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]

Contents

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

2021 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kunio Arakaki 74,66547.39Decrease2.svg11.55
Liberal Democratic 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 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya 92,14358.94Decrease2.svg3.25
Liberal Democratic Masahisa Miyazaki (endorsed by Kōmeitō)64,19341.06Increase2.svg3.25
Majority27,95017.88
Turnout 56.06Increase2.svg4.48
Social Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg3.25
2014 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by JCP, PLP, OSMP, the Greens and Shinfūkai)85,78162.19Increase2.svg13.18
Liberal Democratic Masahisa Miyazaki (elected by PR, endorsed by Kōmeitō)52,15637.81Increase2.svg0.89
Majority33,62534.38
Turnout 51.58
Social Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg6.15
2012 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya73,49849.01Decrease2.svg12.09
Liberal Democratic 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
Majority18,12512.09
Turnout
Social Democratic hold Swing Decrease2.svg7.77
2009 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP)101,82061.10Increase2.svg14.40
Liberal Democratic Osamu Ashitomi (endorsed by NKP)60,77336.47Decrease2.svg2.87
Happiness Realization Noboru Tomikawa4,0442.43N/A
Majority41,04724.67
Social Democratic hold Swing Increase2.svg8.64
2005 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by OSMP)71,86146.70
Liberal Democratic Osamu Ashitomi (elected by PR, endorsed by NKP)60,54039.34
Independent Noboru Shimajiri14,6179.50
Communist Morinobu Nishihira6,8754.47
Social Democratic hold Swing
2003
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Democratic Kantoku Teruya (endorsed by DPJ and OSMP)74,12355.4
Liberal Democratic Yoshiji Uehara (endorsed by NKP and NCP)47,75935.7
Communist Norio Maemiya6,5604.9
Independent Kunio Kinjō5,2974.0
Social Democratic gain from Liberal Democratic Swing
2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic 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
Communist 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
Liberal Democratic Kunio Kinjō18,14211.3
New Party Sakigake Jinichirō Asato (endorsed by DPJ)5,8013.6

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References

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