Shiga 2nd district

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Shiga 2nd district
Parliamentary constituency
for the House of Representatives
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Numbered map of Shiga Prefecture single-member districts
Electorate437,139 (as of September 1, 2022) [1]
Current constituency
Number of members1
Party LDP
Representative Ken'ichirō Ueno

Shiga 2nd district (Shiga[-ken dai-]ni-ku) is a single-member electoral district for the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Japanese National Diet, located in Eastern Shiga Prefecture.

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Shiga 2nd district was initially won by Masayoshi Takemura of New Party Harbinger (NPH), the former three-term governor of Shiga who had represented the five-member Shiga At-large district before the electoral reform since 1986 and was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the anti-LDP coalition Hosokawa Cabinet and Minister of Finance in the LDP-JSP-NPH Murayama Cabinet. In the 2000 Representatives election, he ran as an independent with Democratic Party support and lost to Liberal Democrat Akira Konishi. Konishi died in 2001, the resulting by-election was won by his younger brother Osamu. But in the general House of Representatives election of 2003, Democrat Issei Tajima narrowly beat Konishi who won a seat in the proportional vote. In the "postal election" of 2005, Tajima defended the seat as Konishi ran as independent postal privatization rebel and the LDP sent "assassin" candidate Yūji Fujii. Fujii won a proportional seat in 2005, but lost it in 2009 as Tajima won the district race by a large margin; in 2010, Fujii was elected mayor of Nagahama City. In the 2012 House of Representatives election, Ken'ichirō Ueno who had represented the 1st district for the Liberal Democrats between 2005 and 2009 moved to the 2nd district and beat Tajima.

Area

In the 2002 reapportionment Shiga gained a seat and the southern portion of the 2nd district was transferred to the newly created Shiga 4th district. In the 2022 reapportionment, the 4th district was abolished, thus the current 2nd district has similar borders to when it was created in 1994. The smaller 2nd district had 264,168 eligible voters in 2012. [2]

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Masayoshi Takemura NPH 1996–2000Left NPH in 1998
Akira Konishi LDP 2000–2001Died in office
Osamu Konishi LDP 2001–2003
Issei Tajima DPJ 2003–2012
Ken'ichirō Ueno LDP 2012–Incumbent

Election results

2021 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Ken'ichirō Ueno 83,502 56.6 Increase2.svg6.1
CDP Issei Tajima 64,11943.4Increase2.svg3.2
Turnout 56.93Increase2.svg1,13
Liberal Democratic hold
2017 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Ken'ichirō Ueno 73,694 50.5 Increase2.svg1.7
Kibō no Tō Issei Tajima58,71840.2
IndependentJishō Taigetsu11,0737.6
HRP Masashi Arakawa2,5761.8
Turnout 55.80Increase2.svg4.09
Liberal Democratic hold
2014 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Ken'ichirō Ueno 65,102 48.8 Increase2.svg5.5
Democratic Issei Tajima (elected by PR)54,09540.6Increase2.svg9.1
Communist Mutsuko Nakagawa14,16310.6Increase2.svg2.8
Turnout 51.71Decrease2.svg8.35
Liberal Democratic hold
2012 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP (NK)Ken'ichirō Ueno 67,182 43.3
DPJ (PNP)Issei Tajima48,92431.5
YP (JRP)Yoshiyuki Yoichi26,97817.4
JCP Mutsuko Nakagawa12,0847.8
2009 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ (PNP)Issei Tajima109,88561.0
LDP (NK) Yūji Fujii 66,95937.2
HRP Nobutaka Ikeda3,2051.8
Turnout 183,27069.71
2005 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJIssei Tajima67,48138.5
LDPYūji Fujii (won Kinki PR seat)54,06730.8
Independent Osamu Konishi 43,41624.8
JCPKazuyo Maruoka10,4135.9
Turnout 177,45068.36
2003 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJIssei Tajima69,62044.9
LDPOsamu Konishi (won Kinki PR seat)65,03341.9
IndependentRyūji Kawashima11,8147.6
JCPShin'ichi Sakai8,7415.6
Turnout 157,33361.11
October 28, 2001 by-election [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDPOsamu Konishi99,57252.0
DPJIssei Tajima76,15439.8
JCPEtsuko Narumiya15,7658.2
2000 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Akira Konishi 125,62545.7
Independent (DPJ) Masayoshi Takemura 115,32242.0
JCPAkihiko Hiyama33,66012.3
1996 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
NPH Masayoshi Takemura107,05343.0
LDPAkira Konishi79,13631.8
NFP Tsutomu Matsumura35,19214.1
JCPKan Kikuchi27,59511.1
Turnout 254,26262.65

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References

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  2. ↑ Ministry of general affairs: 平成24年9月2日現在選挙人名簿及び在外選挙人名簿登録者数
  3. ↑ 小選挙区 滋賀2区 (in Japanese). NHK . Retrieved 11 July 2023.
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