Fukushima 2nd district

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Fukushima 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan.

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Fukushima 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Fukushima Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Fukushima
Proportional District Tōhoku
Electorate428,119 [1] (1.888 times the population of Tottori 1st district)
Current constituency
Created1994 (Redistricted in 2022)
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Kōichirō Genba
Municipalities Kōriyama, Sukagawa, Tamura, Iwase District, Ishikawa District, Tamura District

History

Since the electoral reform that took place prior to the 1996 election, Takumi Nemoto of the LDP was continuously elected. The exceptions to this came in 2003, when challenger Teruhiko Mashiko, who was the primary opponent for Nemoto up to 2009 under the New Frontier Party and the Democratic Party of Japan, made his margin of defeat close enough to be elected proportionally. However, he lost the seat in 2005, and did not mount another challenge thereafter. Mashiko instead ran for the House of Councillors.

Nemoto's only defeat in the SMD came in the 2009, when newcomer Kazumi Ota ousted him. Nemoto was not resurrected proportionally. However, Ota defected from the DPJ to People's Life First and then the Tomorrow Party of Japan. As the Tomorrow Party was smashed nationwide in 2012, Ota was routed to third by a Japan Restoration Party candidate as Nemoto returned and safely defeated the other candidates.

He held the district in 2014 and 2017, both times defeating Koki Okabe who was in the DPJ and then merged into Kibō no Tō. The district began to change in 2021, when Yuki Baba, of the CDP (for the first time in the district), challenged Nemoto. While still losing by about nine points, he managed to get revived on the proportional list. This also made Baba, along with Shin Tsuchida, the first members of the Diet to be elected that were born in the Heisei era.

The 2022 redistricting changed the district, moving Nihonmatsu and some rurals areas out of the district and including Sukagawa along with Tamura. Nemoto opted to retire and his son, Taku Nemoto, prepared to run in the 2024 election. However, the CDP opted to have Kōichirō Genba move from the 3rd district to the 2nd, while Baba agreed to run as the number one candidate on the proportional list. Genba safely defeated Taku and a JCP candidate with a majority, as the junior Nemoto was revived proportionally.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyYears servedNotes
Takumi Nemoto LDP 1996-2009Lost re-election
Kazumi Ota DPJ 2009-2012
PLF 2012Left DPJ after consumption tax vote
TPJ 2012Joined TPJ when PLF merged. Lost re-election
Takumi Nemoto LDP 2012-2024Retired
Kōichirō Genba CDP 2024-Ran in 2nd instead of 3rd district

Election results

2024 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Kōichirō Genba 123,256 53.95 Increase2.svg8.50
LDP Taku Nemoto (won a seat in PR block)92,61640.54Decrease2.svg14.01
JCP Yumiko Marumoto12,5945.51New
Turnout 228,46655.11Increase2.svg0.05
CDP gain from LDP
2021 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 102,638 54.55 Increase2.svg1.96
CDP Yuki Baba (won a seat in PR block)85,50145.45New
Turnout 188,13955.06Increase2.svg1.73
LDP hold
2017 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 96,892 52.59 Decrease2.svg2.65
Kibō no Tō Koki Okabe59,37732.23New
JCP Yoshihiko Taira18,2799.92Increase2.svg0.31
Ishin Emi Nishimura9,6855.26New
Turnout 184,23353.33Increase2.svg4.03
LDP hold
2014 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 91,686 55.24 Increase2.svg3.13
Democratic Koki Okabe58,35835.16Increase2.svg21.35
JCP Yoshihiko Taira15,9479.61Decrease2.svg4.24
Turnout 165,99149.30Decrease2.svg7.44
LDP hold
2012 [6] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 98,913 52.11 Increase2.svg6.62
Restoration Kazunori Midorikawa27,67314.58New
Tomorrow Kazumi Ota 26,82114.13New
Democratic Yasuo Saito26,20813.81Decrease2.svg39.72
JCP Yoshihiko Taira10,1945.37New
Turnout 189,80956.74Decrease2.svg14.77
LDP gain from Tomorrow
2009 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Kazumi Ota 131,306 53.53 Increase2.svg11.05
LDP Takumi Nemoto 111,59645.49Decrease2.svg7.30
Happiness Realization Hidemitsu Sakai2,3970.98New
Turnout 245,29971.51Increase2.svg1.90
Democratic gain from LDP
2005 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 125,447 52.79 Increase2.svg1.77
Democratic Teruhiko Mashiko 100,94942.48Decrease2.svg1.83
JCP Katsuro Sato11,2214.72Increase2.svg0.05
Turnout 237,61769.61Increase2.svg6.33
LDP hold
2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 108,838 51.02 Decrease2.svg1.43
Democratic Teruhiko Mashiko (won a seat in PR block)94,51444.31Increase2.svg8.39
JCP Nobuo Matsuzaki9,9684.67Decrease2.svg0.59
Turnout 213,32063.28
LDP hold
2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 116,835 52.45 Increase2.svg3.18
Democratic Teruhiko Mashiko 80,00535.92New
Social Democratic Takeshi Murakami14,1866.37New
JCP Toshimitsu Tobita11,7145.26Decrease2.svg1.83
Turnout 222,740
LDP hold
1996
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takumi Nemoto 100,102 49.27 New
New Frontier Teruhiko Mashiko 88,66143.64New
JCP Toshimitsu Tobita14,4127.09New
Turnout 203,175
LDP hold

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