Tokyo 2nd district

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Tokyo 2nd District
Parliamentary constituency
for the Japanese House of Representatives
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Numbered map of inner Tokyo single-member districts
Prefecture Tokyo
Proportional District Tokyo
Electorate424,273 (2012)
Current constituency
Created1994
SeatsOne
Party LDP
Representative Kiyoto Tsuji
Created from Tokyo 8th district
Wards Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō

Tokyo 2nd district (東京都第2区 Tōkyō-to dai-ni-ku or simply 東京2区 Tōkyō ni-ku) is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in eastern mainland Tokyo and covers central parts of the former Tokyo City. The district consists of the wards of Chūō, Bunkyō and Taitō. As of 2012, 424,273 eligible voters were registered in the district. [1]

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Before the electoral reform of 1994, the area formed Tokyo 8th district where two Representatives had been elected by single non-transferable vote. The current Representative for the 2nd district is Liberal Democrat Kiyoto Tsuji who won in the 2012 Representatives election with less than a third of the vote.

List of representatives

RepresentativePartyDatesNotes
Kunio Hatoyama DPJ 1996 – 1999Resigned for the 1999 Tokyo gubernatorial election
Yoshikatsu Nakayama DPJ 1999 – 2005Failed reelection in the Tokyo PR block [2]
Takashi Fukaya LDP 2005 – 2009
Yoshikatsu Nakayama DPJ 2009 – 2012Failed re-election in the Tokyo block
Kiyoto Tsuji LDP 2012 –Incumbent

Election results

2021 [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democratic Kiyoto Tsuji 119,28143.44−2.46
Constitutional Democratic Akihiro Matsuo90,42232.93−4.13
Ishin Takatane Kiuchi45,75416.7New
Reiwa Itaru Kitamura14,4875.3new
Independent Shinichiro Deguchi4,6591.7New
Turnout 274,60360.82+2.82
Liberal Democratic hold Swing -2.46
2014 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP (K) Kiyoto Tsuji 103,95442.6+10.2
DPJ Yoshikatsu Nakayama 58,40723.9−0.8
JIP Toshiaki Ōkuma 44,55018.3−0.3
JCP Noriyuki Ishizawa32,29613.2new
OthersKatsuko Inumaru4,6681.9new
2012 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Kiyoto Tsuji 84,66332.4
DPJ (PNP) Yoshikatsu Nakayama 64,67624.7
YP Toshiaki Ōkuma (elected by PR)48,70418.6
JRP Kazumi Matsumoto38,56414.7
JCP Fumihiko Kuwana23,0358.8
IndependentMasahiro Inoue2,0450.8
2009 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ (PNP support) Yoshikatsu Nakayama 138,603
LDP (Kōmeitō support) Takashi Fukaya 98,593
JCP Tsukane Nakajima26,172
IndependentHiroko Tanaka4,579
HRP Bunkō Katō1,924
IndependentJun Chiba1,748
Turnout 277,77968.53
2005 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LDP Takashi Fukaya 127,889
DPJ Yoshikatsu Nakayama98,335
JCP Tsukane Nakajima24,848
Turnout 256,89768.46
2003 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshikatsu Nakayama104,477
LDP Takashi Fukaya 91,926
JCP Kiyokazu Muro21,334
Turnout 223,46462.14
2000 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshikatsu Nakayama88,744
LDP Takashi Fukaya 81,923
JCP Kiyokazu Muro32,155
IndependentHiroshi Sakae5,371
LL Kazuhiko Komatsu3,665
1999 by-election [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Yoshikatsu Nakayama134,265
JCP Tsukane Nakajima36,261
1996 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DPJ Kunio Hatoyama 88,183
LDP Takashi Fukaya 68,503
JCP Tsukane Nakajima40,461
Turnout 202,76761.85

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References

  1. ↑ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC): 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 (in Japanese)
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