Miyagi 2nd district

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Miyagi 2nd District
宮城県第2区
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Miyagi Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Miyagi
Proportional District Tohoku
Electorate455,409 [1]
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party CDP
Representative Sayuri Kamata

Miyagi 2nd district is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. It is located on the island of Honshu, in Miyagi Prefecture, and includes parts of the city of Sendai, the prefectural capital (the city is shared with District 2). [2]

Contents

As of 2020, the district was home to 454,848 constituents. [3]

The district is represented by Ken'ya Akiba of the Liberal Democratic Party. [4]

Seat representatives

RepresentativePartyYearsNotes
Masashi Nakano LDP 1996-2000
Sayuri Kamata DPJ 2000-2005Stepped down due to violations of the public election law
Kenya Akiba LDP 2005-2009
Yasunori Saito DPJ 2009-2012
Kenya Akiba LDP 2012-2021
Sayuri Kamata CDP 2021-Incumbent

Areas covered

Since it was formed in 1994 as a single member constituency, it has been made up of the following areas:

Election results

2021 [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
CDP Sayuri Kamata 116,320 49.0
Liberal Democratic Kenya Akiba 115,74948.7
Anti-NHK Hayashi Maria Yuki5,5212.3
Turnout 244,19053.6
CDP gain from Liberal Democratic
2017 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenya Akiba (endorsed by Komeito and the Party for Japanese Kokoro)111,559 50.3
Independent Sayuri Kamata 110,24349.7
Turnout 227,94350.6
Liberal Democratic hold
2014 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenya Akiba 91,289 45.5
Innovation Hiroki Hayashi 60,65330.3
Communist Mari Ouchi21,63010.8
Japanese Kokoro Masumoto Teruaki 15,2287.6
Social Democratic Takashi Kuwashima11,7255.9
Turnout 53.6
Liberal Democratic hold
2012 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenya Akiba
(endorsed by Komeito)		76,595 33.5
Restoration Masahi Nakano 45,31619.8
Democratic Konno Higashi
(endorsed by the PNP)		35,08515.3
Tomorrow Yasunori Saito
(endorsed by New Party Daichi)		34,34815.0
Your Fumihiro Kikuchi23,13810.1
Communist Kazue Fukushima14,4946.3
Turnout 54.6
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic
2009 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Yasunori Saito 158,041 58.9
Liberal Democratic Masashi Nakano (incumbent)98,51736.7
Independent Yutaka Sato9,9123.7
Happiness Realization Kimito Abe2,0860.8
Turnout 64.5
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic
2005 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenya Akiba 130,257 52.8
Democratic Yukiko Monma98,64540.0
Communist Daira Goto17,9067.3
Turnout 61.3
Liberal Democratic hold
2005 by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kenya Akiba 58,023 39.1
Democratic Yukiko Monma52,38135.3
Independent Fumihiro Kikuchi22,70215.3
Communist Daira Goto8,3585.6
Social Democratic Eiji Tayama6,8084.6
Turnout
Liberal Democratic gain from Democratic
2003 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Sayuri Kamata (incumbent)98,028 45.4
Liberal Democratic Masashi Nakano 94,62143.8
Communist Daira Goto11,3115.2
Social Democratic Eiji Tayama9,1074.2
Independent Koichi Shibata3,0191.4
Turnout 54.9
Democratic hold
2000 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Sayuri Kamata 99,498 47.8
Liberal Democratic Masashi Nakano 87,94942.2
Communist Nobukatsu Tsuda20,91410.0
Turnout
Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic
1996 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Masashi Nakano 68,137 35.8
New Frontier Kunio Chiba (incumbent - previous district)62,53332.9
Democratic Yutaka Sato27,32814.4
Communist Daira Goto18,1579.5
Social Democratic Kenji Ishikawa12,6296.6
Liberal League Tatsuya Igarashi1,4900.8
Turnout 195,09852.9
Liberal Democratic win (new seat)

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