku), Representative, Peer and Kanagi mayor Gen'emon Tsushima (Seiyūkai – Aomori), Kanagi mayor Eiji Tsushima and writers Shūji Tsushima (Osamu Dazai), Yūko Tsushima, Shizuko Ōta and Haruko Ōta. The second "inheritance" attempt in 2012 was successful.

List of representatives

Election results

2024

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Jun Tsushima	76,265	46.0	6.4
	CDP	Sekio Masuta (elected in Tohoku PR block)	71,211	43.0	5.6
	JCP	Mio Saitō	18,212	11.0	0.8
Registered electors			327,885
Turnout				52.07	0.23
	LDP hold

2021

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Akinori Eto	91,011	52.4	2.5
	CDP	Sekio Masuta	64,870	37.4	3.2
	JCP	Mio Saitō	17,783	10.2	0.7
Turnout				51.84	2.21
	LDP hold

2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Jun Tsushima	103,177	54.9	9.8
	Kibō no Tō	Sekio Masuta	64,173	34.2
	JCP	Yūto Akahira	20,497	10.9	1.6
Turnout				54.05	9.34
	LDP hold

References

1. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 平成２６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 (in Japanese)
2. 開票速報 小選挙区：青森 - 2024衆議 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
3. 小選挙区 青森1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
4. 小選挙区 青森1区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
5. 総選挙2014>開票結果 小選挙区 青森. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 August 2015.
6. 総選挙2012>開票結果 小選挙区 青森. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 February 2013.
7. 第45回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
8. 第44回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
9. 第43回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
10. 第42回衆議院議員選挙 – 青森1区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Heartbeats Corp. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
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• Districts of the House of Representatives (Japan)
• Politics of Aomori Prefecture
• Constituencies established in 1994
• 1994 establishments in Japan