Kanagawa 2nd district

Electoral districts in Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa 2nd district (神奈川県第2区, Kanagawa-ken-dai-ni-ku) is a single-member constituency of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the national Diet of Japan. It is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture and consists of Yokohama city's Nishi (West), Minami (South) and Kōnan wards. As of 2012, 425,997 eligible voters were registered in the district giving it, like many urban districts, a vote weight well below the national average and more than twice as many voters as the highest vote weight district Kōchi 3.^[1]

Before the electoral reform of the 1990s the area had been split between the four-member 1st district and the five-member 4th district.

The 2nd district's only representative since the electoral reform has been Liberal Democrat Yoshihide Suga (without factional affiliation), a former member of the Yokohama city council who entered the Diet as a newcomer in 1996. He was able to beat Akihiro Ueda (New Frontier Party, ex-Kōmeitō), one of the incumbents for the pre-reform 4th district. In subsequent elections he defended the seat against Democrats Akira Ōide and Kazuya Miura. Suga was Internal Affairs Minister in the First Abe cabinet and Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Second Abe Cabinet.

List of Representatives

Representative	Party		Dates	Notes
Yoshihide Suga		LDP	1996–	Incumbent

Election results

2012^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Yoshihide Suga	138,040	57.9
	DPJ (PNP)	Kazuya Miura	71,302	29.9
	JCP	Toshiaki Kodama	28,947	12.1

2009^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP (Kōmeitō)	Yoshihide Suga	132,270	46.5
	DPJ (PNP)	Kazuya Miura (elected by PR)	131,722	46.3
	JCP	Osamu Takayama	20,366	7.2
Turnout			289,602	68.3

2005^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	160,111	58.4
	DPJ	Akira Ōide	91,723	33.5
	JCP	Miyako Itaya	22,284	8.1
Turnout			280,387	67.3

2003^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	115,495	49.8
	DPJ	Akira Ōide (elected by PR)	93,406	40.6
	JCP	Miwako Yukawa	22,997	9.9
Turnout			238,818	58.1

2000^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	95,960	42.3
	DPJ	Akira Ōide (elected by PR)	93,434	41.2
	JCP	Miwako Yukawa	37,485	16.5

1996^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDP	Yoshihide Suga	70,459	32.2
	NFP	Akihiro Ueda	65,905	30.2
	DPJ	Akira Ōide	44,184	20.2
	JCP	Chiemi Miwa	30,550	14.0
	NSP	Yasuhiko Matsunaga	5,855	2.7
	LL	Tomoki Kanoya	1,555	0.7
Turnout			224,302	57.0

References

↑ 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 (Japanese)
↑ 総選挙2012>開票結果　小選挙区　神奈川. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2013-02-08.
↑ 第45回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第44回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第43回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第42回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ 第41回衆議院議員選挙 - 神奈川2区. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). K.K. VoiceJapan. Retrieved 2012-01-22.

Kanagawa's electoral districts for the Diet of Japan

FPTP "small" districts (1996–present) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 PR part of the Southern Kantō PR block House of Councillors At-large (17→18 Representatives, 6 Councillors)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1947–1993) 1 2 3 4 5 (13→22 Representatives, 4→6 Councillors)

Limited voting "large" districts (1946) At-large (12 Representatives)

SNTV "medium-sized" districts (1928–1942) 1 2 3 (11 Representatives)

FPTP/SNTV "small" districts (1920–1924) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (10 Representatives)

SNTV "large" districts (1902–1917) Yokohama city counties (gunbu) (8 Representatives)

FPTP/bloc voting "small" districts (1890–1898) 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7 Representatives)

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

Coordinates: 35°42′05″N 139°44′04″E / 35.701359°N 139.734421°E / 35.701359; 139.734421

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