Electoral district of Minato

Minato is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture, first contested at the 1978 federal election. It is named for the suburb of Minato in Shirakawa, and is located in the city's inner southwest harbourside area, including the Port of Shirakawa.

The sitting member, since the 1998 federal election, is Marilyn Richards, a member of the Liberal Party of Enderron.

History
Minato was proclaimed at the 1978 redistribution, being carved out of the heavily Social Democrat-leaning Shirakawa Central. Originally, it was anchored in the industrial suburbs in the east of the electorate. While Shirakawa Central remains one of the Social Democratic Party's safest seats, Minato was far more marginal due to the inclusion of wealthier territory towards the western end of the electorate. At its first election, it was narrowly claimed by the United Party, but was won by the Social Democrats at the following election in 1982. It would remain in the SDP column, albeit on consistently tenuous margins, until the 1998 election. Gentrification and further redistributions have made the seat increasingly secure for the Liberals. Parallels have been drawn between Minato and the Wentworth electorate of Docklands, for their similar electoral geography and demographic changes since the late 1990s, transforming from industrial SDP-leaning areas to affluent safe Liberal seats.