Kumamoto 2nd district

Kumamoto 2nd District
Kumamoto 2nd District
熊本県第2区
Parliamentary constituency; for the Japanese House of Representatives
Proportional District	Kyushu
Electorate	313,172(as of September 2022)
Current constituency
Created	1994
Seats	One
Party	Independent

Kumamoto 2nd District (熊本県第2区, Kumamoto-ken dai-ni-ku, or 熊本2区 Kumamoto ni-ku) is a current single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located in Kumamoto and covers South Ward (Minami-ku) and West Ward (Nishi-ku) of the prefectural capital Kumamoto City, the cities of Arao and Tamana and the Tamana District (the towns of Nagasu, Nankan, Nagomi and Gyokutō). As of September 2022, 313,172 eligible voters were resident in the district.^[2]

Before 1996, the area had been part of the five-member Kumamoto 1st district. Liberal Democrat Takeshi Noda, had represented the pre-reform 1st district since 1972 when he succeeded his deceased father-in-law Takeo Noda.

List of representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Takeshi Noda	NFP	1996–2000	Joined LP in the NFP dissolution, CP in the LP split
Takeshi Noda	NCP	2000–2003	Did not join the NCP, but returned directly to the LDP; alternating LDP candidacy (Costa Rica method) in the district with Hayashida, re-elected by PR (Kyūshū) in 2003
Takeshi Hayashida	LDP	2003–2005	Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2005 and re-elected
Takeshi Noda	LDP	2005–2009	Moved to Kyūshū PR (Costa Rica method) in 2009 and re-elected
Ken'ichirō Fukushima	DPJ	2009–2012	Joined LF, then TPJ in 2012, failed re-election by PR
Takeshi Noda	LDP	2012–2021	Defeated in the 2021 general election
Daisuke Nishino	Indep.	2021–	Incumbent

Election results

2024
Party		Candidate	±%
	LDP	Daisuke Nishino
	JCP	Konomi Okuda
	Sanseitō	Akane Konda	New
Turnout

2021^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Daisuke Nishino	110,310	60.6	26.1
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	60,091	33.0	14.5
	JCP	Yoshiaki Hashida	11,521	6.3
Turnout				58.67	0.14
	Independent gain from LDP

2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	86,027	47.5	23.9
	Independent	Daisuke Nishino	62,575	34.5
	Social Democratic	Kaname Wada	26,074	14.4
	Happiness Realization	Junko Kinoshita	6,495	3.6
Turnout				58.53	12.51
	LDP hold

2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	92,873	71.6	18.1
	JCP	Yumi Hirose	36,769	28.4	24.6
Turnout			303,272	46.02	10.44
	LDP hold

2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	88,744	53.5	former
	Your	Akiko Honda	33,283	20.1	new
	Democratic	Daizō Hamada	25,891	15.6	new
	Tomorrow	Ken'ichirō Fukushima	11,520	6.9	−43.5
	JCP	Kunio Matsuyama	6,358	3.8	new
Turnout				56.46
	LDP gain from Democratic

2009^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ken'ichirō Fukushima	104,876	50.4	new
	LDP	Takeshi Hayashida	99,933	48.0	former
	Happiness Realization	Ken'ichi Magōri	3,354	1.6	new
Turnout
	Democratic gain from LDP

2005^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Noda	112,549	55.8	former
	Democratic	Nobuo Matsuno	79,793	39.6	−2.2
	JCP	Tetsuo Ueno	9,432	4.7	new
Turnout
	LDP hold

2003^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Takeshi Hayashida	95,233	52.7	former
	Democratic	Nobuo Matsuno (won PR seat)	75,517	41.8	+13.0
	JCP	Masaharu Maeda	9,829	5.4	new
Turnout
	LDP gain from New Conservative

2000^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Conservative	Takeshi Noda	106,129	60.4	+10.2
	Democratic	Nobuo Matsuno	50,604	28.8	new
	JCP	Nobuhiro Yamamoto	11,644	6.6	new
	Liberal League	Kayoko Takano	7,375	4.2	new
Turnout
	New Conservative gain from New Frontier

1996^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Frontier	Takeshi Noda	97,242.993	50.2	N/A
	LDP	Takeshi Hayashida	79,249.997	40.9	N/A
	JCP	Takehiro Tateishi	8,983.000	4.6	N/A
	New Socialist	Takashi Kurihara	8,393.000	4.3	N/A
Turnout
	New Frontier win (new seat)

Note: The decimals stem from anbunhyō ("proportional fractional votes"), see Elections in Japan#Ballots, voting machines and early voting. As Takeshi (彪) Hayashida and Takeshi (毅) Noda have different Kanji for their given names, some voters must have voted for just "Takeshi" in Kana for the votes to be ambiguous.

References

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[2] MIC: 平成24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>選挙区ごとの選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数等 (in Japanese)

[3] 小選挙区鹿熊本２区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 June 2023.

[4] 小選挙区鹿熊本２区 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 11 June 2023.

[5] ２００９総選挙開票結果小選挙区・熊本２区. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-06-05.

[6] 総選挙2015>開票結果小選挙区熊本. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-03-15.

[7] 総選挙2003>小選挙区熊本. Mainichi Broadcasting System (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2013-06-05.

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Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Fukushiro Nukaga, Ibaraki 2nd Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Banri Kaieda, Tokyo PR
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Tōhoku (12 block seats, 21 district seats)	Aomori 1 2 3 Iwate 1 2 3 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 Fukushima 1 2 3 4
Kita- (North) Kantō (19 block seats, 33 district seats)	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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Tokyo (19 block seats, 30 district seats)	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Hokuriku-Shin'etsu (10 block seats, 18 district seats)	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 Nagano 1 2 3 4 5
Tōkai (21 block seats, 33 district seats)	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mie 1 2 3 4
Kinki (28 block seats, 45 district seats)	Shiga 1 2 3 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyōgo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 Wakayama 1 2
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Shikoku (6 block seats, 10 district seats)	Tokushima 1 2 Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 Kōchi 1 2
Kyūshū (20 block seats, 34 district seats)	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 Nagasaki 1 2 3 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 Ōita 1 2 3 Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshima 1 2 3 4 Okinawa 1 2 3 4
Districts eliminated in the 2002 reapportionments	Hokkaido 13 Yamagata 4 Shizuoka 9 Shimane 3 Oita 4
Districts eliminated in the 2013 reapportionments	Fukui 3 Yamanashi 3 Tokushima 3 Kochi 3 Saga 3
Districts eliminated in the 2017 reapportionments	Aomori 4 Iwate 4 Mie 5 Nara 4 Kumamoto 5 Kagoshima 5
Districts eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments	Miyagi 6 Fukushima 5 Niigata 6 Shiga 4 Wakayama 3 Okayama 5 Hiroshima 7 Yamaguchi 4 Ehime 4 Nagasaki 4