Okinawa 2nd district

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Okinawa 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Okinawa Prefecture single-member districts
Prefecture Okinawa
Proportional District Kyushu
Electorate294,848 (2021)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party Social Democratic Party
Representative Kunio Arakaki
Created from Okinawa's at-large "medium-sized" district
Municipalities Urasoe, Ginowan and Nakagami District

Okinawa 2nd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Okinawa Prefecture and encompasses the cities of Urasoe and Ginowan, and Nakagami District. As of 2016, 288,070 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]

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The district is represented by Kunio Arakaki of the Social Democratic Party. It is the only Diet single-seat constituency held by the SDP.

Background

The district was considered a stronghold for veteran Social Democrat Kantoku Teruya, who held the district continuously from 2003 to 2021. Such is the strength of the SDP vote in the district that during the LDP landslides in 2005 and 2012, Teruya still managed to hold the district comfortably. The significant presence of US military bases in Ginowan is regarded as a major factor contributing to the wide aversion of the local population to voting LDP candidates, who are typically pro-base. [2] Teruya retired before the 2021 elections but Kunio Arakaki, the former mayor of Kitanakagusuku, managed to hold the seat for the SDP.

Okinawa-2nd is also one of the few districts that the JCP regularly skips from contesting. The party continuously endorsed Teruya in each election since 2009. Other centre-left parties have also generally refrained from contesting the district and regularly backed Teruya in general elections. [3]

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDates
Seiji Nakamura NFP 1996
LDP 1996 – 2003
Kantoku Teruya SDP 2003 – 2021
Kunio Arakaki SDP 2021 –

Election results

2024 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kunio Arakaki 61,21642.03Decrease2.svg 5.36
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)47,27232.46Decrease2.svg 8.50
Ishin Noboru Akamine22,95915.76Increase2.svg 6.05
Sanseitō Asami Konno11,8138.11New
Independent Takashi Hika2,3741.63New
Turnout 145,63450.43Decrease2.svg 4.39
Social Democratic hold
2021 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kunio Arakaki 74,665 47.39 Decrease2.svg11.55
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)64,54240.96Decrease2.svg0.10
Ishin Yasuhiro Yamakawa15,2969.71
Anti-NHK Yukiya Nakamura3,0531.94
Turnout 54.82Decrease2.svg1.24
Social Democratic hold
2017 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya 92,14358.94Decrease2.svg3.25
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō)64,19341.06Increase2.svg3.25
Majority 27,95017.88
Turnout 56.06Increase2.svg4.48
Social Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg3.25
2014 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by JCP, PLP, OSMP, the Greens and Shinfūkai)85,78162.19Increase2.svg13.18
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)52,15637.81Increase2.svg0.89
Majority 33,62534.38
Turnout 51.58
Social Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg6.15
2012 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya73,49849.01Decrease2.svg12.09
LDP Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)55,37336.92Increase2.svg3.45
Restoration Toshinori Kinjō (endorsed by YP)19,55113.04N/A
Independent Baku Nagai1,5561.04N/A
Majority 18,12512.09
Turnout
Social Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg7.77
2009 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP)101,82061.10Increase2.svg14.40
LDP Osamu Ashitomi (endorsed by NKP)60,77336.47Decrease2.svg2.87
Happiness Realization Noboru Tomikawa4,0442.43N/A
Majority 41,04724.67
Social Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg8.64
2005 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP)71,86146.70
LDP Osamu Ashitomi (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)60,54039.34
Independent Noboru Shimajiri14,6179.50
JCP Morinobu Nishihira6,8754.47
Social Democratic hold Swing
2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by DPJ and OSMP)74,12355.4
LDP Yoshiji Uehara (endorsed by NKP and NCP)47,75935.7
JCP Norio Maemiya6,5604.9
Independent Kunio Kinjō5,2974.0
Social Democratic gain from LDP Swing
2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Seiji Nakamura (endorsed by NKP and NCP)88,54449.3
Democratic Noboru Shimajiri30,97017.3
Liberal League Hiroshi Kinjō (endorsed by SDP)30,94617.2
JCP Tsuneo Nakanishi29,03916.2
1996
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Frontier Seiji Nakamura66,42141.3
Okinawa Social Mass Aichi Nakamoto (endorsed by JCP and NSP)51,68932.2
Liberal League Hiroshi Kinjō18,69611.6
LDP Kunio Kinjō18,14211.3
NP-Sakigake Jinichirō Asato (endorsed by DPJ)5,8013.6

References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): (in Japanese)
  2. ↑ "Anti-US base candidates win all seats in Okinawa in Lower House election". Ryukyu Shimpo. 14 December 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Kyodo News (15 December 2014). "LDP loses heavily in Okinawa". Japan Times . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  4. ↑ 日本放送協会. "衆議院選挙2024 埼玉(川越・越谷など)開票速報・選挙結果 NHK". www.nhk.or.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  5. ↑ 開票速報 小選挙区：沖縄- 2021衆議 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. ↑ 小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県（定数4） (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  7. ↑ 小選挙区：沖縄県 - 開票速報 - 2014総選挙: 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  8. ↑ 第46回総選挙>小選挙区開票速報：沖縄県 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  9. ↑ 小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  10. ↑ ２００５総選挙>小選挙区開票結果ー沖縄県２区 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun . Retrieved 14 February 2018.

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