Nagasaki 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Southern Nagasaki and covers parts of the city of Nagasaki (the former towns of Kinkai and Sotome), the cities of Shimabara, Isahaya, Saikai, Unzen and Minamishimabara as well as the Nishisonogi District with the towns of Togitsu and Nagayo. As of 2009, 335,195 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]
Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area was part of the multi-member Nagasaki 1st district where five Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote.
The district had been a safe LDP district from its creation until the landslide election of 2009 when incumbent Liberal Democrat Fumio Kyūma, former defence minister in the Hashimoto and Abe cabinets, lost his seat to Democrat newcomer Eriko Fukuda by 14,000 votes at record turnout.
Representative | Party | Dates | Notes | |
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Fumio Kyūma | LDP | 1996 – 2009 | Failed reelection in the Kyūshū PR block [2] | |
Eriko Fukuda | DPJ | 2009 – 2012 | On 16 November 2012, she submitted her resignation from the DPJ [3] and joined Green Wind [4] | |
Green Wind | 2012 | Ran in the 2012 general election under the banner of the Japan Future Party, [5] but failed to be re-elected to the Kinki PR [6] | ||
Kanji Kato | LDP | 2012 – 2021 | Retired in 2021 due to ongoing health problems | |
Ryusho Kato | LDP | 2021 – | Incumbent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Ryusho Kato (Endorsed by Komeito) | 95,271 | 58.2 | ||
CDP | Koichi Matsudaira | 68,405 | 41.8 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Kanji Kato (Endorsed by Komeito) | 97,874 | 57.4 | ||
Kibō no Tō | Hatsumi Yamaguchi (Endorsed by the DP) | 57,538 | 33.7 | ||
Communist | Kazuu Kondo | 15,261 | 8.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Kanji Kato (Endorsed by Komeito) | 86,539 | 52.8 | ||
Democratic | Yukishige Okubo | 65,924 | 40.3 | ||
Communist | Katsumi Yazaki | 11,228 | 6.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Kanji Kato (Endorsed by Komeito) | 93,448 | 48.2 | ||
Independent | Shintaro Okumura | 51,002 | 26.3 | ||
Democratic | Takahiro Kawagoe (Endorsed by the PNP) | 36,602 | 18.9 | ||
Communist | Katsumi Yazaki | 9,240 | 9.9 | ||
Independent | Fumiyoshi Mori | 3,625 | 1.9 | ||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Eriko Fukuda (Endorsed by PNP) | 120,672 | 50.4 | ||
Liberal Democratic | Fumio Kyūma (Incumbent (Endorsed by Kōmeitō) | 106,206 | 44.3 | ||
Independent | Kiyoko Aura | 5,703 | 2.4 | ||
Independent | Toshiro Yamazaki | 5,070 | 2.1 | ||
Happiness Realization | Ai Shibata | 1,947 | 0.8 | ||
Turnout | 243,192 | 72.87 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Fumio Kyūma | 123,324 | 54.8 | ||
Democratic | Yukishige Okubo | 88,472 | 39.4 | ||
Communist | Eiko Fuchise | 13,088 | 5.8 | ||
Turnout | 229,077 | 67.63 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Fumio Kyūma | 126,705 | 65.3 | ||
Social Democratic | Masako Kumae | 50,772 | 26.2 | ||
Communist | Kanji Ishimaru | 16,565 | 13.1 | ||
Turnout | 201,826 | 59.88 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Fumio Kyūma | 104,538 | 51.4 | ||
Communist | Manabu Egashira | 33,572 | 16.5 | ||
Liberal League | Masaki Komai | 15,648 | 7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democratic | Fumio Kyūma | 104,538 | 51.4 | ||
New Frontier | Kenichiro Hatsumura | 84,375 | 41.5 | ||
Communist | Hideki Shimizu | 14,468 | 7.1 | ||
Turnout | 209,469 | 64.45 |
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