It covers roughly the Eastern half of
Tottori and consists of the cities of
Tottori and
Kurayoshi and the districts of
Iwami,
Yazu and the town of
Misasa in
Tōhaku District. In 2012, 256,020 eligible voters were registered in the district.[2] In 2013 the town of
Yurihama was transferred to the 2nd district. Before the
2021 elections, the district had 230,959 eligible voters, fewer than in any other single member electoral district.[3]
Tottori 1st district, like most of
Chūgoku, usually votes for conservative candidates. The district is a "conservative kingdom" (保守王国, hoshu ōkoku), a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic Party, and its only representative since its creation has been
Shigeru Ishiba (without faction, formerly Nukaga faction), secretary-general, former defense and agriculture minister, son of former Councillor and Tottori governor
Jirō Ishiba and grandson of
Tarō Kanamori, (appointed) governor of Tokushima and Yamagata in the 1930s.