Hyogo 2nd district

Hyogo 2nd district (兵庫県第2区, Hyōgo-ken Dai-niku), also referred to as Hyōgo ni-ku (兵庫8区), is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in southwestern Hyogo Prefecture and consists of the Hyōgo, Kita and Nagata wards of Kobe. As of September 2015, 357,643 eligible voters were registered in the district.^[1] It is one of the 48 districts in the Kansai region that form the Kinki proportional representation block.

The district was established as part of the electoral reform of 1994; the area was previously part of Hyōgo 1st district, which covered the whole of Kobe and elected five representatives by single non-transferable vote.

Since the district's creation, Kazuyoshi Akaba of the Komeito party has been elected in six of the seven elections held. Koichi Mukoyama of the Democratic Party of Japan won the seat from Akaba in the 2009 election which brought the DPJ to power. Akaba subsequently defeated Mukoyama in the December 2012 election.

List of Representatives

Representative		Dates	Notes
Kazuyoshi Akaba	New Frontier(1996–98)	1996 – 2009	Senior Vice-Minister of Finance (November 2005 – September 2006)
Kazuyoshi Akaba	Komeito(1998-2009)	1996 – 2009
Koichi Mukoyama	Democratic	2009 – 2012
Kazuyoshi Akaba	Komeito	2012–present	Senior Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry and Cabinet Senior Vice-Minister (December 2012 – September 2014)

Election results

2014^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kōmeitō	Kazuyoshi Akaba	78,131	49.3	2.0
	Democratic	Koichi Mukoyama	48,796	30.8	7.2
	Communist	Junko Hiramatsu	31,575	19.9	9.1
Turnout

2012^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kōmeitō	Kazuyoshi Akaba	87,969	47.3
	Democratic	Koichi Mukoyama	43,900	23.6
	Independent	Daisuke Gotō	30,658	16.5
	Communist	Yūna Nukina	23,367	12.6
Turnout

2009^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Koichi Mukoyama	11,208	48.9	11.1
	Kōmeitō	Kazuyoshi Akaba	88,502	38.9	-9.2
	Communist	Hiroko Imura	23,041	10.1	-4.0
	Happiness Realization	Tomohiro Takeuchi	4,485	2.0	2.0
Turnout

2005^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Kōmeitō	Kazuyoshi Akaba	106,056	48.1
	Democratic	Fusaho Izumi	83,380	37.8
	Communist	Junko Hiramatsu	31,155	14.1
Turnout

References

↑ "平成27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" [2 September 2015 Current number of registered voters and absentee voters] (in Japanese). Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
↑ "総選挙2014>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2014 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
↑ "総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2012 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
↑ "総選挙2009>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2009 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
↑ "総選挙2005>開票結果　小選挙区　兵庫" [2005 General Election - Election Results: Hyogo electorates]. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 February 2016.

Single-member districts and proportional representation "blocks" for the Japanese House of Representatives since 1996

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tadamori Ōshima, Aomori 3 Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan: Tatsuo Kawabata, Kinki PR

Hokkaido proportional representation block - 8 seats	Hokkaido 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (13)

Tohoku proportional representation block - 14 seats	Aomori 1 2 3 4 Iwate 1 2 3 4 Miyagi 1 2 3 4 5 6 Akita 1 2 3 Yamagata 1 2 3 (4) Fukushima 1 2 3 4 5

Kitakanto proportional representation block - 20 seats	Ibaraki 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tochigi 1 2 3 4 5 Gunma 1 2 3 4 5 Saitama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Minamikanto proportional representation block - 22 seats	Chiba 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kanagawa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yamanashi 1 2 (3)

Tokyo proportional representation block - 17 seats	Tokyo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Hokurikushinetsu proportional representation block - 11 seats	Niigata 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toyama 1 2 3 Ishikawa 1 2 3 Fukui 1 2 (3) Nagano 1 2 3 4 5

Tokai proportional representation block - 21 seats	Gifu 1 2 3 4 5 Shizuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) Aichi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mie 1 2 3 4 5

Kinki proportional representation block - 29 seats	Shiga 1 2 3 4 Kyoto 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osaka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hyogo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Nara 1 2 3 4 Wakyama 1 2 3

Chugoku proportional representation block - 11 seats	Tottori 1 2 Shimane 1 2 (3) Okayama 1 2 3 4 5 Hiroshima 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi 1 2 3 4

Shikoku proportional representation block - 6 seats	Tokushima 1 2 (3) Kagawa 1 2 3 Ehime 1 2 3 4 Kōchi 1 2 (3)

Kyushu proportional representation block - 21 seats	Fukuoka 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Saga 1 2 (3) Nagasaki 1 2 3 4 Kumamoto 1 2 3 4 5 Oita 1 2 3 (4) Miyazaki 1 2 3 Kagoshma 1 2 3 4 5 Okinawa 1 2 3 4

(in parentheses): districts eliminated in the 2002 and 2013 reapportionments

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Hyogo 2nd district

List of Representatives

Election results

See also

References