Electoral district of Nishihama

Nishihama is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture, first contested at the 1966 federal election. It is named after the city of Nishihama, on Tojima's western coast, and covers the western third of the prefecture.

The sitting member, since the 2014 federal election, is Liz Coure, a member of the Social Democratic Party.

History
Nishihama was created at the 1966 redistribution, which expanded the Enderronian Parliament from 100 to 125 seats. It was created as a notionally marginal United seat, and was won by Daniel De Jong of that party at its first election. De Jong was defeated by the Social Democrats' Craig Taggart at the 1970 landslide, beginning a period of Social Democratic dominance in the seat.

The Social Democrats held Nishihama for all but one term between 1970 and 2006, largely on the back of consistently strong results in the city of Nishihama. The seat became less safe for the party from the 1980s onwards, as it expanded eastwards, due to minimal population growth, into more conservative-leaning territory in the central interior of Tojima. The Liberal Party won Nishihama for the first time at the 2006 election.

Recent redistributions have reversed the trend of eastward expansion. The 2014 redistribution pushed Nishihama significantly west, moving a significant portion of its eastern territory into the electorate of Kamijima. This had the effect of turning Nishihama into a notionally marginal Social Democratic seat. The Social Democrats subsequently gained the seat at the 2014 election, and experienced a large swing towards it at the following election, turning Nishihama into a safe seat in one stroke.

Nishihama is one of two current Tojima electorates that have never had an Asian Enderronian member, the other being Itabashi.